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The Tyrannosaurus Rex is the most famous and most recognizable dinosaur of all time and for good reason. The name alone means "Tyrant Lizard King". T-rex lived throughout todays western North America, mostly South Dakoda and Montana, during the Cretaceous Period, 68-66 million years ago. It was also the last known member of the tyrannosaurids family. This family also included many of the T-rex's cousins. Some include the Tarbosaurus, Daspleteosaurus, and Albertosaurus. T-rex stood around 12ft tall at the hips, and was 40ft long from head to tail. And weighed around 7 tons, but some scientists today believe it could weigh more, around 9 tons. Its arms were unusually short for its …show more content…

The most famous would be, "Walking with Dinosaurs", "When Dinosaurs Roamed America", and "Jurassic Fight Club". Walking with Dinosaurs was a six part episodic series that showed different dinosaurs from different time periods and described what they could do. T-rex was saved for the last episode and was built up big time. It showed mainly how a T-rex would guard it's young in such an harsh environment. It was very protective and it showed no mercy to any creature that posed as a threat. When Dinosaurs Roamed America was like the American version of Walking with Dinosaurs which targeted a British audience. It too showed different dinosaurs from different time periods and discussed what they could do. Again, T-rex was saved for the last episode what again was built up big time. Here, it showed T-rex as a very affective pack hunting dinosaur, due to all the skeletons we found with many T-rex's all together. Jurassic Fight Club was a show in the History Channel that took fossilized prehistoric battles and put them to life with CGI. The T-rex was mostly focused in the second episode. We found a fossil of a young T-rex with many bite marks and broken bones, we analyzed the bite marks and found out that the teeth that killed this T-rex belonged to a dinosaur that kills baby T-rex's to get rid of the competition. That dinosaur was Nanotyrannus, its name means, "Pygmy/Small Tyrant". It was a dwarf version of T-rex but it belonged within the

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