the.com/tyrannosaurus rex
Eight tons of apex predator with arms too short to high-five its own victory.
means The massive carnivorous dinosaur that ruled the late Cretaceous as one of the largest land predators ever known, crushing prey with a bone-shattering bite.
from Coined in 1905 by paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn from Greek 'tyrannos' (tyrant) and 'sauros' (lizard), plus Latin 'rex' (king) — so literally 'king tyrant lizard,' a name stacking three separate titles of dominance onto one skeleton, as if one superlative couldn't do the job.
- bite force
- stronger than any land animal ever measured
- arm length
- shorter than a human adult's
- sense of smell
- rivaled vultures, could sniff out carrion miles away
- closer in time to
- humans than to stegosaurus