Did T. rex exist?

rex survived for about 127,000 generations before becoming extinct, the researchers came up with a figure of 2.5 billion individuals over the species' entire existence. Only 32 adult T. rex have been discovered as fossils, so the fossil record accounts for just one in about every 80 million T. rex.
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Did T Rex's actually exist?

T. rex lived at the very end of the Late Cretaceous, which was about 90 to 66 million years ago.
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Where did the T. rex live on Earth?

rex lived in the species' native North America, possibly as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, over a two- to three-million-year timespan.
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What killed the T. rex?

rex went extinct during the K-T mass extinction, about 65 million years ago. This extinction killed the remaining dinosaurs (not just T. rex) and many other animal and plant groups. This extinction was probably caused by a catastrophic asteroid colliding with Earth.
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Could at Rex survive today?

It's doubtful. Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Triceratops for example, lived in the Cretaceous Period 145-66 million years ago (whatever Jurassic Park would have you believe).
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How scientists solved this dinosaur puzzle



Are dinosaurs coming back in 2050?

The Adam Smith Institute, a British think tank, has released a new report predicting what life will be like in 2050. According to the report: "Several species of dinosaur will be recreated, making their appearance on Earth for the first time in 66 million years.
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Is Jurassic Park possible?

The possibility of a Jurassic Park-like recreation is far from possible, says a paleontologist. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have been fascinated by the world created in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and others who are petrified by the sheer possibility of it.
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Did T. rex actually roar?

rex probably didn't roar, but most likely cooed, hooted, and made deep-throated booming sounds like the modern-day emu.
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What dinosaur is the strongest?

Tyrannosaurus, meaning "tyrant lizard", from the Ancient Greek tyrannos, "tyrant", and sauros, "lizard" is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. It also had a tremendous bite force, the strongest of any dinosaur and living terrestrial animal. Its bite force reached up to 12,800 pounds.
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What dinosaur can beat T. rex?

A Tyrannosaurus Rex might be known for its ferocious bite, but now scientists say a caiman that lived eight million years ago, had a bite TWICE as powerful. Known as Purussaurus brasiliensis, the reptilian predator lived in the Amazon region in South America.
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How many dinosaurs are there 2021?

In 2016, the estimated number of dinosaur species that existed in the Mesozoic was 1,543–2,468. In 2021, the number of modern-day birds (avian dinosaurs) was estimated to be at 10,806 species. Some are herbivorous, others carnivorous, including seed-eaters, fish-eaters, insectivores, and omnivores.
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Was T. rex the biggest predator?

rex was the largest predator in North America during the last 2 million years of the age of dinosaurs. By analyzing the fossil remains of T. rex, paleontologists have discovered much about the behavior of these incredible animals.
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What did T. rex evolve into?

rex evolved into a monster predator by dumbing down its brain. Tyrannosaurus rex has a reputation for being one of the biggest and fiercest dinosaurs ever to have lived. But it probably wasn't the brightest: it had a simpler brain than an earlier, smaller tyrannosaur.
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Would a T. rex eat a human?

T. rex surely would have been able to eat people. There are fossil bite marks, matching the teeth of T. rex, on the bones of Triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs such as Edmontosaurus, which were both over 50 times heavier than an average person.
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Are T. rex arms backwards?

It's also been said that the T-Rex's short arms may have actually been wings - as if there haven't been enough memes about their little arms. So, the feather theory states that the arms of the T-Rex might actually have been inverted, like that of an ostrich.
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What is the scariest dinosaur?

We've seen some scary dinosaurs before, the T-Rex, Utahraptor and Jeholopterus all come to mind, but the newly discovered Heterodontosaur may be the scariest of all. It was a small, fanged dinosaur species that wandered around the toes of other dinosaurs.
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What dinosaur is still alive?

In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.
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What was the loudest dinosaur?

Mr. Mike concludes his series on the Hadrosaurs or Duck Billed Dinosaurs by talking about the loudest dinosaurs to have existed: Saurolophus, Parasaurolophus, Lambeosaurus and Corythosaurus, dinosaurs that used skin flaps or bony tubes to make sounds that could be heard from miles away.
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Why did dinosaurs go extinct?

Evidence suggests an asteroid impact was the main culprit. Volcanic eruptions that caused large-scale climate change may also have been involved, together with more gradual changes to Earth's climate that happened over millions of years.
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Can dinosaurs come back to life?

Unfortunately, dinosaurs probably cannot be cloned and brought back to life. Their DNA is too old since dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years. Any genetic information is not likely to survive for one million years, so the dinosaurs are simply too old to be cloned.
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Can extinct species be brought back?

To bring back an extinct species, scientists would first need to sequence its genome, then edit the DNA of a close living relative to match it. Next comes the challenge of making embryos with the revised genome and bringing them to term in a living surrogate mother.
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Are dinosaurs coming back in 5 years?

DNA breaks down over time. The dinosaurs went extinct around 66 million years ago and with so much time having passed it is very unlikely that any dinosaur DNA would remain today. While dinosaur bones can survive for millions of years, dinosaur DNA almost certainly does not.
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