TYRANNOSAURUS REX
- April 22, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Subject : Environment
Context : Recently, a study by paleontologists from the Netherlands have published a report that Tyrannosaurus had a preferred walking speed of just 5 kmph which is about the same as the average walking speed of humans.
Concept :
About Tyrannosaurus Rex
- It is considered the most fearsome eating machine to have evolved on Earth.
- It lived toward the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 million to 68 million years ago.
- It is believed that an adult member of the species stood 12 feet tall and 40 feet long, and weighed between 5,000 to 7,000 kg.
- The dinosaur inhabited what is today’s western United States and it was not found in India.
- The fiercest of all Indian dinosaurs was probably the Rajasaurusnarmadensis, followed by another specimen of the Abelisauridae family, the Indosuchusraptorius.
- The habitat of the T. Rex could have extended from as far as Alaska in North America up until Mexico in the south.