TYRANNOSAURUS REX

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.