Tyrannosaurus rex

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About #243: Chapter one.

Intro: We count around 800 to  900 dinosaur species, so why a long video about the only one T.-rex ? Because T.-rex is the most famous fossil ever known and also one of the latest to have been disappeared, thus the fossil record is very very big. And this, from the youngest ones to the adult forms. We know for example that the "Nanotyrannus" was only a juvenile T.-rex, never a distinct theropod specy.
T.-rex is the most famous dinosaur specy in front of which anything isn't refused. For example the Boeing industry allowed to obtain the famous T.-rex Sue's endocran by scanning its skull. At 5mn00sec: the Sue's endocran.

As T.-rex is an iconic animal we are able to debunk some untruths about it, in movies such Jurassique Park 1. For example at 17mn:22 sec, a famous scene of the JP 1: Allen Grant holds the little girl just in front of the T.-rex's snout by saying her: "If you don't move, it will not see you !". Yes, it's true because just in front of the big T.-rex's snout there is a "dead angle".

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But if it wasn't able to see you, it would clearly feel you and how ! Thus, this scene is a fake.

To be continued... Reply