In “Night At The Museum”

• A Dinosaur Skeleton Comes Alive!

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

Written and Illustrated

by

ERIC AND POUYA

A Book Alive at the Henry Barnard School Museum

What Was Tyrannosaurus Rex?T-Rex was a huge meat-eating dinosaur.

A meat-eater is called a carnivore.

It had pointed teeth to rip meat.

T-Rex’s bones were hollow like a bird’s bones. Most of the bones were in the vertebrae.

•Tyrannosaurus-Rex had tiny arms. They were only three feet long. Each arm ended with two fingers.

• Tyrannosaurus Rex walked on two powerful legs.

• Each foot had three large toes with claws.

• T-rex had a stiff, pointed tail for balance that allowed it to make quick turns while running.

How Big Was the T- Rex?

Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs.

They were 40 ft long.

They were between 15 to 20 feet in height.

They weighed 5 to 7 tons. Their eyes were three feet long.The eye sockets were four feet in

length.

The jaw was 4 feet wide and six feet long.

T-Rex had a huge head with large, pointed, teeth.

•T-Rex was one the last of the• dinosaur species to evolve. • T-Rex lived 85 to 65 million years ago.• They lived during the Cretaceous period.

• The supercontinent Pangaea had broken up.

• The climate was warmer and there were no polar ice caps.

• The sea level was much higher than it is now.

•Some scientists think that a meteor crashed into the Earth and killed off all the dinosaurs.

When Did T-Rex Live?

Where Did T-Rex Live?

• In the United States in Montana, Texas, Utah, Wyoming and in Arizona.

• In Asia• In Canada

Has a complete T-Rex been found?

Thirty T-Rex fossils have been found.

All of the skeletons are incomplete.

One footprint complete. It was found in New Mexico.

T-Rex Facts and MythsNo one knows what color T-Rex was.

T-Rex wasn't the biggest dinosaur.

There were long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs that were bigger.

At least two other meat-eating dinosaurs were bigger than T-Rex. Giganotosaurus was the biggest dinosaur.

T-Rex Facts and Myths

• The dinosaurs did not live at the same time that

cave men did.

• People lived 63 million years after T-Rex became extinct.

All dinosaurs are extinct.

T-Rex Facts and Myths

T-Rex was one of the smartest dinosaurs. T-Rex was not the smartest of all the dinosaurs.

T-Rex's brain was larger than the human brain, but the cerebrum (the part of the brain that we use to think) was tiny.

T-Rex’s brain size was very small ,but it was larger than most other dinosaurs.

Tyrannosaurus Rex means

"tyrant lizard king"

The End