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Answer : TYRANNOSAURUS REX
One of the largest known carnivorous dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex — T. rex, for short — is also arguably the most iconic. With a star turn in the “Jurassic Park” franchise and a renowned exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City among many other pop culture moments, T. rex maintains a reputation as king of the dinosaurs.
In fact, the animal’s name means “king of the tyrant lizards”. “Tyranno” means tyrant in Greek; “saurus” means lizard in Greek; and “rex” translates to “king” in Latin. In 1905, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History at the time, officially dubbed the species Tyrannosaurus rex.
T. rex fossils are found in western North America, from Alberta to Texas. But it’s possible that T. rex was an invasive species from Asia, according to a 2016 study published in Scientific Reports.
The most complete T. rex skeleton ever found was nicknamed Sue after its discoverer, paleontologist Sue Hendrickson. Measurements of Sue suggest T. rex was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs to ever live, coming in at up to 13 feet (4 meters) tall at the hips (the beast’s highest point since it did not stand erect) and 40 feet (12.3 m) long. A recent analysis of Sue, published in 2011 in the journal PLOS ONE, shows T. rex weighed as much as 9 tons (about 8,160 kilograms).
T. rex fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous period, which lasted from 67 million to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic Era. It was among the last of the non-avian dinosaurs to exist prior to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which wiped out the dinosaurs.
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