in night at the museum a dinosaur skeleton comes alive!
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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