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Definition of rex
rexes
orrex
: an animal (such as a domestic rabbit or cat) showing a genetic recessive variation in which the guard hairs are very short, sparse, or entirely lacking — compare cornish rex, devon rex
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Not even T. rex had bigger serrations on its teeth, Dal Sasso says.
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The smaller specimen appears to be either a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or a Nanotyrannus, a dwarf species, rarely documented, the very existence of which some scientists dispute.
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Colored lights, Motown music, food, drinks,.. all dominated by the gigantic skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, affectionately known as Sue.
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Stories this week have reveled in the announcement that no, T. rex was not enfluffled after all.
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Love the idea of seeing a realistic seeming T. rex or stegosaurus at full 40-plus-foot length — incidentally, the same length as the bona fide T. rex skeleton known as Sue inside the Field — and you’ll be awestruck.
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The finding helps provide more evidence to the idea that the T. rex shattered bones and swallowed the fragments for sustenance.
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And in the case of T. rex, that force was concentrated at the tips of giant, sharp, serrated teeth that enhanced the power of the jaws up to a whopping 431,342 pounds per square inch (psi).
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A potentially less-guilt-inducing approach comes from the CogniToys Dino, a diminutive plastic T. rex that taps into IBM’s big brain, Watson.
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