Fossil hunters from Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and University of Washington exhumed well preserved remains of the dinosaur species – Tyrannosaurus Rex which – is known to have gone extinct 65 million years ago.
Paleontology experts from the institutes found the fossil of the dinosaur which is otherwise known as T.Rex on August 19th. As per data available this is the 15th skull fossil of the species that has been uncovered.
The remains of this cannibal dinosaur was found from Hell Creek in Montana the United States. Hell Creek has also been home numerous other fossils.
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Reportedly only 20 percent of the dinosaur’s skeletal remains including lower jaw bones, hips, ribs and vertebrae have been excavated and the rest of the body parts are still under the rocks.
As per calculations it would take another year to safely unearth the fossil remains of the extinct giant.
Paleontologists prepare to remove a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from a fossil dig site in northern Montana Image courtesy: steamregister.com
The four feet long skull of the T.Rex is now preserved in plaster jacket. Apparently, the hip of the dinosaur giant would had been at a height between 15 to 20 feet. T.Rex was one of the biggest carnivorous predators found on Earth before 65 million years. Experts also say that it even used to prey other dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus and Triceratops.
According to the evidences collected from the fossil, the T.Rex in question was 15 years old when it died and that time was almost 300,000 years before the whole dinosaur species were wiped out from the face of the planet.
And it was also observed that this T.Rex which had grown to 85 percent of its actual size, lived only half of it actual life span.
Paleontologists from the institutes are counting on the rest of the 80 percent fossil buried under rocks for understanding more about dinosaurs.
