T. rex is overrated...

T. rex Facts - With MOR 555 I don't like Tyrannosaurus, but that doesn't mean it's not worth learning about! A skull model of MOR 555 was just put on display at the museum I'm at so I figured I'd collate some information for my colleagues to use. And I might as well put it on the internet too. References: Bates, K. T., Manning, P. L., Hodgetts, D., & Sellers, W. I. (2009). Estimating mass properties of dinosaurs using laser imaging and 3D computer modelling. PloS one, 4(2), e4532. Bell, P. R., Campione, N. E., Persons, W. S., Currie, P. J., Larson, P. L., Tanke, D. H., & Bakker, R. T. (2017). Tyrannosauroid integument reveals conflicting patterns of gigantism and feather evolution. Biology letters, 13(6). Boeye, A. T., Atkins-Weltman, K. L., King, J. L., & Swann, S. (2026). Evidence of bird-like foot function in Tyrannosaurus. Royal Society Open Science, 13(2), 252139. Calvo, J. O. (2000). New specimen of Giganotosaurus carolinii (Coria & Salgado, 1995), supports it as the largest theropod ever found. Gaia, 15, 117-122. Carr, T. D., Napoli, J. G., Brusatte, S. L., Holtz Jr, T. R., Hone, D. W., Williamson, T. E., & Zanno, L. E. (2022). Insufficient evidence for multiple species of Tyrannosaurus in the latest Cretaceous of North America: A comment on “The Tyrant Lizard King, queen and emperor: Multiple lines of morphological and stratigraphic evidence support subtle evolution and probable speciation within the North American genus Tyrannosaurus”. Evolutionary Biology, 49(3), 327-341. Coria, R., Salgado, L. A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 377, 224–226 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/377224a0 Currie, P. J., & Carpenter, K. (2000). A new specimen of Acrocanthosaurus atokensis (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from the lower Cretaceous Antlers formation (lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of Oklahoma, USA. Geodiversitas, 22(2), 207-246. Gauthier, J. (1986). Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds. Memoirs of the California Academy of sciences, 8, 1-55. Henderson, D. M. (1915). A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic. https://www.dinosaurier-info.de/bibli... Kaiho, K., Oshima, N., Adachi, K., Adachi, Y., Mizukami, T., Fujibayashi, M., & Saito, R. (2016). Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction. Scientific reports, 6(1), 28427. Paul, G. S., Persons IV, W. S., & Van Raalte, J. (2022). The tyrant lizard king, queen and emperor: Multiple lines of morphological and stratigraphic evidence support subtle evolution and probable speciation within the North American genus Tyrannosaurus. Evolutionary Biology, 49(2), 156-179. Russell, L. S. (1930). Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Faunas of North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 69(1), 133–159. http://www.jstor.org/stable/984352 Tobin, T. S., Ward, P. D., Steig, E. J., Olivero, E. B., Hilburn, I. A., Mitchell, R. N., ... & Kirschvink, J. L. (2012). Extinction patterns, δ18 O trends, and magnetostratigraphy from a southern high-latitude Cretaceous–Paleogene section: Links with Deccan volcanism. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 350, 180-188.