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TYRANNOSAURUS REX
I chose the topic of the Tyrannosaurus Rex for my research paper because dinosaurs are fascinating animals and I wanted to learn a lot more about them. Also I wanted to get a better understanding of what the T-Rex really was, a hunter or scavenger?
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The tyrannosaurus rex, in general, was a large, two-legged dinosaur that ate meat and was a member of the Tyrannosauridae, in the sub order Theropoda meaning beast-footed. According to Peter Dawson, Ph.D., and Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania the "Tyrannosaurus was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs. It was about forty feet (12 meters) long, stood about twelve feet (3.7 meters) high at the hips and weighed about seven short tons (6.3 metric tons). Tyrannosaurus could rear up to a height of 18 feet (5...