Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous dinosaur that everybody knows! With such popularity comes many myths about it. Is what we think about T. rex actually true? #tyrannosaurus #dinosaurs #paleontology

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Sources

B-rex: phys.org/news/2005-06-eastern-montana-rex-yields-female.html

Binocular Vision: https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~kent/paleontology/binocularVision/index.html

Carpenter forelimbs: archive.org/details/mesozoicvertebra0000unse/page/90/mode/2up

Chevrons: https://doc.rero.ch/record/14378/files/PAL_E1827.pdf

Insufficient Evidence of Paul’s split: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-022-09573-1

Medullary Bone: livescience.com/54059-pregnant-t-rex-fossils.html

Padian forelimbs: https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app67/app009212021.pdf

Response to Greg Paul: researchgate.net/publication/362245107_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_Stratigr

Tarbosaurus naming: zmescience.com/feature-post/natural-sciences/geology-and-paleontology/dinosaurs/tarbosaurus

T. rex Myths: daily.jstor.org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex

T. rex Senses: amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/t-rex-super-senses

Zhuchengtyrannus: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/zhuchengtyrannus-is-here