Barnum Brown: The man who discovered Tyrannosaurus rex

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T. rex

• Scientific classification
  Kingdom: Animalia, Order:Saurischia, Phylum:Chordata, Family:†Tyrannosauridae

Tyrannosaurus is a killing machine.it is one of the deadliest creatures on the planet, and one of the largest land carnivores of all time at 40 ft long, weighed 6.5 tons, and 13 ft tall at the hips... an adult T. rex had a bite force of almost 6000 kilos. that would make the T. rex the hardest-biting terrestrial animal ever known.

Tyrannosaurus’ means ‘tyrant lizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means ‘king’ in Latin. Tyrannosaurus rex was alive in the late cretaceous Period, (around 66 million years ago). the first partial skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex have been found in eastern Wyoming in 1900 by assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History named Barnum Brown.

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Barnum Brown

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Barnum Brown led many expeditions,in 1905 Brown found another partial skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Barnum Brown examines the skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex in the American Museum of Natural History, circa 1938.

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Tyrannosaurus rex skull in Hell Creek.
Picture taken by Barnum Brown in Montana, 1908.

Barnum Brown was the best dinosaur collector who ever lived. He began his career at American Museum of Natural History in 1897. He was the one who collected the first Tyrannosaurus Rex specimens.