Tyrannosaurus rex

11.29.09

Could a Human Beat a T. Rex In Arm Wrestling?

By Bjorn Carey Posted 10.23.2009 at 10:27 am 8 Comments

T. Rex Vs. Stallone: Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection; iStock

“First, we’re assuming that the T. rex won’t just eat the person, right?” asks Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Right. This is a sanctioned match, and killing your opponent is strictly against the rules. Who's coming out on top?

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Learnin' Bout the Birds and the Tyrannosaurs

Researchers confirm what has been long suspected: the fearsome predators are indeed closer to chickens than lizards

By Matt Ransford Posted 04.25.2008 at 1:34 pm 0 Comments

Confirming what had been a long-held hypothesis among paleontologists, scientists have now verified at the molecular level that the closest living relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex are indeed birds; most specifically ostriches and chickens. Skeletal evidence has strongly borne this theory out in recent years as data from fossils has accumulated, but this new study of bone proteins definitively shows that more of the T. rex genome is similar to birds' than to living reptiles'.

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