The T. rex family revealed: Natural History Museum unveils most accurate models ever of [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 6, 2019 | Mark Prigg

[C19fan]

It is the closest we may ever get to being face to face with a T. rex.

The American Museum of Natural History has unveiled a new exhibition showing the giant through its life with a series of models it boasts are 'the most accurate ever created'.

They range from a fluffy hatchling to a gigantic 43-foot-long model of the full grown killer - complete with feathers and 'useless' arms.

[C19fan]

When I was a kid I would often go to the Museum of Natural History in NYC. They had the T-Rex reconstructed in an upright posture. When the dinosaurs wings were renovated based on the latest in research they corrected the posture of the T-Rex parallel to the ground. The feathers added to these new reconstructions are pure conjecture based on the close relationship between birds and the sauricshian branch of dinosaurs of which T-Rex is part of.

[dfwgator]

Bang a Gong!

[rlmorel]

Hahaha! A mullet! Who knew?

[dangus]

FEATHERS???!!!!

Oh, no! Tyrannosauruses didn’t have feathers!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/

[NativeSon]

FREEEEE-Birdddd!

[laplata]

The baby T-rex is cute. But like some humans, it grows into an ugly, in many ways, adult.

[al_c]

[catman67]

No feathers, but according to them, a Mullet!

[blueunicorn6]

The T-Rex.....

Not great piano players.

[blueunicorn6]

With that haircut, he looks surprisingly like Tip O’Neill.

[marktwain]

Any man with a deer rifle could take one out.

Just smash one knee and it would be down and immobilized.

Any decent rifle would smash a T-Rex knee. Probably best to use solids (or full metal jackets).

[dfwgator]

The T-Rex.....

Not great piano players.

Guess that’s why they hired Elton John

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzoX00zLcy8

[Fresh Wind]

Right now, in some basement somewhere, an angry millenial is photoshopping Trump hair on that creature.

[pepsi_junkie]

I remember back in the 80s reading a book by some paleontologist that said we got everything wrong about dinosaurs. Some had feathers, were brightly colored, T-Rex didn't walk upright but bent over, all that. He was laughed at. Now it's "the most accurate ever".

He also suggested that dinos may have been warm blooded. I don't think anyone acccepts that yet but he made a case at least. Wish I could remember his name, Bob something I think.

[blueunicorn6]

I watched some of that video.

I kept waiting for a T-Rex to come crashing in and eat Elton John.

No such luck.

[dfwgator]

He'd have to be on the toilet....



I remember seeing this in the theater and everybody applauded this scene.

[goldstategop]

Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs.

The most successful group of dinosaurs to ever live.

[ganeemead]

The eyes are totally wrong. All dinosaur remains show the huge dark-world eye sockets that you see with lemurs, tarsiers, and other leftover animals from that age. The eyes would be much bigger.

[jalisco555]

They applauded the scene because the guy being eaten was a lawyer.

[jalisco555]

It’s interesting to track the evolution of scientific opinion on what dinosaurs looked like. IIRC the first dinosaur exhibition was at the Crystal Palace exhibition in London in 1851. The Victorian view of dinosaur appearance is nothing like what we now thing they looked like.