Tyrannosaurus rex

about 68–66 million years ago

Traits & evidence limits

Diet evidence. Serrated teeth, bite mechanics, and damaged bone support meat-eating; one feeding strategy need not exclude the other.

Age caution. Bone histology estimates SUE died at roughly 28 years old. That is an age-at-death, not a maximum species lifespan.

Late Cretaceous · Maastrichtian

Damage becomes biography.

SUE's skeleton records healed ribs, joint disease, infection, and survival—evidence about one animal, not a generic monster.

FMNH PR 2081 · SUELOCAL MUSEUM GLB

Documented objectFull cast 3D scan

Resolving institutional scan

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Loupe / Museum catalog

Gathering exhibitions and their discovery details.

Specimen index8 records

Tyrannosauridae · Theropoda