New study estimates shocking number of T. rexes in Earth’s history

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If you hear the word "dinosaur," there's a good chance that an image of a Tyrannosaurus rex flashes in your mind. That's a credit to the incredible intimidation factor that the animals possessed, but it's especially impressive when you consider that only around 50 T. rex skeletons have ever been found. Dinosaur fossils are obviously very rare, and it can be very difficult to get an idea of how many of any given animal actually existed on Earth. Now, a study focused on T. rex fossils offers an estimate for the number of these dinosaurs that have existed on Earth, and it's a very big number.

Looking at the number of T. rexes that we know about and extrapolating information about their general locations, range, and length of time they existed on Earth, researchers writing in Science suggest there may have been literally billions of the animals over the course of their existence. Yeah, it's a lot.

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New study estimates shocking number of T. rexes in Earth’s history originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 10:33:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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