"Rex" Sculpture

The tooth of an adult Tyrannosaurus Rex, dating to the Late Cretaceous, approximately 67 million years old. A large, beautifully preserved specimen, ...

Fossilised Tyrannosaurus Rex Femur Late Cretaceous, circa 67 Million years before present Height: 3 foot and 11.5 inches. Found on the Orwick Ranch, Butte County, South Dakota, July 7th 2020. An enormous fossilised femur, one of the largest examples known, from an adult Tyrannosaurus Rex measuring an estimated 12 metres in length and weighing up to 7 tonnes. A beautifully preserved, sculptural fossil, with a mottled dark brown surface. Found in Butte County, South Dakota, this fossil comes from the Hell Creek ecosystem, where the first T. rex fossils were unearthed in 1902 by Barnum Brown, a palaeontologist with the American Museum of Natural History. On 25 July 1902, in sheer awe of his discovery, Brown wrote, ‘Quarry No. 1 contains the femur, pubes, humerus, three vertebrae and two undetermined bones of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur... I have never seen anything like it from the Cretaceous.’ The genus was first classified following its complete excavation in 1905. In that year, Henry Fairfield Osborne, President of the American Museum of Natural History, stated: ‘I propose to make this animal the type of a new genus, Tyrannosaurus, in reference to its size, which greatly exceeds that of any carnivorous land animal hitherto described...’ Osborne could not help celebrating his museum’s spectacular acquisition. He further stated that ‘This animal is in fact the ne plus ultra of the evolution of the large carnivorous dinosaurs: in brief it is entitled to the royal and high sounding group name which I have applied to it...’ This name - deriving from the Greek and Latin for ‘tyrant lizard king...

Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth in Fossil Matrix. Late Cretaceous, circa 65 Million years before present. Lance Formation, Marchant Ranch Quarry, Niobrara County, Wy...

This is a Rex Valencia porcelain figurine of a dog. It depicts a hand painted adorable Hummelwerk dog standing up with a blue belt in his neck and f...

Age: Cretaceous Age 67.5 - 65 Million years old From: Hell Creek Formation, Harding County, South Dakota Nanotyrannus ("dwarf tyrant") is a potentially dubious genus of tyrannosaur...

This is a Rex Valencia porcelain figurine of a dog. It depicts a hand painted grey and white color astute English Setter dog standing up over a base...