T-REX!!!

My teacher has asked me if I had any information for the class about Dinosaurs.  Luckily we did because we went to the Natural History Museum in London and they had a massive dinosaur exhibit.  When we went I was practicing summarising so I read all the information about T-Rex and then summarised it.

The is the giant of this blog post! 

here are some fun facts about T-Rex...

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• Scientists know that T-Rex had well developed optic lobes - that's the part of the brain used for seeing.  So they know T-Rexs had sharp eye-sight.

• If T-Rex tripped up when running the fall would probably have killed him.  The information at the museum didn't say why but I think it's because his face would be the first thing to hit the ground and his arms wouldn't be there to stop him.  So he would have broken his face and neck and died.

• The part of the brain that the T-Rex used for smell is called the Olfactory Bulb.  His was extremely powerful as it was as big as an orange while ours is only as big as a pea.  This meant he could sniff out dead animals or live prey from afar.

• T-Rex weighed up to 7 tonnes as an adult.  That's as heavy as 200 10 year old children.

• T-Rex lived up to a maximum of 28 years.

• T-Rex's bite was 8 times as powerful as a lion's bite.

• A joint in its jaw enabled T-Rex to open his mouth so wide that it would be able to swallow a human whole.  

• T-Rexs have left bite marks in the fossils of plant eating dinosaurs.

• His teeth were serrated like a steak knife and the strongest of any of the dinosaurs.

• T-Rex must have been a pretty messy eater because his hands couldn't even reach his mouth.