Tyrannosaurus rex

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Tyrannosaurus rex (Osborn, 1905)
Dinosauria
Saurischia
Theropoda
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria
Tyrannosauroidea
Tyrannosauridae

Late Cretaceous
Western North America

Length: 12.3 m

What does the T. rex say? Lacking the syrinx found in modern birds, T. rex could've growled and hissed like modern crocodilians, but she almost certainly could not have roared. Sorry, Spielberg.

On the plus side, she's got the most powerful bite of any terrestrial animal, so who cares what she sounds like? You'd be bitten in half before you even hear her footsteps...

Estimated Bite Force: 3.6 - 5.8 metric tonnes (Bates & Falkingham, 2012); 18.3 - 23.5 metric tonnes (Meers, 2003)

Monday, August 24th, 2015