Tyrannosaurus Rex

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Scientific name	Tyrannosaurus Rex
Home era	Late Cretaceous
Creature type	Theropod dinosaur
Deaths caused	20 humans +, 4 Creatures
Appearances	Episode 1.1 (picture) Episode 1.4 (mentioned) Extinction Event Episode 3.4 (mentioned) Fire and Water (mentioned) Episode 3.6 (mentioned) Episode 3.10 (mentioned) Episode 4.1 (mentioned) Picture This Episode 5.4 (mentioned) Episode 5.5

Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the most famous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period living in North America.

1 In Primeval
2 Non-Canon
3 Trivia
4 Gallery

At least a pair of Tyrannosaurs appear in the forests of Siberia. One female in particular, referred to as Baba Yaga in allusion to the chicken house the Russian witch lives in, wreaks havoc killing a Torosaurus infant and eleven people before killing a male Tyrannosaurus who kills Medyevin. During her intrusion upon the military camp, she attacks and kills three of the Russian military before giving chase to Abby Maitland and Nick Cutter who tranquilise her only to find her awakening a few minuites later. She continues to thrive in the Siberian forests after the forest fire as witnessed by Abby. At least two more Tyrannosaurus are seen through the Late Cretaceous anomaly. One kills a Pachycephalosaurus directly in front of Jenny Lewis, Helen Cutter and their military escorts. Another is seen by Cutter, Connor Temple, Abby, a team of scientists and a team of Russian military killing an Anatotitan. The Tyrannosaurus in the novel are described as one of the most terrifying creatures the team ever encounters, as they attack swiftly and silently despite their large size. Baba Yaga, in particular, has taken a liking for human flesh.

Picture ThisEdit

Captain Hilary Becker and Jess Parker of the ARC must deal with a Tyrannosaurus Rex in an art gallery.

Episode 5.5Edit

A T-Rex comes through an anomaly during the 2011 Convergence and rampages through London, eating fleeing citizens. It then fatally attacks Lucy and leaves her friend, Jenna, traumatized.

When Jenna tries to return to Lucy's body, the T-Rex attacks her, but Matt drives his car right in front of it and trips it as it snaps its jaws towards Jenna before getting back up. Jenna hides in the car as the T-Rex goes to investigate Matt shoots it multiple times in it's mouth with an EMD until it collapses.

It is presumably either returned through the anomaly or kept in the menagerie. However, the last option is not likely because it would be hard to contain a Tyrannosaurus in the menagerie, not only because of the high chances of a escape, but the hard time in transporting a huge T-Rex to the ARC. It was most likely returned since killing the creature in the 21st century may disrupt the current timeline, as was with the incident with Claudia Brown and Jenny Lewis.

Non-CanonEdit

In the future, at least one Tyrannosaurus Rex becomes caught up in Chaos, an anomaly creature.

TriviaEdit

T. Rex was made famous when it appeared in the Jurassic Park films, although ever since its discovery, in 1902, Tyrannosaurus has always been highly popular - in fact the most famous Dinosaur ever found in the eyes of the general public, by far. Ironically, it receives little screen-time in Primeval.
Tyrannosaurus, was the dominant predatory Dinosaur of Late Cretaceous lands of North America. It also potentially lived in Asia, however, most paleontologists now consider this Asian tyrannosaur to be a slightly smaller relative; Tarbosaurus bataar.
Tyrannosaurus dwarfed modern terrestrial predators. Standing over 4m tall at the hips, measuring 15m long and weighing in at around 7 to 9 tons,its size makes it the third largest carnivorous dinosaur in history and the 8th largest carnivore in the history of the planet
The teeth of Tyrannosaurus are very large. The largest tooth measured a full 30cm in length, including the root (which could account for over half the full tooth length). It had some of the largest teeth of any theropod, Giganotosaurus and Spinosaurus being its two main competitors for the largest. However, Giganotosaurus had thin blade like teeth ideal for cutting. Spinosaurus had massively thick conical teeth ideal for tearing, but Tyrannosaurus had serrated bannana-like teeth ideal for crushing.
Even though Tyrannosaurus was huge, it is known that several large Theropod Dinosaurs that were as large or perhaps slightly larger. Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus were about as large as Tyrannosaurus, although the two are closely related to each other, they are only distantly related to Tyrannosaurus. A theropod that lived alongside Carcharodontosaurus named Spinosaurus could have been a full 4m longer than any of the previous three, and at least 50% heavier than them.
Tyrannosaurus could eat 70 kilograms in one bite - about the same weight as an average healthy Homo sapiens sapiens!
It is quite likely that baby Tyrannosaurus posed primitive 'proto-feathers' that would have resembled fluff. Interestingly, it is possible even the large adult would have retained at least some of this fluff.
A relative of Tyrannosaurus named Albertosaurus has been found in large numbers. This could indicate either social behavior or a congregation of predators around a tar pit or some other form of mass grave.
Its short form T. Rex is also misspelled as T-Rex.
Despite having visibly very small arms, about as long as a humans, those arms were extremely heavily muscled at the biceps alone may have been able to lift a full 200kg. These strong arms may have helped prop the animal up from a sleeping position, or helped in mating.
Tyrannosaurus rex means Tyrant Lizard King in Latin.
For its size, Tyrannosaurus was suprisingly fast for a dinosaur. It is reliably estimated to have been able to run between 17 and 25 mph.
Tyrannosaurus is estimated to have the most powerful bite force of any animal on the planet.
It is the fifth largest creature ever encountered by the team.
It´s the only prehistoric creature in Primeval to have been made without any errors or mistakes, besides the fact that it did not have any feathers, something which the actual animal most probably had.
This dinosaur cause more deaths than any other dinosaur in the series and creature in the novels. However, if you include the 12 people the Spring-Heeled Jack raptor would have killed had Matt not stopped it, then the Raptors would have killed more people than the T-Rex. Without the 12 people, it would have killed 17 people, the same amount as the T-Rex.
This is presumably another example of creatures from the anomalies influencing mythology, as its enormous, chicken-like legs and feet very closely resemble that of the Russian witch, Baba Yaga. This is presumably due to the Tunguskan Anomaly having repeatedly opened and closed, on a regular basis, for several centuries. Presumably, several creatures came through, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, which might have been seen by the ancient Russians, and had been incorporated, into their mythology.
This is the second creature to kill a human on-screen, the first being a mosasaur. All other human deaths were just off-screen or blocked by an object.
This is the eighth creature to kill a woman, as it killed Lucy, in Episode 5.5.
Tyrannosaurus has been mentioned more times than any dinosaur. In fact, T-rex has been mentioned 7 times, but has only appeared 3 times.
This is the third giant theropod to appear in Primeval.
This is the eighth species of dinosaur to appear in Primeval.
The T-Rex has proven to be a very resistant dinosaur in comparision to others, as it took 10 or more EMD shots from Matt to cause a T-Rex to collapse, and before this, it had stumbled on Matt´s car and fallen while chasing Jenna.
The scene where the T-Rex trips on Matt´s car remarks the scene in Episode 3.4 where the Giganotosaurus tripped on Connor´s truck while chasing him. It´s also noticeable that the T-rex fell while chasing Jenna and yet dragged itself on the ground, still trying to get her, while the Giganotosaurus fell while chasing Connor and was unconscious for nearly 10 seconds.
This is the largest land animal to appear in Series 5 (discounting Spinosaurus as it only appeared in stock footage and the many other unknown animals in Convergence ).
This is the last creature that Nick Cutter encountered in the Older Novels.
This is the largest theropod to appear in the Older Novels.
T-Rex is the first dinosaur to kill a child.