Tyrannosaurus Rex the “Tyrant Lizard King”

The Tyrannosaurus Rex ruled the forested valleys of North America around 65-70 million years ago (until the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction which coincided with the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid which left a 180 kilometre / 111 mile wide crater that was discovered beneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico during the 1970’s). In Greek Tyrannosaurus means “Tyrant Lizard” and Rex means “King“. Although…