T. rex: The Ultimate Predator Exhibition

Explore the amazing story of the most iconic dinosaur in the world through life-size models, fossil casts, and interactives that bring T. rex to life.

Visitors to T. rex: The Ultimate Predator will encounter a massive life-sized model of a T. rex with patches of feathers — the definitive representation of this prehistoric predator. The exhibition will also include reconstructions of several T. rex hatchlings and a four-year-old juvenile T. rex. Interactives include a “roar mixer” where visitors can imagine what T. rex may have sounded like by blending sounds from other animals; a shadow theater featuring a floor projection of an adult T. rex skeleton coming to life; and a life-sized animation of T. rex in a Cretaceous environment that responds to visitors’ movements. At a tabletop “Investigation Station,” visitors can explore a variety of fossil casts ranging from coprolites (fossilized feces) to a gigantic femur, with virtual tools including a CT scanner, measuring tape, and a microscope to learn more about what such specimens can reveal to scientists about the biology and behavior of T. rex.

T. rex: The Ultimate Predator is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (amnh.org).

Image Caption: Very few tyrannosaurs have been found that lived between 125 and 84 million years ago, so in 2009 scientists were excited to announce a new, mid-sized species that helped fill this 40-million-year gap. Xiongguanlong baimoensis offers a rare glimpse of a mid-sized, transitional species between the smaller early tyrannosaurs and the later giants.
© AMNH/D. Finnin