They find the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skull of a – El Universal

A team of paleontologists Burke Museum discovered a Tyrannosaurus rex . So far in the excavation they found about 20% of its skeleton, including a very complete skull with teeth, ribs, vertebrae, hips and bones of the lower jaw. There is probably more to discover.

According to information provided by the museum, Dinosaur lived 66.3 million years ago and was discovered during an expedition the Hell Creek Formation in northern Montana, an area that is known worldwide for its deposits of dinosaur fossils.

The multidisciplinary team of experts extracted bones for a month this summer consists of more than 45 people led by the department of Natural History and Culture the Burke Museum and professor of biology associate professor of the University of Washington Greg Wilson.

“When we started to see the teeth with skull, we knew we had a great copy ” Wilson said. He also said that “it is not only a fantastic specimen, but is very rare. Although we could say that is the most emblematic and well-known species of dinosaurs, there are only 15 complete skeletons around the world. “

This is how the discovery was developed. ..

When paleontologists Jason Love and Luke volunteers Tufts looked for signs scattered fragments of fossil bones were found on the surface of a sand stone . Upon inspection, warned that it was a great vertebrate fossil on a rock.

“at this point we knew it was a dinosaur because of size, there were no other vertebrate on earth that were of this size, “Wilson said. it was suspected that it could be a T. rex , but still could not be sure .

According to the calculations of this dinosaur paleontologists Burke has a size as 85% of the largest skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex known to date. Its approximate size from tail to head is 12.20 meters long and 1,134 kilograms

So, from this Saturday, August 20 until October 2 the public can watch covered with plaster skull T. rex fossils along with other parts of tyrannosaurus rex and instrumental work of palaeontologists at the Burke Museum. After that date will prepare the fossil for about a year for subsequent display of the skull when it opens the New Museum Burke in 2019.

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