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rex

[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /


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The finding supports the picture of T. rex as an active predator or scavenger with a relatively fast metabolism rather than a sluggish animal that depended heavily on basking in the sun.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Although other lines of evidence have increasingly suggested that T. rex was warm-blooded, the study, published Sept. 16 in Science Advances, provides the first actual temperature measurement for the animal.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Applying it to T. rex initially posed a major problem.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

That foliage could easily hide a T. rex.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Virgil had now found in his own age a motive for the composition of that epic poem which it had been his boyish ambition to attempt,— Cum canerem reges et proelia.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar

On his refusing this honour, Mary wrote, or caused to be written, the following lines in Latin and French:   Sunt comites, ducesque alii; sunt denique reges;   Sethom dominum sit satis esse mihi.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

The achivi is the people, and the McClellanists are the reges.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

The crine profuso and barba demissa of the reges crinitos, as the Merovingians were called, are often referred to by ancient chroniclers.

From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The central emblem is that of the Trinity, with a "chronogram" indicating the year 1634 thus:—sInt DoMUs hUjUs pII reges nUtrItII regInae nUtrICes pIae.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant




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