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Midway between Armstrong and Enderby on Highway 97 is the "Log Barn 1912", a touristy place which specializes in old-fashioned mennonite sausage, cheese, butter crust pies, jam and jellies. Outside is an eclectic variety of attractions.

This might be the most familiar dinosaur to most, the Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome meat eater which kids love to fear. There are a pair of T-Rexes here, a roughly one half scale fully grown adult and an immature T-Rex. Given the proper age of the young one, it could be actual size here, at about 6 feet in height.

‘Tyrannosaurus’ comes from the Greek words meaning ‘tyrant lizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means ‘king’ in Latin.

Tyrannosaurus rex is often abbreviated to T-Rex.

Tyrannosaurus rex lived in an area of the Earth that now makes up western North America.

Tyrannosaurus rex walked on two legs, balancing its huge head with a long and heavy tail that sometimes contained over 40 vertebrae.

Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 13m (42ft) in length, 4m (13ft) at the hip and could weigh up to 7 tons!

The skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex alone measured up to 1.5m (5ft) long.

The largest tooth of any carnivorous dinosaur found to this date is that of a T-Rex. It is estimated to have been around 30cm (12in) long when including the root.

When Tyrannosaurus rex hit around the age of 14 its body size would increase rapidly, putting on around 600kg (1300lb) a year over the next 4 years.

Tyrannosaurus rex had small arms that were extremely powerful and featured two clawed fingers.

Tyrannosaurus rex lived in the late Cretaceous Period, around 66 million years ago.
From Science for Kids