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There are fossils of all shapes and sizes but we like dinosaurs because they're big and that means they could engage in terrific imaginary battles with other big things, like King Kong.You don't see natural history museums vying for fossil skeletons of prehistoric kittens, it's the Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils everyone goes after, whereas non-science
They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity
How Many Tyrannosaurus Rexes Ever Lived on Earth? Hereâs a New Clue. An estimation of the iconic predatorâs total population can teach us things about dinosaurs that fossils cannot. Computer simulations indicated, with 97.5 percent probability, that there were at least 1,300 adult tyrannosauruses at any given time but not more than 328,000.Credit...Science Photo Library/Science Source April 15, 2021Updated 2:30 p.m. ET Before they were killed off by a meteor that hit Earth 66 million years ago, some 20,000 adults of the iconic ferocious dinosaur predator â Tyrannosaur rex â...