It's not clear from this bloody tableau whether the triceratops is already dead or is being killed.Ĭarrano's own opinion on T. rex was primarily a scavenger of dead animals or a full-time hunter.
The pose also carefully skirts the scientific debate over whether T. "I think it's got the kinds of things that, you know, every kid dreams about when they think about T. "It's got high drama," he says of the depiction. That's the plant-eating, horned dinosaur with a bony fringe around the back of its neck that must have looked something like a frilly Elizabethan collar when the creature was alive.Ĭarrano and the Smithsonian know their audience.
rex isn't just standing there - it's been posed in the act of ripping up a flattened triceratops. "It's an actual, real Tyrannosaurus rex, standing in front of me."īut what's even more dramatic, is that the T. "First of all, for the obvious reason," Carrano says. "It's pretty spectacular," says paleobiologist Matt Carrano, the Smithsonian's dinosaur curator, when he first catches sight of the fully assembled, 38-foot-long beast. The nearly complete and much heralded Tyrannosaurus skeleton - the first ever owned by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History - was discovered in 1988 by a Montana rancher, Kathy Wankel, and will eventually find a new home in a grand display in the Washington, D.C., museum.īut first, the old dinosaur bones are getting some dramatic - and anatomically correct - primping help from a staff of curators, blacksmiths and technicians in the workshop of Research Casting International in Trenton, Ontario. rex" now stands - though not in the United States. What's come to be called "the nation's T. Metal cradles hold 150 of the major bones precisely in place. A team of blacksmiths, welders, artists and scientists have been working together in Canada to mount the T.
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