We went to OMSI today and visited the new dinosaur exhibit. They have a T-rex on display. It is the third most complete T-rex in the United States. He was found in Buffalo, South Dakota in 1987.
This is from the OMSI webpage. "SAMSON includes 170 original bones of the 300 in a full Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. 56.7% complete by bone count, Samson is believed to be the third most complete T. rex skeleton ever discovered. SAMSON has arguably the best preserved T. rex skull. Too heavy to mount on the skeleton, Samson's real fossil skull is displayed in a case along with 22 teeth found scattered around the skull.
In life, SAMSON measured approximately 40 feet in length and could have looked into a second story window. Its massive skull and powerful serrated teeth could bite through the leg bone of any other dinosaur of its time. The circumference of the femur tells us that SAMSON weighed about 6 tons, compared to the 7 ton Sue, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex discovered to date. Most likely a very skilled hunter with binocular color vision and an extremely sensitive sense of smell, this colossus, like other adults of its species, lived as an apex predator of the Late Cretaceous Period."
Did we mention that Trace was on the weather channel.
4 comments:
what's this???? My son is famous???? or is it infamous?
I like the picture of Trace with the t-rex...you give that dinosaur lots more personality.
Having fun together. You are awesome.
I want OMSI near me too! Jackson would love to see Samson, he is very big into dinosaurs right now, in fact he is currently watching The Night at the Museum-- just because of the dinosaur!!!
That is way cool! We will have to put that on our "to-go" places also! NIce!!
Love the blog...hate your BYU shirts!! :)
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