WHY READ THIS ARTICLE?
The T. rex began its life like a fluffy baby bird the size of a dog, then growth became extreme as it reached teenage years. Read more about how the T. rex was converted from a slim, fast hunter into a bone-crushing monster.
Slowly the cracks expand across the shell of the biggest egg ever to be laid on Earth. Underneath the shell, a fluffy slender baby struggles to get out. As it hatches, the baby T. rex is only the size of a medium dog, but within a few years, it will grow into the world’s largest and most formidable predator.
In 2021, scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland published a study of two unborn Tyrannosaurus babies from 70 to 75 million years ago. Dinosaur baby fossils are generally very rare, and the study of the two Tyrannosaurus babies has introduced important knowledge about the earliest development of predatory dinosaurs. There is every indication that the childhood of a was a brutal
