T. rex: The Ultimate Predator at Science World

This exhibition encourages visitors to engage in investigation with imagination and explore how the Tyrannosaurus rex may have looked and behaved over 66 million years ago.

In this exhibition visitors can expect to engage with: 

• Life-size models of a number of tyrannosaurs, including: Proceratosaurus bradleyi
• A cast fossil of a T. rex toe bone and a touchable cast of a T. rex thigh bone
• A cast of the youngest and most complete juvenile tyrannosaur fossil found to date
• A cast fossil of one of T. rex’s huge, banana-shaped teeth,
• A tabletop “Investigation Station,” where visitors can explore a variety of fossil casts ranging from coprolite (fossilized feces) to a gigantic femur, with virtual tools including a CT scanner, measuring tape, and a microscope to learn more about what such specimens can reveal to scientists about the biology and behavior of T. rex.
• A full-scale reproduction of a T. rex fossil skeleton, the subject of the exhibition’s “shadow theater,” in which the skeleton’s 40-foot shadow will “come to life” and demonstrate to visitors how the animal moved and interacted with prey and its own kind.
• A praxinoscope that animates the difference between walking and running—T. rex could only truly run when it was young.