But is it real? A full dinosaur skeleton named Stan was auctioned off to an anonymous buyer in 2020 for a record-breaking $31.8 million after being dug up by an amateur paleontologist of the same name. Pretty cool and badass, isn’t it?”Ĭool and badass, indeed. rex skull ever found by a young paleontologist, and his name was Stan, so this T. His explanation of the skull’s presence goes as follows: “I got a T. The real mystery, though, is whether the skull is a real one or merely a pricey replica.
Much like Meryl Streep’s empty bookshelves, this skull poses many unanswerable questions, such as: Why does the Rock love oversize items so much? Is the rest of the dinosaur sitting behind that wall? Most importantly, is the Rock a member of Hollywood’s infamous posse of dinosaur-skull enthusiasts? It's Stan the T-Rex! 🦖 #ManningCast /nHTtLjvQDP- Awful Announcing January 18, 2022 To complete this tableau of masculinity, a hulking dinosaur skull was inexplicably emerging from behind the wall.Įli asking the important questions. At least, such is the case for Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, who joined a recent episode of the Manning brothers’ ESPN show sitting in front of a little set of shelves housing his tequila and a football. We don’t know…yet whether this is a male or female or how much of the skeleton is left in the ground.Photo-Illustration: The Cut Photos: Getty Imagesįinding the right place to Zoom in your home is tricky - there’s always something embarrassing in the background, like your messy pile of totes or your giant T.The Tufts-Love Rex was about 15 years old when it died.It could have either fallen into the river and drowned or died on land and been washed downstream by a flash flood. The Tufts-Love Rex was found buried in a fossil riverbed.rex was as long as a city bus and stood at 15- to 20-feet-tall. The skull inside the plaster jacket is about 4-feet-long by 3-feet-wide. This skull size is average for an adult T.We know the Tufts-Love Rex lived at the very end of the Cretaceous because it was found at the bottom of a hill a rock layer at the top of that hill marks the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period (145–66 million years ago) and became extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction (66 million years ago). The Tufts-Love Rex is 66.3 million years old.We’re calling it the “Tufts-Love Rex” after Luke Tufts and Jason Love, the two Burke Museum paleontology volunteers who discovered it. Next summer, Burke paleontologists will search for additional parts of the dinosaur at the site.Įach new discovery creates a fuller picture of what life on Earth was like millions of years ago and provides us greater opportunity to understand what life will be like in the future. rex grew and to what size, whether they were active predators or scavengers, and more. For instance, this specimen can give us a greater understanding of how T. Researchers can learn a lot from the Tufts-Love Rex. rex-nicknamed “Tufts-Love Rex” in honor of the two volunteers who discovered it-is just the beginning of what’s to come for this scientifically valuable specimen. This incredible, month-long, team effort to excavate this T. rex fossils arrived at the Burke on Thursday, August 18, and were offloaded from the truck with the help of the Skanska crew (the New Burke Museum general contractor) and one of their forklifts. The skull was loaded on the flatbed truck along with ribs, the lower jaw and several other fossils for the trip to the Burke Museum.
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