Dave Hone

But T-Rex is coming somewhere up in that list.

That's how prominent it is as an animal.

So, yeah, it's almost inescapable as a paleontologist, and then doubly so for me who works on dinosaurs, and doubly so again because I do work on tyrannosaurs.

Yeah, it just dominates conversations.

Massive head, very kind of boxy.

It's very robust.

Big forward-facing eyes.

massive eyes massive i mean tennis ball sized eyes these things had amazing eyesight um yeah giant teeth there's a cast of a wet tyrannosaurus rex yeah i know so it it looks a bit bigger than it is so this is all root so this would be stuck in the jaw right but that tip part is that's the two the the tip as you call it and yeah um

You know, so that would comfortably go through pretty much any part.

And then you realize just how thick it is.

So this is a cast of a thing called Carcharodontosaurus from Africa.

You get it down in Niger and a few other places like that.

And they're very, very big, not as big as T-Rex, but not a million miles away.

And then if you look at the teeth in profile, they're a surprisingly similar shape and not far off in size as well.

And then you look at them that way on and you realize it's,

third of the width.

So this isn't just massive, it's thick.

And of course, being thick, it makes it strong.

And with that giant head, with all that extra bone and then all the extra musculature attached to that giant head, they've got this uber powerful bite.

and the ability to just chomp through basically anything it wants to.