Feathered Tyrannosaurus rex

Feathered Tyrannosaurus rex

So far all of the T. rex skeletons that have been found have had no evidence of feathers.  Some fossilized Theropods (meat eating dinosaurs) were found with feather impressions.  A relative of T. rex was Yutyrannus hauli.  Yutyrannus was featured in a previous post.  They were 30 feet long, covered in feathers, and they do not appear to have been wimps. Also, some paleontologists have suggested that T. rex chicks, babies, may have had feathers to keep warm.  T. rex adults may have possibly lost their feathers as they grew up.  However, we may one day find a feathered adult. T. rex.

Now before you get all upset, realize that just because it had feathers that does not make it a cute little wimpy chick or baby bird.  After all, we don't think of eagles or hawks as wimpy.  A T. rex, feathered or not, would have still had the strongest bite of any land animal ever.  That would be 12,800 lbs of bite force in a T. rex bite.  A great white shark only has a bite force of 4,000 lbs.   Tyrannosaurus rex would have had the 5 ft. (1.5 m) skull and head, weighed 9,000 lbs (8,160 kg), and been 40 ft. (12 m) long from head to tail.  It would have been up to 20 ft. (6 m) tall.  So, if one day someone finds a feathered Tyrannosaurus rex, don't freak out.  T. rex will always be one of the scariest monsters to ever have lived!