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Which of the following statements about Tyrannosaurus rex is correct? |
It was a fish-like reptile. It was a giant fern-eating dinosaur. It stood about 20 feet in height and had large dagger-like teeth. It disappeared around 200 million years ago. |
It stood about 20 feet in height and had large dagger-like teeth. |
The correct answer is Option (3) - It stood about 20 feet in height and had large dagger-like teeth. The amphibians evolved into reptiles. They lay thick- shelled eggs which do not dry up in sun unlike those of amphibians. Again we only see their modern day descendents, the turtles, tortoises and crocodiles. In the next 200 millions years or so, reptiles of different shapes and sizes dominated on earth. Some of these land reptiles went back into water to evolve into fish like reptiles probably 200 mya (e.g. Ichthyosaurs). The land reptiles were, of course, the dinosaurs. The biggest of them, i.e., Tyrannosaurus rex was about 20 feet in height and had huge fearsome dagger like teeth. About 65 mya, the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared from the earth. |
