Army Corps of Engineers as they were discovered on federal lands. A team of paleontologists led by Jack Horner exposed the rest of the skeleton during subsequent excavations. rex after Kathy Wankel, a rancher who first spotted the dinosaur's arm bones poking out of the earth near Montana's Fort Peck reservoir in 1988. rex," though it previously had been known as the Wankel T. The Smithsonian is now referring to the fossil as "the Nation's T. rex bones in Montana in 1902 at the Hell Creek Formation. Legendary fossil hunter Barnum Brown discovered the first T. It was one of the largest known carnivorous dinosaurs and one of the last non-avian dinosaurs to walk the Earth prior to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Tyrannosaurus rexroamed North America some 68 million to 66 million years ago. rex to Washington so it can be enjoyed by our 8 million visitors a year and serve as a gateway to the vast world of scientific discovery," Kirk Johnson, director of the National Museum of Natural History, said in a statement. "We could not be more excited to welcome the Nation's T. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, which opened more than a century ago, has 46 million fossils in its collection, but this new addition is its first near-complete T. Split up into many crates, the bones arrived in Washington, D.C., this week after a road trip from the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Mont., the fossil's former home near the badlands where the skeletal remains were found. The dinosaur is on loan to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History for at least the next 50 years. rex skeleton was welcomed to the Smithsonian this morning (April 15). Joining a diverse roster of iconic American objects from Judy Garland's ruby slippers to the space shuttle Discovery, a nearly complete T.
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