T. rex

Cowboy in a T-Rex Costume Is the Best Thing About This Rodeo

Can’t understand how people in oversized hats riding horses and bulls is supposed to be entertaining? It turns out that rodeos were only boring because cowboys were wearing the wrong outfits. Put one in a T-rex costume on a bucking bronco and suddenly you’ve got the best spectator sport in the world. The T-rex in…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 2

Badass T-rex on a Jetski Is Exactly Why We’ll Miss the Summer

Who knew a crappy T-rex costume we once all dumped on would turn out to be one of the best things to happen to the internet? In this video Mark Gomez dons the inflatable dino suit and thrashes a jetski around a lake. The fact that he can still perform mid-air twists and flips without…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Sep 23

This T-Rex Battle Royale Makes Me Wish I’d Gone To Burning Man (Almost)

If you’re secretly harboring a Mad Max fetish, there’s yet another reason to spend a few days in the middle of the desert at Burning Man. Usually it’s hard for most of us to see the appeal of the festival, until you realize it includes the opportunity to watch a pair of T-rex battle inside…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Sep 16

This $2.39 Million Half-Complete T-Rex Doesn’t Cost Money, It Makes Money

For $100,000, Hammacher Schlemmer will sell you a life-size replica of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but for $2.39 million Theropod Expeditions will sell you the real thing—or at least 45 percent of one. With 135 of its 300 bones being genuine fossils collected in Montana and Wyoming, it’s more complete than many T-rex skeletons on display…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 7

How to Tell if a Fossil T-Rex Is Pregnant

Researchers have confirmed that a 68-million-year-old fossil found in Montana came from a pregnant Tyrannosaurus Rex. This not only will make it easier for other scientists to sex different fossils, it gives us an insight into the evolution of birds. Scientists from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 15

T. Rex Oven Mitts Make Kitchen Burns Extinct

The marvels of modern mold-making have allowed us to turn food-safe silicone into an endless run of novel kitchen accessories. This includes oven mitts in every shape, size, and color, but few have to be as satisfying to use as chomping down on a hot baking sheet with a silicone T. Rex on your hand.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 23

A T. Rex Riding a Horse Kicking a Soccer Ball Is Everything Wonderful About the Internet

The internet has some dark corners, there’s no denying that. But how could humanity ever carry on without a tool that lets us share a brilliant video of a man in an inflatable T-rex costume riding a horse kicking a giant soccer ball? Lets make sure we never do anything to endanger the world wide…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Feb 17

Watch a Tyrannosaurus Rex Train for American Ninja Warrior (He’s Pretty Good!)

Okay, so it’s actually American Ninja Warrior competitor Reko Rivera in a T-Rex suit. It’s a good thing, too, since those little T-Rex arms would have trouble on the training course. The folks at Brentwood Photography got Rivera to suit up at the FTC Ninja Warrior Course in Florida. This isn’t their first foray into…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 10

Here’s Your ‘This Is the Best I Could do’ Jurassic World Halloween Costume

Instead of waiting until the last possible minute to decide on a costume this year, why not just order this Jurassic World inflatable T-rex getup from Amazon the day before Halloween and slightly up your costume game—but not by much. An included battery-operated pump keeps the $70 costume inflated while you’re hidden away inside, and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 26

Paleontologists Discovered Sue the T. Rex 25 Years Ago Today

Today, Sue the T. Rex fossil, the largest and best preserved T. Rex fossil ever discovered, turns 25—or at the very least, 65,500,025 (but she doesn’t look a day over 60.5 million if you ask me.) The story is now almost a paleontology legend. On August 12, 1990, while looking for fossils on the Cheyenne…

Tech News Darren Orf Aug 12

A Rideable T-Rex Skeleton Tricycle Is all my Jurassic Dreams Come True

It’s the rare finds like this, the one in ten thousand discoveries, that justify Craigslist’s existence. Someone in Eugene, Oregon, is actually willing to part with this magnificent 12-foot long custom T-Rex skeleton tricycle they made that comes complete with handlebar-controlled jaws that really open. Weighing in at 90 pounds the recumbent trike is apparently…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 6

A Goofy Webcomic About Everything The T-Rex Regrets

Yes, we’re all familiar with the jokes about the Tyrannosaurus Rex having big heads and itty bitty arms, but they’re funny when you apply the right amount of slapstick. And it’s endlessly fun to watch the dinosaur of Jerry Teo’s Rex Regrets try — and regret — all sorts of modern activities. Teo has kindly…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis May 8

This T-Rex fossil is the first dinosaur ever to fly to space*

Lockheed Martin has published a surprising listof all the stuff that flew to space in the first Orion test. You are looking at one of the items: A Tyrannosaurus Rex’s tooth fossil sent by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Here’s another one: A Cookie Monster’s cookie and Ernie’s original rubber duckie. More items:…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Feb 3

Even If Jurassic World Sucks, At Least We Get More T-Rex Toys

The first official trailer for Jurassic World has us cautiously optimistic about the upcoming blockbuster, but even if the movie stinks, we still get a pretty great consolation prize: mountains of new dinosaur toys. And courtesy of the London Toy Fair we now have our first look at Jurassic World’s T-Rex, or at least the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 22

Of Course Hammacher Will Sell You an Amazing Full-Size T-Rex Skeleton

Proving that it will always have what it takes to compete with the likes of Neiman Marcus when it comes to obscene gift ideas, Hammacher Schlemmer has revealed this beauty for the 2014 holiday season: a $100,000 life-size replica of a 40-foot long T-rex skeleton that stands 15-feet tall. Good luck hiding that under the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 1

T-Rex Skull Shower Heads Justify the Existence of 3D Printers

The next time someone asks you to explain 3D printers, and why anyone would want one in their home, you can simply bring up this article and show them that without 3D printing technology we may never have had a T-Rex shower head. Available for download for free from MakerBot’s Thingiverse, the T-Rex shower head…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 27

Start Your Own Private Museum With a 3D Printer and This T-Rex Model

Does waiting in line at a museum just to check out some old dinosaur bones that may or may not be real sound like a terrible way to spend a weekend? If you’ve got a 3D printer at home, MakerBot’s Digital Store is now selling this anatomically correct T-Rex skeleton model that you can print…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 16

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Zombie Dinosaur!

This week’s writing prompt is simple: write about a zombie dinosaur or dinosaurs. Is it a prehistoric apocalypse? A new Jurassic Park gone wrong? You decide. This zombie T-Rex is the work of B.R.Guthrie, via r/ImaginaryDinosaurs. Guthrie has written his own bit of prose related to this image, and you can read it over on…

io9 Lauren Davis May 1

Ask A Paleontologist All Your Questions About Dinosaurs!

Matthew Carrano, curator for the Dinosauria exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, is here to answer all our questions about dinosaurs! Carrano’s research focuses on the evolution of predatory dinosaurs, how we read the fossil record, and paleobiology, a subject on which he’s published dozens of scientific articles. He also just recently returned…

io9 Ria Misra Apr 25

Can You Dance Like a T. Rex?

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History is adding a T. rex to their collections, and to celebrate it, they’ve had Ray Troll and The Ratfish Wranglers record a song that they’re calling “National Rex.” What they need is a dance that goes along with it – a T. Rex Two-Step, if you will.…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 8

Cowboy in a T-Rex Costume Is the Best Thing About This Rodeo

Badass T-rex on a Jetski Is Exactly Why We’ll Miss the Summer

This T-Rex Battle Royale Makes Me Wish I’d Gone To Burning Man (Almost)

This $2.39 Million Half-Complete T-Rex Doesn’t Cost Money, It Makes Money

How to Tell if a Fossil T-Rex Is Pregnant

T. Rex Oven Mitts Make Kitchen Burns Extinct

A T. Rex Riding a Horse Kicking a Soccer Ball Is Everything Wonderful About the Internet

Watch a Tyrannosaurus Rex Train for American Ninja Warrior (He’s Pretty Good!)

Here’s Your ‘This Is the Best I Could do’ Jurassic World Halloween Costume

Paleontologists Discovered Sue the T. Rex 25 Years Ago Today

A Rideable T-Rex Skeleton Tricycle Is all my Jurassic Dreams Come True

A Goofy Webcomic About Everything The T-Rex Regrets

This T-Rex fossil is the first dinosaur ever to fly to space*

Even If Jurassic World Sucks, At Least We Get More T-Rex Toys

Of Course Hammacher Will Sell You an Amazing Full-Size T-Rex Skeleton

T-Rex Skull Shower Heads Justify the Existence of 3D Printers

Start Your Own Private Museum With a 3D Printer and This T-Rex Model

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Zombie Dinosaur!

Ask A Paleontologist All Your Questions About Dinosaurs!

Can You Dance Like a T. Rex?

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