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This article describes Tyrannosaurus as it is portrayed in The Land Before Time series and should not be used as a resource for information about the real animal.

Readers who would like to learn about real Tyrannosaurus should look to other sources, like the ones listed below:


Tyrannosaurus is a type of carnivorous dinosaur depicted in The Land Before Time series. In both the films and television series, Tyrannosaurus plays an important role in sequences involving predators, similarly to the T. rex in Jurassic Park. There are exceptions to T. rex being portrayed in antagonistic lights, however; the character Chomper is a Tyrannosaurus[3] who is a member of the Prehistoric Pals.

As is the case for all carnivorous dinosaurs in the series, though some others have more specific terms, the herbivorous characters simply refer to Tyrannosaurus as "sharpteeth".

Description

In the first six installments in The Land Before Time, adult Tyrannosaurus are depicted with dark green, brown, or olive scales, with their eyes being entirely composed of black and red. Later installments, however, depict them with more human-like eyes, with white sclera and brightly colored irises, as well as scales that come in a variety of colors, including (but not limited to) olive, orange, and gray.[5][6]

Past their color discrepancies, adult Tyrannosaurus tend to look very similar. They have very large, somewhat boxy, wart-strewn heads with large, pointed teeth that are sheathed by lips, their bodies are bulky and heavily built, their tails are fairly long and thick, they have powerful back legs and their arms are disproportionately small and tipped by two-fingered hands. T. rex also possess thin, short ridges that run from their heads to roughly halfway down their tails; the appearance of this ridge varies from individual to individual.

Chomper is the only juvenile Tyrannosaurus depicted in the series. In his appearances following his debut in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, he is depicted with three fingers on each hand and a distinctive, spiky dorsal ridge.

List of Tyrannosaurus characters

Gallery

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Established in The Land Before Time
  2. Established in The Land Before Time television series
  3. 3.0 3.1 From the Universal Kids websiteChomper species from Universal Kids website
  4. Page from an officially licensed coloring book: Red Claw dangerous trex
    and the archived Land Before Time website: https://web.archive.org/web/20080701142547/http://www.landbeforetime.com/popups/events.html
  5. Storyboard for 'The Brave Longneck Scheme' Sharpteeth Trex The Brave Longneck Scheme
  6. Storyboard for 'The Spooky Nighttime Adventure' https://web.archive.org/web/20110210172429/http://www.ersoz.com/storyboard/sb_pages/lbt_spooky.htm
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