#9 - MG - In the beginning, the T. rex. was a T. rex.


The T. rex holotype at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

The first complete T.rex skeleton was excavated by fossil hunter Barnum Brown. It was first mounted at the Museum of Natural History in New York and, since the 1940s, has been on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. T. rex has long been presented standing vertically; recent studies show the dinosaur actually kept its body horizontal.