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[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /


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"Jodi" was initially exhibited as a juvenile T. rex at London's Frieze Masters international art fair in October 2023, before the Nanotyrannus genus was classified.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The "Dueling Dinosaurs" discovery became crucial to the research published by Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli that classified Nanotyrannus as separate from T. rex.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Megan Jenkins, a palaeontologist at the University of Portsmouth, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday that Nanotyrannus "was for a very long time believed to be sort of a teenager of T. rex".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

A fractured rib from Scotty, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, is giving researchers a rare look at dinosaur biology from 66 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

I didn't want a little brown aragonite figurine of T. rex, with its mouth open and its teeth bared, nor did I want the Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period poster.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

How mad they are, how furious, and upon small occasions, rash and inconsiderate in their proceedings, how they dote, every page almost will witness, ———delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The crine profuso and barba demissa of the reges crinitos, as the Merovingians were called, are often referred to by ancient chroniclers.

From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Certainly German progress shows that the Germans can have no ground to quote: “Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi,” of their Emperor.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier

Vergil's own words would imply that his early effort centered about Aeneas' wars in Italy; the sixth Eclogue, Cum canerem reges et proelia, is rather explicit on this point.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank

In the meantime the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyed by a pestilence into the bargain:- "Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi."

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden


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