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rex

[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /


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T. rex was still a scaly, egg-laying reptile, but its 36 C body temperature was much closer to that of a warm-blooded mammal than a modern reptile.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Warm-bloodedness may have given T. rex another important advantage: access to colder environments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

T. rex lived during the Cretaceous Period, when Earth's climate was much warmer than today.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

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

The central emblem is that of the Trinity, with a "chronogram" indicating the year 1634 thus:—sInt DoMUs hUjUs pII reges nUtrItII regInae nUtrICes pIae.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant

On his refusing this honour, Mary wrote, or caused to be written, the following lines in Latin and French:   Sunt comites, ducesque alii; sunt denique reges;   Sethom dominum sit satis esse mihi.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

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

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




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