One of the largest meat-eating land animals of all time, Tyrannosaurus rex lived in warm, humid forests and plains in what is now the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada. Other dinosaurs must have scattered when they saw this gigantic meat-eater approaching with its jaws agape, showing its fearsome array of spike-like teeth. Its powerful tail counterbalanced the great weight of the head of Tyrannosaurus, indicating that the animal held its body horizontally as it walked. Perhaps the most unusual feature of T. rex is its tiny, two-clawed forelimbs. How these may have been used is still a mystery.For over 25 years, Safari Ltd. has been proud to provide this premier line of scale model, dinosaur collectibles. These award winning dinosaur replicas are authenticated by the paleontologists of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, who houses the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world. Each Carnegie dinosaur can have up to 25 steps of hand painting to ensure the highest quality in the world marketplace.