Beneath the surface activities of the family, the games of hide and seek and the baking of biscuits, the trips to the zoo and the colouring of Tyrannosaurus Rex's scales, personalities are being assembled upon whose strength and creativity all subsequent flourishing will depend.

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It's a Tyrannosaurus rex, whose every move pounds the forest floor.

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David Roberts explained how he made the move from designing fashion to designing children's books - and worried the dinosaurs he drew for Donaldson's book Tyrannosaurus Drip had no character without their clothes.

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Giganotosaurus was, according to palaeontologist Dr. Jorge Calvo, a terrifying spectacle: a 10-ton meat-eater that was 46ft (14m) long, 23ft (7m) tall and three tons heavier than North America's bad boy Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar was looted from Mongolia's Gobi Desert and brought to the United States illegally, the U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a joint statement Monday.

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Its jaws may have been more powerful than those of a Tyrannosaurus rex, though estimates of the dinosaur's bite vary substantially.

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One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton went to court in early September, in lower Manhattan, with U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel presiding.

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In addition to pondering "The Blob, " which remains in development, Zombie recently finished editing a director's cut of "Halloween 2" for DVD and has an original film, "Tyrannosaurus Rex, " in the works with a tentative 2013 release date.

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For The Boy, as I'm calling him for the purpose of this article, to save his blushes, it's just a big mortuary filled with dead animals, apart from one very much alive, animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex, that nobody sees fit to warn you about.

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