T. rex, most dinosaurs couldn't stick out their tongues

T. rex, most dinosaurs couldn't stick out their tongues

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https://www.cnet.com/news/t-rex-most-dinosaurs-couldnt-stick-out-their-tongues/

The designers behind the Jurassic World Legacy Collection Extreme Chompin' Tyrannosaurus Rex action figure might need to go back to the drawing board. The tongue-waggling toy is a little deficient in the accuracy department since a new study on dinosaur tongues came out on Wednesday.

A research team from University of Texas at Austin and the Chinese Academy of Sciences compared the tongue-supporting hyoid bones of modern birds and crocodiles with fossil specimens from dinosaurs, including a T. rex.   

T. rex, most dinosaurs couldn't stick out their tongues

Jun 20, 2018, 10:15pm UTC
https://www.cnet.com/news/t-rex-most-dinosaurs-couldnt-stick-out-their-tongues/ > The designers behind the Jurassic World Legacy Collection Extreme Chompin' Tyrannosaurus Rex action figure might need to go back to the drawing board. The tongue-waggling toy is a little deficient in the accuracy department since a new study on dinosaur tongues came out on Wednesday. > A research team from University of Texas at Austin and the Chinese Academy of Sciences compared the tongue-supporting hyoid bones of modern birds and crocodiles with fossil specimens from dinosaurs, including a T. rex.