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May 13, 2008 8:21 pm US/Eastern
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T. Rexes Make Grand Return To Carnegie Museum
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
In the old dinosaur hall at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Tyrannosaurus Rex scared the wits out of kids for more than 60 years.
Now the old boy is returning and he's not alone.
Until June 15, kids can only guess what's going behind a wall at the museum.
"I think the Pittsburgh public will be extremely excited to see them back," Dr. Zhe Xi Luo, a paleontologist, said.
The exhibit shows a spring sunset frozen in time 65-million years ago. A pair of T. Rexes circle each other - tooth to terrible tooth - rivals for prehistoric leftovers.
As the deadline draws near, crews are busy sculpting cement boulders while paleo-gardners create a primordial world that will surround museum-goers with ficus plants and giant magnolias - all sorts of flowers bloomed when T. Rex walked the earth.
"We really do portray that T. Rex lived in a different time from all previous dinosaurs," Dr. Luo said.
Before his mysterious disappearance, T. Rex roamed the planet pretty much unchallenged, except by his own kind, growing to 42-feet long and weighing up to 7 tons.
T. Rex and company will take us to a place that marks the end of the dinosaurs dominance in way so real you might just hear them roar.
More than 75,000 dinosaur lovers have already seen Phase One of "Dinosaurs In Their Time" which opened last November. It's anticipated that the T. Rex will break museum attendance records.
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