Raptorex Raptorex Raptorex is a dubious genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur. Its fossil remains consist of a single juvenile specimen probably uncovered in Mongolia, or possibly northeastern China. The type species is "R. kriegsteini", described in 2009 by Sereno and colleagues. The genus name is derived from Latin ', "robber", and ', "king". The specific name honours Roman Kriegstein, a survivor of the Holocaust, whose son Henry Kriegstein donated the specimen to the University of Chicago for scientific study. While initially considered to have come from the Yixian Formation of China, dated to approximately 125 million years ago during the early Cretaceous
Tyrannosaurus in popular culture in 1905, "Tyrannosaurus" gained widespread public attention on December 30, 1905, when the "New York Times" hailed "T. rex" as "the most formidable fighting animal of which there is any record whatever," the "king of all kings in the domain of animal life," "the absolute warlord of the earth," and a "royal man-eater of the jungle." In 1906, "Tyrannosaurus" was dubbed the "prize fighter of antiquity" and the "Last of the Great Reptiles and the King of Them All." In 1927, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating "Tyrannosaurus" facing a "Triceratops" in the Field Museum of Natural History, establishing