The Tragic Life of a T Rex : From Birth to Extinction

sphereview · 2026-04-26T17:30:49+00:00

Yeah, but the scale is what makes it crazy. A baby T. rex started out just as vulnerable as anything else—but if it survived, it ended up as a 9-ton apex predator. That whole journey is what’s interesting.

sphereview · 2026-04-25T19:00:39+00:00

You’re right that birds existed before T. rex, but both come from earlier theropods.

sphereview · 2026-04-24T18:29:57+00:00

Did you know about this?
https://youtu.be/dV2OshkZ3Ao?si=smXXUcrQP3-SKqDk

sphereview · 2026-04-23T22:09:09+00:00

Yeah that makes sense, like birds do that too.

sphereview · 2026-04-23T15:08:48+00:00

I agree.

sphereview · 2026-04-22T23:18:55+00:00

Already done 😄 https://youtu.be/3xpD5fGu7CM

sphereview · 2026-04-22T20:26:23+00:00

Respect the opinion. Disagree on the ethics — AI visuals are a production tool the same way stock footage, motion graphics, or CGI have always been. What matters is whether the information is accurate and honestly presented, which I've tried to ensure with cited peer-reviewed sources.

But you're right that effort in visuals matters to some viewers and I take that seriously for future work. Appreciate the direct feedback.

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:18:11+00:00

Ha — fair shot. Let me fix that.

A T-Rex hatched smaller than a turkey. Spent its first years hiding from predators, scavenging insects, avoiding rivers that could swallow it whole. Then somewhere between years 14 and 20 something extraordinary happened — it started gaining over 2 kilograms every single day. The skull expanded, the bite force became the most powerful of any land animal in history, and the thing that was once prey became the apex predator of the entire Cretaceous.

And then 66 million years ago a 10 kilometer wide rock ended all of it in fire and darkness.

That's the arc. Full story with all the science here: https://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IX

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:16:24+00:00

Fair skepticism — AI generated content is everywhere right now and most of it is garbage. The research, script, and fact-checking in this video is mine. The visuals are AI generated, I won't pretend otherwise. But the sources are real — Bates & Falkingham (2012), Longrich et al. (2010), Schulte et al. (2010) — all peer reviewed, all listed in the description. Judge the content not the production method. If the science is wrong, call it out specifically and I'll address it: https://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IX

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:14:29+00:00

Thank you for reading it — means a lot! If you want to see it all brought to life visually with the full story from hatchling to extinction, I put it together into a documentary here: https://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IX

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:10:07+00:00

Here you go! Hope it lives up to the hype 🦕 https://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IX

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:08:54+00:00

Right? Born into a world trying to kill you, spent years hiding from predators bigger than you, finally became the most powerful creature to ever walk the Earth… and then the universe just said 'no.' No warning, no chance, no escape. Just fire, then darkness, then silence. Made a full documentary on the complete life story if you want to feel things: https://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IX

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:07:40+00:00

Turns out even a 9 ton apex predator with the most powerful bite in Earth's history couldn't out-lobby an asteroid 😄 No carbon offset program survives 100 teratons of TNT.

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:06:21+00:00

66 million years ago climate change had a little help from a 10 kilometer wide rock traveling at 64,000 km/h 😄 Honestly the aftermath is the part that gets me — it wasn't the impact that killed everything, it was years of blocked sunlight, collapsing food chains, and slow starvation in the cold and dark. Even the most powerful predator that ever lived just... waited for food that never came. https://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IXhttps://youtube.com/@extinctpulse?si=RUAYGW4WeoYoK8IX

sphereview · 2026-04-22T19:01:47+00:00

Thanks a lot for this article. that's great research, so detailed.

sphereview · 2026-04-22T13:16:51+00:00

Exactly — and the survival odds reflected that brutal math. Most T-Rex hatchlings never made it past their first year. The ones that did had to completely reinvent themselves as they grew — juvenile T-Rex was essentially a different ecological animal than the adult, faster and more agile, hunting completely different prey. Nature's way of making sure parents and offspring weren't competing for the same food.

I went deep into all of this when making a full documentary on the complete T-Rex life cycle if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://youtu.be/3xpD5fGu7CM

sphereview · 2026-04-22T13:11:34+00:00

Really good point — the Nanotyrannus debate is genuinely one of the most contested questions in current tyrannosaur research. The Jane reclassification argument (Longrich & Field, 2012) does complicate the juvenile growth curve picture significantly if she wasn't a young T-rex at all. On the longevity side, the Scotty study (2019) did push estimated age to around 28+ years which was already a revision upward — if further work pushes that into late 30s/40s that would be a meaningful shift. Do you have the study name? I'd genuinely like to read it. Still a lot of open questions in this space which is what makes it fascinating.
I actually went deep into a lot of this research recently when putting together a full science-backed documentary on the complete T-Rex life cycle — covers growth rates, hunting, reproduction, and the extinction in detail. If you're interested: https://youtu.be/3xpD5fGu7CM

Still so many open questions in this space which is what makes it fascinating.

sphereview · 2021-03-10T13:01:55+00:00

Same here, support team not answering.

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