T. rex had an amazing sense of smell, gene study suggests. Fresh analysis of modern genes and ancient brains backs up the notion that the meat-eating dinosaur had an especially powerful nose.

T-Rex breath turned out so accurate and so revolting, the curators instead opted for a milder swamp smell to evoke the creature's natural habitat. Requests for nasty smells come in quite a lot ...

"T. rex had a very good sense of smell," Francois Therrien of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, one of the researchers, said in a telephone interview.

(If you desperately want to smell T. Rex's waste, hyena poo is probably a pretty close match because like SUE, hyenas eat flesh and bone, says Meredith Whitfield, exhibit developer at the Field ...

While the results are interesting, it’s important not to go away assuming the study proves T. rex is some kind of 50-foot bloodhound out for, well, blood. There’s a lot of inferring in the analysis, ...

Of all the dinosaurs investigated, T. rex was found to have the largest part of its brain devoted to a sense of smell. The findings were reported today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.

But the piece de resistance is its eau de T-Rex. Not content with having another boring replica dinosaur, the museum decided to capturethe authentic smell of the Jurassic beast.

The oversized olfactory bulbs also suggest T. rex and its tyrannosaurid buddies, such as Gorgosaurus libratus, which sported arm feathers, relied on their strong sense of smell to find prey at ...

The T. rex roamed the Earth about 67 million years ago, ... Brain scans of fossilized skulls suggest the T. rex used its keen sense of smell to seek out its prey.