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AI imageCreated with GPT Image 2 by OpenAI on Oct 31, 2026

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  • ✓Bipedal, back horizontal, tail held straight out off the ground
  • ✓Mouth closed, lips covering the teeth so none are visible
  • ✓Palms facing each other, not turned down or danglingมือยกไปข้างหน้า กรงเล็บงอ ไม่ห้อยลง
  • ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
  • ✓Skin mostly covered in small scales
  • ✓Slimmer than T. rex, about 8–9 m long, short crest before each eye, short two-fingered armsมีสันสีแดงเล็กหน้าตา
  • ✓Whole animal visible in side view
  • ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
  • ✓No text, people or modern objects

Checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (checked item by item from the image) on Oct 31, 2026. The score is the share of checklist items the image gets right; it is not an expert scientific review.

Prompt used to create the image

Scientifically accurate paleoart of Gorgosaurus, a carnivore Tyrannosauridae dinosaur from the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous (about 76.5–75 million years ago). Bipedal with the back held roughly horizontal and the tail held straight out behind for balance, never dragging on the ground. NOT standing upright like a kangaroo. Mouth closed with all teeth fully hidden behind scaly lips, like a monitor lizard. NO visible teeth. Hands held tucked in near the chest with the palms facing inward toward each other, like clapping, claws curving inward and forward. NOT hanging down, NOT palms-down, NOT claws pointing at the ground. Reference: Gorgosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.5 and 73 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in Western Canada as well as the U.S. state of Montana. Paleontologists recognize only the type species, G. libratus, although other species have been erroneously referred to the genus. Anatomy: three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; skin predominantly covered in small scales; a lighter, more slender build than Tyrannosaurus, about 8–9 meters long, a short bony crest in front of each eye, short two-fingered arms. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a Late Cretaceous coastal floodplain like the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, with conifers, ferns and early flowering plants by a river, no grass. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. No text, no labels, no humans, no modern objects.

Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database

Gorgosaurus

Name meaning: From Greek, meaning "fierce lizard".

Carnivore

📏 About 7–9 m long and around 2–3 tonnes.

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Gorgosaurus was a Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur from Canada and the USA, a close relative of Albertosaurus. It was slender, long-legged and the top predator of its time.

Fun facts

  • Gorgosaurus is one of the tyrannosaurs with the most fossils, including many juveniles.
  • A young Gorgosaurus was found with the legs of small bird-like dinosaurs in its stomach: juveniles hunted different prey from the adults, which went after big animals.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Gorgosaurus (Dinosaur Park), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.

Scientific details

Classification
Theropod (two-legged predators)
Family
Tyrannosauridae
When it lived
66–83.6 million years ago
Geologic stages
Campanian – Maastrichtian
Named by
Lambe, 1914
Fossil occurrences
20 sites

Countries with fossils

  • Canada
  • United States

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata