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

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100% (9/9 items)

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  • ✓Bipedal, back horizontal, tail held straight out off the groundลำตัวเชิดขึ้นเล็กน้อย แต่หางยื่นตรง
  • ✓Mouth closed, lips covering the teeth so none are visible
  • ✓Palms facing each other, not turned down or dangling
  • ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
  • ✓Skin mostly covered in small scales
  • ✓Massive deep skull, short two-fingered arms, powerful hind legs
  • ✓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 Tarbosaurus, a carnivore Tyrannosauridae dinosaur from the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous (about 70 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: Tarbosaurus is a genus of large tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period. It contains the type and single species Tarbosaurus bataar, which is known from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in the Subashi Formation of China. Tarbosaurus is represented by dozens of fossil specimens, including several complete skulls and skeletons. Anatomy: three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; skin predominantly covered in small scales; massive deep skull, short two-fingered arms, powerful hind legs. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a humid Late Cretaceous river floodplain forest like the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia, with conifers and broadleaf flowering trees, 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

Tarbosaurus

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

Carnivore

📏 About 10 m long, a little smaller than Tyrannosaurus.

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Tarbosaurus was a large tyrannosaur from Late Cretaceous Mongolia and China, a close relative of Tyrannosaurus with a narrower head and even shorter arms for its size.

Fun facts

  • Many Tarbosaurus fossils have been found, from babies to adults, so scientists can study how it grew.
  • A Tarbosaurus skeleton smuggled out of Mongolia was once auctioned in the US, before a court ordered it returned.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Tarbosaurus (Nemegt), 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
66–89.8 million years ago
Geologic stages
Coniacian – Maastrichtian
Named by
Maleev, 1955
Fossil occurrences
56 sites

Countries with fossils

  • China
  • Mongolia
  • Russia

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata