Feb 23, 2024
AWMM-IL 2022.21 “Barbara” is a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton unearthed from the Hell Creek formation in Montana, recently on display at New Zealand’s Auckland War Memorial Museum. She is best known for possibly being pregnant, assumed due to the presence of medullary bone tissue, and for a catastrophic metatarsal injury which would have rendered her unable to hunt while recovering and with a noticeable limp afterwards, but which was clearly healed. The implications of her survival through such an injury are fascinating, but any formal papers on Barbara will be long in coming as she has returned to her private owner since her exhibit closed at the end of 2023.