The first Tyrannosaurus was discovered by Bucky Derflinger in 1998, when he was 20 years old.

At the time, Derflinger was the youngest person to do so. The specimen, named Bucky after its
finder, stood 3.0 meters (10 feet) tall and measured 11 meters (35 feet) in length. It was a young
adult. The furcula (wishbone) of Bucky, the first Tyrannosaurus to be discovered, has been
preserved. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has a permanent display of Bucky.[16]

To scale with a person are the specimens "Sue," "AMNH 5027," "Stan," and "Jane."
Jack Horner-led teams found five Tyrannosaurus skeletons close to the Fort Peck Reservoir in
the summer of 2000.[17] A team from the Burpee Museum of Natural History located a juvenile
Tyrannosaurus skeleton that was 50% complete in the Hell Creek Formation in 2001. The
discovery, known as Jane (BMRP 2002.4.1), was initially believed to be the first skeleton of a
tiny tyrannosaurid called Nanotyrannus, but later studies proved that it is really the most
complete juvenile Tyrannosaurus specimen known;[18] The Burpee Museum of Natural History
has a display of Jane.[19] Wyrex was a skeleton that contained 114 bones and was 38% complete
when it was found in 2002 by amateur collectors Dan Wells and Don Wyrick. The Black Hills
Institute completed the dig over the course of three weeks in 2004, and it was the first live
internet excavation of a Tyrannosaurus that offered daily reports, pictures, and video.[5]

Since the second vertebra of Manospondylus gigas had already been lost by 1917, Henry
Fairfield Osborn was the first to notice the similarities between the two dinosaurs. Osborn did
not consider the two taxa to be synonyms because of the fragmentary condition of the
Manospondylus vertebrae; instead, he thought the older genus to be uncertain.[4] Nearly 10% of
a Tyrannosaurus skeleton (BHI 6248) was discovered by the Black Hills Institute in June 2000 at
a location that may have been the original M. gigas locale.[5]

discovering and identifying skeletons

Along with Osborn's description paper, William D. Matthew's 1905 skeletal restoration was
published.
In 1900, eastern Wyoming was the location where assistant curator of the American Museum of
Natural History Barnum Brown discovered the first fragment of a T. rex skeleton. In Montana's
Hell Creek Formation, Brown discovered a second fragmentary skeleton in 1902 that contained
about 34 petrified bones.[6] In a letter at the time, Brown stated: "I have never seen anything like
it from the Cretaceous. Quarry No. 1 comprises the femur, pubes, humerus, three vertebrae, and
two indeterminate bones of a big Carnivorous Dinosaur not described by Marsh.[7] The second
skeleton was given the T. rex designation by Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American
Museum of Natural History, in 1905. Greek terms o (tyrannos, meaning "tyrant") and (sauros,
meaning "lizard") were combined to create the generic name. For the specific name, Osborn
utilized the Latin word rex, which means "king". The complete binomial thus translates to "tyrant
lizard the king" or "King Tyrant Lizard", stressing the animal's size and presumptive supremacy
over other species at the time.[6]