GURGLE. GRUMBLE. GROWL.
Your empty stomach wakes you up. It’s a hot afternoon. The air feels thick and muggy, clinging to the scales and feathers along your back. You open your mouth, revealing 60 razor-sharp teeth—each 6 inches long. Your eyes, each as big as a softball, slowly open. You look down at yourself and see—you are a Tyrannosaurus rex!
At first all you see around you are plants. There are no roads or houses. There won’t be people to build them for another 66 million years! The tallest things are trees. The only sounds are the buzz of insects and the chirps of birds.
Your sharp eyes spot something moving in the shadows. It’s a tiny, ratlike mammal. It’s too small for your giant appetite. No, you need to eat a jumbo dinosaur for lunch.
You lift your nose and sniff. A deliciously sour scent floats through the air. A dinosaur is rotting a few miles away. Yum!
You get up to search for it. Your legs are powerful, with killer 8-inch claws at the tip of each toe. You need that strength and grip to lift your body up. At 40 feet long and 20,000 pounds, you’re roughly the size and weight of a school bus.
As you stand, be careful not to topple over. Your arms are only 3 feet long, tiny compared with the rest of your body. You can’t use them to balance. Luckily, you have your tail to help you stay steady on your feet.
BOOM! Your weight shakes the ground as you stalk into the forest.