8 Popular 'Science Myths' Where The Truth Is Way Cooler

6. T. Rex Vision Is Based On Movement

Despite the myth perpetuated by a certain popular dinosaur franchise, the T. Rex is actually thought to have had excellent vision. Those kids were mincemeat.

A professor at the University of Oregon decided to try and see like the dinos saw and set about generating digital models of various dinosaurs, including the infamous T. Rex. Using what we know about the skull structures of T. Rex and assessing the visual fields of related descendents such as alligators, he found that the king of the dinosaurs is likely to have had impeccable vision.

It is thought that T. Rex had 55 degree binocular vision, excellent depth perception and visual clarity up to 13 times greater than that of a human and could possibly see clearly over six kilometres.

Combine this with its top-of-the-range sense of smell (evidenced by its highly developed olfactory centres of the brain), and that T. Rex probably spotted you before you spotted it.