An old piece that I never posted, but I thought that was a crying shame.
Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia page on T. Rex in popular culture:
"Tyrannosaurus gained widespread public attention on December 30, 1905, when the New York Times hailed T. rex as 'the most formidable fighting animal of which there is any record whatever," the 'king of all kings in the domain of animal life,' 'the absolute warlord of the earth,' and a "royal man-eater of the jungle.' In 1906, Tyrannosaurus was dubbed the ' prize fighter of antiquity' and the 'Last of the Great Reptiles and the King of Them All.'"

What a damn incredible legacy.

It's been long debated as to "scavenger or predator" for arguably the most famous dinosaur in the world. To say that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a strict scavenger and, in the words of some paleontologists, actually incapable of chasing and hunting other dinosaurs is as erroneous as saying humans and dinosaurs lived in the same time period. I could go on for hours on this subject, like how even larger carnivores like Giganotosaurus are considered active hunters in their time, or how the Rex's eye-sockets are positioned for binocular vision, primarily used by hunters, OR how large herbivores that were a primary source of food for the tyrannosaur were certainly not much faster that the predator, and an ambush attack would yield a fine kill.

Oh, and the powerful sense of smell thing? That lets folks claim that only scavengers have such a powerful sense of smell as a Tyrannosaur? Well, the only animals in our modern ecosystem that are complete scavengers are birds like the turkey vulture, who can cover a lot of ground and find the necessary amount of carrion they need. Land-based carnivores can't subsist entirely off of carrion.

*inhales* Okay, that's all from me for now.