Numbers in the News

20,000

Matis75/Shutterstock.com

NUMBER of adult T. rexes roaming Earth at any one time, according to a new analysis by scientists. That means about 2.5 billion would have lived during the 2.4 million years that dinosaurs existed.

Source: The New York Times

$99,997

Illustration by Christopher Short

WINNING BID on eBay for a  McDonald’s Chicken McNugget shaped like a character from the video game Among Us auctioned in June.

Source: The Guardian

5

NUMBER of oceans now recognized by the National Geographic Society. The group added the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, to its maps.

Source: National Geographic

Text-to-Speech