USPS: T-rex Postage Stamps Coming Soon To A Post Office Near You!

The USPS will be releasing a pane of T-rex postage stamps starting June 28th, 2019.  Details are here.

With this pane of 16 stamps, the Postal Service brings Tyrannosaurus rex to life — some 66 million years after its demise. One design illustrates a face-to-face encounter with a T. rex approaching through a forest clearing; another shows the same young adult T. rex with a young Triceratops — both dinosaurs shown in fossil form. The third and fourth stamps depict a newly hatched T. rex covered with downy feathers and a bare-skinned juvenile T. rex chasing a primitive mammal. The “Nation’s T. rex,” the young adult depicted on two of the stamps, was discovered on federal land in Montana and is one of the most studied and important specimens ever found. Its remains will soon be on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps with original artwork by Julius T. Csotonyi, a scientist and paleoartist.

2 responses to “USPS: T-rex Postage Stamps Coming Soon To A Post Office Near You!”

  1. Michael Kogan Avatar
    Michael Kogan

    Finally ! It is actually the first dinosaur stamps issued by UPS this century. Last time dinosaurs appeared on US stamps in 1997, if I’m not wrong: http://www.paleophilatelie.eu/country/usa.html
    Like it and will be very glad to add to my albums.

  2. Michael Kogan Avatar
    Michael Kogan

    Finally ! It is actually the first dinosaur stamps issued by UPS this century. Last time dinosaurs appeared on US stamps in 1997, if I’m not wrong: http://www.paleophilatelie.eu/country/usa.html
    Like it and will be very glad to add to my albums.

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