Nightly Rundown 3/23

The Nightly Rundown:> Animatronic T-Rex catches on fire> ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ growsMore from tonight’s broadcast at http://NBCNightlyNews.com

Posted by NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on Friday, March 23, 2018

Stop what you are doing, step away from your basketball bracket and behold, a T-Rex robot burning down to it’s metal skeleton!

This happened at the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience in Colorado this past week, and no one was injured. On Royal Gorge’s Facebook page they attributed the fire to an isolated electrical issue.

Um, can we just giant robots burn down from a safe distance for the Fourth of July?

Thanks AVClub for turning us on to this story!

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A crazy shot of our poor T-Rex from this morning. We just want to re-emphasize that this was an isolated incident and we…

Posted by Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience on Thursday, March 22, 2018

Holy smokes! We always knew T-Rex had a temper but, today he blew his top. There was an unfortunate (and rare)…

Posted by Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience on Thursday, March 22, 2018