Tyrannosaurus Rex shaped lightning streaks across US sky

A weather observer quickly captured an impressive lightning bolt shaped like a dinosaur that lived in North America 70 million years ago.

Tyrannosaurus rex lightning bolt in Arizona, USA. Photo: Facebook.

According to Mirror, the interesting photo was taken by Hallie Larsen, an employee at the US National Park Service, in Blue Mesa, Arizona and posted on the Facebook page of the Department of the Interior on August 17. The photo quickly went viral, attracting more than 12,000 comments. A Facebook account named Phil Kukulski even combined a picture of a Tyrannosaurus rex with a lightning bolt to illustrate the similarities.

Lightning can take on all shapes, from circular to ribbon-shaped to string-shaped, according to the Atmospheric Research Federation.

According to VNE