The largest Tyrannosaurus Rex that ever lived may have been some 10 feet longer than previously thought.
Don't tell the producers of Jurassic World, but dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex may have grown even larger than we previously thought, based on the fossils they left behind.This is the conclusion of paleontologists from Canada and the U.K., who say that some T. rex individuals may have reached 49 feet long—25 percent longer than once thought.This would have translated to an even larger increase in mass of some 70 percent, bringing the heaviest from 9.7 to a whopping 16.5 tons.
rex that ever lived likely measured some 49 feet from head to tail—compared to the longest-known fossilized specimen, which reached only around 39 feet in length—with analysis suggesting such would have weighed in at a solid 16.5 tons.With their initial study complete, the duo say that the next logical step would be to assess whether a 16.5-ton T. rex would actually be biologically feasible.'There may have been ecological or biomechanical constraints that prevented T.
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