Its weight was 11,000 to 15,000 pounds and it measured about 40 feet in length. It had 60 serrated teeth that were about eight inches long.Ī large skull indicated a larger brain and intelligence. Its bite force was equivalent to 6 tons - enough force to rip a car in half. It was possibly a water and land predator. The Spinosaurus weighed about 26,000 to 44,000 pounds and measured 40 to 65 feet long. It had 64 teeth, similar to the jaws of a crocodile. Its bite force was equivalent to about 2 tons. (Credit:Martin Weber/Shutterstock) Spinosaurus Video contains violence viewer's discretion is advised. Read More: How Do Scientists Reconstruct What Dinosaurs Looked Like? After losing his job at the museum in which the Spinosaurus fossil was displayed, an allied bomb destroyed the building and Stromer's discovery with it. Stromer spoke out against Hitler, and it cost him dearly. Unfortunately, Stromer's findings and publishings coincided with the rise of Adolf Hilter and Nazi Germany. He again spent years piecing the fossils together and, by 1930, was able to publish a second paper on Spinosaurus. As years went on and World War I began, it was harder to ship fossils from Egypt to Germany.īy the time fossils had finally arrived in 1922, Stromer found that not only had they sat in storage for eight years, but they were badly damaged. He named the fossil Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Stromer spent years piecing the fossils together and writing a paper on his findings. His colleague Richard Markgraf - a fossil collector, helped send the fossils from Egypt back to Germany in 1912. The skeleton, which is about 65 percent complete, is scheduled to go on display in May at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.According to the University of Chicago, a German paleontologist named Ernst Stromer discovered the first remains of Spinosaurus in Egypt. Scotty’s bones bear the scars of numerous injuries including a broken rib, an infected jaw and a bite that appears to be from another T. “By Tyrannosaurus standards, it had an unusually long life. “You can get an idea of how old a dinosaur is by cutting into its bones and studying its growth patterns. rexes grew fast and died young, making Scotty the oldest of its kind. Scotty died at around 28 years old in Saskatchewan about 66 million years ago, the study says. Galleonosaurus: Wallaby-sized dinosaur was sprinting around Australia 125 million years ago, jaw fossil report suggests Under the sea: A 'sea monster' from 500 million years ago: Scientists say this creature had 18 tentacles
Although the bones were found in 1991, it took more than a decade to excavate them from the surrounding hard sandstone. The fossil was nicknamed after a celebratory bottle of scotch opened the night it was discovered in Canada. Some individuals were lankier than others and some were more robust. “There is considerable size variability among Tyrannosaurus. “This is the rex of rexes,” said study author W. rex ever found, it’s also larger than all other carnivorous dinosaurs. Not only is the massive specimen the biggest T. The massive predator, nicknamed “Scotty,” was about 42 feet long and likely weighed more than 9.7 tons, according to the study published last week in the peer-reviewed journal The Anatomical Record.
Paleontologists have unearthed the largest Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever discovered, researchers say.
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