Mega T-Rex?

Arguably the poster child of the dinosaur world needs little further introduction.

With teeth as sharp as points, this huge land-based carnivore is one of the most ferocious predators Earth has ever seen.

Nevertheless, some scientists suggest that the Tyrannosaurus rex specimens found so far do not fully represent just how enormous these megasaurs might have been.

Some of the heaviest individuals might have weighed thirty-one thousand pounds and measured as much as fifty-two feet in length, longer than any specimen that has yet been discovered, according to Schmidt.

“From the fossil record, there is no absolute information on how large they might have grown,” said Dr. Jordan Mallon of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. “It’s interesting to speculate on a 15-tonne T. rex, but there are ecological and biomechanical ramifications as well.”

To find such a massive one among the remains, however, would be difficult.

Because only a tiny proportion of fossils are ever found, nothing more on the scale of what we have found could be discovered through a thousand years’ digging. We may have to learn about such a creature simply from information on fossils of other creatures that lived at the same time.

What would it be like to meet and battle such a creature eye to eye? We can only guess.

Source: Sky News