Currently, the heftiest T. rex on record is a specimen nicknamed 'Scotty', which weighed 8,870 kilograms when it was alive, about as much as 6.5 Volkswagen Beetles. According to the new research, the largest T. rex "would have been about 70 per cent bigger" than Scotty, said Jordan Mallon, a research scientist and head of palaeobiology at the Canadian Museum of Nature. "That almost doubles the size of T. rex," Mallon adds.
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