Paleontologists at the University of Alberta announced on Friday that they have discovered the world’s biggest and oldest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton.
Named for a celebratory bottle of scotch that was shared the night it was discovered, “Scotty” is also the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Canada.
Paleontologists say that the meat-eating dinosaur, which has a skeleton that is 13-metres long, weighed more than 8,800 kilograms when it roamed Saskatchewan roughly 66 million years ago. Though Scotty is believed to have been in its early 30s when it died, Scott Persons, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Alberta’s Department of Biological Sciences, said in a news release that it had an “unusually long life.”“Riddled across the skeletons are pathologies – spots where scarred bone records large injuries,” Persons said.
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