Saskatchewan's Scotty has officially dethroned Chicago's Sue as the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. It turned out to be one of the most complete T-rex skeletons ever found — about 65 per cent intact. | CBCSask
Posted: Mar 22, 2019 5:59 PM CT | Last Updated: March 23
Saskatchewan’s Scotty has officially dethroned Chicago's Sue as the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found.Scotty was found in the badlands just outside of Eastend in 1991 by a high school teacher and paleontologists with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum who were out prospecting for fossils.Now, according to an article in a scholarly journal, it has bragging rights to a new title — the most massive Tyrannosaurus in the world.
"It has got severe damage to a portion of its tail which may be the result of a bite wound from another Tyrannosaur," Persons said, "Scotty lived a violent life." Persons says that Scotty reached the "ripe old age of 30" but they do not know whether Scotty was a male or a female. "The name Scotty comes from the celebration that was held after the skeleton was first found in the field," Persons said, "The crew wanted to raise a glass to Scotty and at that point the only suitable spirits they had left was an old bottle of scotch."A previous version of this story indicated Scotty was bigger by 200 kilograms. In fact, he was 400 kilograms larger.
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