Named “Scotty” after the drink used to toast it’s finding (scotch whisky), the skeleton is currently housed at the Royal Saskatchewan museum. The paper announcing it’s discovery was published in March 2019.
It was discovered in 1990, at the same time as the previous record holder, Sue, but due to the hardness of the rock around it’s skeleton unearthing the bones took decades.
Scotty is larger than Sue by 400kg. It’s estimated Scotty weighed 8,870kg, a number derived from the size of it’s hefty thigh bones.
Scientists estimate the T-Rex was able to grow to become the largest land predator on record because it was over thirty years old.
For comparison, the largest male African bush elephant weighed over 10,400kg and on average are 6,600kg. So Scotty was the size of a large elephant!
