Size comparisons

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(01-09-2020, 09:47 PM)DinoFan83 Wrote: Here's T rex vs some of North America's biggest sauropods. Looks like Rexy no longer holds the crown!
Holotype of Tyrannosaurus rex (CM 9380, 11.9 meters axial length, 7.5 tonnes), holotype of Sauroposeidon (OMNH 53062, 32 meters TL, 60 plus tonnes), BYU 9024 Barosaurus (50 meters TL, 100 tonnes), and OMNH 1670 Apatosaurus adult size (37 meters TL, 100 tonnes). Scalebar column is 1 meter each, skeletals by Hartman, Paleo King, Hartman, and Hartman.

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I have to say, that I don´t get what you try to say with this: "Looks like Rexy no longer holds the crown!"

I don´t think, that anyone ever have claimed, that T-rex would have been the biggest dinosaur, especially when compared to big herbivore dinosaurs. That Rex in name of the species doesn´t represent that.

That kind of comparison would be the same as putting a lion side by side with an elephant... it´s self-evident to all, that an elephant is bigger. So in what way you saw T-rex "dethroned" when you wrote that? I don´t get it now, that where did that come when you wrote that. Nice pictures and models, but nothing new in saying, that biggest herbivores etc. are bigger than biggest carnivores. Everyone knows it. Reply