Meet Labocania Aguillonae The New Dinosaur Discovery 2024 09 28

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By biggest I mean longest + heaviest specimen. • What a beast! #Tyrannosaurus rex, “Tyrant Lizard King,” named by Osborn in 1905, lived in the Late #Cretaceous of western North America from around 68 to 66 mya. Its reign ended compliments of a gigantic space rock, otherwise its descendants would likely still be dominating the landscape. • How much longer and heavier would they have grown? Could there have been an “arms race” (heh) with #hadrosaur and #ceratopsian #dinosaurs? Would they have continued growing in size? • I suspect there is a max-size a bipedal animal can achieve. The heaviest duck”bulks” like #Shantungosaurus, #Edmontosaurus, and #Magnapaulia all lived alongside #tyrannosaurids, their size can’t be coincidence. • How heavy could #ceratopsian skulls get? #Torosaurus and #Triceratops are both already massive, dangerously close to bobble-head territory! Would another 3 million years produce larger-still skulls? • How long, and how many, horns would have appeared? #Pentaceratops was massive and had 5! Being quadrupeds they clearly had room to bulk up. • #Ankylosaurus is often underappreciated for its massiveness. How much heavier could nature’s battleships have become? With no #sauropods to squish them, they had room to go! The hadrosaurs may have evolved into quadrupeds and, if so, could have made a run for medium-sized #sauropod sizes. I don’t see any critters evolving to sauropod size, though. One thing I recently learned is how much longer #hadrosaur tails are than I have been led to believe! • Why the size? #Trex skulls are so massive and gigantic, built with power and fury like the best diesel engines, bone crushing power for days. From a ventral view one sees the thick strong neck, adorned with one of the most spectacular triangles ever seen. • Whether you like your T. rex as a predator, scavenger, or both (I’m in the both camp) it is easy to see how it grabbed the world’s attention and never let go. Despite numerous challengers over the years, there is only one King of the Lizards, and Scotty here, at the OMSI, may end up being the heaviest discovered (though stay tuned on that front…). • #FossilCrates

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