Fossilized Tissue Reveals Largest Known T. Rex Died From Broken Rib

How a Broken Rib Doomed Scotty, the World’s Largest T. Rex

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Incredible reconstruction reveals exactly how a 42ft T. rex died

The largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered suffered a devastating broken rib shortly before its death, scientists have revealed.

Fossilized tissue reveals largest known T. rex died from broken rib

The largest Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever discovered belong to a 66-million-year-old apex predator named Scotty. Like many T. rex skeletons, it’s difficult to determine if the specimen was male or female, but Scotty was an unequivocal bruiser. Standing 13-feet-tall at the hip and measuring upwards of 43-feet-long, the Late Cretaceous hunter weighed as much as 19,500 pounds. However, Scotty isn’t simply the biggest T. rex on record. One of its …

ORNL Neutron Bone Imaging Brings T. Rex to Life

.Scientists from the University of Regina used neutron imaging at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to examine fossilized bones from dinosaurs, including a broken rib from Scotty, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton discovered. Neutron imaging allowed researchers to nondestructively examine the rib and corroborate earlier X-ray findings of a rare network of mineralized blood vessels preserved as the injury was healing. Combined with X-ray techniques, the neutron data