The Story of Scotty The T.rex - Biggest in the World 

Assuming it really was a T Rex fossil and not a replica/chicken bones fake/woolly mammoth bone

I used to make models for museums. On one occasion I visited Oxford museum to have a meeting with the curator, and he gave me a tour. I was used to measuring casts of dinosaurs to build models but rarely touched actual fossils. He undid a cabinet and handed me something. It was a large heavy fossil, he then explained it was the type specimen of the partial jawbone of megalosaurus. This was the first and only one. Absolutely priceless. I quickly and extremely carefully handed it straight back to him. I had seen photographs of this fossil in books since I was a kid. It was a privilege, but I was much happier when it was back in the cabinet. If you make an appointment with your local museum, the curators are often very happy to show stuff behind the scenes, so you may be able to get to hold a T. rex tooth in your hand.

@@66lesjo WOW! are you talking about THE lower jawbone of Megalosaurus the one that has that one big tooth that looks larger than the rest? I just googled that fossil and it really is from Oxford museum. That's such a unique experience and it was one of the first fossils that we have since the start of paleontology. I saw it in books since I was a kid too,it's so cool you actually hold it in your hands. Congratulations on such a privilege and thank you for your contribution to a paleontology.

@@66lesjo Amazing! You must have so many amazing experiences from your time making the models! I would exhale a sigh of relief when it was safely back in place too!! That’s priceless, literally irreplaceable!

Not true. I went and forgot all about it

But....what if they got lucky, and found Scotty...a "larger than average" adult?

"It may well be that we'll never find a specimen larger than Scotty" is that so? I'm sure people said that about Sue.

@@eesoo5420 We invent time travel eventually anyway and can just go back and study these things for real.

I like your thought process. Interesting and entirely possible.

@@eesoo5420 he was just paraphrasing from the video, if you continue to read his comment he offers a very similar sentiment.

Awesome! I had a fantasy as a kid that I could go the the museum and touch a dinosaur bone and look back into time and see what they looked like and how they lived.

Imagine being able to touch the tooth of a trex and living. So cool.

I been trying to find one to add to my collection. I obtained a tooth from a Spinosaurus complete with root which set me back a decent $130 some six years ago. Every T-Rex tooth I come across is in the thousands of dollars which I hate to say it like this but fossils are rocks, and I can not justify paying thousands of dollars for a rock like this. I wish I could find one in the $100 - $300 price range cause Im willing to pay that much.

@@Milner62 I'd like to have a T-Rex tooth also, but just to note, it's priced so much because it's not a rock in the way you're describing. It's something special.

@@Milner62 where can we buy T rex tooths? I see some being sold online but am unsure of the legitimacy . thanks!

thank you

Is she planning on going to school for it?…how to become a dinosaur expert?

@@whitewolfcomings3588 I mean, she just turned 3, so of course she is. She's also planning to turn into a mermaid princess and go hunt for pearls with her pet Triceratops named Topsy later today, so take that as you will, lol. If she does decide to go to school to be a paleontologist in the future, she'll probably go to the university of Alberta to study. it's one of the best schools for paleontology in the world, seeing as how many dinosaurs come from this part of the world.

That’s great….Dinosaurs are great to watch and you know what the dinosaur that lived in Alberta? It’s the Albertasaurus 😊

A cast or the real bones

@@evalevy2909 They are always casts unless you're talking about a species that they have hundreds to thousands of fossils of

No need to risk damage to the real ”bones” . Its still a cast from a real speciment

Bella

I live twenty minutes away from there

More then likely it just past through with everything else ig

Stomach acid like crocodiles

extremely acidic stomach acid like in wolves

A bite from a Rex was bone-crushing. Likely, they ingested a *lot* of bone fragments with each chomp when they fed, so they likely had very acidic stomach acid.

When bones aren't cooked they are much different plus being related to birds they might of went through a gizzard filled with stones that pulverized meat bones and gristle. That and a stomach acid that was very powerful. Think of crocodilians and snakes they break down bone horn and antler. Or maybe they were like an owl and puked up pellets filled with inedible items.

Our Australian version is much bigger

@@dukedashwolfgg2283 how big is the Australian one

@@silder3459 393 feet tall, weighs 90,000 tons

@@solidified-spinosaurus oh no… gojira

The remains aren't even bone anymore just stone

"Am big"

it would go something like this ,,there was that time i bit that t rex in the face once,,

they still can talk, just not with words

@@stopYmpersonatYngmYacCount Yes.

We'll probably find a way, to be honest. Look what we've accomplished thus far with inventions, technology and other sciences. We'll probably find out a way to splice DNA with current living Dinosaur descendants. We're a crazy species, we've made it to Space and have people living up there right now. Honestly, I don't think anything is impossible for us humans, we'll possibly even build a time machine. ( I'm very open minded ) that being said; it'll probably be 10 - 20 years before we even attempt to bring back the Dinosaurs. Don't give up hope, I believe it will happen. We're starting out with plants, we've already brought back some late cretaceous and jurassic period plants from extinction. Cloning: We're already trying to bring back the Sabre Tooth Cat and the Wolly Mammoth, I think when we bring them back, we'll try ever more advanced stuff. It's like with starting out with anything; practice and practice, and eventually you become a pro and discover even more techniques and other stuff. It's not outside the realm of possibility.

@@user-sr8bo2sq3v Just a quick update for you Birds are actually dinosaurs, since they are on Dinosauria, on the theropod group

Rexy was as big as Sue I'm pretty sure, if not smaller.

Fact: Scotty is heavier than Rexy! amazing isn't?!

Bigger, plus jp rexy is skin wrapped still

Did you have him as a teacher before or after the discovery?

@@OvertimeStudios before, I moved away in 1978. He was a wonderful teacher

@@gypsyrose1958 thanks for sharing

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Me too.

You wouldnt survive for 5 mins back then. A spider could probably even kill you. But it would make for a sick gameshow: Lets see how long our next contestant will make it in the Jurassic era!

hell, selling 3D OBJ's with texture maps for 3D renders, would also be cool. yet I'll guess if they did that, it would cost way more than I get a year before bills to buy a virtual 3D model, lol. that is a lot of individual bones to scan, clean up the 3D scanned mesh, etc, that is honestly a hell of a lot of work. even if only a foot claw, or a finger claw, or whatever. it would be cool tho. archeopteryx, Microraptor, and an Enantiornithes, would really peak my interest, I just doubt I could afford the cost of 3D scanning them (again, lots of bits to scan and clean up the mesh on). there is also an unrelated Egyptian 3D model I would like as well, however, I doubt that would ever happen given others appear to be more interested in the aged and broken ones instead of the countless complete intact ones. I think it's funny that so many want the aged and decaying models instead of a pristine new one.

In 1961, I was into model building (airplanes,ships,etc) and I obtained a Trex which stood up and was a tail dragger as you said. I think it was made by TDC or something like that. I weathered the ivory colored bones and painted the kidney shaped base it stood on and gave it to the biology class lab for their display case in high school.... In 2012, we had our 50th class reunion and I saw it was still there!!! I also built a Brontesaurus from the same maker with the wrong head which was accepted at the time. I still have that in my collection. Of course now u can get great stuff on 3D printers.

@@raybame5816 I am sure I had the same model.

Latest calculation put gravity at 66 % at 66 Million Years Ago. A convenient pair of numbers

There is casts of her, due to that McD and Disney supposedly have one, due to helping to get enough funding to win Sue from an auction. Along with other museums have casts of Sue. So, they do exist

Yep, I’m thinking Gorak!

What is a theropod?

@@crystalheart9 trex giganotosaurus allosaurus spinosaurus e.t.c

@@AA-tz2bm Thank you!

Wait so you're saying it's larger than the spino?

@@akrilla5929 In terms of weight, yes. But Spinosaurus is still the longer animal

Thanks for your interest John, it’s great to meet people who are passionate about the Paleo world.

i think sue was the most complete

@@chadsmith66 yep 90% complete

My mother in-law broke her hip, but still has all her bones. 😫✌

@@redangrybird7564 i have green underwear and green socks today

at 2:10 in they state an estimated weight of 8.8 metric tonnes or 19,400 lbs

@@carboncomplex 19,555 lbs actually

@@DevoteeofThunor 8.8 metric tonnes = 19,400.7 pounds according to both metric converters I used. coolconversion.com/weight/8.8-metric%20ton-to-kg

@@carboncomplex thats also what the old estimates of t rex were back decades ago ...

Probably, but I imagine they'd more likely steal them from the digs, since I think museums stamp the bones. Meaning a thief would need to chisel off any marked pieces, reducing the quality and price.

Well, we're missing around a billion years fossils because of world wide floods/ice.... and I am also disappointed by that fact. Damn!

But their size isn't at all in the same category of sauropods and humans...

@@Dr.IanPlect Huh?

@@EGarrett01 It's about uniqueness of a trait; the sauropod neck and human brain size are much more specialised traits of a niche than the much more general trait of physical size to tackle large prey. The niche filling by 'get-bigger-to-tackle-larger-prey is not only ubiquitous in nature, but T. rex was far from alone during its time at this! Whereas long necks and big brains are much more specialist traits in a vastly smaller range of taxa than 'get bigger' seen everywhere!

@@Dr.IanPlect I think the person in question might have been referring to the combination of size and bite strength. Being able to crush bones and literally rip off armored parts of prey's bodies probably allowed T-Rex to eat animals that other predators couldn't.

@@EGarrett01 Well that's a bit more specific, but still fairly general; many theropods were large with powerful jaws, and it's still largely analogous to other (mammalian) taxa too.

Are you meaning B'ham UK? If so then you;ve answered a question I asked BCC but they had no idea as to where the 'door teeth' as I used to call the replica went to, which I found a shame.

What do you mean, "thrown him in a skip"?

was this the cast of stan and they just got rid of it like that?it should've went to some small museum that has few specimens...

This is the reason why some palaeontologist must know that it is important to have few guys in the field and a lot more in the collections! There are so many new species in collection you can't imagine.

That's because of Sue. Her discovery and fossil was much easier to extract and because of that Scotty was almost forgotten about for several years. Then they figured out just how big Scotty was and that changed a little. Most people still haven't ever heard of Scotty, but they have heard of Sue

So many museums have so much tucked away in their storage that you could spend your entire career as a paleontologist just scouring these collections and never actually go out into the field. There's probably new animals waiting to be discovered that were collected back in the 1800s during the Bone Wars because Osborne & Marsh were both collecting way more specimens than they could study in a bid to one up the other to claim that they had found the most dinosaurs.

@@Baronstone Lots of drama with Sue 's discovery through arriving at her permanent home at the Field Museum in Chicago. Made her very famous. Her amazing story is told in a documentary called, Dinosaur 18. Very interesting.

sue is the 2nd largest

@@OvertimeStudios ooooohhhhhh

Best estimates for max speed put the adult T-Rex at less than 25mph and more likely in the 15-20mph range. Something that big can't move that fast or the stress would destroy its bones. And, the argument that T-Rex could run for distance is simply not possible. T-Rex is built like a weight lifter and weight lifters are not going to give Usain Bolt a run for his money for speed nor will they hang with Eliud Kipchoge or Mo Farah at distance -- in fact, they tend to be rather ungainly at any speed.

@@Raptorman0909 it's been proven they were still very agile in their movements but like you said not too fast.But they were built for head on impact and violence.

@@Raptorman0909 how much weight trex can lift

@@anirban9434 -- I've heard it estimated that T-Rex could life about 600 pounds or 270kg with their arms but that is just a ballpark estimate and could be +/- 25% or so. It's likely T-Rex could lift far more with it's mouth, but unless it could anchor it's tail it would have difficulty actually lifting something truly massive -- it would topple over face first!

@@Raptorman0909 can lift 10ton with mouth

in Southwest Saskatchewan

Eh?

It’s purely for the weirdo agenda I picked up by too wink wink .

How so? This is a real question, not a challenge. Their arms are fascinating to me. So small, comparatively.

@Jayden Nguyen y e s.

religious tripe

just punch it in the nose like a shark..

No...you zig zag...they can't turn quickly.

@@xbpbat21x haha, good idea

Yeah it would be horrifying. Thankfully Humans are too tiny and too bony for a T-rex to even bother with. Much like a Great White. A predator like a T-rex would likely go after prey that gives it the most amount of food and energy for the amount of effort it takes to kill it. Your more than likely be scared off or ignored by a adult rex before it even considered eating you. Unless its desperate which in that case :P

You might have enough time to soil your pants and fill your body with adrenaline.