BBC News recently posted (Jan. 22, 2020) a time lapse video of a team rebuilding one of the world's biggest dinosaurs in a Scotland museum. One of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons in the world has been painstakingly reassembled in Edinburgh.
Scotty, as the creature is known, is star attraction at a National Museum of Scotland exhibition on Tyrannosaurs which runs until May, 2020. Timelapse filming shows a team of experts reassembling a cast of the skeleton. Scotty was found in Canada in the early 1990s and was named after the Scotch that was used to toast the discovery.
WHERE WAS SCOTTY DISCOVERED? Scotty was discovered in 1991 when an expedition of paleontologists to the Frenchman River Valley in Saskatchewan found a heavy worn tooth and vertebra from the tail of a T. rex, according to the museum.
HOW BIG IS SCOTTY? Measuring roughly 42 feet long, the dinosaur led what University of Alberta paleontologist Scott Persons describes as an “unusually long” but violent life, enduring injuries ranging from broken ribs to an infected jaw before dying in its early 30s.
HE IS A RECORD-SETTER - Scotty is said to be the largest tyrannosaurus rex ever to have roamed the Earth. The massive creature, named Scotty, weighed an estimated 20,000 pounds — about 8,000 more than the average T. rex.
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