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

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    In 2019, Scotty was proclaimed the biggest T.rex in the world.
    Believed to be a female, Scotty measured over 13 m or just over 42.6 feet long with a weight of over 8.8 metric tons. Discovered in the dinosaur rich Frenchman Formation, Scotty's bones have been carefully preserved and are stored at the T.rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, Saskatchewan.
    In this documentary, we go back to the beginning and tell the origin story of Scotty, and how it was discovered on that fateful day in 1991. As well, we showcase the lasting impact the discovery had on the town of Eastend and the Paleo world in Canada.
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  • @chrisserfass8635
    @chrisserfass8635 Před 3 lety +57

    It would be nice to have something like this on the Discovery Channel more often.

  • @kenwalker8587
    @kenwalker8587 Před 3 lety +22

    I am so glad to see this. I lived in Maple Creek and went there to see Scotty. Over the years, I became good friends with Tim Tokaryk and learned a lot from him.
    The people of East End deserve so much credit for what they have put into this project. I remember being in the lab watching a technician remove waste from one of the bones.
    You need the patience of Job and a steady hand to pull it off. Now, back in New Brunswick, I have found 300 million year old tree fossils and 470 million year old marine fossils.
    We have no dinosaurs here....but then there's Joggins in Nova Scotia.

  • @amistenson2535
    @amistenson2535 Před 3 lety +140

    It would be amazing to tour a dig site! To touch an actual T Rex fossil has to be an experience you would never forget.

    • @johnpeacock7022
      @johnpeacock7022 Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @66lesjo
      @66lesjo Před 3 lety +8

      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.

    • @chrisredfield8590
      @chrisredfield8590 Před 3 lety +5

      @@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.

    • @amistenson2535
      @amistenson2535 Před 3 lety

      @@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!

    • @seabiscuit6776
      @seabiscuit6776 Před 2 lety +2

      Not true. I went and forgot all about it

  • @StratBurst92
    @StratBurst92 Před 3 lety +54

    Excellent, I have a T Rex tooth tip that came from the Hell Creek Formation. It is the pride of my collection. It is so gratifying to own something from the king of dinosaurs.

    • @crystalheart9
      @crystalheart9 Před 3 lety +8

      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.

    • @Waya420
      @Waya420 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @Milner62
      @Milner62 Před 2 lety +1

      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.

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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.

    • @lambo88
      @lambo88 Před rokem +1

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

  • @carldeithorn3450
    @carldeithorn3450 Před 3 lety +149

    It may well be that we'll never find a specimen larger than, Scotty, but when you consider how very few animals were actually fossilized and preserved for potential discovery, and how in every species you'll find examples of "smaller than average" and "larger than average" specimens, I can't help but to contemplate the possibility that if, Scotty, is a large average, mature adult, then it would seem likely that at some point "larger than average" adult T-Rex's must have existed, and perhaps there's a fossil just waiting to be discovered of an animal in excess of 50 ft. that would dwarf all of the other examples we have now. Just a thought.

    • @xbpbat21x
      @xbpbat21x Před 3 lety +10

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

    • @eesoo5420
      @eesoo5420 Před 3 lety +22

      "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.

    • @agoldenage9918
      @agoldenage9918 Před 3 lety

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

    • @amistenson2535
      @amistenson2535 Před 3 lety

      I like your thought process. Interesting and entirely possible.

    • @amistenson2535
      @amistenson2535 Před 3 lety

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

  • @johnstorer6672
    @johnstorer6672 Před 3 lety +39

    Excellent production, tells the story well.

  • @jessicabelongie6748
    @jessicabelongie6748 Před 2 lety +7

    I live in Regina, and my daughter is a dinosaur fanatic. We go see Scotty at least once a month.

    • @whitewolfcomings3588
      @whitewolfcomings3588 Před 2 lety

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

    • @jessicabelongie6748
      @jessicabelongie6748 Před 2 lety

      @@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.

    • @whitewolfcomings3588
      @whitewolfcomings3588 Před 2 lety

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

  • @melodiefrances3898
    @melodiefrances3898 Před 2 lety +5

    It's mind blowing really to fathom that these animals existed and died and that their bones were fossilized, all over 66 million years ago. Sometimes I just think it's all too incredible to really comprehend fully.

  • @ematique4392
    @ematique4392 Před 3 lety +26

    I just saw Scotty at an exhibition yesterday! Amazing to see the bones in person!

    • @evalevy2909
      @evalevy2909 Před 3 lety

      A cast or the real bones

    • @Baronstone
      @Baronstone Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @Makabert.Abylon
      @Makabert.Abylon Před 3 lety +6

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

    • @n.b.l.5709
      @n.b.l.5709 Před 2 lety

      Bella

    • @VetteWay2Fast
      @VetteWay2Fast Před 20 dny

      @@Baronstone I believe some museums have the actual fossils on display. Smithsonian and the museum in Chicago with "sue". They need to display some of the real ones in this museum as the casts don't have the same "awe" factor.

  • @dannyruiz6868
    @dannyruiz6868 Před 2 lety +6

    I will never forget when I was in 6th grade, and we had library time on Fridays for two hours.
    I loved astranomy and would spend my time looking for books on the cosmos. I loved the Time/Life big books because they had cool images of space.
    While searching, I saw a large book that said Dinosaurs. When I opened it, it blew my mind.
    There were pictures of these huge incredible beasts fighting and killing each other.
    There was a T-Rex ripping flesh from another dinosaur.
    I did a double take on the book, and looked around.
    This can't be real. Maybe it was a Fantasy Book about dragons.
    But Damn! It was real.
    I checked that book out every week.

  • @stanky6261973
    @stanky6261973 Před 2 lety +1

    Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this amazing footage.

  • @Aragorn62
    @Aragorn62 Před 3 lety +40

    And even larger again than Scotty are waiting to be discovered. Awesome specimen!

  • @williambtm1
    @williambtm1 Před 2 lety

    I admire your dedication to your work from its very beginning. Importantly you speak in an authoritative voice, so that is a powerful indication that your entire knowledge from day one when you had embarked on what would become your very respected specialist subject matter. Well done young lady.

  • @bobelliott2748
    @bobelliott2748 Před 3 lety +7

    I've been to Eastend twice. It is a very pretty town. Not only does it have "Scotty" but is also close to Grasslands National
    Park which hosts the current largest land animal on the continent.

  • @karenedney7022
    @karenedney7022 Před 2 lety

    Hey again, Thanks 4 the great story about Scotty, I loved it!

  • @carbon_no6
    @carbon_no6 Před 3 lety +13

    Narrator: there is also a gift shop filled with dinosaur paraphernalia...
    Ok, crackhead dinosaurs!

  • @TheRagingTechni
    @TheRagingTechni Před 3 lety +75

    Could you imagine.. The stories Scotty could tell if bone remains could talk?

  • @gittyupalice96
    @gittyupalice96 Před 3 lety +18

    What amazes me is they didn't chew their food and yet they needed to eat about a dump-truck load of meat per day just to not starve. How did their stomach handle sharp splintered bones and potentially rocks and dirt stuck in the meat..

    • @davidgaminggallegos7674
      @davidgaminggallegos7674 Před 3 lety +2

      More then likely it just past through with everything else ig

    • @silder3459
      @silder3459 Před 3 lety +10

      Stomach acid like crocodiles

    • @TheAkwarium
      @TheAkwarium Před 2 lety

      extremely acidic stomach acid like in wolves

    • @charleenlangley8709
      @charleenlangley8709 Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @AlexBabcock-hw9iz
      @AlexBabcock-hw9iz Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 Před 2 lety +1

    The Earth's birth and the evolution of life is the biggest miracle to ever happen.

  • @jeffreydaniel1550
    @jeffreydaniel1550 Před 2 lety +1

    Just think, in all the vastness of area and of all the places in time how lucky it was he found that vertebrae (albeit on private land as well) that fossils like this are found at all. Simply amazing

  • @jessehutchings
    @jessehutchings Před 2 lety +7

    It just amazes and wonders me how somewhere under the empty plains of the world there are remnants telling the stories of all these prehistoric animals who lived and died millions of years ago.. and the animals themselves, despite living amazing dramatic lives, wouldn't have cared one bit about us rediscovering them .. 😂

  • @iffybakker7440
    @iffybakker7440 Před 2 lety

    Fascinating! Thank you,my dad was a Geologist, Marine scientist and Oceanographer t,this is education!

  • @TheAnthonyLJ
    @TheAnthonyLJ Před 3 lety +2

    Damn this is a well done video

  • @classicgalactica5879
    @classicgalactica5879 Před 3 lety +5

    Scotty isn't only the largest T. Rex, it's the largest theropod currently known to science.

    • @crystalheart9
      @crystalheart9 Před 3 lety +1

      What is a theropod?

    • @AA-tz2bm
      @AA-tz2bm Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @crystalheart9
      @crystalheart9 Před 3 lety

      @@AA-tz2bm Thank you!

    • @akrilla5929
      @akrilla5929 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @sharp7079
      @sharp7079 Před 2 lety

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

  • @carltanner9065
    @carltanner9065 Před 2 lety +1

    I'd love to work somewhere like there, being a geologist myself :) And, also being a dinosaur fan ever since I was a little kid. Any fossils would be exciting to find, especially of large animals like Scotty.

  • @D.o.l.l.a.r.s.2.0
    @D.o.l.l.a.r.s.2.0 Před 3 lety +12

    Damn that's really huge. It would be terrifying to see that skeleton with flesh. He would be as big as jurassic park trex.

    • @TheGenerals45
      @TheGenerals45 Před 2 lety

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

    • @diehard8910
      @diehard8910 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @n.b.l.5709
      @n.b.l.5709 Před 2 lety

      Bigger, plus jp rexy is skin wrapped still

  • @DogWalkerBill
    @DogWalkerBill Před 3 lety +7

    What if the museum (or wherever) made a limited number of copies of the bones and sold them as art objects, as a fund raiser?

  • @peejay4606
    @peejay4606 Před 3 lety +5

    better than the discovery channel.

  • @dsw8077
    @dsw8077 Před 3 lety +8

    At 19:10 it appears that the mosasaurus has an extra metatarsus on the wrist of the in swept side of the flipper. Is that for a possible 6th digit or simply scaffolding to define the contour of the flipper?

  • @sweets99tsts13
    @sweets99tsts13 Před 2 lety +3

    I wish on a star ⭐ I can just go back in time just for a day to observe these magnificent animals to see these guys in action will take my breath away ...

    • @elephantdog3471
      @elephantdog3471 Před 2 lety

      Me too.

    • @PenskyMaterial
      @PenskyMaterial Před rokem +1

      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!

  • @mikemccown2057
    @mikemccown2057 Před 3 lety +4

    I don't think it will ever be possible, but I would 100% be all for cloning a dinosaur in the future. I wouldn't go all out and try to create a real Jurassic Park, but I would love to see at least one dinosaur cloned so that the world could see what these beautiful creatures really looked like. It's so amazing to think what this world was like 65 million years ago and before even that. It was truly an amazing period in Earth's history.

    • @user-sr8bo2sq3v
      @user-sr8bo2sq3v Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @phaex2288
      @phaex2288 Před 2 lety

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

  • @beverlylumley4150
    @beverlylumley4150 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Great video, thank you

  • @gypsyrose1958
    @gypsyrose1958 Před 3 lety +12

    Mr. Gebhardt was my biology teacher. Such a nice man

  • @gormanspacemarine
    @gormanspacemarine Před 3 lety

    Nice documentary about the gift shop.

  • @ryanreedgibson
    @ryanreedgibson Před 11 měsíci +1

    What an awesome video! Although I don't smoke I could see myself walking around vaping and cussing!

  • @Vincent_Preston
    @Vincent_Preston Před 8 měsíci

    Im wanna come check out the museum some time. Haven't been there for over 10 years, so itd be interesting to see this display.

  • @panowa8319
    @panowa8319 Před 3 lety +5

    If they can make a cast of Scottie, why couldn't the Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History make one of Sue and donate it to the town that discovered her?

    • @spottedtime
      @spottedtime Před 2 lety

      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

  • @DogWalkerBill
    @DogWalkerBill Před 3 lety +5

    I am sure they must have scanned the bones for study. They could print 3-D copies to use as patterns for mold casting and make easy reproductions. In various sizes for models or whatever. And sell them as fund raisers. Many years ago, I had a plastic model of a T-Rex skeleton. It was cat sized. It was from back in the day when it was presumed T-Rex dragged her tail on the ground. (Circa 1960's.)

    • @Zarcondeegrissom
      @Zarcondeegrissom Před 3 lety

      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.

    • @raybame5816
      @raybame5816 Před 3 lety +2

      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.

    • @DogWalkerBill
      @DogWalkerBill Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @joshross3820
    @joshross3820 Před 2 lety

    I LIVE HERE I GO HERE ALL THE TIME THIS IS SO COOL!!!!

  • @jackbailey7037
    @jackbailey7037 Před 2 lety +1

    Naming a T-Rex like a pet betrays a stunnng lack of imagination.

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi Před 3 lety

    Fascinating.

  • @Dr.AculaMD
    @Dr.AculaMD Před 10 měsíci +1

    This man could sale dictionary audiobooks.

  • @nightlightabcd
    @nightlightabcd Před 3 lety +3

    The bones and rocks have much to tell us, if we know how to read them!

  • @VetteWay2Fast
    @VetteWay2Fast Před 20 dny

    Great story but I find it rather odd that museums don't display the actual fossil opposed to casts. Seeing a big cast skeleton just isn't the same as seeing an actual specimen that's millions of years old. Personally, when i'm in museums and see cast in the description, I pretty much loose interest and I loved dino's since I was a kid. Seeing the one in Chicago and skull at the Smithsonian really took my breath away.

  • @williams.vincent4235
    @williams.vincent4235 Před 3 lety +7

    4,000 - 7,000 lbs. heavier than a bull African Elephant - wow!

    • @carboncomplex
      @carboncomplex Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @Texasmade74
      @Texasmade74 Před 3 lety

      @@carboncomplex 19,555 lbs actually

    • @carboncomplex
      @carboncomplex Před 3 lety

      @@Texasmade74 8.8 metric tonnes = 19,400.7 pounds according to both metric converters I used.
      coolconversion.com/weight/8.8-metric%20ton-to-kg

    • @jackstraw4222
      @jackstraw4222 Před 2 lety

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

  • @AxleLotl
    @AxleLotl Před 2 lety

    The Rex isn't just about being one of the largest carnivores to walk the planet... it's symbolic of the raw majesty of the greatest natural Marvel this world has ever created.
    Gaining answers about ancient life, about how these animals looked, grew, fed, fought, interacted, navigated, moved and of course.... evolved.
    Every year I get more and more excited about the advancements of technology that assist in our understanding and hearing about the latest discoveries and the latest theories about ancient life.
    It's just one giant puzzle and we should all be trying to put a piece in to solve it.

  • @lawneymalbrough4309
    @lawneymalbrough4309 Před 2 lety

    Letting tours visit the site was a good idea.

  • @waynester71
    @waynester71 Před rokem

    The rivalry between Sue & Scotty.. what is it about Palaeontologists and their obsession with size 😂
    I always had an interest in palaeontology since being a kid in the 80s.. & for some reason I am watching loads of videos on the T-Rex recently. Fascinating.

  • @johngladman4291
    @johngladman4291 Před 3 lety +15

    I always thought Sue was the biggest. Crazy to learn new things about something you love.

    • @OvertimeStudios
      @OvertimeStudios  Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @chadsmith66
      @chadsmith66 Před 3 lety +7

      i think sue was the most complete

    • @Makabert.Abylon
      @Makabert.Abylon Před 3 lety +2

      @@chadsmith66 yep 90% complete

    • @redangrybird7564
      @redangrybird7564 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @Makabert.Abylon
      @Makabert.Abylon Před 3 lety

      @@redangrybird7564 i have green underwear and green socks today

  • @aussiedownunder4186
    @aussiedownunder4186 Před 3 lety

    Very smart people they should and are applauded

  • @Nana-vi4rd
    @Nana-vi4rd Před 2 lety

    AWSOME!

  • @hartleyhare99
    @hartleyhare99 Před rokem

    How interesting is that!

  • @boudicaastorm4540
    @boudicaastorm4540 Před 2 lety

    I feel like I'd have so much trouble spotting a vertebrae with the naked eye if I was just walking around in terrain, it just looks like another rock to me. The teeth definitely look unnatural sticking out of the dirt, and I'm sure under a microscope the vertebrae would be easy to discern, but wow, I admire how people are able to find the first signs of dig sites like this.

  • @roberts3423
    @roberts3423 Před 3 lety +2

    Hopefully theres alot of security around those centers, i bet dinosaur bones would sell high on black markets

    • @charleenlangley8709
      @charleenlangley8709 Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @davidletasi3322
    @davidletasi3322 Před 2 měsíci

    I've been prepping fossils for 4 decades. I will never use plaster to fill a long bone of that weight. She probably misspoke using the term "plaster" rather than the actual product used. I prefer stabilizing fossil bone with a two part epoxy polymer. These products today are stronger than bone and extremely durable.

  • @paulmicheldenverco1
    @paulmicheldenverco1 Před 3 lety +3

    A dog makes a great dinosaur buddy. You need a dog to keep those pesky T-Rex spirits in line. Seriously, I love dogs and loved how they took their dog out to the site.

  • @leahaltmann3826
    @leahaltmann3826 Před rokem

    bs"d Thank you for bringing Paleontology's significance into the greater context (learning to understand Earth's changes over long time periods) in this video.

  • @Hagmire
    @Hagmire Před 2 lety +1

    It's interesting that theirs's literally millions of prehistoric bones waiting to be found

  • @mikecobalt7005
    @mikecobalt7005 Před 3 lety

    :) Excellent

  • @michaelclark5626
    @michaelclark5626 Před 2 lety

    CORRECTION: The Gravity at 70 Ma was a maximum of (22,660,943.54 / 35,100,000) = 0.645 611 g.
    This comes from ( 4936.681 km radius X 4590.32 kg/m^3 ) / ( 6371.008 x 5509.332 kg/m^3 ).
    Weight correction is thus 0.645 611 X 8.8 metric tonnes = 5.681 38 metric tonnes without rounding if this animal is actually from 70 Ma. Forward in time and "g" goes up. Backwards in time, and "g" goes down.

    • @michaelclark5626
      @michaelclark5626 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @jamessampson964
    @jamessampson964 Před 2 lety

    I met a couple of wild dogs wants to try to attack me and I finally drove them off but man what a rush could you imagine how much of a rush it would be to actually run across a T-Rex. But you would only be able to enjoy that rush if you manage to get away LOL

  • @AymenRosa
    @AymenRosa Před 2 lety

    thanks !!!

  • @linomoro6974
    @linomoro6974 Před 3 lety

    Awsome

  • @GA-1st
    @GA-1st Před 2 lety +1

    "Scotty" got her name from a bottle of Scotch whisky...

  • @vdenise
    @vdenise Před rokem

    so basically Scottie build the museum and upgraded a towns economy , awesome

  • @DJLKM1
    @DJLKM1 Před 2 lety +1

    T.Rex wasn't the largest carnivore. It's actually the 3rd largest.

  • @ariadneschild8460
    @ariadneschild8460 Před 2 lety +1

    Scotty is a weird name for a dinosaur esp a female one lol. Seeing dinosaur skeletons up close is really something, we used to take our kids to museums on school holidays and they loved it.

    • @Alaska-Jack
      @Alaska-Jack Před rokem

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

  • @nfs2seturkish988
    @nfs2seturkish988 Před 4 měsíci

    It was king among kings. There is so much adaptation T- Rex had for being strong. It was literally a living war machine. The amount of physical punishment that these guys endured, god, they lived hell before being fossilized. Sometimes you are happy for them to be gone, it would be impossible to kill one without advanced equipment we have now, they would definitely erase us from history before we civilised.

  • @DrywallMuncher_
    @DrywallMuncher_ Před 3 lety +6

    2:58 that threw me off lol

  • @Waya420
    @Waya420 Před 2 lety +1

    What if they just kept growing throughout their lives like crocodiles.

  • @federicocampanale4477
    @federicocampanale4477 Před 3 lety +5

    Eaven in the goddamn documentary they got the arms of the fucking t rex wrong how hard is it !!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @melodiefrances3898
      @melodiefrances3898 Před 3 lety

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

    • @AltairBlue
      @AltairBlue Před 3 lety +1

      @Jayden Nguyen y e s.

  • @EGarrett01
    @EGarrett01 Před 2 lety

    I heard a podcast where a paleontologist pointed out that basically, just like sauropods developed freakishly long necks to graze the top of trees with no competition, and people developed freakishly large brains, T-Rex developed freakish size and strength, so they could prey on and rip up large plant-eating dinosaurs. That was their evolutionary advantage. The sheer size and power of their bodies and their jaws. Crazy stuff.

    • @Dr.IanPlect
      @Dr.IanPlect Před rokem

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

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 Před rokem

      @@Dr.IanPlect Huh?

    • @Dr.IanPlect
      @Dr.IanPlect Před rokem

      @@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!

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 Před rokem

      @@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.

    • @Dr.IanPlect
      @Dr.IanPlect Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @joshuanavarrete122
    @joshuanavarrete122 Před 2 lety +2

    Scotty2hotty just like me

  • @jackstraw4222
    @jackstraw4222 Před 3 lety +5

    you know scotty has been around since the 1990s but most of it was still in storage for many years...

    • @limoucheu8522
      @limoucheu8522 Před 3 lety +1

      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.

    • @Baronstone
      @Baronstone Před 3 lety +1

      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

    • @Riceball01
      @Riceball01 Před 3 lety

      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.

    • @michelinekoby7817
      @michelinekoby7817 Před 3 lety

      @@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.

  • @frasermcgeough
    @frasermcgeough Před 2 lety

    Cool

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Před 2 lety

    Who (Oh, Canada...) oh who eh who did the bloody music? Please. It's Eno good.

  • @ronwhalen5023
    @ronwhalen5023 Před rokem

    why Scotty , its a boys name and she was a woman warrior and this was in Canada. I have to ask my niece, she went to Saskatchewan. As a child I seen a lot of bones, it was disturbing but now I will be looking at the ground for fossils. Very interesting.

  • @Milner62
    @Milner62 Před 2 lety

    Big question, how can Scotty be over 30 years old at the time of death? The video I watched about Sue stated she was around 28 years old and that 30 is about the life span. National Geographic cites about 28 years as the life expectancy. So how can you have Scotty who is claimed to be over 30 but yet have no effect on changing the life expectancy of the T-Rex?

  • @maryamjibo6826
    @maryamjibo6826 Před 3 lety +3

    It is21feef tall and 43feet long

  • @crossbroandclips4350
    @crossbroandclips4350 Před 2 lety

    I’ve been in the original home of scotty and live only 20 minutes away and the land it was found on is my home towns highschool prinaple

  • @stephensmith6888
    @stephensmith6888 Před 5 měsíci

    For every species we know ,imagine the thousands we dont
    Mind boggling

  • @Ok-fn6ue
    @Ok-fn6ue Před 4 dny

    That t rex model was horrendous

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth Před 3 lety

    'History of Life' 5th edition by Richard Cowen
    'Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution' by Robert Carroll

  • @ytsux9259
    @ytsux9259 Před rokem

    If I could time-travel, I'd go back then to ride a T-Rex. 😁

  • @Thulgore
    @Thulgore Před 3 lety

    How many other people wonder and mourn the loss of countless fossils due to erosion. It hurts me to know it has to be an amazing amount of information that will never be known. It's gone. It's only beaten by my knowledge that I will never know what any of these animals were truly like.
    I hate mysteries without a conclusion. The conundrum.

    • @rockyslay4310
      @rockyslay4310 Před 3 lety

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

  • @PenskyMaterial
    @PenskyMaterial Před rokem

    Bet there are planets somewhere in this universe where dinosaurs still exist! Whish i could take a trip forward in time till the first time we discover a planet with life on it!

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq Před rokem

    I hope a statue of Scotty will be made someday, hes skeleton is so tall and menacing.

  • @michaelashcraft8569
    @michaelashcraft8569 Před 3 lety +3

    I'd hate to see that Behemoth comein' after me, at least for the few seconds I'd have left to live! !!

    • @steveng8727
      @steveng8727 Před 3 lety

      just punch it in the nose like a shark..

    • @xbpbat21x
      @xbpbat21x Před 3 lety

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

    • @steveng8727
      @steveng8727 Před 3 lety

      @@xbpbat21x haha, good idea

    • @Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent
      @Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Před 3 lety +1

      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

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 Před 3 lety

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

  • @8kmar
    @8kmar Před 3 lety +1

    When i die and if i make it heaven maybe ill get to see them as they were.

  • @inquizition9672
    @inquizition9672 Před 2 lety

    It's hard to feel terrified of a T-rex when I imagine it saying, "soree, but i'm afraid i'm gona to hafta eat ya eh?".

  • @edoardotortora628
    @edoardotortora628 Před 11 měsíci

    43 feet long and 15 feet tall(at the hips)...woah!!!

  • @spana123321
    @spana123321 Před 3 lety

    There was a model at Birmingham Museum an Art Gallery when I was a kid, full size. Went about ten years ago and no sign of him anyway asked a security guard and it turns out that they had a refurbishment of parts of the museum and they’d just torn him down and thrown him in a skip😳😳😳😳

    • @hb3331
      @hb3331 Před 3 lety

      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.

    • @michelinekoby7817
      @michelinekoby7817 Před 3 lety

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

    • @jackstraw4222
      @jackstraw4222 Před 2 lety

      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...

  • @sircophagusthethird6936

    Scotty was definitely level 150

  • @rogerdudra178
    @rogerdudra178 Před rokem

    Greetings from the BIG SKY.

  • @colleenoller8379
    @colleenoller8379 Před rokem

    I Love Trexs Scotty was big girl God made all creatures Dinosaurs thank you for the video utude

  • @nutyyyy
    @nutyyyy Před 3 lety

    I like how they keep saying they were unimaginably large when humans have lived besides comparably sized animals like mammoths and mastodons. Yes sauropods could get absolutely huge but most dinosaurs were most reasonable sizes.

  • @itslander4030
    @itslander4030 Před 3 lety +1

    I Think This T-Rex Had A Name Scotty And His Full Is Scotty Rex

  • @Texasmade74
    @Texasmade74 Před 3 lety

    Most scientific sources estimate Scotty at 42 feet and 6 inches and he weighed in at 19,555 lbs about 900 lbs heavier than Sue

  • @lovemcurvy3126
    @lovemcurvy3126 Před rokem

    That first animation of Scotty running was hilarious. Don’t get it twisted I don’t know shit but I’m pretty sure a tyrannosaurus was much more of a lanky great Dane than a short scrawny legged pug.

  • @irobott3713
    @irobott3713 Před 3 lety +4

    2:04 "believed to be a female Scotty was ..."
    I have seen her famous brother Sue at Chicago Field Museum.