Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Too Heavy To Run And It Had Also Difficult To Walk – New Study Shows

MessageToEagle.com – All movies and even earlier research have made us believe that Tyrannosaurus rex was a dinosaur that could move very fast even run.

Now we have to ask: Could T. rex really move that fast? It seems that T. rex could have even difficulties with walking.

Scientists at the University of Manchester say the sheer size and weight of T. rex means it couldn’t move at high speed, because its leg-bones would have buckled under its own weight load.

Their new research contradicts the running speeds predicted by previous biomechanical models which can suggest anything up to 45mph.

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According to Professor William Sellers from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, who led the team in this research, says that

“‘the running ability of T. rex and other similarly giant dinosaurs has been intensely debated amongst palaeontologist for decades.

“However, different studies using differing methodologies have produced a very wide range of top speed estimates and we say there is a need to develop techniques that can improve these predictions.”

The results of the study suggest that the T. rex couldn’t pursue its prey in a high-speed chase as previously thought.

“Being limited to walking speeds contradicts arguments of high-speed pursuit predation for the largest bipedal dinosaurs like T. rex and demonstrates the power of Multiphysics approaches for locomotor reconstructions of extinct animals,” Prof Sellers explains.

This new scientific approach “combines two separate biomechanical techniques to demonstrate that true running gaits would probably lead to unacceptably high skeletal loads in T. rex.

The findings also mean that running at high speeds were probably highly unlikely for other large two-legged dinosaurs such as, Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, and Acrocanthosaurus.

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