• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If that were the case then the first sentence wouldn’t claim that there are physical limits.

    I dug up the paper.

    “Biomechanical and ecological limitations notwithstanding, we estimate that the absolute largest T. rex may have been 70% more massive than the currently largest known specimen (~15,000 vs. ~8800 kg).”

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11658

    That is the paper says, if we ignore biomechanical limits, statistically there could be a T-Rex that’s 70% bigger than what we have already found.