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Scotty the T. rex

Meet the world's largest T. rex, Scotty

Date: Permanent, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
Location: Lower Gallery, T. rex  Gallery
Admission: Included in your admission by donation
Audience: For adults, families, teens and youth

On March 21, 2019, Scotty [specimen RSM P2523.8], was described to be the largest and oldest T. rex in the world, with an estimated weight of 8870 kilograms, length of 13 meters, height of 4 meters (to the hips) and an age of over 28 years. An academic paper published in The Anatomical Record confirmed Scotty's status as the world's largest and oldest T. rex, outsizing the Chicago Field Museum's SUE by 400 kg and more than 50 cm in length.

On display in the T. rex Gallery, Scotty comes to life through multiple exhibits, including the awe-inspiring recreation of the roar of a T. rex. Examine actual fossil specimens of flora and fauna found in Scotty's quarry and discover the habitat and environment in which Scotty lived. Find out why T. rex had small arms, and explore Scotty's many injuries. For Scotty, living to be over 28 years was not without its challenges.

Scotty's Habitat

Discovering Scotty

Discovered by a Royal Saskatchewan Museum research team in Saskatchewan’s Frenchman River Valley in 1991, Scotty’s fossilized remains were painstakingly removed – almost completely by hand – over two decades from the rock in which they were embedded. That work was finished in 2014, thanks to employees, students and volunteers, and revealed a T. rex skeleton that was 65% complete.

Scotty's Injuries

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