Spinosaurus exhibit debuts at Field Museum, featuring largest meat-eating dinosaur

The newest addition to the Field Museum on Chicago’s lakefront will give visitors a glimpse of the largest predatory dinosaur yet discovered via a 46-foot cast of a Spinosaurus skeleton suspended high above the museum’s main hall. FULL STORY: www.fox32chicago.com/news/spi...
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Spinosaurus is not the largest theropod dinosaur T. rex or giganotosaurus is

[@Dinosaurssongs]

[small talk] 17 year old and 46 feet long Spinosaurus FSAC - KK 11888: Ben Miller on display at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History Spinosaurus, the largest predator on the planet, and specimen 60% complete

[@Tyrannosaurus_rex.]

​@@DinosaurssongsHere is a comparison of the most complete and sure estimates of six theropod dinosaurs and an unsure estimate of a larger Spinosaurus (S. cf. "aegypticus") and an unsure estimate of a new Spinosaurus species (S. indet.):
1 tonne = 1000 kilograms
"Big" means mass
Height is measured at the hip
​Tyrannosaurus rex (FHMN PR 2081 - "Sue")
Length - 12.39 meters
Height (hip) - 3.8 meters
Total height - 4.32 metrs
Weight - 10 tonnes
(RSNM P2523.8 - "Scotty" is estimated between 10,400 to 11,000 kg. Tyrannosaurus' build is the only theropod type that can support that much weight.)
Giganotosaurus carolinii (Mucpv-Ch1- holotype)
Length- 12.57 meters
Height (hip) - 3.5 meters
Total height - 3.76 meters
Weight - 7.8 tonnes
(Paratype is estimated at 9.6 tonnes but the specimen is known from an incomplete dentary. A new estimate says 10.4 tonnes but is largly unreliable due to it being from an incomplete dentary.)
Mapusaurus roseae (MCF-PVPH 108)
Length - 12.23 meters
Height (hip) - 3.46
Total height - 3.73 meters
Weight - 7.4 tonnes
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (IPHG 1912 VIII IK - holotype)
Length - 9.43 meters
Height (hip) - 1.85 meters
Total height - 2.74 meters
Weight - 3.21 tonnes
Spinosaurinae indet. (MSNM v4047)
Length - 14.43 meters
Height (hip) - 2.35 meters
Total height - 3.82 meters
Weight - 7.3 tonnes
Spinosaurus cf. "aegypticus" (NHMUK R 16421)
Length - 13.1 meters
Height (hip) - 2.3 meters
Total height - 3.76 meters
Weight - 6.81 tonnes
Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (UCRC PV 12)
Length - 12.08 meters
Height (hip) - 3.4 meters
Total height - 3.63 meters
Weight - 7.4 tonnes
Tyrannotitan chubutensis (MPEF-PV 1157)
Length - 11.73 meters
Height (hip) - 3.35 meters
Total height - 3.55 meters
Weight - 7.2 tonnes
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus ≠ Spinosaurinae indet.
Tyrannosaurus rex is the biggest theropod and by extension the biggest fully terrestrial carnivore ever to walk the Earth.
Tyrannosaurus rex was also the smartest out of all large theropods, as smart as a baboon, or even a chimpanzee:
www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencefocus.com/nature/inside-the-mind-of-a-dinosaur-2/amp/
While having impeccable eyesight better than a hawk and incredible smell, Tyrannosaurus had the strongest bite of any fully terrestrial animal ever, 6 tonnes. The bulk and amount of muscle of T. rex gives it strength and the large ilia gives Tyrannosaurus agility over C. saharicus, S. aegyptiacus, S. cf. "aegypticus", S. indet, M. rosae and G. carolinii.
T. rex beats S. aegyptiacus, S. cf. "aegypticus" and S. indet. in water due to them not swimming better than any other theropod.
elifesciences.org/articles/80092
T. rex wins this one no questions asked.

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@@Tyrannosaurus_rex. And yet the people who make these videos don't care.. what a shame

[@el_cheeseboi2639]

@@Tyrannosaurus_rex.although giganotosaurus is my favorite, yeah tyrannosaurus is undoubtedly the largest of them

[@bladeblade8443]

Majestic dinosaur !!

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Isn't there another skeleton at the National Geographic Museum?

[@Dinosaurssongs]

[small talk] 17 year old and 46 feet long Spinosaurus FSAC - KK 11888: Ben Miller on display at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History Spinosaurus, the largest predator on the planet, and specimen 60% complete

[@robo60616]

No body cares