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Previous estimates of the brachiosaur's weight have been as high as 80*tonnes (176,370pounds). But the 21% over the minimum-skin bone-wrap volume method reduces the dinosaur's weight to just 23tonnes (50,706pounds). A similar ~71% weight loss would also turn the TyrannosaurusRex from the lumbering giant of fusty old paleontologists into the lean&mean fighting machine that we^kids always knew it to be. Of course that means that there ain't no way that a human would outrun one for any but the shortest of distances.
* Metric tonnes rather than American tons ^ Or as JurassicPark put it, "Silly raptor, T.Rex are for kids."
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Eh, shame. Couple more discoveries like that and dinosaurs will become just oversized crocodiles...
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First Pluto is no longer a planet, now the dinos, man, next I'm going to hear the science has proven He-man is gay and my whole damn childhood will have been a lie!
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