--- title: "1 Body weight Quotes By Steve Brusatte" description: "1 Body weight quotes by Steve Brusatte. Plus more from Steve Brusatte and more Body weight sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f46/steve-brusatte-63295_body-weight_it-goes-without-saying-but-t-rex-was-hug_1683414.jpg" --- > [“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark of seven or eight tons, based on those equations from a few chapters ago, which calculate body weight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brusatte/it-goes-without-saying-but-t-rex-was-huge-adults-were-about-forty-two/) [Steve Brusatte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brusatte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f46/steve-brusatte-63295_body-weight_it-goes-without-saying-but-t-rex-was-hug_1683414.jpg) ## More by Steve Brusatte > [“there is no denying that by the dawn of the Campanian subinterval of the latest Cretaceous, beginning about 84 million years ago, tyrannosaurs had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brusatte/there-is-no-denying-that-by-the-dawn-of-the-campanian-subinterval-of/) [Steve Brusatte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brusatte/) > [“The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brusatte/the-holes-in-front-of-us-were-fossilized-tracks-huge-ones-dinosaur/) [Steve Brusatte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brusatte/) > [“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark of seven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brusatte/it-goes-without-saying-but-t-rex-was-huge-adults-were-about-forty-two/) [Steve Brusatte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brusatte/) > [“During the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous, tyrannosaurs flourished, ruling the river valleys, lakeshores, floodplains, forests, and deserts of North America and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brusatte/during-the-final-20-million-years-of-the-cretaceous-tyrannosaurs/) [Steve Brusatte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brusatte/) > [“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like strands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brusatte/these-are-feathers-not-the-quill-pen-feathers-that-make-up-the-wings/) [Steve Brusatte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brusatte/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body-weight/steve-brusatte/#itemlist", "name": "1 Body weight Quotes By Steve Brusatte", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark of seven or eight tons, based on those equations from a few chapters ago, which calculate body weight from the thickness of the thighbone. These proportions are off the charts for carnivorous dinosaurs. The rulers of the Jurassic—the Butcher Allosaurus, Torvosaurus, and their kin—got up to about thirty-three feet (ten meters) long and a few tons—monsters to be sure, but they had nothing on Rex. After temperature and sea-level changes ushered in the Cretaceous, some of the carcharodontosaurs from Africa and South America got even bigger than their Jurassic predecessors. Giganotosaurus, for example, was about as long as T. rex and may have reached about six tons. 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