The NY Times has a piece about Scotty the Tyrannosaurus rex.  The specimen was discovered in Saskatchewan in 1991.  A paper published in the scientific journal “The Anatomical Record estimates Scotty to have weighed 19,555 pounds, which would make it heavier than SUE – estimated between 12,000 – 14,000.  Size and age are also seen as similar to SUE.  In May, a new, updated cast will go on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, Saskatchewan.

There are big dinosaurs. There are old ones. And then there is Scotty, a giant among them all.

A Tyrannosaurus rex found in the Saskatchewan province of Canada in the 1990s is the heaviest and oldest of its kind, paleontologists recently announced. The dinosaur, nicknamed Scotty, probably weighed about 9.8 tons and lived for more than three decades, they said. The results were published in a study last week in The Anatomical Record, a scientific journal, and posted online.

“This is the rarest of rare dinosaurs,” Gregory Erickson, a paleobiologist from Florida State University who was one of the study’s authors, said in an interview Wednesday. “We have a full, grown adult.”