Weigh It Up · Animals
How heavy is Tyrannosaurus rex?
8 tweight
An adult T. rex weighed about 8 tonnes.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Tyrannosaurus rex.
- 1.33× the african elephant (6 t)
- 0.67× a city bus (12 t)
- 6.15× the family car (1.3 t)
- 114× the adult human (70 kg)
How to picture 8 t
Start from something you can see right now. Tyrannosaurus rex is about 1.33× african elephant. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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