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They say it "could have weighed up to 200 pounds". How do they know? Are they just guestimating based on modern animals about the same size? Or maybe weighing/measuring a modern beaver and scaling up size and weight?


It's not perfect, but there's a very close correlation to the size of the femur with overall body mass in modern animals we use to extrapolate.

See the chart in https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur.html

There's some debate over how useful this is for dinosaurs, but something that died out 10k years ago with closely related existing species is probably easier.


Allometry, its a whole field of study.


It's 2025, chatgpt confidently told them the answer




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