T-Rex A Slow Mover

Ant writes "Link: New models of the leg muscles of Tyrannosaurus Rex suggest that a real T-Rex might not have passed the screen test for "Jurassic Park." Stanford University researchers writing in the British journal Nature this week suggest that a T-Rex could not have been able to run as fast as the one in the movie -- and might not have been able to run at all. "There is no way you could fit enough muscle into its body for that kind of locomotion," said John Hutchinson, co-author of the Nature article. "You wouldn't have enough room left over for all the other body parts.""

Comments

When your legs are 20 feet long...

[itwerx]

...how fast do you really have to be? I can't stroll at 30mph!
"Wah! It's gonna catch us and eat us!"
"Don't be silly dear, that's just Dino out for his morning walk..."

Haven't we heard this before?

[andfarm]

Years and years ago (like 18th-19th century), many believed that dinosaurs were too large to stand up and must have dwelt in ponds. Does anybody else think this sounds like similar thinking? There is only so much that one can learn by looking at bones.

Re:Predators:

[Lord_Of_The_Beer]

T-rex may not have used stelth but that does not mean he was fast. It just means that his prey was slower then him.

As for the duckbill..... That was a damn lucky dino to get away after a T-rex had it's jaws on it's neck .

Some predators have speed. Some predators have speed for short periods of time. Some predators can run at full speed all the time.

Could a T-rex move slow Maybe. Maybe not. There isn't really enough evidence to tell.

Re:Here we go again

[Scrameustache]

Bumble bees cannot fly, either.


Yup, if a scientist had found only dead bumblebees, they would have claimed (with proof) that bumblebees could not have flyed and would have said the wings must have been used for heat dirpersion or some other crap.

And before anyone goes on to say that it was recently discovered that its small vorticies that blablabla makes the bumblebee fly, remember that they had to turture countless specimens before they admitted their secret of flight. (wind tunnels, glue, sticks, etc) wich requires live specimens.
Remember kids, anytime a scientist says something is impossible, he's no longer a scientist, he's a techno-monk, relying on faith and math rather than empirical observations.