‘Winning the lottery’: Preserved fossil tissue reveals shocking cause of death for largest T. Rex ever found

Analysis of preserved tissue from the largest T. Rex skeleton ever discovered, named Scotty, reveals that the predator perished in a battle with another dino. It got Tyrannosaurus wrecked. Even the King of the dinosaurs wasn’t safe during the Cretaceous. Analysis of the largest T. Rex skeleton ever discovered revealed that its owner died of a rib injury sustained during a battle with another dinosaur some 66 million years ago. Found in 1991 in prehistoric Saskatchewan, Canada, the impressive specimen, dubbed Scotty, had reportedly measured a record 43 feet long and was estimated to weigh around 19,500 pounds when alive — the size of two elephants. However, the fossil’s most unique attribute was that there was still literal meat on the bone — something almost never observed in paleontology,