DON’T believe everything you see in the movies. As well as putting
Tyrannosaurus rex alongside dinosaurs that actually lived tens of millions
of years earlier, Jurassic Park portrayed the fearsome beast as an
adept sprinter, capable of catching a speeding car.
But this piece of artistic licence literally went a step too far: T.
rex was actually a lumbering giant incapable of even breaking into a gentle
jog, say two specialists in biomechanics.
John Hutchinson and Mariano Garcia of the University of California at
Berkeley calculated that a 6-tonne T. rex couldn’t have carried enough
leg muscle to break into…
