Sophie the Stegosaurus, the most complete example of its kind, underwent a body mass assessment recently and it turns out that despite her young age, she was huge.
Sophie the Stegosaurus, the most complete example of its kind, underwent a body mass assessment recently and it turns out that despite her young age, she was huge.
Researchers estimate that when she was roaming the lands around what is now Wyoming, she weighed in at roughly 35 hundred pounds.
That makes Sophie, who was probably only 6 or 7 years old at the time of her premature demise, the size of a Beluga whale.
Workers at London’s Natural History Museum estimated the youth’s heft by combining two different approaches.
One was the traditional method of measuring the circumference of her thigh and upper arm bones.
The other involved the scanning of the skeleton and the creation of a 3D model.
From there the bones were digitally wrapped in various shapes and
