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Sizing up dinosaurs

A four-part series by Dr Dave Hone about estimating the size and mass of dinosaurs from their fossilised remains
  • Spinosaurus dinosaur

    Telling the tail of the dinosaur

    Dave Hone: Just how long were dinosaurs, and what do we know of their tails?

  • The biggest of the big – maximum size in dinosaurs

    Dave Hone: Will we ever know just how big dinosaurs could have got?

  • Model of a Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex)

    How to weigh a dinosaur

    Dave Hone: Plenty of methods are available to palaeontologists trying to work out the mass of an extinct animal, and they are getting better

  • A Brachiosaurus dinosaur skeleton

    Just how big were dinosaurs?

    Dave Hone: Almost any report on dinosaurs will feature a measure of the size of one species or another, but what are these values based on?

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