Studies Show Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn’t Run – Or Could It?
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Studies Show Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn’t Run – Or Could It? |
| Author(s) | Stephen W Hurrell |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-08-12 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | expansion tectonics, palaeogravity, dinosaurs |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Studies Show Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run – Or Could It?" is an article by Stephen W Hurrell published on 12 August 2019 on Beyond Mainstream, reprinted from his own site.
Hurrell takes up a widely publicised 2017 study by Professor Bill Sellers of Manchester University concluding that T. rex's leg bones were not strong enough for it to run — a result Sellers has said ran contrary to his own expectation. Hurrell notes that palaeontologists have disputed the animal's speed for decades, and reads the finding as evidence for his long-standing argument that such animals lived under a weaker surface gravity than the present one.