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How Much Does a Dinosaur Weigh?

How Much Does a Dinosaur Weigh?

We don't have live dinosaurs today we could put on a bathroom scale to weigh. But how much DID they weigh? Take the spinosaurus, which had huge 5-foot spines along its back. We know these dinos were about 50 feet long and stood over 10 feet tall - that's higher than your bedroom ceiling. Just guessing from this, the whole animal could have weighed anywhere from 8 to 23 tons. Even if you had a pet spino dino, it couldn't fit on that scale anyway!

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