Daily Dino Fact: Is T-Rex the tooth king after all?
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Yaaarrrr, climb into me mouth
Q: Wonder what the biggest dino tooth was? -Lavastretch
A: You know, it’s not often that this happens but I’m a little stumped on this question! If I can remember correctly from my education in paleontology, Tyrannosaurus Rex (pictured above) is generally assumed to have the biggest teeth out of any dinosaur.
These giant killing machines stood up to 40 ft long (12.4 m) and 15 to 20 ft (4.6 to 6 m) high. Despite their little baby arms (don’t tell Rexxy I said that), these savage beasts had teeth over 9 inches (23 cm) long. WOW. An even cooler stat: THEY COULD EAT UP TO 500LBS OF MEAT AND BONE IN ONE BITE. DOUBLE WOW. It’s no wonder the T-Rex has the reputation that it does.
Here is what I’m stumped on though. I tried doing some research to find a specific example of the largest dinosaur tooth ever and couldn’t come up with a definitive answer. Here’s your challenge. The longest T-Rex tooth ever found was 13 inches (33 cm) long. If you can find where a larger dinosaur tooth was found and provide a link to the article, I’ll gladly hook you up with a coin code. [Post in the comments]
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
-Rex