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No big deal or anything, but Canada, the world’s largest T. rex was discovered in Saskatchewan. Yep, you read that right: Saskatchewan!

The behemoth weighed a whopping 19,500 pounds, according to National Geographic, and was found near Eastend, about 380 km southwest from Regina.

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Nicknamed “Scotty,” the dinosaur is much bigger and older than what paleontologists previously believed the species could grow. Of all recovered T. rex skeletons, Scotty is the most mature.

Until Scotty’s discovery, Sue was the largest T. rex. Researchers estimated Sue weighed about 800 pounds less than Scotty.

Sue still is the most complete fossil, with around 90 per cent of her bones unearthed in 1990 in South Dakota. Researchers could only recover about 65 per cent of Scotty’s skeleton, but that’s still a substantial amount, the study’s lead researcher said.

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Both, however, lived to at least 28 years old — seniors in terms of tyrannosaurs — but Scott Persons, the lead researcher, said Scotty could well be into his early 30s. Scotty’s find tells the scientific community that the T. rex could have lived longer and been heavier than what was paleontologists previously surmised.