Giganotosaurus was one of the largest known terrestrial carnivores, but the exact size has been hard to determine due to the incompleteness of the remains found so far.

In Jurassic World Dominion, Alan Grant, played by Sam Neill, comes face to face with the Giganotosaurus, a brutish creature known in the film as “the Giga.” The fictional paleontologist breathlessly declares that the Giga is “the biggest carnivore the world has ever seen.”

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The Giganotosaurus is not the biggest known carnivorous dinosaur in history, as that title belongs to the Spinosaurus instead (at least on land), making Dr.

Most scientists agree that the Spinosaurus is the largest land predator, bigger than both the T-Rex and Giganotosaurus. According to paleontologists who studied a partial skeleton of a Spinosaurus, the dinosaur was roughly 60 feet long, with the sail on its back being about seven feet tall.

Giganotosaurus was probably about 45 to 47 feet long, while the largest T. rex specimen reached nearly 42 feet long (nicknamed “Scotty,” its bones reside at Canada's Royal Saskatchewan Museum).

“Bigger! Why do they always have to go bigger?” exclaims Doctor Ian Malcolm in Jurassic World Dominion, upon seeing the Giganotosaurus carolinii for the first time. In truth, the dinosaur wasn't much bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex, the previous villain of the Jurassic Park movies.

He estimated the Giganotosaurus holotype to have weighed 6.8 t (7.5 short tons), and the larger specimen 8.2 t (9.0 short tons). Tyrannosaurus was estimated to have weighed 8.4 t (9.3 short tons), and Hartman noted that it had a wider torso, though the two seemed similar in side view.

Giganotosaurus vs T-Rex: Size The Giganotosaurus weighed about 17,600 pounds, stood 20 feet high, and was about 45 feet long. The T-Rex maxed out the scale at 15,000 pounds but was also 20 feet tall and 40 feet in length. The comparison is close, but the Giganotosaurus is the bigger beast and has an advantage.

Paleontologist Rodolfo Coria believed it was the largest dinosaur yet, at 41 feet in length (that's about two Asian elephants standing in a line). A few years later, after discovering further Giganotosaurus fossils, Coria upped that estimate to 45–47 feet.

The Spinosaurus was larger than the Giganotosaurus, but we don't know by how much of a margin. Some reconstructions pin the Spinosaurus as weighing as much as 31,000lbs and others say it was closer to 20,000lbs.

Tyrannosaurus In 2013, the paleontologist Scott Hartman published a Graphic Double Integration mass estimate (based on drawn skeletal reconstructions) on his blog, wherein he found Tyrannosaurus ("Sue") to have been larger than Giganotosaurus overall.