One Of The Best-Preserved T-Rex Skeletons In The World | Moving 66 million year old "Tristan Otto"

The Tyrannosaurus rex "Tristan Otto" is one of the best-preserved specimens of its kind in the world. For some five years, the roughly 66-million-year-old dinosaur was the star of Berlin’s Natural History Museum. Now, the huge skeleton has been packed bone by bone into around 30 crates, and sent on one-year loan to Copenhagen, where the 300-piece skeleton has been reassembled with utmost care.
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[@BIGBIRD208]

I always have an existential crisis whenever I remember that dinosaurs once walked the earth.

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Ruled*

[@phaex2288]

They are still here ;)

[@spacerow]

they still do > in the form of birds and other reptiles 😇

[@Rotichappa]

@@spacerow birds are the only dinosaurs that still live

[@Mace_-sb4lo]

Join the club

[@Guitar387]

Just try and imagine that skeleton bulked out with muscle cartilage flesh and skin. It’s crazy.

[@Mr.Reality]

Exactly I was just thinking about this. Just look at how small and fragile a human skeleton looks like compared to a bulked up powerlifter.

[@gauthampait]

Or just watch the Jurassic Park movie :D

[@ericjames5595]

The Tail would have to weigh more than the rest of its body to maintain balance. If you use your own eyes it is obvious

[@glkglkglkglk9193]

Tasty

[@mrpotato2410]

Once, in a dinosaur museum, I stood in front and took a picture with a full T-Rex skeleton and believe me, it was scary.

[@taylor-bg7ug]

absolutely insane that these things actually walked around the same land we do. dinosaurs were around for 165 million years and only went extinct 65 million years ago. to put that into perspective, our current form of human evolution has only been present for 200,000 years or so

[@vvan222]

So, if the evolution is there, from an one cell organism to a human being requires less than 65 million years?

[@taylor-bg7ug]

@@vvan222 i don’t know exactly how long it took for humanity as we know it to come about but our current form is about 200,000 years old. pre dating that were other similar species and such all the way back to when we weren’t a land based species

[@GorGob]

Space creatures created us just to test things.

[@TheGOATRammus]

@@taylor-bg7ug I thought our current form was 50,000 years old not 200,000

[@taylor-bg7ug]

@@TheGOATRammus i’m not entirely sure, just going by what google said lol. i didn’t do too much research into it but i would assume 200,000 years ago is when we took this main form and maybe 50k years ago was this final form as in no changes whatsoever. probs minor stuff happened in those 150k years but again, not too sure lol

[@randomguyodst46]

Those claws look like they’re used for gripping like an eagle.

[@wenzelplot]

yeah, the more i see it the more i keep thinking they probably have clamping muscles there, to grip prey

[@saltyrainbowpike820]

Imagine if the tiny arms where a mistake all along and it had wings originally.

[@thebutcher9833]

🤯🤯

[@neganrex5693]

They think they was used for mating. They wouldn't be much good in a hunt.

[@skycloud4802]

​@@neganrex5693 That's what I think too. The arms might be just enough to clamp on to another tyrannosaurus rex during mating. But ultimately who knows? Tyrannosaurus Rex was likely constantly evolving up until extinction, and those arms could have potentially got longer or eventually disappeared completely.

[@Runeansfelt]

So lucky to be living in Copenhagen and very close to the museum. Will go there for sure!!!! 👌🏻

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

You didn't go.

[@sheisswarovski]

I love that the speaker's so enthusiastic and passionate.

[@dweuromaxx]

Thanks, Lindsey! We'll pass on your praise🤗

[@STHFGDBY]

Incorrect statement was said by the owner saying 50 % of this T.REX was unearthed, and that that was the biggest percentage amount ever unearthed of a T Rex, but the T Rex Sue had 90 % of it's remains unearthed and is without doubt the greatest T Rex ever discovered.

[@Vandicoup]

Not incorrect as he stated it was *one of.* He never said it was *the.* Big difference. Also read the title, says one of as well. And he's not the owner, just one of the museum's scientists, maybe even the Chief/Head Scientist too, I believe.

[@Vandicoup]

Otto is still a remarkable and extraordinarily rare discovery. I mean, 50% is still incredible knowing that there's only a *handful, even less than a handful* of moderately complete to mostly complete T-Rex skeletons out there. Not to mention moderately complete to mostly complete dinosaur skeletons in general!

[@halseyashley6562]

Truly gigantic!! Thanks for the video!! I hope one day I can see Tristan in person :)

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting and worthwhile video. The donor's skns, Tristan and Otto, will long be remembered because of the T.rex.

[@davidvasey5065]

Is that what donnor meat is made out of!

[@Mace_-sb4lo]

Such a shame that we can’t even comprehend that some of these creatures ruled our planet, I just wish that one day that dinosaurs can come back and I can experience some of the greatest creatures ever.

[@vvan222]

Humans will extinct if dinosaurs live, it's a really big wild apex predator that we cannot handle even with our modern tools.

[@Agreatdayneverends]

A T Rex would swallow you like a Heron swallowing a small fish in the bay... Whole and alive in one gulp. So no, you don't want to see one in person....it will run you down...you can't outrun it and you can't fight it unless heavily armed .

[@Mace_-sb4lo]

@@Agreatdayneverends t rex could only run at 10 miles an hour😂

[@Mace_-sb4lo]

@@Agreatdayneverends and I’m talking about enclosed

[@mrpotato2410]

@@Mace_-sb4lo Boy you can't lock them in forever. Nature cannot be contained, life..uh...finds a way.

[@haamyl8977]

It SO CRAZY how these creatures once existed.

[@SD_Chosen]

Man I Hope one day In A Remote Place One is Found.

[@81StrangeFruit]

I was really lucky to see this huge guy in my visit in Copenhagen!!!

[@Ruudie92]

Yes I know you saw my penis that time in Copenhagen

[@broderp]

That rex has a massive overbite. Looks funny.

[@johnlestersunaya-rpl1958]

thats why lips on theropods is impossible

[@GojiFan1985yt]

@@johnlestersunaya-rpl1958 I wouldn’t say impossible… Maybe when it was alive, the flesh on the jaw would have made it easier for the lips to connect.

[@stavies7525]

Doesn't look right, it's a goofysaurus!

[@Universelove777]

-This is Incredible!!! Thank You for your work on this T-Rex!!! 🦖🌿🪨🙂

[@anthonylilly6862]

My friend Clayton Phipps found the best dinosaur specimens ever. The dueling dinosaurs.

[@willcarriker3818]

one of the fiercest predators to ever walk the earth. this guy: .. "Tristan"

[@annmirll]

It was so freaking cool to see 🙌👏!!!!

[@generator6946]

A totally different world. And 65 million years from today another totally different world.

[@Trojan0304]

Went to see TRex Sue at Chicago Field Museum, think 90% complete. Awesome beast, putting on my 4K Jurassic Park disc tonight

[@florasanrod1645]

Wow! It's amazing, very interesting! Danke.

[@dweuromaxx]

Glad you like it! 😊

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Hope more complete T.rex skeletons are found.

[@wretchedbass]

Well, Sue at the Field museum in Chicago, is 90% complete.

[@ranaaishwary948]

T rex is my favorite dinosaur 🦕

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

It looks so badass in black, or ash, or whatever that color is. Wow!

[@lifeafterourloss]

Thank You!

[@i_o_r_i___xxx90]

“i would like to travel 66 million years back in time to get this sense of wow life” moments later : i got torn into half chunks by an adult Trex and wow” 😁🤣

[@ProdYafa]

if i laugh at that horrible joke would you smash

[@davidvasey5065]

​@@ProdYafa did it work

[@roughryder5]

Can't fathom what was going on 67 Million years ago, let alone a 1000 years ago...

[@destroya3303]

I would be interested to see what half of the dino was actually discovered. Has anyone ever discovered a fully intact t-rex skull?

[@Vandicoup]

We've gotten damn close so far. "Sue" is 90% complete. Soo close!

[@davidletasi3322]

I've studied Sue in Chicago and Pete Larsons photos of its skull under preparation in South Dakota and its the finest skull ever found. There are several other well known nearly complete skulls with at least 80% intact cranial elements. Much of this information is obtainable on line in several scientific papers. Ken Carpenter from Denver Colarado has done a great amount of research on these skulls. Generally the post cranial elements of these individuals are lost from erosion or scavengers during skeletal deposition.. many example of around the nearly 50 known specimens have between 30% to 60% of the fossil bones making up the entire skeleton. A individual with a fairly complete skull and about 50% of the post cranial elements would be consider quite a find. Examples like Stan and Karthy Wankles specimens are over 60% complete and Sue considered to be about 90% complete. Tyrannosaurus rex hands are the rarest preserved and known. The specimen in the University of Chicago vertebrate collections number UCRC VP1 is the most complete arms and hands know. I'm now studying a complete second digit of the hand of Tyrannosaurus rex in my collection and is one of only four known. The dueling dinosaur Tyrannosaur skeleton looks extremely complete and has really great arms and hands but look rather different from the other few known hand elements. It's still in debate if it's a large Nanotyrannus or a small Tyrannosaurus rex. More research is required and a great deal of further preparation and cleaning. Pete Larson has been advocating that its a Nanotyrannus.

[@cherrycokee]

@@davidletasi3322that is so freaking cool!!!

[@benxamin13]

80%, so they say about "Sue".

[@seanzibonanzi64]

Is it just me or does that Rex have an overbite? What an interesting specimen

[@colt11132]

I would think these would be locked in heavy duty safes or if they were on this place, they would be so protected. You couldn’t even touch.

[@killerplane1136]

Last time I checked, Sue is the most complete. Sue is 90% complete, with just a few bones missing in total. Also one of the largest T-Rex's ever discovered, weighing over 18K lbs. (Scotty is the heaviest at 19K.)

[@Tyrannosaurine]

Well, now the dueling dinosaur Rex, assuming it is a young tyrannosaurus is almost completely intact. Like 98-100% complete. Though obviously Sue is the most complete adult specimen. A wonderful find.

[@benxamin13]

@@Tyrannosaurine where is it?

[@bonniemob65]

​@@benxamin13"The Dueling Dinosaurs" are at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and "Sue" is at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.

[@jazzcardashcam]

The Sue and Scotty T-rex fossils are 90% complete and bigger.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

Birds once had some GNARLY cousins!

[@Darealayo216]

Amazing wish I could see one lol

[@FireChicken747]

Remember. This thing was the size of a large elephant. An APEX PREDATOR THE SIZE OF AN ELEPHANT HOLY FRICK!

[@worldsaway1002]

That’s a nice bird 🦅

[@dweuromaxx]

@Kevon Lopez Chirp, Chirp!

[@cladflorin4634]

T .Rex bite force 10 times stronger that bite force of Crocodiles

[@jackstraw4222]

megalodon and some other huge pliosaurus had a even stronger bite force..

[@nirogalactoid8398]

@@jackstraw4222 yeah cause they are much bigger as they are aquatic creatures

[@alexthefox1175]

Must be lucky to make it the best preserved animal

[@GUTOMOFFICIAL]

I want to see this !

[@nemasis3134]

*LETS GOOOOOO*

[@OohaiderOo]

Bro I want to see complete!!!

[@mohdimansaifullizan6193]

King of the Dinosaurs🦖

[@Dinglezz]

"His body is 50% complete, which makes him to an almost complete skeleton"... 🤔

[@sgtzomie7877]

Crazy that that thing used to exists

[@Nikolai1939]

To think a predator this massive, walked upon our very planet

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

And this one at 39' is not even the largest specimen, one named Scotty is 42' and 2 tons heavier. Plus they've recently found one or two others that they believe will be way bigger than Scotty.

[@thewhodat2314]

And who really knows how big Rex could have really gotten because you can only assume if you're finding one this size there had to have been bigger ones out there. But on another note such a travesty taking that specimen out of the USA. But that is so American to sell it to the highest bidder

[@lt6557]

“His body is almost 50% complete…he is almost a complete skeleton” how is 50% even almost fully complete?

[@jaynecobb6711]

Let's see how much of your or any skeleton is left intact after 65 million years sitting in the ground. I would say dare say 50% is almost intact. It is all a matter of perspective.

[@toast3526]

A lot of dinosaurs we just have like the lower half of there jaw so yeah 50 percent is pretty complete

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

What he means is that having half the bones means very little extrapolation has to go into completing the skeleton, allowing for a near perfectly accurate reconstruction.

[@JiroProject]

Isn't SUE the most completed t-rex?

[@nasaawakening6391]

Our world is the world of monsters, aliens, fascinations , but other worlds are out there with far more.

[@dweuromaxx]

😨....

[@thathockeyguy395]

Is it me or does it seem rather narrow like it’s thin (I’m used to sue from Chicago)

[@dlm425]

Maybe it was flattened a bit by earth 🌏

[@Guitar387]

That's fing crazy big

[@dweuromaxx]

IT IS!

[@justforminutes9784]

Only 50% left 50% is just an imagination Good measuim business

[@fabricreative1930]

There are other T. rex specimens that preserve the rest of the body, so it really isn't imagination.

[@benxamin13]

50% complete means half complete, not an "almost complete skeleton".

[@Beans577]

How in the world did these things exist 😮

[@dominicistheking]

They didn't

[@garyproffitt5941]

Relating to ancestors for warm blooded rats, screws and voles, its pretty awesome and frightened to roam to very large Dinosaurs and I'll pack my bags and run, pronto styles.

[@moniquemosley2122]

Who had the right to sale this skeleton? 🤔

[@Doberdobax]

Ur mum

[@beamis]

@@Doberdobax made me laugh way too hard 😂😂😭

[@fweedom2330]

Finders keepers...

[@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk]

Not you. 😂😂😂

[@Vandicoup]

Thank god it's in a museum though. It's still open to the public!

[@dantrixter]

The best persevered skeleton of a Trex well 50% of it, and the head is a cast ! the real head is over there !

[@dominicistheking]

Lol.. I know right. One of the biggest hoaxes pulled on mankind in world history. And millions fall for it.

[@seanwhitehall4652]

1:37 180kg of just bone, and not even all the bone.

[@teddyissak2720]

Nice sculpture, but boring to look at it still. You should have added some mechanics for locomotion and it will be lot cooler

[@thedarknight1613]

So is he only a conservator or also a paleontologist like Ross?

[@Vandicoup]

I think he's just a Scientist who works at the museums/universities/labs and studies all these creatures, including all the fossils that come into the laboratories after they've been excavated and such.

[@scottguy28]

The truth everything has size differentials ..so you never know how big some of these guys got

[@geezeuspoker]

Imagine it blinking at ya

[@dweuromaxx]

Run! 😉

[@geezeuspoker]

For what President?

[@DanielGomes-lw5wb]

Yeah!

[@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk]

50% is almost completely half a skeleton. 😂

[@Vandicoup]

Indeed. Partially incorrect wording on his behalf, hehe. He should've said half-way. Almost sounds waaay closer than 50% haha. But that's still remarkable since most dinosaur skeletons are incredibly incomplete. Only a good handful are close or even half-way to completion! :O

[@keithwatson8228]

Ok but what parts are real and what parts are fake?

[@lakhveer654]

Show his head from the other room

[@dominicistheking]

It's fake. That's why the didn't show anything that can be serious scrutinized

[@fabricreative1930]

They show the fossil skull at 1:13

[@lightningsmokerXx]

Investment Bankers. Naming it after your Kids. Name it after the area or those who found it or something of meaning.

[@KurNorock]

I'm sure their kids mean the world to them. Also, they bought the skeleton, it was their property. Who are you to demand that they give it a name of your approval?

[@viktorclay6956]

FInaly a name we can pronounce and you complain...

[@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk]

@@viktorclay6956 he’s just jealous.

[@Vandicoup]

@@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk Exactly lol

[@Vandicoup]

I'm sure their kids mean the world to them. Also, they bought the skeleton, it was their property. Who are you to demand that they give it a name of your approval?

[@williamswayuk]

He is almost complete... 50% complete... 🙄 Well then that's still half missing 😂

[@rhysioeren3203]

Thank you professor, we couldn't have figured it out.

[@williamswayuk]

@@rhysioeren3203 pointless comment

[@rhysioeren3203]

@@williamswayuk poor baby 👶.

[@intensivemanagement]

How many pounds of food would a T. rex eat in a day ?

[@escuridao8528]

500 kg de comida

[@montyboon4127]

I wonder what the earth will be like in 66 million years time, will they see current animals and think woah, like a lion or something

[@TheSwanlake2009]

tristan looks the baddest of all trexs

[@benxamin13]

I'd rather see the real skull, and see what fragments actually were found.

[@Trid3nt861]

The ancestor of the modern day Chicken.

[@fabricreative1930]

Actually, T. rex isn't the ancestor of any modern bird. Birds evolved from a different group of dinosaurs (Avialae).

[@bobbyliink9252]

This is going to sound dumb I know But does anybody know why the bones are black ?

[@mrfld]

I thought Sue was 90% complete.

[@coryphillips1783]

I really wish dinosaurs could come back and idc if they are dangerous

[@dweuromaxx]

You can preview that with the Jurassic Park movie franchise 🦖

[@coryphillips1783]

@@dweuromaxx that is just Hollywood

[@vvan222]

@@dweuromaxx Yeah, I don't think any movie can capture the wild nature of a creature like dinosaur. If anyone ever watches the video of how Komodo dragon eats their prey by swallowing it alive, you will read many viewers comment the brutality. And this creature, the dinosaurs have a really big jaw and all canine teeth to swallow a prey at elephant size and crush all the bones, I can't even think how brutal it is.

[@lawrencemaye6921]

So…that’s just a cast of the skeleton? Not what I was looking for KZbin rabbit hole.

[@33shin33]

66.000.000 that's a bunch of zeroes.

[@TheDino_Edits]

Why does the title say "90 million"? Isn't it suppose to be "65 million".

[@dweuromaxx]

@Rexy The Tyranossaurs Rex Oops, we simply made him "a bit" 🤪 older. You are absolutely right! He is believed to be about 66 million years old. Thanks a lot for letting us know, that'll save him a lot of face moisturizer...🦖😉

[@rethedipstertiger795]

Found you

[@Kalenskitube]

amazing creation but not 66mln years old

[@Vandicoup]

And how do you know this exactly, arm chair Scientist? It's crazy how you can sit in your comfy arm chair and easily distrust and dismiss someone who has studied and worked their whole life to operate in the field they're in. They have a degree and multiple degrees too I'm sure and have gained numerous years of experience and spent thousands of dollars acquiring their education. Where was your education and relevant work experience acquired at, if I may ask? At a McDonald's or your local middle school?

[@RahulRk-tr7ot]

​@@VandicoupChill Dude. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@wozsalam8942]

pretty sure that one a cast

[@Michaelarkangel]

Giant flesh eating birds otherwise known as dragons❤

[@spermario645]

He’s happy he has 50% of a skeleton? If he was in school that be a fail

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

The bottom jaw looks too short compared to the top jaw. Rex may've had an overbite, but not by *_that_* much. Ribs looks too small, as well.

[@dlm425]

Coming here cause of Jurassic Park week

[@dweuromaxx]

@DLM Hope you don't expect any *nuggets* here...😁

[@raptor___]

If i could travel back in time then ill do it when im old and ready to die or im gonna ask for invisibility and immortality to survive there

[@neerajgaur8792]

I wonder if it was smart to dig out fossils. I mean nature somehow kept them fossilized for millions of years. Can we guarantee that in the museums the fossils will survive a thousand years. It always bothers me we have wasted the fossil by digging it up. There should be tech like ground radars, sonars, x ray etc to study them in the ground and rock where they are more reliably preserved than any artificial method can. I think in a 1000 years all these museums will be gone and these fossils would have been lost forever.

[@Dynotop1a]

The vast majority of fossils discovered are found eroding out of the sediment already, during construction activities, or in quarries, where they would soon become dust due to erosion over a few seasons or heavy machinery. Fossils are excavated because they need to be protected. Many more than we could ever discover have been lost to erosion and other geological processes. When possible, paleontologists will sometimes opt to protect the fossils where they lay as found, instead of transporting them from the field into a repository. There are trade offs and no one single method of preservation. Museums are not perfect, as they are subject to disasters like fire, war, and lack of funding, but it generally gives the fossils a longer life than their inevitable decay in the field. Museums also let the fossils tell their story. Should they be lost for some reason, our observations and scientific records of their existence offer another form of preservation, at least until science and humanity itself falls victim to time.

[@darkonyx6995]

You're watching way too much scifi buddy

[@geezeuspoker]

Imagen that

[@DeathLink13]

Now it's a chicken Feel old yet?

[@GR33ZY.A1]

What if dinosaurs were park of alien family?👀

[@dweuromaxx]

Good question

[@muzaffarshah1007]

Is this whole skeleton real ?

[@GR33ZY.A1]

How do they know if dinosaurs had hair or not?

[@dweuromaxx]

@Greezy Official They also dug out a barber chair...🙄...sorry, bad one...It is believed that they had feathers.🦕🐦

[@4gravez]

They were too big

[@aliennathan6089]

what if these bones weren't even put together right and this dinosaur could've been something way different?

[@dweuromaxx]

Just let your imagination run wild... 🦍🦌🦏🐖🐄🐪🦨 😁

[@4gravez]

No. Scientists know anatomy inside out. Nothing else would make sense

[@neganrex5693]

One thing is for sure they got the ribs wrong. The rib cage is way to small for the animals size.

[@cladflorin4634]

Largest males Crocodiles bite force 10 000 psi .

[@ifstatementifstatement2704]

So tyranical

[@user-ey7lv4gs6b]

Its true I was there

[@dweuromaxx]

Was there a McDonald's?

[@Akshay13134]

@@dweuromaxx Yes it served dinosaur meat

[@user-Doggo101]

It's not as big as in the jurasic park movie

[@johnlestersunaya-rpl1958]

It just because this rex is in crouch position. JP t rex looks taller because its standing at his full height.

[@Wicked.Artworks]

This is a skeleton, you have to imagine it with flesh muscles and skin plus like the other guy said, it’s in crouch position.

[@okamuspanulirus9614]

Did they really sample dua lipa???

[@Vandicoup]

Why not? She's great

[@GetRich23]

I think this entire video is cap. 😅

[@dweuromaxx]

Why is that?

[@ShadowTheGreat_]

😭 same

[@4gravez]

Bro what

[@dominicistheking]

New too.. commen sense has left the human population

[@wytdyk]

why are the forearms connected to a rib? that looks unlikely to me. Even birds don't have that. How did they get to this weird fantasy?

[@gabbiegab5532]

why does this T-REX lower jaw looks small and awkward to its skull?

[@dweuromaxx]

@gabbie gab On the skull very strong muscles for chewing were attached. He seemed to be a very greedy animal.. 😉

[@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk]

He says that the skull is not the original skull because it was in pieces so they made a skull. They probably hired some 3rd rate sculptor to make the mold for the casting.

[@AnointedLightWizard]

They love these numbers for some reason