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Tyrannus tyrannus is too powerful.

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[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

2300kg is the average of an adult white rhino. Although there are smaller ones, the Sumatran rhino only averages 775kg.

I can see the nanotyrannus weighing 800kg, easily

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of "a rhino's weight"!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Seems to be a common practice on that type of article.