Scotty the T-Rex coming to Royal Sask. Museum

The T-Rex is known as the king of the dinosaurs, and a replica of the world’s largest will soon be inside the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.

Scotty was unearthed near Eastend in 1991. The dino is believed to be the largest T-Rex ever found, with an estimated weight of about 8,800 kilograms — that’s more than 19,000 pounds.

“The rock that it was encased in was incredibly hard and it was a skeleton that was scattered across tens of squared metres in terms of the quarry size,” Ryan McKellar of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum said Thursday on 980 CJME’s Greg Morgan Morning Show.

McKellar said the museum did about a decade of work to get the exhibit ready.

He said the landscape Scotty would’ve faced in Saskatchewan is very different than what we’re used to today.

“It would’ve been on the edge of a shallow seaway that stretched from Alaska all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico and it would’ve been a forest that was sort of like the redwood forest that exists in the Pacific Northwest now,” McKellar said.

He said Scotty suffered many injuries, some of which caused damage to the bones.

Scotty got its name when the people who discovered it named it after a bottle of scotch they had available.

But it won’t be the real bones making their way to the Royal Saskatchewan Museum; McKellar said they are heavy and incredibly fragile. Those bones will be kept at the discovery centre in Eastend.

A cast of the bones is to be on display inside the museum. The exhibit is to begin in May.