SCOTTY

The name given to a sixmetre-tall and 12-metre-long female Tyrannosaurus rex, the skeleton of which paleontologists at the University of Alberta are currently studying. Scotty’s skeleton, discovered in 1991 near Eastend, Sask., is housed at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and has been laser-scanned to such detail that the paleontologists discovered scratch marks on her snout — probably from another T. Rex — and estimate that she was more than 28 years old when she died, potentially making her the oldest T. Rex ever found.