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Published online 28 February 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020225-5
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Tyrannosaurus couldn't run
But its huge legs would power a worryingly fast walk.
Tyrannosaurus probably couldn't run. The dinosaur would have needed unfeasibly large leg muscles to generate enough power to sprint, researchers now calculate.
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