Beckham and T-Rex - who runs faster?

If there is a running competition between soccer superstar David Beckham and the famous animal in the T-rex dinosaurs, then perhaps he will lose the talent.

Previously, experts still suggested that the 5.4-meter-tall body of the T-rex tyrant dinosaur would make it sluggish, but new calculations on the supercomputer showed T-rex could run nearly 29 km / h.

(Photo: BBC) Scientists at the University of Manchester, UK, have measured the running speed of five weight-eating carnivorous dinosaurs ranging from 3 kg like the Compsognathus dinosaur to 6.6 tons like T-rex.

The fastest team is Compsognathus , which can reach a maximum speed of 64 km / h - about 8 km / h faster than the fastest 2-legged animal today - African ostrich.

Velociraptor dinosaurs, carnivores weighing 20 kg, can run up to 38.6 km / h.

"We have imported information about bone and muscle structure into a supercomputer to find out how animals move," said biologist Bill Sellers.

The previous calculations are based on the information of the 2-legged living creatures to estimate the running speed of the dinosaurs. "Such a calculation can only find out exactly the maximum speed of a 6-ton chicken, but dinosaurs are not chickens nor run like chickens," Sellers commented.

The computer also accurately predicted a 70 kg human with a bone and muscle structure of a professional athlete who could reach a speed of 28.4 km / h, losing the maximum speed of T-rex.

For further verification, the computer also found that the maximum speed of a South American ostrich weighing 30 kilograms per hour was 48 km / h and an African ostrich weighing 65 kg was 56 km / h.

Other dinosaurs studied including Dilophosaurus weighing 430 kg ran 33.7 km / h and the Allosaurus weighs 1.5 tons, reaching a speed of 37.8 km / h.

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