We have good reason to suspect that Tyrannosaurus rex could swim. It’s hard to imagine, tiny-armed giant that it was, but it’s true. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Most animals can swim in some form or another regardless of whether they’re adapted for moving through water. The big question, really, isn’t could T. rex swim? It’s how did T. rex swim.

Could T. rex swim? The evidence

Sir David Attenborough took on the question of how T. rex might swim in Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet . The series went in hard with briefly-aquatic T. rex , featuring it doing a kind of doggy paddle on the series posters. So, what evidence is there of this behavior?

We’ve found swim traces thought to be made by the cl

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