If Jurassic Park taught us anything , it ’s that human being are easy prey for T - Rex . But just how many human beingness would such a dino penury to chow down on every day just to survive ?
Some math by Randall Munroe revealsthat it ’s not as many as you might think . Tyrannosaurus king weighed about as much as an elephant , and good estimates intimate it needed to consume around 40,000 kilocalorie per day . Given that an 80 - kg human contain about 110,000 calories of vigour , T - Rex would probably want to eat about half of an adult — or one ten - year old child!—every day . Or about 80 McDonald ’s hamburgers . Which really is n’t as much as you may’ve wait ! [ What If ? ]
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