FYI: Could A Human Beat A T. Rex In Arm Wrestling?
T. Rex Vs. Stallone Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection; iStock A paleontologist examines the evidence. "First, we're assuming that the T. rex won't just eat the person, right?" asks Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Right. This is a sanctioned match, and killing your opponent is strictly against the rules. Who's coming out on top? "Doesn't matter," Conrad says. "There's no chance that any human alive could win." The T. rex's arms might have looked wimpy, but they were extremely strong. Each was about three feet long and, based on the size of the arm bones and analysis of the spots where muscle attached to the bone, they were jacked. "The bicep alone-and this is a conservative estimate-could curl 430 pounds," Conrad says. Even the beefiest humans max out at around an embarrassing 260 pounds. Surely an Over the Top-era Sylvester Stallone would put...