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An international team has discovered a new big, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes Gigas, that provides clues about the evolution and anatomy of predatory dinosaurs such as the Carcharodontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex
Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. An international team has discovered a new big, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes Gigas, that provides clues about the evolution and anatomy of predatory dinosaurs such as the Carcharodontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex. Meraxes measured around 36 feet from snout to tail tip and weighed approximately 9,000 pounds. Science News | Discovery Provides Insight into Evolution and Anatomy of Big, Carnivorous Dinosaurs.
Now to add to its notoriety, paleontologists in Argentina have identified the oldest known species of titanosaur that they've officially named Ninjatitan zapatai. This massive animal lived nearly 140 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous in the territory of what is now modern day Patagonia, Argentina. Details of the discovery were delivered in a new research paper submitted to the online scientific journal Ameghiniana. “There were large animals towards the end of the Jurassic period, such as Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus," Dr. Pablo Ariel Gallina, a paleontologist at the Fundaci...
A titanic dinosaur discovered in Patagonia, Argentina, may be the oldest member of its lineage ever discovered. Ninjatitan zapatai. Image credits Jorge González via Twitter/@emanuel_pujol. The species, christened the quite cool name of Ninjatitan zapatai was a Titanosaurid, a lineage of massive plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks (they’re part of the sauropod family). All of them were quite hefty, with the smallest known titanosaurid being about as large as an elephant. The oldest ninja titan “During evolutionary history, sauropods had different moments, different ‘pulses’ of gig...