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Indy 100 on MSNScientists discover terrifying predatory dinosaur in landmark findA massive species of dinosaur has been identified by scientists, and it's thought that it lived around 95 million years ago in modern-day Africa. At a whopping 10-metres long, it is thought to be one ...
The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.
The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...
Shortly thereafter, Munich paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach studied the partial skeleton and assigned it to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, a large, carnivorous theropod that lived in ...
Stromer's original drawings of the skeletal remains of Tameryraptor markgrafi (from Stromer E. Ein Skelett-Rest von Carcharodontosaurus nov. gen. Abh Bayer Akad Wissensch Mathematisch ...
Initially, the fossils were thought to belong to a large theropod dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus. However, closer inspection decades later showed a prominent horn, an enlarged frontal brain ...
At the time of the photos, the fossils were thought to belong to a large theropod dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus — but closer inspection of the photos revealed a prominent horn, an enlarged ...
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News Nation on MSNNewly discovered dinosaur was 30-foot-long predatorRecently, a group of researchers examined previously unknown photographs of the lost specimen. They determined it was an ...
They were first described in 1931 by the German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach, who mistakenly dubbed the species the Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. In addition to the data and ...
Munich paleontologists discover a new species of North African predatory dinosaur on historic images
The pictures show the original skeleton from Egypt – parts of ... fossil depicted there differs significantly from more recent Carcharodontosaurus finds in Morocco. Stromer's original ...
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