Palaeontology
New dragon-like dinosaur discovered
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T.K. RandallSeptember 3, 2010 ·
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The new dinosaur was a powerfully built meat-eater with scythe-like claws on its hands for ripping apart its prey.
Named Balaur bondoc it would have lived 80 million years ago and is thought to have been the largest predator in the region at the time, it is also related to the more well known Velociraptor species of dinosaur.
The creature was a powerfully-built meat-eating dinosaur with scythe-like claws for ripping its prey apart. It used its lower limbs to disembowel its victims. Experts have named the seven-foot long dinosaur, which was discovered in Romania, Balaur bondoc, which means ''stocky dragon''.
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Telegraph |
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