Brazilian researchers discover dinosaur fossil after heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul

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The researcher believes the dinosaur lived during the Triassic period, when all continents were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. Dinosaurs are thought to have first evolved at that time. The apex predator discovered in Rio Grande do Sul belongs to the group known as Herrerasauridae—a family of dinosaurs that used to wander across lands that now make up present-day Brazil and Argentina. The size of the bones reveals that the dinosaur would have reached around 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in length, according to the document..

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