UM-Bot Posted April 20, 2006 #1 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Image credit: David Monniaux Scientists are learning more about what appears to be one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs known, a two-legged beast whose bones were found several years ago in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of Argentina. One expert called the discovery the first substantial evidence of group living by large meat-eaters other than tyrannosaurs like T. rex. The creature, which apparently measured more than 40 feet long, is called Mapusaurus roseae. View: Full Article | Source: Live Science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snuffypuffer Posted April 20, 2006 #2 Share Posted April 20, 2006 You really do have to wonder how big these guys really got. Average size, though, I don't doubt is fairly easy to determine. Still some big ol' mugs, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogfish Posted April 21, 2006 #3 Share Posted April 21, 2006 In an article I posted in the Paleontology section, mapasaurus was though to be a pack hunter. A pack of these giants could easily take down argueably the worlds largest dinosaur...Argentinosaurus. Argentinosaurus was also the favorite prey of the other large theropod of it's time...Giginatosaurus. Makes you think whether they were of the same genus, as Charcharodontosaurus (46 feet-Africa) was also proposed in the same genus. Saurophaganax was a GIANT allosaur that measured of 50 feet in length, very likely longer than Spinosaurus. Many think Saurophaganax is a subspecies of Allosaurus fragillis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slurpygloop Posted May 18, 2006 #4 Share Posted May 18, 2006 In an article I posted in the Paleontology section, mapasaurus was though to be a pack hunter. A pack of these giants could easily take down argueably the worlds largest dinosaur...Argentinosaurus. Argentinosaurus was also the favorite prey of the other large theropod of it's time...Giginatosaurus. Makes you think whether they were of the same genus, as Charcharodontosaurus (46 feet-Africa) was also proposed in the same genus. Saurophaganax was a GIANT allosaur that measured of 50 feet in length, very likely longer than Spinosaurus. Many think Saurophaganax is a subspecies of Allosaurus fragillis. Man, with size like that, how fast could it run? Is that why it is assumed it was a pack hunter-as in, if one couldn't get its intended prey, another could possibly do it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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