Terrifying Argentine carnivorous dinosaur had tiny arms
Terrifying Argentine carnivorous dinosaur had tiny arms
Last updated 15:19, July 14 2016
Unearthed fossils from a carnivorous dinosaur that lived in Argentina about 90 million years ago show that it had tiny arms compared to its body, scientists said on Wednesday.
The team of scientists said the two-legged dinosaur was from 4 metres to 6 metres long but its puny pair of arms only measured about 2 feet, or about the size of a human child. It was a Theropod like other meat-eating dinosaurs including the Tyrannosaurus rex.
"Something totally new has been discovered, a new lineage that we didn't know of before,'' Argentine paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia said at a news conference in Buenos Aires after the team published it conclusions in the PLOS ONE journal.
"Why did this specie have a reduction regarding the size of their arms, having only two fingers similar to a Tyrannosaurus? That's something that we still don't know. But we need to investigate it.''
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