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Giganotosaurus carolinii
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Giganotosaurus carolinii

Carnivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. They weighed 6–8 tonnes and were about 12.5 m/40 ft in length, making them the largest predators ever to walk the Earth. Giganotosaurus lived in Patagonia about 97 million years ago. Argentine palaeontologists discovered about 70% of its skeleton in 1995.



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All are presented "actual size," from the tiniest protozoan (1/25 of an inch) to the double-page life-size jaws of an eight-ton Giganotosaurus.
Prehistoric Actual Size by The Horn Book Magazine
Visitors will be able to touch fossil eggs, teeth and bones; view the newly unearthed giganotosaurus from Patagonia and the largest, fleshed-out reconstructed dinosaur ever built - a 72-foot-long mamenchisaurus from China.
DINOSAURS: LARGER THAN LIFE APPETITE FOR BEASTS FAR FROM EXTINCTION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
saharicus was probably about the same size as Giganotosaurus, the largest meat-eating dino ever discovered (see SW 12/8/95).
Family feud by Stiefel, Chana Freeiman / Science World
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