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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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In Philadelphia last week, an audience of children gasped as paleontologists unveiled a 6-foot-long model skull showing Giganotosaurus carolinii, a dinosaur that surpassed T.
T.rex bested by Argentinean beast by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
Coria of the Carmen Funes Museum in Plaza Huincul and Leonardo Salgado of the National University of Comahue in Neuquen have named the toothy beast Giganotosaurus carolinii.
New beast usurps T. rex as king carnivore by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
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