It might not have had a starring role in any movies or rock bands named after it, but scientists now believe there was a species of mega-predator that roamed Earth at the top of the food chain for millions of years before Tyrannosaurus.
It's called Siats meekerorum, and a team of researchers led by Lindsay Zanno, a North Carolina State University paleontologist, and Peter Makovicky, from Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, discovered the dinosaur's partial skeleton in Utah in 2008. They announced their findings last week, calling it the third largest carnivore ever discovered in North America. Read more...
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