Thursday, 14 July 2016

Argentine paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia poses in Buenos Aires on July 13, 2016 next to a replica of Gualicho, an unusual new theropod dinosaur with a didactyl manus from the Upper Cretaceous that lived 90 million years ago found in the province of Rio Negro, in Argentina’s Patagonia.
/ AFP PHOTO / EITAN ABRAMOVICH

Researchers announced Wednesday they have discovered a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur in Argentina, notable
for having short arms like the T-rex but hailing from a different branch of the family tree.
The Gualicho shinyae — nicknamed Gualicho — is a theropod, a two-legged, bird-like dinosaur. It stretched an imposing six meters (nearly 20 feet) from head to toe, and weighed an estimated 450 kilograms (1,000 pounds).

It roughly resembles the Tyrannosaurus rex but Gualicho, found in the north of Argentina’s Patagonia region, was not a close relative of the king of dinosaurs. for more info CLICK HERE

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