the dinosaur project legend of dinosaurs & monster birds

Some of its blade-shaped teeth measured nearly four inches long. It weighed in at 2,200 pounds, and stretched 33 feet from snout to tail. Torvosaurus gurneyi ruled the continent during the Jurassic Period 150 million years ago. In Portugal, paleontologists uncovered what may be Europe’s largest known terrestrial predator. rex about 66 million years ago, just before dinosaur end-times. The 500-pound raptor is the largest known oviraptorosaur-a group of dinos closely related to birds-found in North America. Paleontologists from the University of Utah announced the discovery of this 11-foot-long dinosaur in March.

rex and assume the role of apex predator. But only after Siats went extinct could tyrannosaurs, then the size of white-tailed deer, evolve into fearsome T. rex in size and power had the two coexisted. The researchers dubbed the dino Siats meekerorum after a man-eating monster in local Ute legend.

That is, until paleontologists from the Field Museum and North Carolina State University, on a dig in Utah, unearthed bones from the leg, tail, and spine of an all-new species.

rex from taking the throne during the intervening period. But scientists didn’t know what, or who, prevented T. Sixty million years later, the 40-foot-long T. First came the 30-foot-long Allosaurus, 145 million years ago. In the age of dinosaurs, a succession of mega carnivores lorded over the landmass that is now North America.

The dinosaur project legend of dinosaurs & monster birds