'One who causes fear': This carnivorous dinosaur once menaced Patagonia

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Scientists in Argentina unearth the skull of a meat-eating dinosaur that roamed northern Patagonia 85 million years ago — a predator with a short snout, keen hearing and strong bite.

Scientists in Argentina have unearthed the well-preserved skull of a meat-eating dinosaur that roamed northern Patagonia about 85 million years ago.In the local native Mapuche language, Llukalkan means "one who causes fear"Fossils revealed a beast with a short snout, keen hearing and stout bite strength that made it a daunting predator.

Abelisaurids were smaller than the huge carnivorous dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived in North America approximately 15 million years after Llukalkan, and Giganotosaurus, which lived in Patagonia about 15 million years before Llukalkan. "[They] fed on the same prey, so they would have competed with each other and — why not — even eaten each other.

"A peculiarity of this dinosaur is that it has cavities in the ear area that other abelisaurids did not have, which could have given this species different auditory capacities, possibly a greater hearing range," Dr Gianechini said.

 

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