Megaraptor - Facts and Figures

Megaraptor - Facts and Figures Name: Megaraptor (Greek for goliath hoodlum); articulated MEG-ah-rap-tore Environment: Fields and forests of South America Authentic Period: Late Cretaceous (90-85 million years back) Size and Weight: Around 25 feet in length and 1-2 tons Diet: Meat Recognizing Characteristics: Enormous size; bipedal stance; long, single paws on front hands About Megaraptor Like another stunningly named monster, Gigantoraptor, Megaraptor has been a piece oversold, in that this enormous, flesh eating dinosaur wasnt actually a genuine raptor. At the point when the dissipated fossils of Megaraptor were found in Argentina in the late 1990s, scientistss were intrigued by a solitary, foot-long paw, which they accepted that was situated on this dinosaurs rear feethence its arrangement as a raptor (and one that would have been considerably greater than the greatest raptor yet distinguished, Utahraptor). On closer examination, however, it worked out that Megaraptor was really an enormous theropod firmly identified with Allosaurus and Neovenator, and that those single, curiously large hooks were situated on its hands as opposed to its feet. Taking care of business, Megaraptor has end up being comparable in appearance to another enormous theropod from Australia, Australovenator, a clue that Australia may have been associated with South America later into the Creta ceous time frame than was recently suspected. Its place in the dinosaur bestiary aside, how was Megaraptor really? All things considered, it wouldnt be amazing if this South American dinosaur was secured with plumes (in any event during some phase of its life cycle), and it more likely than not remained alive on the little, skittery ornithopods of its late Cretaceous biological system, or maybe even on infant titanosaurs. Megaraptor may likewise have experienced, or even went after, one of only a handful scarcely any evident raptors of South America, the fittingly named Austroraptor (which just weighed around 500 pounds, or a fourth of Megaraptors size).