Biggest predator ever to stalk Europe: 4-inch teeth and 33 feet long
At about 33 feet long, weighing 4 to 5 tons and baring large blade-shaped teeth, the dinosaur Torvosaurus gurneyi was a formidable creature.
"I suppose it wouldn't be
a good idea to cross the way of this dinosaur," said Christophe
Hendrickx, doctoral candidate at the New University of Lisbon in
Portugal.
Thanks to Hendrickx and
paleontologist Octavio Mateus, Torvosaurus gurneyi may have the
distinction of being the largest terrestrial predator found in Europe.
Hendrickx and Mateus describe this dinosaur in a new study in the
journal PLOS One.
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