Fierce dinosaur species
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A new dinosaur species discovered in Portugal dominated the food chain 150 million years ago — the Tyrannosaurus Rex of its time, researchers said on Wednesday.
The new species is the largest land predator discovered in Europe and one of the largest worldwide of the Jurassic era, said authors Christophe Hendrickx and Octavio Mateus of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Museu da Lourinha.
The Torvosaurus gurneyi, like T. Rex, was a bipedal carnivore with blade-like teeth more than 10 centimeters in length, they said in a report published in the US journal PLOS ONE.
“This was clearly a fierce predator,” Mateus said. “Wherever he arrived, he was the owner and master. No one could rival Torvosaurus during the late Jurassic. This is the equivalent of T. Rex but 80 million years before.”
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