Before the Tyrannosaurus rex, the Carcharodontosaurus was the enormous predator of its time. Learn what made this dinosaur unique.
These enormous predators were amongst the largest to ever walk the Earth. They roamed North Africa around 99 million years to 94 million years ago, andthan T. rex, pointing to a particular hunting style. It’s thought these teeth were used to slash through and tear flesh, rather than crunch down with a bone-breaking strike.anda paleontologist with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina.
“The second claw of the second toe is much larger. It’s not the same but it’s like what you can see in the raptors,” says Canale. A lack of fossilized feet from other species complicates this assessment. Damiano Palombi, a Ph.D. student in Canale’s lab, believes the claw may have had some function when the dinosaurs were young and become obsolete later in life., grew very quickly, it appears that the shark-toothed dinosaurs may have taken a far longer time to reach their gargantuan sizes.
Ultimately, these giants died off quite suddenly along with many other groups of dinosaurs, for reasons that remain unclear to paleontologists. By the middle cretaceous period,use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:
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