A New Dinosaur Reigns at Museum
From Times Wire Reports
The first reconstructed skeleton of a giganotosaurus, a fearsome, flesh-ripping predator whose bones were discovered in Argentina in 1993, went on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Estimated to be 45 to 47 feet long and weighing about 8 tons, the dinosaur roamed what is now South America about 100 million years ago. It eclipses the Tyrannosaurus rex as the largest meat-eating dinosaur known. The giganotosaurus skeleton--a resin casting of the fossil bones--is on permanent display.
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