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Mike Wehner
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If you were roaming around the Southern Hemisphere roughly 80 million years ago there are a number of things you'd have to watch out for. Predators were plentiful and if you weren't big and bulky with thick skin and armor plates, or perhaps incredibly fast, you might not last very long. In the north, dinosaurs like the tyrannosaurs ruled, but in the south, the picture is a bit hazier. Now, a new discovery of an ancient "top predator" helps to make things clearer.
In a new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers describe the new species known as Llukalkan aliocranianus, a bipedal dinosaur whose name means "one who causes fear." If that moniker wasn't enough of a hint, the researchers say that this creature was "likely among the top predators" of its age, prowling Argentina with a skull that may have given it some distinct advantages over its tyrannosaur cousins.
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