Giganotosaurus
Giganotosaurus carolinii
Pronounced: Jig-an-o-toe-Saw-rus
Diet: Carnivore (Meat-Eater)
Name Means: "Giant Southern Lizard"
Length: 43 feet (14 m)
Height: 17 feet (5.5 m)
Weight: 7 tons (6,800 kilos)
Time: Late Cretaceous - 100 MYA
Fossil
remains for this
Dinosaur have
been found in
South America
Giganotosaurus was one big meat-eater! It may have been the biggest one of all, even bigger than T. rex. It lived in South America at a time when there were still large sauropods for it to eat. It had a very strong body and a mouth full of teeth like steak knives. Just its head alone was almost 6 feet (2 m) long!
A
recent
discovery
in
Argentina
suggests
that
Giganotosaurus
may
have
been
as
large
as
46
feet
(15
m).
What
is
interesting
is
that
there
is
another
dinosaur
found
in
North
Africa,
called
Carcharodontosaurus
that
is
almost
identical
- in
fact,
it
may
be
the
same
genus.
Since
South
America
and
Africa
were
still
connected
back
then,
it
is
possible
they
are
very
close
relations.
Like
T.
rex,
this
dinosaur
hunted
in
warm
and
swampy
areas.
Some
of
the
sauropods
of
that
time
had
armor
on
their
backs
in
order
to
protect
them
from
an
attack
from
above
and
that
kind
of
attack
could
only
have
come
from
a
predator
as
large
as
Giganotosaurus. |
