New Dinosaur 'Siats Meekerorum' Discovered In Utah 33
minty3 writes with word of the discovery of a new carnivorous dinosaur from a time when T-Rex's ancestors were the size of small dogs "Named Siats meekerorum, after the man-eating monster from the Ute tribal legend, the fossil belongs to a species of giant meat eaters known as carcharodontosaurs and is the second one discovered in North America. 'This thing is gigantic,' Lindsay Zanno, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University, who discovered the species, said. 'There's simply nothing even close in this ecosystem to the size of this animal that could've been interpreted as an apex predator.'"
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here you guys go http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5036/20131122/siats-meekerorum-new-carnivorous-dinosaur-species-kept-t-rex-check.htm [natureworldnews.com]
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but with NO, repeat, NO hand bones
They have bones from the hands and feet. There is a diagram in the Nature article, which doesn't require the subscription to see.
Not a trace of the head: do we even KNOW it's a carnivore?
The rest of the skeleton is incredibly similar to other carnivores. It is possible some side branch evolved back to not being a carnivore, but it is probably a pretty safe guess that this one didn't deviate that much. A drastic change in diet would be a bigger deal than a change in the number of digits.
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So that little "X" up in the upper right corner of the pop up window didn't do it for you?
I read the story without having to register. They made it simple to close the "we'd like you to register" pop up - I've got no complaints about the site.