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   Giganotosaurus was one of the largest known terrestrial carnivores, but the exact size has been hard to determine due to the incompleteness of the remains found so far. Estimates for the most complete specimen range from a length of 12 to 13 m (39 to 43 ft), a skull 1.53 to 1.80 m (5.0 to 5.9 ft) in length, and a weight of 4.2 to 13.8 t (4.6 to 15.2 short tons).

2. www.britannica.com › animal › GiganotosaurusGiganotosaurus | Description, Fossils, & Facts | Britannica

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   The name Giganotosaurus is Latin for “giant southern lizard.” Estimates of the dinosaur’s length and weight suggest that Giganotosaurus was among the largest terrestrial carnivores in Earth’s history. Form and function. Giganotosaurus was a member of a family of large carnivorous dinosaurs that also included Mapusaurus and ...

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4. www.livescience.com › 24642-giganotosaurusGiganotosaurus: Facts About the 'Giant Southern Lizard'

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   Mar 17, 2016 · Giganotosaurus had the capability of killing live prey. Of course, like T. rex , Velociraptor and other carnivorous dinosaurs, Giganotosaurus was likely an opportunistic carnivore that also ...

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   Habitat. Giganotosaurus thrived in the lush, tropical landscapes of South America during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 98 million years ago. The region that is now Argentina provided an ideal habitat for this colossal carnivore. The climate was warm, and the landscape was teeming with diverse flora and fauna, offering an abundance ...

6. animals.howstuffworks.com › giganotosaurusThe Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur May Not Have Been T. Rex

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   Jul 23, 2024 · The largest meat-eating dinosaurs lived in completely different eras and on totally different continents. Sergey Krasovskiy/Stocktrek Imag / Getty Images/Stocktrek Images. They lived about 30 million years apart and never set foot on the same continent. Yet Giganotosaurus carolinii is always getting compared to the world's most popular dinosaur, the beloved and well-known Tyrannosaurus rex ...

7. www.zmescience.com › dinosaurs › giganotosaurusGiganotosaurus: The Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur - ZME Science

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   Feb 12, 2024 · Giganotosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, reshaping our understanding of prehistoric predators. ... It was one of the largest terrestrial carnivores, its exact size and ...

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   Was Giganotosaurus a carnivore?

   • Estimates of the dinosaur’s length and weight suggest that Giganotosaurus was among the largest terrestrial carnivores in Earth ’s history. Giganotosaurus was a member of a family of large carnivorous dinosaurs that also included Mapusaurus and Carcharodontosaurus.

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   How long did Giganotosaurus live?

   • It lived from 99.6 to 97 million years ago, during the early Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, or about about 30 million years before T. rex. First described in a 1995 studyin the journal Nature, Giganotosauruswas, at the time, thought to be the largest carnivorous dinosaur.

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   Is Giganotosaurus carolinii the world's largest carnivorous dinosaur?

   • Yet Giganotosaurus carolinii is always getting compared to the world's most popular dinosaur, the beloved and well-known Tyrannosaurus rex, both vying for the position of the largest carnivorous dinosaur in history. Tyrannosaurus rex has been a media darling since (arguably) 1906, when The New York Times called it "the prize fighter of antiquity."

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   Why is Giganotosaurus important?

   • Giganotosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, reshaping our understanding of prehistoric predators. In 1993, a groundbreaking find in Patagonia’s Candeleros Formation revolutionized our understanding of giant theropods. Dubbed “ Giganotosaurus ” (GIG-ə-NOH-tə-SOR-əs), this Late Cretaceous behemoth lived around 96 million years ago.

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   Which dinosaur lived in the same area as a Giganotosaurus?

   • Giganotosaurus vs. Spinosaurus vs. Tyrannosaurus None of these dinosaurs lived at the same time — or in the same area. Here is a comparison: But even Spinosauruswas dwarfed by some of the long-necked herbivorous sauropods, such as Diplodocus, which are the largest dinosaurs known to have existed. Big, strong and fast

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   What genus is Giganotosaurus?

   • Giganotosaurus, (Giganotosaurus carolinii), genus of a large theropod dinosaur in the family Carcharodontosauridae that lived during the Cenomanian Stage of the Late Cretaceous Period from about 100 million to 97 million years ago. Genus Giganotosaurus is made up of only one species, G. carolinii.

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9. www.nhm.ac.uk › dino-directory › giganotosaurusGiganotosaurus - Natural History Museum

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   When it lived: Early Cretaceous, 112-90 million years ago. Found in: Argentina. Giganotosaurus is known from very fragmentary remains. Taller and longer but slimmer than Tyrannosaurus rex, Giganotosaurus lived millions of years earlier and in South America not North America. Giganotosaurus had 3 fingers on its hands, not 2 like T.rex.