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Carnotaurus

Carnotaurus sastrei

kar-noh-TORE-us· “meat-eating bull”

🕰️ Cretaceous🥩 carnivore🦴 Abelisauridae

7.8 m

Length

3 m

Height

1.4 t

Weight

A South American sprinter with two devil-like horns over its eyes and arms even stubbier than T. rex's. Its huge leg muscles made it one of the fastest big predators ever.

When

Late Cretaceous, ~71–69 million years ago

Found in

Argentina

Discovered

José Bonaparte, 1984

Did you know?

Skin impressions show it was covered in rows of scaly bumps.
Its arms were so short they had almost no use at all.
It may have sprinted at over 50 km/h.

Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.