Horny carnivores!

Recently excavated dinosaur bones reveal that the most common large predatory dinosaurs in South America during the Cretaceous period were the abelisaurids, a group that included some of the most well-armed and fierce-looking carnivores that ever lived.

The new fossils -- the first-ever dinosaur bones to be unearthed at the Marilia Formation in Bauru Basin, Brazil -- could belong to one or more new species, but paleontologists suspect they may be the remains of Carnotaurus sastrei, a dinosaur that, in recent years, has become one of Hollywood's favorite animal villains.

Posted by David on September 5, 2008 2:16 PM