
Uncovering Australia’s Ancient Hunter: The Theropod with Giant Claws
About 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous era, Australia housed mostly ceratopsians, large claws being a feature of the apex predators among theropod dinosaurs. Fossils found later provide clues to this enigmatic predator, giving hints on its physiology, behavior, and the nature of the world it dominated billions of years before these ancestors…