In Utah scientists have unearthed a new gargantuan dinosaur, related to the renowned T-Rex. The new find has been dubbed Siats (see-atch) Meekeroreum by the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.
The partial skeleton of the carnivore weighed in at more than four tons and measured 30 feet long, according to ABC .
The fossils were exhumed in 2008, years of research, excavation, and cleaning of the siats meekeroreum makes its debut today.
Paleontologists have deemed the creature to have lived in the Cretaceous North America, where it would have contended with small-bodied cousins of the T-Rex for the same resources.
The Global Post quotes Pete Makovicky, Curator of Dinosaurs at The Field Museum in a press release, “This is the first evidence that these animals existed in North America,”
“Until a few years ago, these dinosaurs were not known from northern continents, so we thought that the dinosaurs that roamed northern continents were distinct from those that lived on southern ones due to continental drift. As it turns out, finding closely related dinosaurs on multiple continents suggests that these animals were better able to cross barriers like spreading oceans than we previously thought.”
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