The skulls and necks of Majungasaurus (top) and Carnotaurus (bottom) compared. From Méndez, 2012 Carnotaurus was a weirdo. Not only did this 26-foot predator of Argentina’s Late Cretaceous have ...

But Carnotaurus paid a price for its speed.Its caudal ribs may have anchored a powerful running muscle, but they also made its tail very rigid. When theropods ran, they turned in an almost snake ...

When Carnotaurus moved its tail, it flexed this muscle, and in turn pulled back on the legs. This gave them a much stronger, faster step than would otherwise have been possible, giving Carnotautus ...

As you can see in the skeleton up top, Carnotaurus had arms that even T. Rex would snicker at. It wasn’t a completely risible dinosaur, in fairness – its name does mean “meat-eating bull ...

The skeleton of Carnotaurus at the Chlupáč Museum in Prague Image from Wikimedia Commons Tyrannosaurus gets a lot of guff for having relatively small, two-fingered hands, but that isn’t really ...