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 ...

They were muscular little appendages well-suited to their evolutionary purpose. The wimpy-armed Carnotaurus is another story entirely. As you can see in the skeleton up top, Carnotaurus had arms ...

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 ...

Here’s a nice counterbalance for our previous report on Carnotaurus’s wimpy arms – it turns out any shortcomings in its arms were more than made up for with its super-strong tail ...

Carnotaurus was a seven-meter-long predator with a huge tail muscle that paleontologists say made it one of the fastest running hunters of its time. A meat-eating dinosaur that terrorized its ...

According to the researchers, the scaly skin of this carnivorous dinosaur Carnotaurus sastrei is the most completely preserved of any theropod — a group of hollow-boned, two-legged dinosaurs ...

Carnotaurus, a wimpy-armed meat-eating dinosaur had a huge tail muscle that that a researcher said made it a speedster and one of the fastest running hunters of its time. The seven-meter long ...

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