Meat-eating animal was four times
the size of a lion – the biggest predator living in southern Africa today
Dr Fabien Knoll from the
University of Manchester poses with the footprints in South
Africa University of Manchester
Scientists have discovered the
first evidence of a huge, meat-eating dinosaur that
roamed southern Africa around 200 million years ago.
Several three-toed footprints
left by the two-legged "megatheropod" - an early
forerunner of Tyrannosaurus rex - were found near the site
of a prehistoric watering hole or river bank in the kingdom of Lesotho.
Experts calculated that
the creature would
have been around nine metres (30ft) long and stood almost three
metres (9.8ft) tall at the hip.
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