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 ...

What dinosaur is it? Carnotaurus sastrei comes from a group of hollow-boned, two-legged dinosaurs from which modern birds also evolved. The skin in question was first discovered in 1984 in the ...

the species is described as a unique abelisaurid that looks most similar to Argentina's famous Carnotaurus, or "meat-eating bull" – a fearsome beast with horns and bumpy skin that featured in ...

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 ...

K. inakayali, the recently unearthed abelisaurid dinosaur, shares similarities with the well-known Carnotaurus "meat-eating bull" known for its horns and bumpy skin. Carnotaurus is a fearsome ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...