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A megaraptor measuring about 33 ft (10.06 m), with claws measuring 14 inches (35.56 cm), and dated to approximately 70 million years ago (near the end of the dino's age), has been discovered at Estancia La Anita, a Cretaceous-era fossil deposit in southern Santa Cruz Province, the Patagonian region of Argentina. Slimmer and more agile than T-rex, it is thought to have used its arms and claws, rather than its jaw, as its main weapon when hunting its prey, unlike T-rex and Velociraptor: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52723049, https://www.foxnews.com/science/fossil-m...-argentina

To quote Newsweek, "Megaraptors were a light-bodied group of carnivorous dinosaurs, who roamed what is now South America, Asia and Australia during the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 66 million years ago). According to Matt Lamanna, Assistant Curator and Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the family is known for its sharp teeth, low skulls and elongated limbs." https://www.newsweek.com/enormous-megara...na-1505369

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