Ferocious dino was European giant (BBC)

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By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

Scientists in Portugal have identified what they think may have been the largest predator ever to roam across the European landmass.

Fossil bones from the dinosaur were pulled from a cliff at Praia da Vermelha just north of Lisbon.

Known as Torvosaurus gurneyi, this ferocious beast would have been some 10m in length and weighed perhaps 4-5 tonnes.

Its features are described in the latest edition of the Plos One journal.

It was a theropod - the kind of two-legged, meat-eating animal that everyone instantly recognises in something like Tyrannosaurus rex.



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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26452266

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