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posted by martyb on Monday December 24 2018, @03:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-original-meatlovers dept.

Telesur has an article up on a 1 ton ambush predator Saltriovenator zanellai unearthed in Italy.

Saltriovenator is dated 25 million years further into the past than previous large predators. The team lists off various attributes of the eight-meter-long ceratosaurus including

80-centimeter skull, dagger-sharp teeth, steel-strong claws and two-legged hunting and ambush specialty.

Unearthing, assembling, and interpreting the remains from the Saltrio marble quarry, located some 50 miles north of Milan, took scientists over two decades to complete. According to Dal Sasso of Milan's Natural History Museum

"Not all fragments match, but many are adjacent and allow us to virtually reconstruct the shape of whole bones," Dal Sasso said in the statement. "To complete the puzzle we also used a 3-D printer: part of the left scapula was turned into the right one thanks to a 'mirroring printing' which gave us a more complete scapula."

Other dinosaurs that terrorized prehistoric Italy are listed here


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @12:35PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @12:35PM (#778080)

    to perform the customary 5 minutes of hate for the god that allows catastrophes like the one that wiped out cute dinos like this one. Merry Christmas everybody.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @01:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @01:10PM (#778087)

    Why not. We've already had the customary 5 minutes of parents-basement misogyny.

    Let's hope in 2019 SN can find a reason to exist. Being a poorly-moderated clone of /. is not a reason.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @02:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @02:10PM (#778093)

      > we had the 5 minutes of parents-basement misogyny
      where? sh.t, missed it again.