The erythrobenator, the earliest super-predator identified to date, walked the earth 230 million years ago • Researcher relates: "He was a fast, evil and cruel hunter"
A dinosaur bone
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The Erythrovenator, the earliest super-predator identified to date, walked on Earth 230 million years ago.
This is actually the ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex), of the voluptuous raptor whose band stars in "Jurassic Park" movies and of other giant predators.
This is a very agile predator.
He had strong and fast legs and incredibly sharp teeth.
Thus, it can be assumed that in his time he would have torn to shreds all the animals of all kinds of which he was a party.
Alongside this, it should be noted that his height was only two meters.
His remains were found in Brazil and identified by dinosaur expert Dr. Rodrigo Müller, a paleontologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria.
"This is one of the oldest theropods (one of the dinosaur groups - AG) ever discovered.
Out of it came all the scariest super predators, "the expert says, noting:" The discovery sheds light on the development process of the super predators that were on Earth.
Do not let his small dimensions be misleading, he was a fast, vicious and very cruel hunter with incredibly sharp teeth and terribly strong leg muscles.
His skeletal scan shows that it is actually a miniature of the T-Rex.
We also estimate that like all dinosaurs from this period, its skin was covered with a feather-like layer. "
The remains of the ancient predator were discovered in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil in a compound near a lake that was difficult to reach.
The research teams arrived at the scene in SUVs and worked in relatively harsh conditions.
"These are very ancient layers of soil, within which are the remains of dinosaurs from ancient times that have not been studied in depth to this day," the researcher explains.
Another interesting find discovered at the site is the remains of mammalian ancestors, animals called canonodontics, some of which were predators and some of which were herbivores.