Fearsome Argentine Dinosaur Had Dinky Arms

A newly discovered meat-eating dinosaur that prowled Argentina 90 million years ago would have had a hard time using strong-arm tactics against its prey. That's because the beast, though a fearsome hunter, possessed a pitifully puny pair of arms. Scientists said Wednesday that they had unearthed fossils in northern Patagonia of a two-legged predator called Gualicho shinyae that was up to 26 feet (8 meters) long but had arms of only about 2 feet (60 centimeters). The fossils of...

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