Ceratosuchops inferodios in the foreground, Riparovenator milnerae in the background. You can follow him on Twitter Image Credit: Anthony Hutchings - 'Artists impressions of the Spinosaurids. Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer, science guru, and guide maker for IGN. Jurassic Park: Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme. Check out this story about how scientists have determined the likely origin of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs after that. This means they lived about 25 million years before their more-famous relative, the Spinosaurus (although with names like Hell Heron and Riverbank Hunter, who knows how much longer the Spinosaurus will remain more popular).īoth the Hell Heron and the Riverbank Hunter grew to be about 29.5 feet long, or 9 meters long, and this was determined based on the 3.3-foot size of their skulls, according to LiveScience.įor more about dinosaurs, check out this story about a T.rex and a Triceratops locked in the same fossil and then read about these two new gigantic dinosaurs discovered in China. LiveScience reports that these two dinosaur species likely lived about 125 million years ago, which places them in the Cretaceous period. The Ceratosuchops inferodios, aka the Hell Heron, was discovered by way of a few skull fragments while their riverbank-stalking buddy (ok, so they probably weren't actually buddies but real respects real, right?), the Riparovenator milnerae, aka the Riverbank Hunter, was discovered via some skull and tailbone fragments. The scientists that discovered the fossils believe the carnivorous dinosaurs to be an earlier species of Spinosaurids, which are relatives of the Spinosaurus. 'We've known for a couple of decades now that the Baryonyx-like dinosaurs awaited discovery on the Isle of Wight, but finding the remains of two such animals in close succession was a huge surprise,' British paleontologist Darren Naish, said in a statement following the discovery of these fossils.

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