The skulls and necks of Majungasaurus (top) and Carnotaurus (bottom) compared. From Méndez, 2012 Carnotaurus was a weirdo. Not only did this 26-foot predator of Argentina’s Late Cretaceous have ...

The skeleton of Carnotaurus at the Chlupáč Museum in Prague Image from Wikimedia Commons Tyrannosaurus gets a lot of guff for having relatively small, two-fingered hands, but that isn’t really fair.

Here’s a nice counterbalance for our previous report on Carnotaurus’s wimpy arms – it turns out any shortcomings in its arms were more than made up for with its super-strong tail, which made it one of ...

The image of the hulking T. rex and its comically undersized arms is deeply ingrained in pop culture, but it isn’t really fair. They were muscular little appendages well-suited to their evolutionary ...