Question: Recently Natural History Museum of Utah, US unveiled which new meat-eating dinosaur species, which lived on the earth 157-152 million years ago?
(a) Allosaurus jimmandseni
(b) Allosaurus fragilis
(c) Bellusaurus Sui
(d) Balaur Bondoc
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- On 26th January 2020, the Natural History Museum of Utah, US unveiled a new meat-eating dinosaur species- Allosaurus jimmadseni.
- Paleontologists informed that this creature lived on the earth between 157-152 million years ago.
- It was a new meat-eating dinosaur species that lived in the food plains of western North America during the Late Jurassic period.
- Detailed scientific study about this dinosaur has been published in the scientific journal PeerJ.
- George Engelmann of the University of Nebraska, Omaha first discovered the initial skeleton of new species within Dinosaur National Monument in 1990.
- The species belongs to the allosauroids (a group of small to large-bodied, 2 legged carnivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic & Cretaceous period).
- Allosaurus jimmandseni weighed over 4000 pounds stretched out to a massive 26 to 29 feet in length.
- It had a full grin of 80 sharp teeth & crest stretching from just in front of the eyes to the nose and one of the top predators in its ecosystem.
- The study now reveals that Allosaurus jimmandseni evolved earlier than its younger cousin, Allosaurus fragilis.
Links:
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/1/24/21079473/new-species-of-meat-eating-allosaurus-announced-by-utah-scientists
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/science/news/2020-01-27-remarkable-meat-eating-dinosaur-species-found-us