US and India scientist digging in Western India have unearthed the bones of a new species of dinosaurs.
The carnivore has been called Rajasaurus naemadensis, or "Regal Reptile from thw Narmada," after the Narmada River region where its bones were spotted.
The Rajasaurus was about 8 to 10 meters long and was relatively heavy. It walked on its hind legs and has a horn above its skull. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America," said paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago. Its diet consisted of long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs on the India subcontinent during the Cretaceous period near the end of the dinosaur age some 65 million years ago.
Its fabulous to be able to see this dinosaur which lived as the age of the dinosaur came to a close.
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