Giganotosaurus
Pronounced: JYE-guh-no-SOR-us
🍖 Carnivore 🌺 Cretaceous
A giant hunter from South America – one of the largest meat-eaters of all time!
- length
- 13 m
- weight
- 8 t
- lived
- 99–97 million years ago
- diet
- Carnivore
Did you know?
- It was about 13 metres long – bigger than many a T. rex! 🦖
- Nobody knows if it hunted alone. Several skeletons of its close relative Mapusaurus were found together, so giants like these may sometimes have lived in groups.
- Its name means ‘giant southern lizard’.
How big were they?
Giganotosaurus: 13 m – about 10 times your height!