A NEW study of a huge dinosaur jaw has revealed that the giant meat eater would have roamed around Uzbekistan 90 million years ago.
It is believed that the 26-foot-long creature weighed in at around 2,200 pounds.
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It would have been longer than an African elephant and had sharp shark-like teeth.
The creature has been called the Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis.
It was found with its jaws in Uzbekistan’s Kyzylkum Desert in 1980.
New research claims that the T-rex’s terrifying cousin is the creature.
This would mean it was a a carcharodontosaur or a “shark-toothed” dinosaur, according to Science Alert.
Carcharodontosaurs are said to have been similar to tyrannosaurs but slightly more slender.
The study results would make U. uzbekistanensis the first Central Asian carcharodontosaur.
U. uzbekistanensiswould have been an apex predator in that ecosystem, towering over other beasts like the tyrannosaur Timurlengia.
Study lead researcher Kohei Tanaka told Live Science: “Our discovery indicates carcharodontosaurs were still dominant predators in Asia 90 million years ago.”
You can read the full study online in the journalRoyal Society Open Science.
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