During the Cretaceous Period in a lush coastal region in eastern Spain, an impressive dinosaur with an elongated and vaguely crocodile-like skull was on the prowl for a meal, its curved and serrated teeth able to rip the flesh of its prey. Scientists on Thursday said they had unearthed a partial skeleton of a previously unknown dinosaur species in the town of Cinctorres in the Spanish province of Castellon that helps provide a deeper understanding of a highly successful group of meat-eaters that
Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus, a bipedal dinosaur with massive sword-like claws, was discovered earlier, but limited fossils delay its classification. More odd dinosaurs are turning out with weird adaptations that experts know so little about so far.