Meraxes lived about 95 million years ago, becoming extinct some 20 million years before T-rex evolved. We may not have any definitive answers, but at least we have a scary new villain for any ...

Dubbed Meraxes gigas, the 9,000-pound, 36- to 39-foot-long meat-eating dinosaur is believed to have walked the Earth about 90 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period.

A new giant dinosaur was recently discovered in the Patagonia region of Argentina with short arms reminiscent of a Tyrannosaurus rex. This dino is being called Meraxes gigas — after a dragon in ...

Meraxes gigas lived 20 million years before T. rex, but had a similarly large body, sharp teeth and proportionately small arms A dinosaur discovered in Argentina has been identified as a new species.

Here are a crucial things to know about Meraxes gigas: The skull of the dinosaur is just over four feet long, while the entire animal would have been some 36 feet long, according to researchers.

The Meraxes remains indicated that the dinosaur died at about 45 years of age and about four metric tons of weight. A new dinosaur species was discovered by paleontologists on Thursday, ...

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new species of dinosaur, with disproportionately short arms like those of Tyrannosaurus rex. A fossil of Meraxes gigas, as the new dinosaur has been ...