Its prey could probably have dodged and weaved around it. Carnotaurus was one of the latest abelisaurids on the scene, and many of its contemporaries, like Skorpiovenator and Aucasaurus , also had ...

The skeleton of Carnotaurus at the Chlupáč Museum in Prague Image from Wikimedia ... hinting that the dinosaurs may have used their arms like meat hooks while tangling with struggling prey.

A horned dinosaur as long as an RV may have reached speeds above 55 kilometres an hour as it ran down its prey, estimates an Alberta researcher. "This was a super-fast predator," said W. Scott ...

Whereas Tyrannosaurus had functional forelimbs that played a role in stabilizing struggling prey, Carnotaurus and its kin had only tiny forelimbs that probably just hung there.

As a unique type of dinosaur in the Abelisauridae family, Carnotaurus sastrei had even smaller forearms than the T. rex. First found in Patagonia in 1985, dinosaurs in this family were known for their ...

Carnotaurus, a wimpy-armed meat-eating dinosaur had a huge tail muscle that that a researcher said made it a speedster and one of the fastest running hunters of its time.