Meet the Giant Meat-Eating Dinosaur Which Roamed Southern Africa

A new discovery unexpectedly reveals that very large carnivorous dinosaurs with an estimated body length of between 8 to 9 meters - the length of two adult rhinos nose to tail - lived in southern Africa 200 million years ago.

A 1.6m tall student, Miengah Abrahams, illustrates how large the tracks of the dinosaur are.

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