New Torvosaurus species

A new species of Torvosaurus was recently discovered in Portugal, and it's big and  bad.

The discoery was made when Christophe Hendrickx, a Ph.D. student at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, discovered the giant while studying bones believed to belong to Torvosaurus tanneri, a related species that lived in North America's Rocky Mountain region around the same time

 T. gurneyi was similar  overall in size to T. tanneri, but the newfound animal had heavily muscled forearms with formidable claws, thick legs, and elongated skulls that allowed for a devastating bite. As Thomas Holtz put it " T. Gurneyi was a big bruiser predator - using brute strength instead of speed and ambush to kill its prey."

While not the giant Torvosaurus from portugal we were all expectng, it's always nice to see a new large theropod discovery.

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