The terrifying Abel dinosaur lived in Egypt 98 million years ago

A research team has discovered a dinosaur from a family of dinosaurs called Abelisauridae, or "Abel" dinosaurs, that lived about 98 million years ago.

The research team said that this type of dinosaur is characterized by its terrifying shape and frightening skull, with sharp, knife-like teeth emerging from its jaws.

While its hind legs show a huge muscle mass to help it attack and prey, and despite the shortness of its front ends to the point of atrophy, these dinosaurs were among the fiercest at all.

The British Royal Society of Sciences said that a fossil of a cervical vertebra from the dinosaur's neck led the research team to this discovery.

She added that the discovery came during one of the joint field trips between the Egyptian Mansoura University Center for Vertebrate Fossils and scientists from the Ministry of Environment in the Bahariya Oasis.

She explained that with the detailed anatomical study, which took several years, for this fossil after removing iron and sand deposits from it and restoring it, it was found that it represents the tenth cervical vertebra of the neck of a huge, fierce meat-eating dinosaur, very similar to the famous "T-Rex" dinosaur.

She added that the Abelisauridae or "Abel" dinosaurs are named in honor of Roberto Abel, the Argentine scientist who discovered the first fossils of this family.

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