Summary:
- This article reports the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Meraxes gigas, which lived in what is now Argentina during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 95 million years ago.
- Meraxes gigas was a large carnivorous theropod dinosaur, closely related to the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, and was one of the largest predators of its time.
- The discovery of this new dinosaur species provides important insights into the evolution and diversity of the predatory dinosaurs that dominated the ecosystems of South America during the Mesozoic era.