Newly Discovered Flesh Eating Dinosaur Roamed Earth 95 Million Years Ago And Was Size Of Double Decker Bus

 This meat-eating dinosaur was the size of a double-decker bus which roamed 95 million years ago

A meat-eating dinosaur the size of a double-decker bus which roamed Earth 95 million years ago has been discovered by scientists.

It's one of the biggest flesh-eaters ever found and was identified from a fossilized thigh-bone which had been left forgotten in a museum draw.

It belonged to a fearsome abelisaur - a predatory, carnivorous beast that lived during the Cretaceous era - and roamed the African savannah.

By studying the femur researchers deduced it could have been 30ft long, 20ft tall and weighed between one and two tonnes - making it potentially one of the largest abelisaurs ever found.

These dinosaurs had extremely small forelimbs, a short deep face, small razor sharp teeth and powerful muscular hind limbs. It's suspected they were also covered in fluffy feathers.

The abelisaur described in Peer J would have lived in North Africa which at that time was a lush savannah criss-crossed by rivers and mangrove swamps.

This ancient tropical world would have provided the creature with an ideal habitat for hunting aquatic animals like turtles, crocodiles, large fish and other dinosaurs.