New 'thunder-thighs' dinosaur discovered (w/ Video)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 05:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or "thunder-thighs" after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica by an international team of scientists from the U.K. and the U.S.