If you thought T. rex had tiny arms, wait until you see this apex predator’s ridiculously tiny appendages


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A newly identified dinosaur had a squished, pug-like face and teeny arms, but that didn't stop it from gobbling up prey during the late Cretaceous, a new study has found. The 16-foot-long (5 meters) predator, named Koleken inakayal, was one of the top predators in what is now Argentina. Researchers unearthed K. inakayali fossils in the La Colonia Formation of central Patagonia, according to a study published May 21 in the journal Cladistics . K. inakayali belonged to the Abelisauridae family, which ruled the great southern landmass of Gondwana during the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago)....