The skeleton of Carnotaurus at the Chlupáč Museum in Prague Image from Wikimedia Commons Tyrannosaurus gets a lot of guff for having relatively small, two-fingered hands, but that isn’t really fair.

The skulls and necks of Majungasaurus (top) and Carnotaurus (bottom) compared. From Méndez, 2012 Carnotaurus was a weirdo. Not only did this 26-foot predator of Argentina’s Late Cretaceous have ...

The image of the hulking T. rex and its comically undersized arms is deeply ingrained in pop culture, but it isn’t really fair. They were muscular little appendages well-suited to their evolutionary ...

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If you look at the skeleton of the flesh-eating dinosaur called Carnotaurus, two features instantly stand out: the skull and the arms. The fearsome skull is short, deep and topped by two devilish ...

Sue the T. rex at Chicago's Field MuseumCredit: EQRoy/Shutterstock But other dinosaurs had arms that were even smaller than the T. rex's. Researchers think these small forearms were a remainder of ...

Here’s a nice counterbalance for our previous report on Carnotaurus’s wimpy arms – it turns out any shortcomings in its arms were more than made up for with its super-strong tail, which made it one of ...