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The first one is identified as the Kryptops palaios which means “old hidden face.”
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"I imagine he would have been pretty brightly colored," he said, adding that it was possible Kryptops had feathers like many other predators of the time.
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"Then you have this other guy (Kryptops) probably picking up the pieces and tracking down dead animals and sticking its short snout that's not very good for live captures into carcasses and going after guts."
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They have been methodically sorting through the fossils and discovered enough pieces of the Eocarcharia and Kryptops to determine that they were new species, findings which will be published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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"It would track something down and gash it and feed on it and maybe leave the entrails and the carcass to Kryptops."
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"Kryptops, he would have had bad breath," Serenos said with a laugh.
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The short-snouted 25-foot long Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," also discovered in 2000, was likely a scavenger because of its short forearms and an armored snout better suited for digging into carcasses than for snapping at live prey.
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With a short neck and "these dinky little arms" Kryptops would have been a balanced, two-legged runner like an ostrich.
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Eocarcharia and Kryptops: New dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks
Scientific Blogging 2008
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New Dinosaur Species, Gryposaurus Monumentensis, Unearthed In Utah Eocarcharia and Kryptops: New dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks
Scientific Blogging 2008
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