Location : South America

Abelisaurus was a medium-sized theropod (a two-legged meat-eater) with big jaws full of sharp serrated teeth. Very little of this dinosaur has been found - only a few pieces of the skull. This is enough for scientists to realize that it is a new type of dinosaur that, in some ways, looked like Tyrannosaurus  rex.

This dinosaur genus, Abelisauridae, is based on only a few skull fragments found in 1985 in Argentina. It seems to have some superficial resemblance to the head of T. rex.