{"id":6639,"date":"2023-01-13T03:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:35:07","slug":"what-was-a-megaraptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-was-a-megaraptor\/","title":{"rendered":"What was a Megaraptor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Megaraptor:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Megaraptor was a <strong>large theropod of the Cretaceous Period<\/strong>, 84 to 65 mya.<\/li>\n<li>megaraptors possessed <strong>strong arms that wielded sickle-like claws <\/strong>that could inflict fatal wounds on prey, along with a more l<strong>ightly built skull and jaws studded with smaller teeth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They also had <strong>air-filled, bird-like bones.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Megaraptor was about <strong>25\u201326 feet (7.5\u20138 meters) long.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Incomplete Megaraptor remains were found in 1996 in Northwest Patagonia, Argentina, by paleontologist Fernando E. Novas. Novas named it in 1998.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Cretaceous Period:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, is the <strong>last of the three periods of the Mesozoic Era.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Cretaceous <strong>began 145.0 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>followed the Jurassic Period<\/strong> and was succeeded by the Paleogene Period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is a Theropod?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This group includes all the known <strong>carnivorous dinosaurs<\/strong> as well as the birds.<\/li>\n<li>They have a <strong>carnivorous dentition and large, recurved claws<\/strong> on the fingers.<\/li>\n<li>They have a <strong>distinctive joint in the lower jaw.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Patagonian Region:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a sparsely populated region <strong>located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The region <strong>comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains<\/strong> as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands<strong> east of this southern portion of the Andes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Patagonia has two coasts; a western one towards the Pacific Ocean and an eastern one towards the Atlantic Ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Paleontology?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Paleontology is the scientific study of prehistoric life and the history of the Earth&#8217;s organisms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/four-dinosaur-species-found-in-chilean-valley-for-first-time-study\/article66368687.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Four dinosaur species found in Chilean valley for first time: Study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megaraptor was a large theropod of the Cretaceous Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}