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AI imageCreated with GPT Image 2 by OpenAI on Oct 28, 2026

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100% (9/9 items)

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  • ✓Bipedal, back horizontal, tail held straight out off the ground
  • ✓Mouth closed, lips covering the teeth so none are visible
  • ✓Palms facing each other, not turned down or danglingShort arms; hand orientation is hard to see
  • ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
  • ✓Long, low, narrow skull, not broad and deep like T. rex
  • ✓Huge, 12–13 m long, short three-fingered arms, small scales
  • ✓Whole animal visible in side view
  • ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
  • ✓No text, people or modern objects

Checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (checked item by item from the image) on Oct 28, 2026. The score is the share of checklist items the image gets right; it is not an expert scientific review.

Prompt used to create the image

Scientifically accurate paleoart of Giganotosaurus, a carnivore Carcharodontosauridae dinosaur from Albian times (113.2–106.3 million years ago). Bipedal with the back held roughly horizontal and the tail held straight out behind for balance, never dragging on the ground. NOT standing upright like a kangaroo. Mouth closed with all teeth fully hidden behind scaly lips, like a monitor lizard. NO visible teeth. A long, low, narrow skull with blade-like teeth, NOT the broad deep skull of Tyrannosaurus. Reference: Giganotosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the Albian age of the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 111 to 106 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia in 1993 and is almost 70% complete. The animal was named Giganotosaurus carolinii in 1995; the genus name translates to "giant southern lizard", and the specific name honors the discoverer, Ruben Carolini. Anatomy: hands held with palms facing each other (not pronated, not palms-down, not dangling); three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; a huge animal about 12–13 meters long, short arms with three clawed fingers, powerful hind legs, skin of small scales. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in an Early Cretaceous river floodplain in Patagonia, Argentina, like the Candeleros Formation, with Araucaria conifers and ferns, no grass. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. No text, no labels, no humans, no modern objects.

Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database

Giganotosaurus

Name meaning: From Greek, meaning "giant southern lizard".

Carnivore

📏 About 12.5 m long, about as long as Tyrannosaurus or a little longer.

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Giganotosaurus was one of the largest land predators known. It lived in Argentina in the middle of the Cretaceous, tens of millions of years before Tyrannosaurus. Its head was long but fairly narrow, with flat blade-like teeth made for slicing flesh rather than crushing bone.

Fun facts

  • The first fossils were found in 1993 in Patagonia, Argentina, by an amateur fossil hunter who worked as a car mechanic.
  • It is often compared with Tyrannosaurus, but the two never met: they lived on different continents at different times.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Giganotosaurus (Candeleros), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.

Scientific details

Classification
Theropod (two-legged predators)
Family
Carcharodontosauridae
When it lived
106.3–113.2 million years ago
Geologic stages
Albian
Named by
Coria and Salgado, 1995
Fossil occurrences
4 sites

Countries with fossils

  • Argentina

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata