AI imageNote: This dinosaur is known from only part of a skeleton. The image fills in the missing parts from close relatives, so the real animal may have looked quite different.
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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 danglingมือพับแนบอก กรงเล็บงอเข้า
- ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
- ✓Long strong arms with huge curved claws on the thumb and first finger
- ✓Large predator about 9–10 m long, long narrow skull, long legs
- ✓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 31, 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 Maip, a carnivore Megaraptoridae dinosaur from the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous (about 70 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. Hands held tucked in near the chest with the palms facing inward toward each other, like clapping, claws curving inward and forward. NOT hanging down, NOT palms-down, NOT claws pointing at the ground. Long, strong arms with an enormous curved claw on the thumb and a large claw on the first finger. Reference: Maip is a genus of large megaraptorid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Chorrillo Formation of Santa Cruz, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, M. macrothorax, known from an incomplete, disarticulated skeleton. Maip may represent the largest megaraptorid known from South America, and possibly the world. Anatomy: three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; a large predator about 9–10 meters long with a long, narrow skull and long legs. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a cool Late Cretaceous floodplain in southern Patagonia, Argentina, like the Chorrillo Formation, with conifers, ferns and early flowering plants, 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
Maip
Name meaning: Named after an evil spirit in the mythology of the Tehuelche people of southern Argentina, described as "the shadow of death" that came with the cold wind.
📏 About 9–10 m long.
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Maip was a megaraptoran, a predator with huge hand claws, from Late Cretaceous Argentina. It was named in 2022 and is one of the largest megaraptorans known.
Fun facts
- Megaraptorans had very long thumb and index-finger claws, probably their main weapons for catching prey.
- Maip has a megaraptoran relative in Thailand: Phuwiangvenator from Khon Kaen.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Maip (Chorrillo), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Nullotitan

Isasicursor

Kank

Kookne

Yatenavis
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
- Megaraptoridae
- When it lived
- 66–72.2 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Maastrichtian
- Named by
- Aranciaga Rolando et al., 2022
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- Argentina
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata