Seventy million years ago, Madagascar’s top predator was a lumpy-headed oddball whose diet would have done Hannibal Lecter proud. You might assume the dinosaurs were merely fighting each other, but ...

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Madagascar’s long isolation shaped unique species, including the theropod Majungasaurus, which evolved after the island separated from Gondwana. Fossil remains from the Maeverano Formation revealed ...

Madagascar produced some of the strangest predators in dinosaur history. Majungasaurus stood at the top of that list. Fossil evidence shows it fed not only on other animals, but on its own species.