Eleven-year-old Jacob Walen from the Netherlands looks at a
reconstructed skull of Torvosaurus at Lourinha museum in Lourinha, near
Lisbon August 2, 2008. Walen found an original jaw bone of a dinosaur in
Lourinha on July 27, 2003. Portuguese paleontologists presented a
reconstructed skull of Torvosaurus, a giant prehistoric dinosaur they say
is the largest known terrestrial predator of the Jurassic Period.
Reconstructed from parts of a cranium, including a jaw bone with a 5.1
inch (13 cm) long blade-like tooth, found in 2003 near Lourinha in
central-western Portugal, the skull measures 4.6 feet (1.4 metres) in
length -- bigger than an earlier Torvosaurus find made in the United
States in the 1970s. The species roamed the earth about 150 million year
ago, according to the New University of Lisbon.(Chinese media/Reuters
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Eleven-year-old Jacob Walen from the Netherlands looks at
a reconstructed skull of Torvosaurus at Lourinha museum in Lourinha, near Lisbon August 2, 2008.
Walen found an original jaw bone of a dinosaur in
Lourinha on July 27, 2003.(Chinese media/Reuters Photo)
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Eleven-year-old Jacob Walen of the
Netherlands holds a piece of an original jaw bone of a dinosaur next to a
reconstructed skull of Torvosaurus at Lourinha museum in Lourinha, near
Lisbon August 2, 2008.(Chinese media/Reuters Photo)
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