Paleoart of Maip macrothorax, the apex predator of southern South America. Ten meters long, it takes on the name of a malicious Aonikenk figure. The biggest of all megaraptorans, Maip would have had dexterous forelimbs (for a theropod dinosaur, at least) as well as huge knife-like claws on its hands, allowing it to grapple prey and create big, gashing wounds while doing so. There are two juvenile Maip in this picture, and they have messed up big time by blundering into the territory of an unrelated adult. Like in many apex predators today, such an interaction would likely be hostile
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