28 Days Of Dinosauria - 13

Day 13: The species for which the carcharadonts were named, Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was found (as you might expect) in the Sahara, and dates from the mid-Cretaceous, around 95 million years ago. Although the first fossils of its kind were destroyed during WWII, more have since been found, and the close similarity of the teeth to those of the Carcharodon genus of sharks led to their name. Carcharadontosaurus had a huge skull over a metre and a half long, and was probably slightly larger than T. rex. Its skull wasn't as powerfully built though. As the saying goes, size isn't everything! Not that it couldn't have done a heck of a lot of damage, to pretty much anything it chose.