Irritator: Beast of the Week

This week's beast is a special dinosaur that helps us understand more about the appearance and lifestyle of its family.  Check out Irritator challengeri!Irritator life reconstruction in watercolor by Christopher DiPiazza.Irritator was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the early Cretaceous period, between 113 and 110 million years ago. From snout to tail it would have measured between 20 and 26 feet (6 and 8 meters) and was a meat-eater when alive.  The genus name, Ir