Paleontologists discover new carnivorous dinosaurs in the Sahara, 7-year-olds rejoice

Much to the joy of small children everywhere, scientists from the University of Chicago have unearthed two new species of dinosaur in the Sahara desert and given them awesome names. To their gift shop pantheons of cool plastic figurines, museums can now add "fierce-eyed dawn shark" (Eocarcharia dinops) and "old hidden face" (Kryptops palaois)—which both sound suspiciously like old kung fu movies.

And that's not far off. National Geographic reports Eocarcharia had "three-inch, blade-like teeth, likely for disabling and dismembering prey."

""This guy would have been slicing and ripping off limbs," one of the researchers told the Chicago Tribune.

In addition, Eocarcharia may have engaged in head-butting contests—though this sounds less like kung fu and more like the behavior of drunken college males.

Also in this vein, Kryptops was a scavenger with a "horny face."

The find is particularly important, not just because the species are new to science, but also because they come from a region and geological time period about which little is currently known (dinosaur-wise). The fossils hail from around 100 million years ago, when Africa and South America were just parting ways.