It’s that time again! Another DLC, another late-night recording and frantic rush to meet a tight deadline – but we couldn’t be happier to have to spend some time with these new theropod dinosaurs right away! This week, Frontier Developments released the Cretaceous Predator Pack, a DLC focused on some of the coolest theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Cretaceous Period, at the Mesozoic (the Age of Dinosaurs). We have Concavenator, a bizarre humped relative of Allosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Carcharodontosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Cuenca, Spain, which was discovered at the rich Las Hoyas fossil locality. Following Concavenator, we take a look at the Tarbosaurus design from Camp Cretaceous, and weigh in on the debate raging on Paleontology Twitter these days – how do you properly design a Tarbosaurus to both have its own identity, and look very much like its more famous cousin Tyrannosaurus rex? Tarbosaurus and T. rex are both giant apex predators from the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, when they terrorized all smaller dinosaurs in Mongolia and North America. We stay in Asia to look at Gigantoraptor, a bizarre, upsetting, and altogether too-big oviraptorosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China, found at a location known as Iren Dabasu. But wait, there’s more! Not just the last creature in the pack, but giant eggs known from all across the Northern Hemisphere that shows that Gigantoraptor wasn’t one-of-a-kind, but a member of a phantom group of giant murder turkeys that have managed to escape discovery in the fossil record.

And finally, the standout of the pack – Utahraptor. This is often called the /”true Jurassic Park Velociraptor/

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