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Caragoria pettusi (Pettus' fear-bringer) is a small and pugnacious carnotaurine abelisaurid native to Southern North America down into tropical South America. It is the sister taxon to the much larger and more bizarre Minosaurus. A pack-hunter, it measures about 15 feet long and weighs around 400 pounds. Living in matriarch-dominated packs of up to thirty, it communicates via whistles and grunts, using stamina and superior numbers to bring down prey as large or larger than itself. Nomadic, these predators usually have large territories that shift with prey abundance, and usually hunt small hypsilophodonts, ornithomimids, ceratopsians or hadrosaurs.
Males are subservient to females in the hierarchy, and usually do most of the nest incubating while the females hunt. Both parents diligently nurture the hatchlings when they emerge from the species' green eggs. When hatchlings are born, they assume the rank of their parents, and females are quick to bully their brothers. Matriarchal hatchlings also quickly learn to dominate lower-ranking hatchlings.
Most often found in sparse forest to open grassland, they are quick to gather at any scent of blood, and often are among the first scavengers at the scene of a fresh kill. In large numbers, they can deter other predators that operate alone or in pairs, but are smart enough to wait until enormous theropods such as megaraptorans, larger abelisaurids and tyrannosaurids finish feeding before moving in to strip away what flesh remains.

DotP is back. The first new creature for the rewritten book is Caragoria, named for the Caragors of Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and Ethan Pettus, the author of Primitive War and my editor.

Description
Caragoria pettusi (Pettus' fear-bringer) is a small and pugnacious carnotaurine abelisaurid native to Southern North America down into tropical South America. It is the sister taxon to the much larger and more bizarre Minosaurus. A pack-hunter, it measures about 15 feet long and weighs around 400 pounds. Living in matriarch-dominated packs of up to thirty, it communicates via whistles and grunts, using stamina and superior numbers to bring down prey as large or larger than itself. Nomadic, these predators usually have large territories that shift with prey abundance, and usually hunt small hypsilophodonts, ornithomimids, ceratopsians or hadrosaurs.
Males are subservient to females in the hierarchy, and usually do most of the nest incubating while the females hunt. Both parents diligently nurture the hatchlings when they emerge from the species' green eggs. When hatchlings are born, they assume the rank of their parents, and females are quick to bully their brothers. Matriarchal hatchlings also quickly learn to dominate lower-ranking hatchlings.
Most often found in sparse forest to open grassland, they are quick to gather at any scent of blood, and often are among the first scavengers at the scene of a fresh kill. In large numbers, they can deter other predators that operate alone or in pairs, but are smart enough to wait until enormous theropods such as megaraptorans, larger abelisaurids and tyrannosaurids finish feeding before moving in to strip away what flesh remains.

DotP is back. The first new creature for the rewritten book is Caragoria, named for the Caragors of Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and Ethan Pettus, the author of Primitive War and my editor.