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"Then you have this other guy (Kryptops) probably picking up the pieces and tracking down dead animals and sticking its short snout that's not very good for live captures into carcasses and going after guts." Sereno's team discovered the fossils during a rich dig in 2000 in which they recovered some 20 tons of fossils from a site deep in the Sahara. They have been methodically sorting through the fossils and discovered enough pieces of the Eocarcharia and Kryptops to determine that they were new species, findings which will be published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. By examining the bone structure and comparing it to similar species which roamed the area about 90 million years ago he was able to develop a picture of what the creatures would be like. "Kryptops, he would have had bad breath," Serenos said with a laugh. With a short neck and "these dinky little arms," Kryptops would have been a balanced, two-legged runner like an ostrich. His face would have consisted of a short, stubby snout with a scaly bill. "I imagine he would have been pretty brightly colored," he said, adding that it was possible Kryptops had feathers like many other predators of the time. He would have been poking his head in and out of the trees looking for a weak or injured creature to attack or to catch a whiff of a carcass. "Eocarcharia, I imagine to be more of a sabotage attacker," he said, describing its powerful legs and strong forearms. "It would track something down and gash it and feed on it and maybe leave the entrails and the carcass to Kryptops." Eocarcharia looks similar to the Tyrannosaurus and has a narrow bird-like scull with dagger-like teeth designed for going through flesh and bone and cutting and severing limbs. It was also likely brightly colored and could have had feathers, he said.