Dinosorex

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| taxon = Dinosorex

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Dinosorex is an extinct eulipotyphlan genus, popularly referred to as giant terror shrews{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150427-mystery-of-the-giant-terror-shrew?ocid=fbert|title=Mystery of the Giant Terror Shrew |author=Hogenboom, Melissa |date=27 April 2015 |accessdate=30 April 2015 |website=BBC Earth}} due to their fearsome lower incisors. Dinosorex lived in Europe from the late Oligocene or early Miocene to the late Miocene, with a range that stretched from Ukraine to Iberia.{{Cite book|author=Furió, M.|display-authors=et al|title= Three million years of "Terror-Shrew" (Dinosorex, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) in the Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Barcelona, Spain)|work= Comptes Rendus Palevol|date=2015}} It was about the size of a modern hedgehog, but its enlarged and strengthened incisors (which have been found to contain iron particles within the enamel) may have allowed it to adopt a partially carnivorous diet, as opposed to the strictly insectivorous diet of most modern mammals of that size.