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If there's one Jurassic Period predator that stands out from the crowd as the most famous of all, it has to be Allosaurus. It ...
While the Tyrannosaurus skull was optimized for quick, strong bites like a crocodile, other giant dinosaurs that walked on ...
An analysis of tooth enamel from animals that roamed the western United States about 150 million years ago, including (from left) Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, a herd of Diplodocus and two Camptosaurus, ...
By using 3D skull scans of 18 species, scientists discovered that while T. rex evolved a crocodile-like skull built for immense bite force, predators such as spinosaurs and allosaurs relied on ...
The Tyrannosaurus rex skull was optimized for quick, strong bites like a crocodile. However, its evolutionary path was different from that of other giant predatory species, such as spinosaurs and ...
Experts looked at the bite strengths of 18 different species of giant meat-eating dinosaurs and found that a number of the ...
A new study in Current Biology analyzes the skulls of 18 large prehistoric predators, including the Tyrannosaurus rex, the ...
“Tyrannosaurids like T. rex had skulls that were optimized for high bite forces at the cost of higher skull stress,” Rowe said. “But in some other giants, like Giganotosaurus, we calculated stress ...
Pacific Science Center will close for more than a month after Labor Day to dismantle its animatronic dinosaurs. Here’s why.
An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds.
Published Name Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877 See more items in Paleogeneral Reptiles/Amphibians Reptilia Dinosauria Theropoda Paleobiology Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Sauropsida Reptilia ...
Saurophaganax maximus was thought to be a very large predatory theropod that lived in the famous Morrison Formation of Jurassic North America. Several of the bones assigned to this genus were very ...