Allosaurus

Allosaurus is one of the most known dinosaurs. He became the famous Jurassic meat eater. His arms were muscular and he had serrated teeth, ripped flesh faster than a chainsaw. They were build for speed.

Feeding the family

As a baby, it ate lizards, mammals and insects. As a kid, it ate other baby dinosaurs. As a teenager, it ate anything smaller than itself. As an adult, it ate everything.

Hunting

They used to hunt in the Northern America about 150 million years ago. It hunted mostly small plant eaters, for example Camptosaurus ; sometimes giant Sauropods like the famous Diplodocus. They often hunted in group but sometime hunted on their own.

Anatomy

The Allosaurus was good for hunting. Strong, grasping claws on its front legs, razor-sharp teeth, and flexible jaw made him a really good predator.

He had flexible jaws to enlarge his mouth for a deadlier bite. And he had sharp claws with three fingers ended like hooks, and maybe they used their hooks like grappling hooks.

Facts

• Meaning : Other lizard
• Date : Late Jurassic
• Group : Theropoda
• Diet : Meat
• Size : 39 feet (12 m) long
• Fossil Locations : USA 1877