WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dreaded dinosaur Allosaurus was the scourge of the Jurassic Period landscape some 150 million years ago, an apex predator just as Tyrannosaurus rex was 80 million years ...
The Allosaurus dinosaurs were the scourge of the Jurassic period some 150 million years ago, an apex predator just as Tyrannosaurus rex, but new research finds it may have engaged in cannibalism. Most ...
If the head-axe theory sounds vanishingly implausible to you, fair enough. But this is a legitimate, if disputed, line of scientific inquiry, supported by some eminent paleontologists, and there are a ...
The hunting allosaurus used its head like a baseball bat, knocking its prey sideways before using its teeth to tear away flesh. Allosaurs, which were built like tyrannosaurs only smaller, lived and ...
Paleontologists on a Wyoming dig led by The Children's Museum have discovered a rarity: the almost intact snout of an allosaurus. While digging with a piece of construction equipment, site manager ...
A new study by Chinese researchers focusing on Allosaurus, a top predator of the Jurassic era, has offered fresh insights into its forearm motions, its hunting strategies and survival challenges of ...
The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more ...
One night at dinner, 10-year-old dinosaur fan Kenyon Roberts asked a family guest — state Sen. Curt Bramble — why Utah had made the Allosaurus its official state fossil. “I didn’t know we had a state ...