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 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 ...

The early cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex had a much weaker bite than the most fearsome predator ever to roam Earth, so it may have relied on the sharpness of its teeth and a tough but lightweight skull ...

In a paper published August 23, authors Cameron Pahl and Luis Ruedas, of Portland State University, show that Allosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic that has long been thought to ...

(CNN) — Allosaurus was a fierce predator at the top of the dinosaur food chain millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex claimed its “king of the dinosaurs” title and researchers have now discovered ...

One of the things that really bugs me about the Jurassic Park movies is the prominent role given to Tyrannosaurus rex—a dinosaur that didn’t appear until the ensuing Cretaceous period. I am therefore ...

Anyone that has ever watched Hollywood’s famous Jurassic Park films will know that dinosaurs were large and hungry creatures that spent much of their time scavenging for whatever may have looked like ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You might call the Jurassic Period meat-eating dinosaur Allosaurus the ultimate big mouth. A new study analysing dinosaur jaw musculature found that this fearsome hunter that ...