Allosaurus Facts! A Dinosaur Facts video about Allosaurus, the king of the Jurassic period.

Allosaurus was a large Allosaurus dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period a predatory meat loving carnivore Allosaurus was a predecessor to the Tyrannosaurus Rex which lived millions of years later during the end of the Cretaceous period in many ways the Allosaurus and the t-rex were similar but the Tyrannosaurus Rex was much larger and heavier Allosaurus averaged 28 feet in length with a weight of more than 3,300 pounds it had a short neck and a narrow but surprisingly large skull the body was balanced by a long tail its arms were long for being a theropod dinosaur a unique visual appearance was that it had a pair of small horns above its eyes it also had ridges that ran along the top of the nasal bones to the horns Allosaurus was one of the earliest dinosaur discoveries and fossils are plentiful with over 60 individual skeletons found it's the most common found large predator found in the Morrison Formation in North America the top speed of Allosaurus has been estimated to 19 to 35 miles per hour this most probably gave it a huge advantage over its competitors when it came to hunting and killing prey studies showed that the allosaurus skull was very strong but had a relatively small bite force this suggests that Allosaurus used its skull like a hatchet against prey attacking open mouthed slashing flesh with its teeth and tearing it away without splintering bones the Allosaurus his mouth contained dozens of sharp teeth that were rapidly replaced if they fell off with its size and speed Allosaurus was obviously at the top of the food chain it probably preyed on large herbivores and perhaps even other carnivores potential prey included ornithopods Stegosaurus and sauropods there is dramatic fossil evidence for Alice or attacks on Stegosaurus including an Allosaurus tail vertebra with a partially healed puncture wound that fits a Stegosaurus tail spike like the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other large carnivores Allosaurus probably both hunted and scavenge for food [Music] you

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Length: 3min 0sec (180 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 16 2016