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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not far from the Colorado-Utah border, the Mygatt-Moore Quarry bonebed is brimming with hundreds of fossils from Jurassic favorites like Apatosaurus and Allosaurus. Similar dinos have been found at ...
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 ...
Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...
Forget those sluggish tail-draggers you’ve seen plodding through old cartoons—in the real world, many dinosaurs lived fast and died young. Meet Allosaurus, a fearsome hunter with a knack for war ...
A new species of meat-eating dinosaur is being unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early 1990’s in Dinosaur National Monument in ...