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The Ballad of Big Al, [a] marketed as Allosaurus [b] in North America, is a 2000 special episode of the nature documentary television series Walking with Dinosaurs. The Ballad of Big Al is set in the Late Jurassic, 145 million years ago, and follows a single Allosaurus specimen nicknamed "Big Al" whose life story has been reconstructed based on a well-preserved fossil of the same name.
Allosaurus (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /) [1] [2] is an extinct genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian ages). The name "Allosaurus" means "different lizard", alluding to its unique (at the time of its discovery) concave vertebrae.
It is part of the collection of Thanksgiving Point Institute, Inc. and displayed in the North American Museum of Ancient Life at Lehi, Utah. It includes an incomplete skull and mandible (lower jaws) and much of the postcranial skeleton, i.e. the parts behind the head.
Step back in time to the Mesozoic Era, where dinosaurs ruled the Earth. With this quiz, you’ll encounter iconic giants like the T. Rex and the Stegosaurus, clever predators like the Velociraptor ...
A team of paleontologists at a Wyoming dig led by The Children's Museum have found an almost fully intact Allosaurus snout. The snout belongs to the same predator the museum's team found in 2020 .
The fauna of Morrison Formation is similar to one in the coeval rocks of Tendaguru Beds (in Tanzania) and Lourinhã Formation in Portugal, [1] mostly with the second. Some genera are shared in Morrison and Lourinhã, such as Torvosaurus, [2] Ceratosaurus, [3] Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus, [4] and Allosaurus. [5]
Allosaurus sp. nov. Late Jurassic: Possible new species Arkhane: Big Al MOR 693 Museum of the Rockies: Allosaurus jimmadseni: Kimmeridgian: Morrison Formation: Almost complete specimen with multiple pathologies. Big Al: Big Al 2 SMA 0005 Saurier Museum: Allosaurus jimmadseni: Late Jurassic Morrison Formation: Big Al 2, the Allosaurus: Big Joe [155]
Those would have been useful as protection against meat-eating dinosaurs like Allosaurus. This Stegosaurus fossil was found in Colorado and fetched a record $44.6 million at a Sotheby's auction in ...