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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 was a large bipedal predator for its time. Its skull was light, robust, and equipped with dozens of sharp, serrated teeth. It averaged 8.5 metres (28 ft) in length for A. fragilis, with the largest specimens estimated as being 9.7 metres (32 ft) long. Relative to the large and powerful legs, its three-fingered hands were small and ...
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 .
Bonaparte, 1985. Carnotaurus (/ ˌkɑːrnoʊˈtɔːrəs /; lit. 'meat bull') is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, probably sometime between 72 and 69 million years ago. The only species is Carnotaurus sastrei. Known from a single well-preserved skeleton, it is one of the best-understood ...
Sauropelta was a heavily built quadrupedal herbivore with a body length of approximately 5.2–6 metres (17.1–19.7 ft) and a body mass of 1.5–2 t (1.7–2.2 short tons). [1][2] The skull was triangular when viewed from above, with the rear end wider than the tapering snout. One skull measured 35 centimeters (13.75 in) in width at its widest ...
Torvosaurus (/ ˌ t ɔːr v oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s /) is a genus of large megalosaurine theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 148 million years ago during the Callovian to Tithonian ages of the late Middle and Late Jurassic period in what is now Colorado, Portugal, Germany, and possibly England, Spain, Tanzania, and Uruguay.
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Atrociraptor (/ ə ˌ t r ɑː s i ˈ r æ p t ə r /) is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada.The first specimen, a partial skull, was discovered in 1995 by the fossil collector Wayne Marshall in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, about 5 km (3 mi) from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, where it was brought for preparation.