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Allosaurus facts for kids

Allosaurus, the different lizard. Find out about its dagger-like teeth, what it hunted, the bite marks it left on Stegosaurus, and test yourself with a quick quiz.

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Meet Allosaurus

Its name means different lizard. Its backbones looked different from those of any other dinosaur known at the time.

It was a big meat-eater, nearly 10 metres long. Like other theropods, it walked on two legs.

A Jurassic hunter

Allosaurus had dagger-like teeth with saw-like edges, and it hunted plant-eating dinosaurs.

It had small horns above its eyes. Nobody knows what they were for.

Allosaurus and Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus fossils have been found with Allosaurus bite marks on them. But Stegosaurus could fight back. One fossil Allosaurus tail bone has a wound that matches the shape of a Stegosaurus spike.

When did Allosaurus live?

In the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, in what is now North America. It lived at the same time and in the same place as Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus.

Allosaurus in a nutshell

Quick quiz: Allosaurus

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  1. Allosaurus means different lizard. Why was it given that name?

    • Its backbones looked different from those of other dinosaurs
    • It was a different colour
    • It ate different food
    • It lived in a different country

    Its backbones looked different from those of other dinosaurs. Its backbones looked different from those of any other dinosaur known at the time.

  2. What were the teeth of Allosaurus like?

    • Dagger-like, with saw-like edges
    • Flat, for grinding plants
    • It had no teeth, only a beak
    • Round, like pebbles

    Dagger-like, with saw-like edges.

  3. Which dinosaur's fossils have been found with Allosaurus bite marks on them?

    • Stegosaurus
    • T. rex
    • Spinosaurus
    • Velociraptor

    Stegosaurus. Both lived in the Late Jurassic, in what is now North America.

  4. True or false: scientists know what the small horns above the eyes of Allosaurus were for.

    False. Nobody knows what they were for.

  5. True or false: Allosaurus and T. rex lived at the same time.

    False. Allosaurus lived in the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. T. rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago.

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