allosaurus

Everyday

A large meat-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived about 150 million years ago, in the Jurassic period, in what is now North America and Europe. tree →

In the lessons

In dinosaur lessons, allosaurus was the top hunter of its time, about 8 to 10 metres long, with sharp teeth and three-fingered hands. It lived long before Tyrannosaurus rex. Its name means «different lizard».

Examples

• Allosaurus was a fierce Jurassic hunter. tree →
• An allosaurus walked on two strong legs. tree →
• Allosaurus may have hunted stegosaurus. tree →
• We saw an allosaurus skeleton at the museum. tree →
• Allosaurus lived millions of years before T. rex. tree →
• The allosaurus had three claws on each hand. tree →

Note

Scientific name Allosaurus with a capital A. Use «an allosaurus». Trap: dinosaurs did not live at the same time as people, and allosaurus and T. rex never met.