A smaller cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex, called Allosaurus, may have fed on its prey in a fashion similar to modern-day falcons, a new study finds.

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Unlike T. rex, Allosaurus tugged away at prehistoric prey like a falcon. ... Tyrannosaurus rex, lacked some of that grace. "T. rex was like a gorilla with an ice pick," Snively said.

The research looked at Tyrannosaurus rex, a large-sized meat-eating theropod with a massively built skull and up to 15cm long teeth; Allosaurus fragilis, a more lightly built but predatory and ...

The Tyrannosaurus was by no means the dinosaur whose mouth opened the widest though. The Allosaurus, a much smaller carnivore from the same ‘theropod’ group, could gape its mouth as wide as 92 ...

WASHINGTON: 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 later ...

Anyone who can run 100 metres in 13.3 seconds would have been able to outrun a Tyrannosaurus rex, ... (33.6mph) with the Allosaurus capable of more than 40kmh (25mph), ...

Lautenschlager said allosaurus and T. rex most likely used their maximum jaw gape only rarely, “probably only in cases when large prey had to be captured.” Their optimal gape angle was 28 degrees.

Given that the Jurassic predator Allosaurus had three fingers, ... Tyrannosaurus rex, the "Prize Fighter of Antiquity" April 27, 2010. The Origin of a Little Tyrant. November 8, 2011.

A smaller cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex, called Allosaurus, may have fed on its prey in a fashion similar to modern-day falcons, a new study finds. To study the dinosaur's feeding technique ...