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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

Theropods – the family of dinosaurs that included the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller Allosaurus – had the largest and most sophisticated brains of any such dinosaur group. But scientists ...

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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 ...