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An animatronic Acrocanthosaurus in the temporary Dinosaur! exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo.
It's name means “high-spined lizard” because of the unusually high spines on many of its vertebrae
A rare and not so well-known dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus was 13 feet tall, 30-40 feet long and probably weighed between two and three tons.
What They Ate: Acrocanthosaurus was a carnivore or meat eater. As a fierce and efficient predator, it could easily kill prey like large sauropods using its teeth to tear meat from the bone. In comparison, T. Rex could crush bone with its bigger teeth.
Where Fossils Have Been Found In North America: Oklahoma and Texas
What They Did: Some compare Acrocanthosaurus to T. Rex. However, Acrocanthosaurus lived 45 million years before T. Rex making it the largest North American dinosaur of its time.
How They Are Doing: Extinct. Lived in the early Cretaceous Period, 115-105 million years ago.
It's name means “high-spined lizard” because of the unusually high spines on many of its vertebrae
A rare and not so well-known dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus was 13 feet tall, 30-40 feet long and probably weighed between two and three tons.
What They Ate: Acrocanthosaurus was a carnivore or meat eater. As a fierce and efficient predator, it could easily kill prey like large sauropods using its teeth to tear meat from the bone. In comparison, T. Rex could crush bone with its bigger teeth.
Where Fossils Have Been Found In North America: Oklahoma and Texas
What They Did: Some compare Acrocanthosaurus to T. Rex. However, Acrocanthosaurus lived 45 million years before T. Rex making it the largest North American dinosaur of its time.
How They Are Doing: Extinct. Lived in the early Cretaceous Period, 115-105 million years ago.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Dinosaur
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 361.8 kB
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