Great meat-eaters

• The large meat-eating dinosaurs belonged to a general group known as the "carnosaurs."

• All carnosaurs were similar in body shape, and resembled the fearsome Tyrannosaurus.

• Tarbosaurus was very similar to Tyrannosaurus. It lived at the same time, 70-65 mya, but in Asia rather than North America.

• Some experts believe that Tarbosaurus was an Asian version of the North American Tyrannosaurus, and both should have been called Tyrannosaurus.

• The carnosaur Albertosaurus was about 26-29ft (8-9m) long, and lived 75-70 mya, in present-day Alberta, Canada.

• Spinosaurus was a huge carnosaur from North Africa, measuring 40ft (12m) long. It had tall bones on its back, which may have been covered with skin, like a "sail."

• Daspletosaurus was a 29ft (9m) long carnosaur that lived at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs in Alberta, Canada.

• Biggest of all the carnosaurs was Giganotosaurus, the largest meat-eater ever to walk the Earth.

• Giganotosaurus was up to 102ft (16m) long and weighed at least 8 tons.

STAR FACT
Giganotosaurus lived about 100 mya in today's Argentina, South America.

By: Parker, Steve, Dinosaurs