Allosaurus

Deuterostomia

Allosaurus ( /ˌælɵˈsɔrəs/) is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian). The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek ἄλλος/allos ("different, other") and σαῦρος/sauros ("lizard"). The first remains that can definitely be ascribed to this genus were described in 1877 by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. As one of the first well-known theropod dinosaurs, it has long attracted attention outside of paleontological circles. Indeed, it has been a top feature in several films and documentaries about prehistoric life.

Allosaurus was a large bipedal predator. Its skull was large and equipped with dozens of large, sharp teeth. It averaged 8.5 meters (28 ft) in length, though fragmentary remains suggest it could have reached over 12 meters (39 ft). Relative to the large and powerful hindlimbs, its three-fingered forelimbs were small, and the body was balanced by a long, heavy tail. It is classified as an allosaurid, a type of carnosaurian theropod dinosaur. The genus has a complicated taxonomy, and includes an uncertain number of valid species, the best known of which is A. fragilis. The bulk of Allosaurus remains have come from North America's Morrison Formation, with material also known from Portugal and possibly Tanzania. It was known for over half of the 20th century as Antrodemus, but study of the copious remains from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry brought the name Allosaurus back to prominence, and established it as one of the best-known dinosaurs.

'Allosaurus' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)

Actors: Michael Tavera (composer), Jeff Bennett (actor), Jeff Bennett (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Danny Mann (actor), Kenneth Mars (actor), Nancy Cartwright (actress), Aria Noelle Curzon (actress), Miriam Flynn (actress), Sandy Fox (actress), Susan Blu (miscellaneous crew), John Ingle (actor), Thomas Dekker (actor), Tony Geiss (writer), Judy Freudberg (writer),

Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family, Musical,

Quotes:

Cera: And I can still remember the day when Dinah said her first words... or was it Dana? 'Shiny peepeye no-no'. Whatever that means::Ducky: It is simple. That means 'the bright circle is shining in my eyes and it hurts'.::Cera: Huh? How do you know that?::Ducky: I am also a twin. Twenty seven of us hatched at the same time.::Cera: Really? Well... what does 'no-no Grampy three-dee grr' mean?::Ducky: That means 'Do not make Grandpa Three-Horn mad'.::Cera: Are you sure about that one?::Ducky: No. But it is good advice just the same.

Littlefoot: I think I know who Doc is!::Cera: What's to know? He's a squinty-eyed old Longneck with no friends.::Petrie: Me could have tell you that!

Littlefoot: Who needs them? A lone dinosaur doesn't need anyone! Gee, I wonder if all the other lone dinosaurs talked out loud to themselves like this?

Littlefoot: Guys! You came for me!::Cera: Don't we always?

photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore

Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C.

GOP Wants to Declare War On Islamic Ideology In Wake Of Orlando Shooting

Edit WorldNews.com 17 Jun 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....

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IAAF Refuses To Lift Ban, Russian Olympic Team To Miss Rio Olympics

Edit WorldNews.com 17 Jun 2016

A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....

photo: Public Domain / Facebook/ Attanai Thaiyuanwong

gaint lizard tries to enter home in Thailand

Video: Godzilla-sized lizard tries to enter home in Thailand

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jun 2016

How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ...   . ....

photo: NASA / James Yungel

File - Ice on the Ellsworth Range in Antarctica as seen from NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory during an Operation IceBridge mission over Antarctica on Oct. 22, 2012.

'We’re Officially Living in a New World': Antarctica Hits Highest CO2 Level in 4 Million Years

Edit Alternet 17 Jun 2016

Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....

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94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning waits for the start of his trial in Detmold, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016.

Former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning convicted

Edit BBC News 17 Jun 2016

A 94-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp, Reinhold Hanning, is convicted and sentenced to five years in jail ... ....

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Tales (tails) of dinosaurs

Edit The Examiner 19 May 2016

When paleontologists first started unearthing dinosaurs they did not know what dinosaurs looked like from the jumbled bones and bone fragments they found of them ... So paleontologists just put the tail behind the dinosaur on to the ground. This showed that dinosaurs dragged their tails behind them ... Diplodocus would use its tail as a whip if under attack by a predator such as Allosaurus ... Diplodocus means "double beam" ... ....

Stegosaurus: King of the arms race

Edit The Examiner 04 May 2016

Stegosaurus had a tail that had flexibility and great power ... Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus, the two most common predators Stegosaurus faced were both flesh eaters that grew to lengths of thirty feet or more and would have weighed between one and two tons ... Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus were long-legged and nimble footed, and could have danced around the stegosaur in order to lunge in for bites at the vulnerable neck and shoulders....

Take a look behind the scenes as Cincinnati Museum Center packs up 480 million years of Cincinnati history (CMC - Cincinnati Museum Center)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016

(Source. CMC - Cincinnati Museum Center). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. April 28, 2016. MEDIA CONTACT. Cody Hefner (513) 287-7054, chefner@cincymuseum.org. Guests get unique opportunity to see curators in action ... Now you can take advantage of the rare opportunity to see them in action ... On June 20, curators and artifact handlers will begin to disassemble the Allosaurus skeleton, the centerpiece of the Museum of Natural History & Science's Dino Hall....

Prehistoric beasts turned into intricately beaded jewelry

Edit CNN 30 Mar 2016

(CNN)Dinosaur bones and meteorites are not the materials that first come to mind when thinking about fashion accessories. But Portland-based design company William Henry is proving that these rare finds can add a surprisingly beautiful embellishment to a bracelet or necklace -- and attract celebrity clientele ... Now, they've expanded to include necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks and pens ... Teen dinosaur 'Young Al', an allosaurus ... ....

The Weird Stories Behind America's Official State Fossils

Edit The Atlantic 17 Mar 2016

Just so California James St. John / Flickr. Yesterday, I wrote about the Tully monster, an improbably odd extinct animal with hammerhead eyes, a squid-like body, and a lobster-claw snout ... It’s about as Illinois as deep-dish, snow, and Ferris Bueller ... Utah anointed the 28-foot-long predator Allosaurus in 1988; a great pick, but if it had waited for five years, it might well have picked Utahraptor, a super-sized relative of Velociraptor ... ....

Apprenticeships event aims to inspire young people and businesses (Norfolk County Council)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Mar 2016

(Source. Norfolk County Council). 16 March 2016 ... an eight-foot tall animatronic Allosaurus designed for Norfolk attraction Dinosaur Adventure with the assistance of Warren Services and one of their electrical apprentices; food produced by Poultec Training's catering apprentices, which will be available to sample; and a life-size model horse used on Apprenticeships Broadland's Equestrian Training Programme ... Original Document ... (noodl....

T. Rex Was Pregnant, Bone Test Confirms

Edit Yahoo Daily News 16 Mar 2016

About 68 million years ago, a pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex died in ancient Montana. Her remains might provide clues about how to identify male and female theropods, or bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs, a new study finds. The finding is an exciting one — researchers verified that the T ... "We need to quit selling fossils short," Schweitzer told Live Science ... Rex] ... Fossils of both Allosaurus (a Jurassic-period, meat-eating relative of T....

Horse-sized tyrannosaur may be long-sought missing link in T.rex evolution

Edit Chicago Tribune 15 Mar 2016

Tyrannosaurs didn't used to be so scary. For millions of years, they were kind of puny, never bigger than a horse. They probably lurked in the underbrush while larger dinosaurs like Allosaurus ruled the land as the top predators. Jump forward to the end of the Cretaceous Era, and we see the astonishing... ....

How Tyrannosaurus became rex

Edit NZ Herald 15 Mar 2016

Tyrannosaurs didn't used to be so scary. For millions of years, they were kind of puny, never bigger than a horse.They probably lurked in the underbrush while larger dinosaurs like Allosaurus ruled the land as the top predators.Jump ... ....

Fossil suggests T. rex got smart first, then huge

Edit Sacramento Bee 15 Mar 2016

At the end of the dinosaur age, Tyrannosaurus rex was a behemoth killer animal, up to 40 feet long and weighing several tons – the top carnivore in the food chain ... rex – same shape, proportions, etc ... When the first tyrannosaurs evolved, about 170 million years ago, they lived in the shadows of larger meat-eaters like Allosaurus ... Allosaurus and its relatives did not adapt and died out, and then tyrannosaurs grew in size to replace them....

Tyrannosaurs got smart before they got big, fossil discovery indicates

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 15 Mar 2016

At the end of the dinosaur age, Tyrannosaurus rex was a behemoth killer animal, up to 40 feet long and weighing several tons — the top carnivore in the food chain ... rex — same shape, proportions, etc ... When the first tyrannosaurs evolved, about 170 million years ago, they lived in the shadows of larger meat-eaters like Allosaurus ... Allosaurus and its relatives did not adapt and died out, and then tyrannosaurs grew in size to replace them ... ....

Dinosaurs Among Us Opens at the American Museum of Natural History (American Museum of Natural History)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Mar 2016

(Source. American Museum of Natural History). © AMNH/R. Mickens. The next time you dodge a pigeon on the sidewalk, watch a sparrow eat from a feeder in a backyard, or order chicken for dinner, know that you just had an encounter with a modern dinosaur ... Nests, Eggs, and Babies ... But studies have shown that the primitive theropod Allosaurus also had hollow bones. Allosaurus was a big animal with tiny arms, so it wasn't flying anywhere ... Flight....

Free printable dinosaurs coloring pages: The Good Dinosaur science activities

Edit The Examiner 13 Feb 2016

Hey kids, did you like "The Good Dinosaur" Disney movie? Do you want free printable The Good Dinosaur coloring pages and activities? How about you get a bunch of dinosaur themed craft projects, activities, games, puzzles? Teachers and homeschool parents, here are dinosaur lesson plans and worksheets too ... Teach writing, spelling, reading and science activities with favorite dinosaurs from Allosaurus to Zephyrosaurus ... ....