The hunting allosaurus used its head like a baseball bat, knocking its prey sideways before using its teeth to tear away flesh. Allosaurs, which were built like tyrannosaurs only smaller, lived and ...

If the head-axe theory sounds vanishingly implausible to you, fair enough. But this is a legitimate, if disputed, line of scientific inquiry, supported by some eminent paleontologists, and there are a ...

The Allosaurus dinosaurs were the scourge of the Jurassic period some 150 million years ago, an apex predator just as Tyrannosaurus rex, but new research finds it may have engaged in cannibalism. Most ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Not one, not two, but three rare dinosaur fossils stormed Christie’s on December 12. The auction house sold the fossils as part of a sale titled Jurassic Icons: Allosaurus and Stegosaurus that ...

The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more ...

The remains of dinosaurs are entombed in strata all over the world, but many notable specimens have also been buried in museum collections and obscure bits of technical literature. One such dinosaur, ...

Scientists have discovered rare fossil evidence of dinosaur cannibalism in a large quarry in Colorado. According to lead study author Stephanie Drumheller, it's likely that the predators were driven ...

I have an Allosaurus on my arm. Heart of Gold Tattoo artist Jon McAffee put it there a few weeks ago. I think the tattoo—designed for me by friend and artist Glendon Mellow—came out beautifully.

Forget those sluggish tail-draggers you’ve seen plodding through old cartoons—in the real world, many dinosaurs lived fast and died young. Meet Allosaurus, a fearsome hunter with a knack for war ...

Allosaurus was among the earliest dinosaur discoveries, and fossils are plentiful, making it a darling of paleontologists, as well as amateur dinosaur observers. Fossils possibly belonging to ...

A new species of carnivorous dinosaur, called Allosaurus jimmadseni, has been described in a new paper published today in the open-access scientific journal PeerJ. A. jimmadseni came 5 million years ...