(Claw of Baryonyx walkeri) Baryonyx means 'heavy claw'. Unusually for a carnivorous dinosaur we know it ate fish as scientists have found fish scales and teeth with its fossil where its stomach would have been.

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T. rex

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  • Pronunciation: tie–RAN–oh–sore–us
  • Lived: 67–65 million years ago
  • Size: up to 12 metres long
  • Name means: tyrant lizard
  • Fossils found in: Canada and USA
  • Diet: carnivore – ate other dinosaurs
  • Huge, strong and fierce, I would attack and eat any dinosaur around.
  • I had one of the strongest bites of any animal that ever lived.
  • 60 sharp teeth, some up to 20 centimetres long, meant I could easily crush thick bones.
  • Scientists think I hunted my prey or fed on already dead animals. I probably did both, I was just lazy sometimes...
  • I had very short arms – they did not even reach my mouth!
  • I could eat the equivalent of 1,500 sausages a day.
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