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 ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dinosaur-on-dinosaur dining habit revealed by scrutiny of fossil bones from Colorado site About nine metres long, with grasping claws and a skull it used like a hatchet, Allosaurus was among the most ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You might call the Jurassic Period meat-eating dinosaur Allosaurus the ultimate big mouth. A new study analyzing dinosaur jaw musculature found that this fearsome hunter that ...

Allosaurus was at the top of the food chain many years before T. Rex. Allosaurus was at the top of the food chain many years before T. Rex. Dinosaur Train is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

Being referred to as thickheaded isn’t exactly a compliment. Depending on your lifestyle, however, you just might need a skull that can occasionally take a good smack. Consider a carnivorous dinosaur ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Out in Utah’s eastern desert, nestled among ...

A little more than a year ago, in the corner of a Salt Lake City tattoo parlor spattered with sci-fi ephemera and fantasy art, I watched as artist Jon McAffee inked an Allosaurus onto my arm. The ...