DinoFact
Meat-Eating Dinosaurs
Facts about carnivorous dinosaurs — the hunters and predators of the prehistoric world.
- Carnotaurus means 'meat-eating bull'.
- Coelophysis was a slim, early meat-eater.
- Ornitholestes was a small, slim meat-eater.
- Xuanhanosaurus was a meat-eater from China.
- Meat-eating dinosaurs are called carnivores.
- Allosaurus was a top hunter of the Jurassic.
- Sinraptor was a large meat-eater from China.
- Kaijiangosaurus was a meat-eater from China.
- Some dinosaurs used their claws to grab prey.
- Liliensternus was an early crested meat-eater.
- Rajasaurus was a horned meat-eater from India.
- Segisaurus was a small, slim early meat-eater.
- Dubreuillosaurus was a meat-eater from France.
- T. rex was one of the biggest meat-eaters ever.
- Birds evolved from small meat-eating dinosaurs.
- Majungasaurus was a meat-eater from Madagascar.
- Coelurus was a small, lightly built meat-eater.
- A swinging tail club could keep predators away.
- Coelophysis was a slim, speedy early meat-eater.
- Herrerasaurus was an early meat-eating dinosaur.
- Huaxiagnathus was a small meat-eater from China.
- Juravenator was a small meat-eater from Germany.
- Indosuchus was a meat-eating dinosaur from India.
- Piatnitzkysaurus was a meat-eater from Argentina.
- Santanaraptor was a small meat-eater from Brazil.
- Fukuiraptor was a meat-eating dinosaur from Japan.
- Some meat-eaters may have worked together to hunt.
- Some dinosaurs were predators, and some were prey.
- Neovenator was a meat-eater from the Isle of Wight.
- Tyrannotitan was a giant meat-eater from Argentina.
- Zupaysaurus was an early meat-eater from Argentina.
- Meat-eaters' teeth often had little saw-like edges.
- Some meat-eating dinosaurs may have hunted in packs.
- Allosaurus was a big hunter but smaller than T. rex.
- Some meat-eaters had teeth shaped like steak knives.
- Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes ate other dinosaurs.
- Fossil hunters sometimes find dinosaurs by accident.
- Rugops was a meat-eater with a wrinkly-looking face.
- Plant-eaters had to stay alert for hungry predators.
- Noasaurus was a small meat-eater from South America.
- Orkoraptor was a meat-eater from southern Argentina.
- Sigilmassasaurus was a large meat-eater from Africa.
- Siamotyrannus was an early meat-eater from Thailand.
- A loud call could warn the whole herd of a predator.
- A meat-eater's claws could be curved and razor-sharp.
- Australovenator was a fast meat-eater from Australia.
- Deltadromeus was a slim, fast meat-eater from Africa.
- Some meat-eating dinosaurs were faster than a bicycle.
- A healthy dinosaur world had both hunters and grazers.
- Triceratops used its horns to defend against predators.
- Many small meat-eating dinosaurs were covered in fluff.
- Afrovenator was a meat-eating dinosaur found in Africa.
- Giganotosaurus was one of the largest meat-eaters ever.
- Sinocalliopteryx was a feathered meat-eater from China.
- Meat-eaters helped keep plant-eater numbers in balance.
- Giganotosaurus was a giant meat-eater from South America.
- Velociraptor was a small, feathered, sharp-clawed hunter.
- Velocisaurus was a small, fast meat-eater from Argentina.
- Abelisaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur from South America.
- Compsognathus was a tiny meat-eater the size of a chicken.