Carnivore Gallery

Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs mating

Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs mating. Artwork of male (right) and female (left) Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs mating. Some theories say that this dinosaur had feathers and fur, as seen here. When fully grown, this bipedal dinosaur was one of the largest ever terrestrial predators, measuring over 12 metres in length from head to tail. It is thought to have combined hunting and scavenging to feed itself. Its fossils are found in North America, and date to 67 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period

© JOSE ANTONIO PE'AS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Spinosaurus dinosaur, artwork

Spinosaurus dinosaur, artwork. Spinosaurus were enormous meat-eating dinosaurs that lived during the late Cretaceous period (99 to 65 million years ago). Their typical length from tail tip to snout was 12-15 metres, and they are believed to have weighed at least 8 tonnes or more

© WALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

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Megalodon prehistoric shark

Megalodon prehistoric shark, artwork, hunting a school of fish. Megalodon, Carcharocles (Carcharodon) megalodon, lived between around 20 and 1.2 million years ago, and is known only from fossils. It was related to the modern great white shark, and possibly preyed mainly on whales. Megalodon was thought to attain lengths exceeding 20 metres, and possibly much larger. It is thought that it died out after the seas cooled, allowing warm-blooded whales to escape the sharks for much of the year by swimming to waters too cold for them to survive in

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