Dinosaurs are terrestrial animals, a squad of extinct reptiles that lived during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (from 230 to 65 million. During the Mesozoic era, herbivorous dinosaurs existed, although most dinosaurs were carnivorous; some groups developed an omnivorous during the Cretaceous period.

Predatory dinosaurs belong to theropods (lizardotazovye dinosaurs), which appeared in the Triassic era close 220 million years ago and were the only large terrestrial predators of the early Jurassic period and until the end of the Cretaceous.

Huge carnivorous dinosaurs are predators of the highest level, since their population is not regulated by other predators, that is, they are in the upper part of the food chain. Some carnivorous dinosaurs were more powerful and dangerous than others. Find out which dinosaurs are on the list of the most predatory dinosaurs in the world.

Allosaurus (Allosaurus) - fifth place

The Allosaurus is an early species of a large carnivorous dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the last Jurassic period in Africa, North America. The name Allosaurus in Greek means "another lizard", they are also called "Jurassic lions." This is a two-legged predator with a large skull, powerful jaw, sharp teeth. The allosaurus averaged 9 m in length, 3.5 m in height and weighed 1.5-4 tons.

Relatively massive hind legs, his three-fingered forelimbs were small, and his body was coordinated by a long and heavy tail. This animal is classified as allosaurus, a type of huge carnosaurus predator.Allosaurs hunted in groups for ornithopods, stegosaurids, sauropods (camarasaurs, apatosaurs, diplodocus).

Spinosaurus - fourth place

Spinosaurus is a large carnivorous dinosaur of the spinosaurus family, which lived in the Cretaceous from 112 to 97 million years ago in North Africa. Two species of spinosaurs were named depending on the regions where their remains were found: Egyptian and Moroccan spinosaurs. The name "spinosaurus" means "spiky lizard", because the long spinous processes of the vertebrae about 2 m long, which are connected by the skin and form a huge fin on the back in the form of a sail, grew on the animal’s back.

The spinosaurus ranged from 12 to 18 m in length and from 7 to 21 tons in weight. The spinosaurus has long narrow jaws with conical teeth, due to the anatomical resemblance to crocodiles. The spinosaurus fed on land and water prey, living on land and in water, like a modern crocodile.

Carcharodontosaurus (Carcharodontosaurus) - third place

Carcharodontosaurus is a genus of the family Carcharodontosaurus. It was a huge carnivore that lived in North Africa during the Late Cretaceous between 110 and 94 million years ago, at the same time and place as the spinosaurus. The genus is named after the shark Karharodon, "Karharodontosaurus" is translated as "shark-toothed lizard." Extremely sharp teeth provided this predator with a fatal bite. These are large (up to 13 m long), heavy (6-15 tons) animals with a long skull (up to 1.75 m) and a straight short neck.

On the forelimbs had three fingers with sharp claws. This genus includes two animal species, C. saharicus and C.iguidensis, which were large theropods. Karharodontosaurus is a territorial animal, it occupied large areas for which it fought with other predators, and preferred water areas.

Giganotosaurus (Giganotosaurus) - second place

Giganotosaurus is a genus of theropod that lived in Argentina about 98-97 million years ago. The name of the genus translates as "giant southern lizard." Giganotosaurus ranged from 12 to 13 m in length and weighed from 4.2 to 13.8 tons. Giganotosaurus is a member of the family Carcharodontosaurus, to which other large genera of theropods belong, for example, Mapusaurus and Carcharodontosaurus. Giganotosaurus is considered a homeothermic animal (with thermoregulation, which maintains a constant body temperature regardless of external influences). The average metabolism between mammals and reptiles contributed to the rapid growth of this animal.

Giganotosaurus is a mobile and agile theropod, its speed reached 50 km / h. He hunted herbivorous dinosaurs: titanosaurs, andasaurs, limaizavry, etc. He also consumed crocodile-like lizards, snakes, turtles, fish, ornithopods and pterosaurs.

The most predatory dinosaur - Tyrannosaurus (Tyrannosaurus)

Tyrannosaurus is a representative of the tyrannosaurids family, which lived about 68-66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period in the western region of North America.

The tyrannosaurus was a two-legged predator with a muscular body, a long heavy tail, and a massive skull. It was up to 12.3 m in length, 3-4 m in height with a weight of 8 to 14 tons.Compared to large and strong legs, the forelimbs of this dinosaur were short, but unusually powerful for its size and had 2 fingers with large claws. The strength of a tyrannosaurus bite was three times the strength of a white shark, making him the strongest and most ferocious land predator. Tyrannosaurs hunted hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ceratops, and sauropods.

The most famous species of this genus is the Rex tyrannosaurus, or T. Rex. The term “tyrannosaurus” from Greek means “tyrant lizard”, and “rex” in Latin means “king”. So, the tyrannosaurus Rex was "the king of tyrant lizards." The Tyrannosaurus Rex is the largest bipedal predator in the Late Cretaceous ecosystem and the largest terrestrial predator of all time.

Other types of dinosaurs - carcharodontosaurus, gigantosaurus, spinosaurus are close in size, but they lived earlier in the Cretaceous period and belonged to different families. The longest-lived tyrannosaurus Rex lived for 28 years. Tyrannosaurus is the last known member of the tyrannosaurus family.

The list of the most predatory TOP 5 dinosaurs includes the largest ferocious theropods - the allosaurus, the spinosaurus, the carcharodontosaurus, the giantotosaurus and the tyrannosaurus, which tops this rating. These giant, powerful dinosaurs are the largest terrestrial predators in the history of the Earth and at the same time the largest bipedal animals.