A HUGE predatory dinosaur attacked its prey not by biting it, but by slashing
its flesh like a medieval knight wielding a mace. Allosaurus slammed
its upper jaw into its victims, ripping off flesh with its sharp teeth, says
Emily Rayfield of the University of Cambridge. Komodo dragons also use the
slash-and-tear method.
Palaeontologists believe the jaws of the massive Tyrannosaurus rex
were so powerful they could crush bones. Even though Allosaurus lived
in the late Jurassic, some 85 million years earlier than T. rex, it
left more fossils. But it has not been studied in much detail.
When Rayfield…
