You Pick BestYouPickBest

The 19 Most Fearsome Carnivorous Dinosaurs

By YPB Team

Tyrannosaurs, raptors and sail-backed giants, each lethal in its own way. Size is only one of the arguments.

  1. Tyrannosaurus rex — ranked #11
    Tyrannosaurus rex
    North America's Late Cretaceous tyrant, with bone-crushing jaws and 60 banana-sized teeth.
    1000pts
  2. Torvosaurus — ranked #22
    Torvosaurus
    One of the largest Jurassic predators, found in Colorado and Portugal.
    951pts
  3. Albertosaurus — ranked #33
    Albertosaurus
    A lighter, faster tyrannosaur found in bonebeds that hint at pack life.
    610pts
  4. Allosaurus — ranked #44
    Allosaurus
    The most common big predator of the Late Jurassic American West.
    553pts
  5. Spinosaurus — ranked #55
    Spinosaurus
    The longest known predatory dinosaur, a sail-backed fish hunter of North Africa.
    553pts
  6. Yutyrannus — ranked #66
    Yutyrannus
    A feathered early tyrannosaur from China, the largest feathered animal known.
    553pts
  7. Carnotaurus — ranked #77
    Carnotaurus
    A horned, fast-running abelisaur from Argentina.
    488pts
  8. Velociraptor — ranked #88
    Velociraptor
    A small feathered Mongolian hunter preserved locked in combat with a Protoceratops.
    413pts
  9. Megalosaurus — ranked #99
    Megalosaurus
    The first non-bird dinosaur ever named, in 1824.
    413pts
  10. Daspletosaurus — ranked #1010
    Daspletosaurus
    A heavy-skulled tyrannosaur that lived just before T. rex.
    413pts
  11. Dilophosaurus — ranked #1111
    Dilophosaurus
    A double-crested Early Jurassic predator from Arizona.
    413pts
  12. Ceratosaurus — ranked #1212
    Ceratosaurus
    A horn-nosed Jurassic predator with blade-like teeth.
    413pts
  13. Carcharodontosaurus — ranked #1313
    Carcharodontosaurus
    The 'shark-toothed lizard' of Cretaceous North Africa.
    413pts
  14. Tarbosaurus — ranked #1414
    Tarbosaurus
    T. rex's Asian cousin from the Gobi Desert.
    222pts
  15. Baryonyx — ranked #1515
    Baryonyx
    A crocodile-snouted fish eater found in an English clay pit in 1983.
    222pts
  16. Utahraptor — ranked #1616
    Utahraptor
    The largest known dromaeosaur, with a sickle claw around 24 cm long.
    222pts
  17. Giganotosaurus — ranked #1717
    Giganotosaurus
    A South American giant that rivalled T. rex in length.
    222pts
  18. Majungasaurus — ranked #1818
    Majungasaurus
    A Madagascan abelisaur with evidence of cannibalism in its bite marks.
    222pts
  19. Deinonychus — ranked #1919
    Deinonychus
    The 'terrible claw' whose discovery in 1964 recast dinosaurs as agile animals.
    0pts

Comments