The 19 Most Fearsome Carnivorous Dinosaurs

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

1. 1
   Tyrannosaurus rex

   North America's Late Cretaceous tyrant, with bone-crushing jaws and 60 banana-sized teeth.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Torvosaurus

   One of the largest Jurassic predators, found in Colorado and Portugal.
   951pts
3. 3
   Albertosaurus

   A lighter, faster tyrannosaur found in bonebeds that hint at pack life.
   610pts
4. 4
   Allosaurus

   The most common big predator of the Late Jurassic American West.
   553pts
5. 5
   Spinosaurus

   The longest known predatory dinosaur, a sail-backed fish hunter of North Africa.
   553pts
6. 6
   Yutyrannus

   A feathered early tyrannosaur from China, the largest feathered animal known.
   553pts
7. 7
   Carnotaurus

   A horned, fast-running abelisaur from Argentina.
   488pts
8. 8
   Velociraptor

   A small feathered Mongolian hunter preserved locked in combat with a Protoceratops.
   413pts
9. 9
   Megalosaurus

   The first non-bird dinosaur ever named, in 1824.
   413pts
10. 10
    Daspletosaurus

    A heavy-skulled tyrannosaur that lived just before T. rex.
    413pts
11. 11
    Dilophosaurus

    A double-crested Early Jurassic predator from Arizona.
    413pts
12. 12
    Ceratosaurus

    A horn-nosed Jurassic predator with blade-like teeth.
    413pts
13. 13
    Carcharodontosaurus

    The 'shark-toothed lizard' of Cretaceous North Africa.
    413pts
14. 14
    Tarbosaurus

    T. rex's Asian cousin from the Gobi Desert.
    222pts
15. 15
    Baryonyx

    A crocodile-snouted fish eater found in an English clay pit in 1983.
    222pts
16. 16
    Utahraptor

    The largest known dromaeosaur, with a sickle claw around 24 cm long.
    222pts
17. 17
    Giganotosaurus

    A South American giant that rivalled T. rex in length.
    222pts
18. 18
    Majungasaurus

    A Madagascan abelisaur with evidence of cannibalism in its bite marks.
    222pts
19. 19
    Deinonychus

    The 'terrible claw' whose discovery in 1964 recast dinosaurs as agile animals.
    0pts

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