# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 27, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-19-most-fearsome-carnivorous-dinosaurs*

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

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