Is albertosaurus a preditor or prey?

Although there has been much discussion about whether tyrannosaurids such as Albertosaurus were predators or scavengers, it is actually likely that they utilized both feeding strategies, capturing live prey when possible but scavenging if they happened on to a carcass.

1. Was the Albertosaurus a predator?
2. What type of dinosaur is an Albertosaurus?
3. Did T rex and Albertosaurus live together?
4. Was the Albertosaurus a herbivore?
5. What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?

Was the Albertosaurus a predator?

As a tyrannosaurid, Albertosaurus was a bipedal predator with tiny, two-fingered hands and a massive head that had dozens of large, sharp teeth. It may have been at the top of the food chain in its local ecosystem.

What type of dinosaur is an Albertosaurus?

Albertosaurus sarcophagus was a large tyrannosaur from the Late Cretaceous of western North America. This fierce, meat-eating dinosaur was shorter and lighter than Tyrannosaurus rex and belongs in a different subfamily, Albertosaurinae, along with Gorgosaurus.

Did T rex and Albertosaurus live together?

Albertosaurus was a member of the tyrannosaur family, the same group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. Albertosaurus lived a few million years before T. rex.

Was the Albertosaurus a herbivore?

Albertosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 76-74 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles. Albertosaurus was a carnivore (a meat eater). It probably ate plant-eating dinosaurs.

What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?

The poison-spitting dinosaur reconstructed in Jurassic Park is Dilophosaurus. At the time the movie was produced, there was no evidence that this or any other dinosaur spat poison or had poisonous saliva of any kind.