Animal of the Dead: Yangchuanosaurus

Animals are cool. There are so many types of animals in the world and they all have cool characteristics. Wolves live in packs, cheetahs are known for being fast, flying fish can literally fly. These animals are cool and all, but there are animals that are even more impressive. And no, not humans. I’m talking about extinct animals. Dinosaurs, Cenozoic creatures, ocean monsters, all types of animals that lived in the past, but now they're extinct. Even though they are dead, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be remembered. This is “Animal of the Dead.”

The deer-eating titanis was cool and all but one creature was cooler. One creature was a dinosaur. The yangchuanosaurus. The yangchuanosaurs was a large, carnivorous theropod. A theropod was a dinosaur that was bipedal and were of all sizes. If I’m going to be honest, most theropods look the same, but there's one defining characteristic that sets the yangchuanosaurus from all the other theropods. It had a bony ridge on its head, from its eyes to its mouth. The yangchuanosaurus died around 144 million years ago and was first found in China in 1978.

It was also a very good hunter all by itself as well. It was able to bring down prey much larger than itself, almost like a pack of velociraptors embodied in one dinosaur.