Name Means: "Shark Lizard"
Time: Cretaceous (110-90 million years ago)
Location: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Niger
A massive meat-eater (larger than North America's Tyrannosaurus rex), Carcharodontosaurus was a heavy-boned, large-tailed, short-armed hunter with sharp claws on its three-fingered hands. This relatively primitive hunter grew 40 feet long, weighed 16,000 pounds, and had 8-inch-long teeth that could penetrate the toughest of prey. It probably took on even the largest of the large dinosaurs: the plant-eating giants called sauropods.