there were many other predators below it on the food chain. There was Ceratosaurus, a twenty-foot-long mid-tier hunter with a frightening horn on its snout, a horse-size carnivore named Marshosaurus after the Bone Wars pugilist, and a donkey-size primitive cousin of T. rex called Stokesosaurus. Then you had the slashers: a number of lightly built, fast-running pests like Coelurus, Ornitholestes, and Tanycolagreus, the Morrison version of cheetahs. And all of these meat-gobblers, even Allosaurus, probably lived in fear of another monster that reigned near the top of the food chain. It’s called
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