Its name means strange lizard. It was the largest predator in North America in the Jurassic (before the Tyrannosaurus Rex arrived in the Cretaceous). It was capable of opening its jaws wide enough to take large bites with all of its teeth, thereby tearing out huge morsels of meat and it may have used the three large claws on its hands to grip the flank of its prey
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