Its name means tyrant lizard king. Being one of the largest land carnivores that has ever existed, it was an agile and ferocious predator with a highly developed sense of smell, acute hearing, a large brain and an extraordinarily powerful bite (it had the power to crush a car). It could splinter bones and crush with its jaws both prey and combatants of its own kind.
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