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Dilophosaurus
Dilophosaurus
Era: JurassicDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Early JurassicSize: 7mWeight: 400kg
Dilophosaurus was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what's now North America. It gets its name - meaning 'two-crested lizard' - from the distinctive double crests on top of its head. In life, they would probably be covered with hard keratin, the same material that makes up human hair and fingernails