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Description
Scientific name: Qianzhousaurus sinensis
Diet: fish, meat (at the Zoo they eat pork and chicken)
Projected natural lifespan: 27 years
Length: 9 meters (~30 feet)
Weight: uncertain
Locality: Guangdong, China (Nanxiong Formation), 72 Ma (Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian)
Exhibit: Tyrant's Lair

About:
Qianzhousaurus is an odd theropod. Although it doesn't look like it, it was actually an evolutionary offshoot of the tyrannosaur lineage.

Description and behavior:
With its long snout and low build, Qianzhousaurus was certainly a unique tyrannosaur. Together with its closest relative, Alioramus, it forms the taxonomic group Alioramini. These weren't your average run-of-the-mill tyrannosaurs, and seemed strangely convergent with spinosaurids. Indeed, they won't be found chasing helpless small dinosaurs, but would instead be wading in rivers hunting for fish, as their thin jaws are not powerful enough to crush live dinosaur meat. They preferred to eat meat in the form of rotting carcasses, though fish is still the main part of their diet. As a result, Qianzhousaurus is not very aggressive, possibly as docile as an adult tyrannosaur can get. However, they are still very territorial, and will intimidate any other animal that enters into its territory.

At the Zoo:
The Tyrant's Lair exhibit houses four Qianzhousaurus, two mated pairs, Long (M) and Nan (F), and Jacob (M) and Gan (F), which are alternately displayed on rotation every day. They have a wet, savannah-inspired enclosure which is found on a separate path from the main exhibition path. This represents how the alioramins are an offshoot of the main tyrannosaur lineage.

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The behavior is inspired by crocodiles, herons, and bears.

The skeletal I used belongs to DrScottHartman .

Description
Scientific name: Qianzhousaurus sinensis
Diet: fish, meat (at the Zoo they eat pork and chicken)
Projected natural lifespan: 27 years
Length: 9 meters (~30 feet)
Weight: uncertain
Locality: Guangdong, China (Nanxiong Formation), 72 Ma (Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian)
Exhibit: Tyrant's Lair

About:
Qianzhousaurus is an odd theropod. Although it doesn't look like it, it was actually an evolutionary offshoot of the tyrannosaur lineage.

Description and behavior:
With its long snout and low build, Qianzhousaurus was certainly a unique tyrannosaur. Together with its closest relative, Alioramus, it forms the taxonomic group Alioramini. These weren't your average run-of-the-mill tyrannosaurs, and seemed strangely convergent with spinosaurids. Indeed, they won't be found chasing helpless small dinosaurs, but would instead be wading in rivers hunting for fish, as their thin jaws are not powerful enough to crush live dinosaur meat. They preferred to eat meat in the form of rotting carcasses, though fish is still the main part of their diet. As a result, Qianzhousaurus is not very aggressive, possibly as docile as an adult tyrannosaur can get. However, they are still very territorial, and will intimidate any other animal that enters into its territory.

At the Zoo:
The Tyrant's Lair exhibit houses four Qianzhousaurus, two mated pairs, Long (M) and Nan (F), and Jacob (M) and Gan (F), which are alternately displayed on rotation every day. They have a wet, savannah-inspired enclosure which is found on a separate path from the main exhibition path. This represents how the alioramins are an offshoot of the main tyrannosaur lineage.

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The behavior is inspired by crocodiles, herons, and bears.

The skeletal I used belongs to DrScottHartman .