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Allosaurs

Dusk Venator

Smaller and more secretive than their more diurnal cousins, the dusk venator is a relatively small 12-foot-long pack hunter that lives in the deepest, darkest reaches of Kaku Hidi, hunting in a similar manner to a dromaeosaur.

Snow Prowler

Stalking the cold reaches of the USC, snow prowlers rank among the continent's biggest predators outside of the Forest Peninsula at over 30 feet long and 10 feet tall at the shoulder; largely solitary, they prey upon virtually anything that they can find roaming the frigid lands that they call home, from seals to penguins to swiftlets.

Rassakk

A fairly small pack hunter native to Storm Valley, the rassakk is about 18 feet long and 8 feet tall, but it has a temper fitting an animal three times its size. It's notorious among local hunters and trappers for its belligerence and bloodthirst - while it's not as intelligent as the dromaeosaurs that it shares its habitat with, it's still quite intelligent, and is known for setting traps and luring prey into ambushes.

Wooly Stoa

Eriocarnosaurus montanus, The Wooly Stoa (Unrelated to the abelisaur of the same name), is a mid-sized carnosaur that dwells mainly in the cool upland forests along the mountains of Kaku Hidi. It is around 25 feet long and weighs around one ton, and has long arms with eagle like-claws. Its jaws and overall skull shape are similar to Allosaurus, with blade-like teeth and crests over the eyes. Its more distinctive features are its short, stocky stature and woolly covering of creamy-brown feathers, much like the tyrannosaur Yutyrannus. Its feathers and stocky build keep it warm in the colder mountain woodlands. It is as such the dominant predator of those woodlands, with few other large carnivores other than the Smilodon. Plateau Elk, Ground Sloths, and Glyptodonts are it's major prey.

Hell-Breather

Famously ill-tempered monstrous beasts native to the Drakenridge Mountains, these enormous dinosaurs are fully capable of going toe-to-toe with dragons and coming out victorious, totally immune to heat and all of its effects and able to literally return fire with a searing flamethrower-like blast of flames that can melt solid metal.

Darrogog

An enormous predator native to Helheim, this 50-foot-long monster is covered in plates of bone armor that are further reinforced by deposits of minerals taken from the soil and rocks that it regularly consumes.

Southern Gwangi

Closely related to the Gwangi of Concordia's canyons but more lightly built, the southern gwangi is a fairly rare native of Mexicolt's open deserts, existing as a mostly-cursorial generalist predator of prey that it can eat in one or two bites, although it is known to occasionally go for bigger, tougher prey.

Hatchetjaw

Hunting in packs across the open plains of Jurassica, the hatchetjaw is a mirror of its Late Jurassic ancestors, with each pack member ripping open huge bloody wounds in their sauropod prey before splitting off and tailing the beast, waiting for the unlucky animal to finally collapse of its wounds before moving in and feasting, often while the wounded animal is still alive.


Neovenatorids

Shark-Dingo

Measuring from 20-30 feet long, these big Hosstralian carnivores are quadrupedal predators of the biggest prey available, namely sauropods, iguanodontids, and large mammals and reptiles. Found around rivers, billabongs, and grasslands, these pride-dwelling creatures attack via ambush, leaping out from cover at once and burying their claws and jaws in the unlucky victim's flesh, using powerful arm and jaw muscles along with gravity to tear open their victim's wounds as they drop to the ground. As the animal flees, bleeding heavily, the shark-dingos give chase, occasionally attacking again until their meal finally drops to the ground.

Blade-Shark

Looking very much like a carcharodontosaur, the blade-shark gets its name from the resemblance to its distant relatives from the Cretaceous. It is also in many ways similar to primitive tyrannosaurs in that its arms are greatly reduced, its head is massive for a dinosaur its size, and it is built for a lasting pursuit. The male is quite brightly colored, with a yellow throat pouch, red head crests, a blue saddle-like mark on his back and a sandy red pelage that is the color of Ayer’s Rock. The female is similar in color, but the saddle is gray. Adults live in packs that are ruled by a dominant female and her partner, her sisters and their mates, and the young that obediently follow. When leadership or territories are challenged, the combatants display with head-down, side-to-side dancing that involves roaring and wattle inflating.
Hunters of megafauna like enormous marsupials and other dinosaurs, it's not uncommon for these animals to suffer horrific wounds such as the jaw fracture illustrated above; however, due to the care that these animals provide for one another, these wounds are rarely fatal.


Carcharodontosaurs

Brush-Fiend

Native to Hosstralia's remote outback, this roughly alicorn-sized beast is a solitary pursuit predator, dashing after its prey at speeds rivaling an automobile and slicing off huge bloody chunks of meat with hatchet-like strikes.

Sawtail

Growing larger than a Concordian mammoth, these big beasts of southwestern Zebrica are so named for the vicious sharp spikes along the sides of their tails - said spikes are used in defense and for killing prey, opening up huge bleeding wounds on the flanks of its prey with quick strikes of the tail.

Titanslayer

An enormous predator native to Jurassica, the titanslayer lives up to its name well - it's an utterly gargantuan beast that rivals many spinosaurs in sheer size at over 65 feet long and 30 feet tall. Lurking in the redwood forests of the island, it's a solitary beast that targets only the largest prey items, thanks to its incredible strength, slicing teeth, and its armored scales. Additionally, it has a nasty additional ability: As it is injured, it goes into a frenzy, seemingly ignoring pain in all its forms and pushing its body to greater and greater heights of physical capability. The heart pumps more and more blood into the muscular structure, causing its body to swell just a bit larger, and its strikes become much, much more dangerous.

Great Butcher-Drake

The descendant of an ancient Lemurian bioengineering program, the great butcher-drake is a colossal predator of Zebrica that's nearly twice the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex, and is blessed with incredible fortitude and regenerative capabilities - it's capable of taking incredibly powerful concussive blasts and magical attacks and coming away from it with little more than a few scratches, and it's fully capable of healing from any wounds that it does end up sustaining. The jaws are incredibly powerful, capable of crushing bones and armor plating, and its tail can flatten good-sized buildings with a single swing. Given the similar coloration and physical capabilities to the king megasaur, it's believed that the two enormous predators were given life from the same breeding program; indeed, the animals share a large amount of genetic material, and they don't seem to attack one another in the wild; indeed, they've actually been observed working together in some instances.

Berzerker Beast

The Berzerker Beast (Neoacrocanthosaurus Berzerkerus) is a very heavyset beast from northern Equus and Mustikk, although it is more common in the former region. The full animal stands about 12 feet tall at the hips, 20 feet long, and usually weighs up to 15 tons thanks to its incredibly heavy build, though this can fluctuate a bit as it's one of the few theropods to have a large hump on its back for storing vital nutrients. But this isn't the only strange aspect of this beast's anatomy.
It's in the anatomy of the skull that we see something incredible. Superficially, the Berzerker seems to very closely resemble its ancestor, Acrocanthosaurus. But the skull tells otherwise. Its teeth show signs of a crude form of heterodonty. The front set of teeth are the typical tooth design for a carnosaur. These are thin, narrow teeth with many serrations. These are perfect for slicing through soft flesh. But as you get further back into the skull, the teeth get thicker, and more robust. In fact, they appear very similar to the teeth of T. rex. This may have something to do with the back of the skull too. The bite force of the Berzerker is strong enough to crush bones; as a result, the back of the skull has had to gain in size, so as to make room for the large muscles that power them. This has resulted in the Berzerker gaining a form of Stereoscopic Vision, allowing it to perceive depth of field. This is a carnosaur trying to be a tyrannosaur. 
As per their names, berzerker beasts are incredibly difficult to kill - they have a ridiculously high tolerance for pain, and their thick heavy bones make them nearly impervious to most calibers of firearms

Prince_Staghorn
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6272065 Nice, but if the Sawtail is a grassland predator, it needs to be in southwest Zebrica. the southeast is jungle

6272090
Alright, fixed it.

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