{"id":18283,"date":"2000-09-02T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2000-09-02T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyfuncalgary.com\/?p=18283"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:37:51","slug":"allosaurus-calgary-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyfuncanada.com\/calgary\/allosaurus-calgary-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know Allosaurus With Sam, Your Calgary Zoo Dinosaur Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

This information is from 2015. Check out the Family Fun Calgary Major Attractions Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meet Sam.<\/strong> He’s been a regular visitor to the Calgary Zoo<\/a>\u00a0since he was just 5\u00a0years old. Now he’s 9\u00a0and<\/em> a junior expert on dinosaurs! He’s even one of the regular contributors to the zoo’s blog<\/a>. Sam is going to take some time out of his busy days to\u00a0introduce us to a few\u00a0of the dinosaurs that inhabit the\u00a0zoo’s Prehistoric Park<\/a>.<\/del><\/p>\n

Today,\u00a0Sam is going to share with\u00a0us what he’s observed\u00a0about the zoo’s\u00a0the fearsome Allosaurus.\u00a0Take it away Sam!<\/del><\/p>\n

“When I walk into Prehistoric Park the first moving dinosaur I see is the Allosaurus. It snarls so loud that little kids are afraid of it, but not me \u2013 I know it\u2019s just roaring hello because it can\u2019t talk. I think that Allosaurus looks a lot like Tyrannosaurus rex. It is just a little bit smaller and it has three claws and longer arms than its famous puny-armed, two-clawed cousins. Even though they look similar I see that the sign says that Allosaurus lived about 100 million years before Tyrannosaurus \u2013 that\u2019s even older than my grandpa!<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n

I see how sharp those claws and teeth are and all I can think is I that Allosaurus was a pretty tough creature, and I think he could even eat a whole cow! I wonder how strong an Allosaurus could bite? I think that scientists have found bones of really big dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus that actually have Allosaurus tooth-shaped markings, so Allosaurus must have been pretty strong. Even though it\u2019s food might have been bigger, I see that Allosaurus is still pretty darn big.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n

In my dinosaur books it says that he is the fifth largest meat-eating dinosaur after the big guys like Spinosaurus and, of course, Tyrannosaurus. Oh well \u2013 at least Allosaurus could always beat T-rex in an arm wrestling match!<\/em>“.<\/del><\/p>\n

Sam, the Allosaurus sounds like it was a pretty amazing dinosaur. All in all, though, I’m happy\u00a0that we can\u00a0meet\u00a0the\u00a0animatronic Allosaurus\u00a0at Prehistoric Park – and not a real live one, face-to-face! We’re looking forward to hearing from you again soon, about another awesome dinosaur.<\/del><\/p>\n

Did You Know?<\/del><\/h3>\n