🦖 Allosaurus vs Asian elephant 🐘

Allosaurus is about 3 times as long as the Asian elephant.

🧒 our measuring child, 4 ft1.2 m🦖 Allosaurus, 28 ft8.5 m long, lived 145 to 155 million years ago🐘 Asian elephant, 9 ft2.8 m at the shoulder

Row	🦖 Allosaurus	🐘 Asian elephant
Top speed Neither has a checked number yet.	no checked number yet	no checked number yet
Weight We don't have a checked number for Allosaurus yet.	no checked number yet	3 to 6 tons2.8 to 5.4 tonnes1
Lives Nobody knows how long a dinosaur lived, so there is nothing to compare.	no checked number yet	47 years47 years1
Eats Allosaurus eats meat; the Asian elephant eats plants.	other dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus	grasses, leaves, bark, roots and fruit
Lives in One lived long ago, one lives today: they never met.	western North America, especially Utah, Colorado and Wyoming	forests and grasslands of India and Southeast Asia

Which one? Allosaurus or Asian elephant

Nobody can time a dinosaur, so there is no race. Their bones tell us how big they were, not how fast.

We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.

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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/allosaurus-vs-asian-elephant