Carnotaurus

### Behavior

Ferocious, carnivorous, hungry, bloodthirsty, meat-eating, violent, brutal, vicious, cruel, emotionless, ruthless and vengeful (larger carnotaur)

### Physical appearance

Gigantic and slender crimson Carnotaurus, large horn over each eye, red scales, gray underbelly, red eyes, horned spine, small arms, large powerful legs

### Dinosaur

* To take revenge on Kyle Scheyd for imprisoning him and the other dinosaurs and also to destroy Utah, Salt Lake City (all failed)

### Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie

* Kill Stag Beetle and Antlion with Baryonyx (failed)
* Fight against Gabby Cats and Raid Bugs & Pests along with it’s fellow dinos from Jurassic World (formerly)

### Notable members

Baryonyx (Teamed up with it to kill Antlion and Stag Beetle, only to fail when the two Raid Bugs fly on top of a Bull stampede; Teamed up with it again to battle Antlion and Stag Beetle)Other dinosaurs from Jurassic World

### Natural abilities

Great strength, roars, speed, jaw strength, sense of smell, climbing abilities, thick skin

### Weapons

Sharp teeth, horns, tail spines, head, talons

### Dinosaur

Both killed: The female Carnotaurus is crushed by the cave-in caused by Bruton, the male Carnotaurus falls off a cliff while fighting Aladar.

### Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Is stomped by Rexy.

**Carnotaurus**, also known as **Carnotaurs** ("Meat-eating bull"), were a species of carnivorous dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous period 72-69.9 million years ago in South America. They appear as the main antagonists in the 2000 Disney CG film *Dinosaur*, alongside Kron.

## Background

### Physical Description

Carnotaurus is a vicious-looking, meat-eating dinosaurs with red scales, large tail, sharp teeth, and short horns. The two Carnotaurs that serve as the film's main antagonists are noticeably different in size, though it is unknown whether they are a mated pair or just relatives.

### Personality

Not necessarily evil, they are predators who need food and water to survive. This is the main reason for the confrontation in the film; they have no real malicious intent. They just care about feeding themselves and only show respect for themselves and no one else. However, they are somewhat smart and cunning, as they follow the herd's footprints to find food and water, then later allow an injured Bruton to escape so he could lead them to the rest of the herd. The two in the movie might be a mated pair, relatives or perhaps the larger carnotaur was the parent of the smaller one, but they have a very strong bond and the surviving one shows a powerful grudge against Aladar, trying to drag him over a cliff even when it was obvious the Carnotaur would die, after the other one was crushed by rocks Aladar's friends caused to fall on it.

Even so, they are extremely vicious, dangerous and feared, described as a "mouthful of teeth with a bad attitude" by Eema.

## Appearances

### *Dinosaur*

A Carnotaurus first appears at the beginning of the film where a young Parasaurolophus chases a Longisquama into the jungle. The Longisquama eventually landed on what appeared to be the bark of a large tree. The young dinosaur looks up to where the reptile is, but before it can get close, saliva falls on the branch next to it, causing the young dinosaur to look up where the Longisquama landed: the nose of a Carnotaur, which quickly awakens. The young Parasaurolophus runs out of the jungle in terror, getting the attention of many of the herbivorous dinosaurs. The Carnotaur bursts out of the treeline immediately after and starts chasing the dinosaurs, smashing all but one of the eggs in an Iguanodon's nest in the process. Ultimately, the chase ends when the Carnotaur runs down and kills a Pachyrhinosaurus.

At the middle of the film, two Carnotaurus (the male presumably the same one from the beginning of the movie) scare off a pack of Velociraptors from the remains of a Struthiomimus. The pair then go after the herd in which Aladar, his lemur family and dinosaur friends are in by following the tracks left behind.

Later, Bruton and a scout are attacked by the Carnotaurus while searching for water. Bruton escapes to warn Kron, albeit injured, as the scout is killed by them. As soon as Bruton tells Kron, he is left behind to fend for himself, having unintentionally led the predators to the rest of the herd. That night, the Carnotaurs stop for water before noticing new tracks in the distance and resuming their hunt.

Later, as Aladar, his family, friends and Bruton take shelter from a rainstorm in a cave, the Carnotaurs inevitably discover them and attack. Bruton comes to the rescue and sacrifices himself by causing a cave-in, burying the female Carnotaur. The male survives, however, leaving and roaring in vengeance, apparently upset at the loss of his mate, before continuing his search for the herd.

After Aladar and company find the Nesting Grounds, Aladar rushes back to warn Kron's herd about the rock pile and ravine blocking the main entrance. On the way there, he see a dead Stygimoloch and quickly hides when he hears the Carnotaur coming to eat the Stygimoloch. Aladar manages to escape shortly after, unintentionally getting the Carnotaur's attention.

The next day, Aladar reaches the herd and tries to warn Kron about the approaching Carnotaur. Kron refuses to listen, however, as he thinks Aladar is leading the carnivore right to the herd. After his battle with Kron, Aladar assumes the herd's leadership. Unfortunately, the Carnotaur arrives shortly after and the herd panics. Aladar orders the herd to stand together to avoid being picked off. The plan works and the Carnotaurus backs down. Suddenly, he spots Kron and runs after him, with Neera and Aladar not far behind. After Kron climbs the rocks only to find himself facing a cliff, the Carnotaur corners him. Kron fights back, but the Carnotaur bites him in the back and tosses him against a rock. As it is about to finish him off, Neera comes and assaults the Carnotaur in an attempt to save her brother, but is easily overpowered. The Carnotaurus then prepares to finish Neera, but Aladar arrives, and manages to push the Carnotaur to the edge of the cliff. As the Carnotaur faces Aladar, his heavy weight causes the cliff ledge to crumble. As the cliff starts to crack, the Carnotaur grabs Aladar and tries to pull him down with him, but fails, and the Carnotaur falls off the cliff to his death.

### DINOSAUR

In the ride DINOSAUR at Disney's Animal Kingdom, a Carnotaurus is encountered four times. The first time is when the Time Rover's computer locks onto a large dinosaur, although he's not the Iguanodon, the dinosaur meant to be captured. When the Time Rover reached the targeted dinosaur, the computer identified it as a Carnotaurus. He roars at the riders, but they safely get away.

In the second encounter, lightning flashes to reveal the Carnotaurus. As he runs towards the guests, the Time Rover flees. After turning left and right many times to avoid meteor strikes, the Carnotaurus is encountered again, rearing to his full height and roaring loudly. Luckily, the riders in the Time Rover escape.

The last encounter is just seconds before the killer asteroid hits the Earth. The Carnotaurus lunges at the guests just as they make it through to the present day as the asteroid marks the extinction of the dinosaurs, including the Carnotaurus.

### Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie

In the year 2022, the God Box and Box Club Leader, stole several dinosaurs from Jurassic World and put them under their control (their Dinosaur troops consist of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, a juvenile male Allosaurus during his childhood with his Allosaurus family, Ceratosaurus, Carnotaurus, Pteranodon, Dimorphodon, Giganotosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Cryolophosaurus, Dimetrodon, Pyroraptor, Atrociraptor, Quetzalcoatlus, Skorpiovenator, Majungasaurus, Spinosaurus, Concavenator, Moros Intrepidus, Deinonychus, Megalania, Sarcosuchus, Mosasaurus, Baryonyx, Suchomimus, Archelon, Cretoxyrhina, Plesiosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Attenborosaurus, Liopleurodon, Oviraptor, Parasaurolophus, Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Maiasaura, Microceratus, Sinoceratops, Gallimimus, Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Kentrosaurus, Iguanodon, Pachycephalosaurus, Stygimoloch, Nodosaurus, Muttaburrasaurus, Hypsilophodon, Pachyrhinosaurus, Styracosaurus, and Therizinosaurus) to steal the Dino orb, however, an Amargasaurus from Jurassic World uses its neck spines against Box Club Leader by whacking its neck sideways against him, although its neck spines didn’t put Box Club Leader down, Amargasaurus escaped, being the only Dinosaur from Jurassic World to not be controlled.

Box Club Leader was overjoyed with happiness, he wanted test his controlled dinosaur pawns, so he teleports Pteranodon in the sky to attack Mosquito, Carnotaurus and Baryonyx to the watering hole to attack Antlion and Stag Beetle, Ankylosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Kentrosaurus, and Iguanodon to a barren wasteland to attack Boll Weevil (who is a pupae and is about to be an adult Boll Weevil soon), Damselfly, Iguana and Wasp, Therizinosaurus in the Fairytail Garden to attack Kitty Fairy and Praying Mantis who are in a tour, Velociraptor in the Dino valley to steal the Dino orb, and Tyrannosaurus Rex, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Spinosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Dimetrodon, Quetzalcoatlus, Pyroraptor, Triceratops, Skorpiovenator, Majungasaurus, Concavenator, and Sarcosuchus in New York to attack people and destroy a traffic in the highway, which that caused the Bugs and Pests from Raid Universe to check the sightings in their hideout.

As Antlion and Stag Beetle go for a drink in the watering hole, the two Raid Bugs are terrorized by the controlled Carnotaurus and Baryonyx, both controlled dinosaurs try to kill Stag Beetle and Antlion, but the two Raid Bugs are fast, all the while Stag Beetle and Antlion fly into a herd of Bulls, the controlled Baryonyx and Carnotaurus kill several of the Bulls, but both controlled dinosaurs lost track of Antlion and Stag Beetle, they were then teleported by an unidentified object.

But that was not the time to relax just yet, they realized that the Box Club Leader is the one, who thinks he saved the Gabby Cats and the Bugs and Pests from Raid Universe from those dinosaurs, however, when Mosquito checked their brains and sees control chips, realizing in fact, that the Box Club Leader actually controlled all the dinosaurs from Jurassic World, but when he checked on the brain of the Amargasaurus from Jurassic World, using Flea's X-Ray, he learns that it is not controlled, due to no control chip on its brain, having to escaped the Box Club Leader, however, the Box Club Leader teleported all of his mind-controlled dinosaurs back to resume their attack, with Carnotaurus and Baryonyx attacking Stag Beetle and Antlion once again, but the two survive jumping into a lone big bush before they were killed, unfortunately, Baryonyx cuts open the bush, and both Carnotaurus and Baryonyx manage to defeat Stag Beetle and Antlion after a brief battle, although Carnotaurus's jaws and Baryonyx's claws didn’t kill Stag Beetle and Antlion, the two bugs got knocked out instead as the two controlled theropods spare the knocked out arthropods bodies, knowing how pitiful they are.

After all of the Gabby Cats and Bugs & Pests from Raid Universe are freed, Box Club Leader decides to make himself the king of the dinosaurs, telling the God Box to give him with it’s unlimited power, being powered up and using the Dino orb, he mutates through every dinosaur from 1 to 54, including Carnotaurus, then turns into an Ultimasaurus, a combination of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, and Ankylosaurus, now being the king of the dinosaurs, he orders his controlled dinosaur troops to attack and a deadly battle between the Gabby Cats and Raid Bugs & Pests against the dinosaurs from Jurassic World breaks out, where Carnotaurus manages to fight Stag Beetle & Antlion, teaming up with Baryonyx, (similar to how Allosaurus and Stegosaurus teamed up to fight Hornet and Dragonfly), however, as Centipede was distraught how sad and tragic battle is, he though the same Amargasaurus from earlier would attack him, but he realizes that its not controlled, which Centipede says that the rest are duking it out, but he realizes how their weapons would hurt a little to them, like his own pincer-like mandibles, and Amarga's neck spines.

After Gabby died from a big blast by Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the dinosaurs were freed from the control right after Box Club Leader reverts back and the God Box was destroyed, Carnotaurus, along with its fellow dinosaurs felt utterly miserable and sad, after reacting to Pandy's sadness, it cried along with the Gabby Cats, the Raid Bugs & Pests, and its fellow dinosaurs from Jurassic World, (except for Neptune, Fly, Boss Bug, Centipede, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Amargasaurus, the Starry Animals, Box Club Leader and the God Box) it is seen crying with Kitty Fairy, Stag Beetle, Grasshopper, Praying Mantis, Antlion, Asian Lady Beetle, Baryonyx, Therizinosaurus, Parasaurolophus and Moros Intrepidus.

However, the water of their tears revived Gabby, relieving all of the Gabby Cats, Raid Bugs & Pests, and the others happy and relieved, then, after the T-Rex realizes that freedom is the right for all sentient beings after it remembered what Mosquito said, it leads its fellow dinosaurs from Jurassic World back to the Dinosaur valley, so they can freely live in their valley.

## In Real Life

Carnotaurus is known by a single but well-preserved skeleton uncovered in the Chubut Province of Argentina from rocks of the La Colonia Formation in 1984, complete with partial skin impressions. Only part of the animal's tail and its lower hind legs were missing. It is one of the best-known theropods in the Southern Hemisphere. Carnotaurus was part of a group of theropods (meaning "Beast feet") known as the Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") and its sub-group/family Carnotaurinae. One similar relative within the Carnotaurinae was the smaller Aucasaurus, although more derived in some ways such as its extremely reduced arms and almost total lack of fingers. According to the classification of Carnotaurinae, there are 11 members (with the sub-family Carnotaurinae, Brachyrosta, and Tribe Carnotaurini combined), comprising about half of the 22 known members of the abelisaurid family. Carnotaurus is also perhaps one of the fastest of the large theropod (meat-eating) dinosaurs. Studies of the animal's tail muscles (called the Caudofemoralis) indicate that it was a fast-running animal, as this muscle also attaches to the dinosaur's femurs, helping to drive the animal forward when it walked or ran. Carnotaurus would have been able to run incredibly fast, but would also have been unable to make quick, tight turns due to the very large size of said tail muscles. Carnotaurus furthermore is believed to have had a very weak, but rapid bite and specially hinged jaws. Based on studies of both it and the earlier meat-eating dinosaur Allosaurus, it is likely that Carnotaurus would open its mouth with and use its upper jaw like a serrated club or hatchet to strike its prey repeatedly until the victim succumbed to shock and blood loss. Small prey might have been swallowed whole. It is unknown what Carnotaurus actually ate in real life, but as indeterminate hadrosaurs (also known as duckbills) were found in the La Colonia Formation, it can be inferred that it hunted these animals.

## Trivia

* In *Dinosaur*, Carnotaurus was shown to be much bigger than it was in real life. The film shows it to be as big as the Tyrannosaurus Rex by naming it Carnotaur. In actuality, Carnotaurus was smaller; about 10-13 feet tall and 26 feet long (while Tyrannosaurus was 15-20 feet tall and 40 to 45 feet in length), thus making Carnotaurus smaller than Iguanodon, the main dinosaur of the movie.
	+ According to the behind-the-scenes features on the DVD, the Carnotaurus is at least 15 feet tall in the movie.
* During the production of DINOSAUR, original plans called for the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, but Disney decided to incorporate the lesser but popular Carnotaurus instead, resembling the devilish appearance as the primary antagonist.
* Another inaccuracy is that while the Carnotaurs in the movie are very big, bulky animals, the real life Carnotaurus was a very slim animal, almost like a cheetah with long, gracile legs.
* The canyon scenes were possibly set in the Americas because Carnotaurus and several iguanodonts (not Iguanodon) were discovered in Argentina. The death spots of the two abelisaurids were in South America and the rest of the film most likely takes place in North America (the nesting grounds), Asia (the desert), and Europe (the original nesting ground/land).
* Many fans and viewers often mistake the Carnotaurus portrayed in the film as T. rex due to their large size. They even nearly resemble a devil-like T. rex in appearance. Carnotaurus does have many differences from T. rex, such as smaller, useless arms, its obvious horns, and shorter snout.
* The vocal effects for the Carnotaurus were based on the roars of big cats.
* The second, smaller Carnotaurus is perhaps the larger one's sibling, twin, or mate. It is also possible given their size differences, that the larger carnotaur is the smaller one's mother.
* Aside from size, the Carnotaurus' appearance is highly accurate in most regards; as skin impressions are known from Carnotaurus, its appearance can be shown with relative confidence.
* Carnotaurus and all other abelisaurs are related to Ceratosaurus, which is a distant relative that shares a common ancestor with them.
* Deleted scenes depicting Bruton and his scouts' attack by the carnotaurs indicate that there was originally supposed to be three carnotaurs instead of two.
* Original storyboards also indicate that the carnotaurs were responsible for the deaths of the discarded characters that were Noah's (an old name concept for Aladar) grandparents.