Carcharodontosaurus

Dun dun... Dun dun... Watch out, here comes the shark lizard, Carcharodontosaurus!

Carcharodontosaurus gets its name from its teeth, which are long, triangular, and serrated, much like a great white shark.

Despite the name, this is a terrestrial animal, not an aquatic one! You can think of it as a land shark: well-suited to catching large prey with an incredibly muscular body and wicked serrated teeth.

There must have been something in the water back in Cretaceous North Africa, because Carcharodontosaurus wasn't the only carnivore around that reached gigantic proportions. Many of the geological formations that preserve its fossils also yield the remains of Spinosaurus!