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Physical Characteristics
Baryonyx was an unusual theropod with huge foot long claws on its hands and long, narrow, crocodile-like jaws with 96 small, serrated teeth (this is 1.5 times the number of teeth that most other theropods had). It had a small crest on its snout. Baryonyx had a long, straight neck and a long tail. Its low-slung body was supported by 2 large rear legs and 2 slightly smaller arms. It was a carnivorous dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago. This predator was about 32 feet (9.5 m) long, weighing perhaps over 2 tons.

Habitat
Baryonyx lived during the early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago, in what is now England. Baryonyx was found in 1983 in a clay pit in Surrey, England, by the British amateur fossil hunter William Walker. It was the first carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur found in England.

Behaviour
Baryonyx may have walked on two or four muscular legs. Although the front legs shorter than the rear legs, they were not that much shorter and it may have waded in rivers and shallow seas to catch fish, just as some modern-day bears do.

Breeding

Diet
Baryonyx was a carnivore, a meat eater with huge claws and many small, sharp teeth in powerful, crocodile-like jaws. It had 64 teeth in the lower jaw but only 32 teeth in the upper jaw (the upper teeth were larger than the lower teeth). Baryonyx was a large predator that ate fish. A fossilized Baryonyx was found with a fossilized meal in its stomach; this stomach contained fish scales, fish bones, and some partially digested bones of a young Iguanodon. So far, Baryonyx is the only known dinosaur that ate fish.

Strange and Interesting Facts
Baryonyx is pronounced: bah-ree-ON-icks and means Heavy Claw.