Across the chasm in the Land of the Lost is the Sleestak city. It's guardian is Big Alice, an immense female Allosaurus fragilis. I never thought she actually cared much about the Sleestak, more like she thought this was a good place to hang out. Since she had a baby in the third season it makes sense. She probably snacked on more than on errant Sleestak now and then. She was never quite the same menace Grumpy was, since the Marshalls had to go to her territory, rather than co-exist with the large Tyrannosaurus rex who's land they lived in. All of us viewers were waiting for the inevitable clash between the two titanic theropods, but couldn't quite figure out how it would happen. It was great when it finally did.
The interesting science part is that now this Allosaurus is considered to be as big as the rex. As a kid, this used to annoy me, as I didn't want any other dinosaur pretending to take the throne from the king of these animals. That stick is gone now, and I love finding out the differences between such beasts.
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