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In the film and the original novelization, the Meat-Eater is depicted with three digits on its hands.

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Its strong hind legs allowed it to move around through a series of short hops. Its mouth is filled with sharp teeth, and it has two small, nearly useless arms that are described as only being useful for putting food into its mouth.

The novel Kong Reborn also refers to the Meat-Eater as 'jungle green' in color.

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Its bumpy skin is shown to be pinkish-brown in the colorized version of the film however, the novelization's dust jacket portrays it with smooth green skin and a crest of spines running down its back, where its head is additionally supported by a supple, serpentine neck. The Meat-Eater's puppet as seen in the original King Kong was based on the famous tail-dragging skeletal mount of the Tyrannosaurus rex displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century, which was later reconfigured in the 1980s because it was anatomically inaccurate. The Tyrannosaurus rex stop motion model used in the original King Kong was originally created for Willis O'Brien's canceled film Creation, as was the case with many of the creatures featured in the film. In Kong Reborn, Russell Blackford's 2005 sequel to the original novelization, the Meat-Eater is referred to by the narrator as an allosaur which, while not being specifically an Allosaurus, would point to it being in the clade Allosauridae. Cooper referred to the dinosaur as an Allosaurus. rex and, as a result, the creature is often considered to be such by most audiences, though director Merian C. Willis O'Brien had stated that the dinosaur was meant to be a T. The novel's prequel/sequel Kong: King of Skull Island features another dinosaur with the same name which more closely resembles a Tyrannosaurus rex, and also refers to it as a king dinosaur.

The dinosaur is never referred to by any specific name onscreen however, the screenplay for King Kong as well as the film's 1932 novelization refer to it as the 'meat-eater.' The dinosaur is also referred to as a 'meat eater' (unhyphenated) in the 2005 rewrite of the novelization by Brad Strickland and Joe DeVito. In its more recent appearances in literature where it is depicted more clearly as a fictional theropod, the meat-eater's description more closely matches that of a Tyrannosaurus than an Allosaurus. Cooper referred to the theropod as an Allosaurus, while stop-motion animators Willis O'Brien and Marcel Delgado identified it as a Tyrannosaurus. In the film's screenplay and novelization, it is only referred to as a 'meat-eater.' Director Merian C.

It has been debated for many years whether or not the theropod dinosaur that King Kong fought in the 1933 film was actually a Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus. Cooper's King Kong, and other members of its species were featured in the book's official prequel/sequel, Kong: King of Skull Island. The meat-eater also appeared in Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland's 2005 rewrite of the novelization titled Merian C. The Meat-Eater is a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that famously battled King Kong in the 1933 RKO Radio Pictures film King Kong, as well as the 1932 novelization based on its screenplay. Meat Eater, King Dinosaur, Man-eater, Tyrannosaurus rex, Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, Allosaur, Carnosaur, Monstro-Rex