If killing one a few spears will do it

Pain in the backside early game. Craft a couple of spears and kill them

Me and a friend of mine had two Dillophosaurus who were our first dinosaurs, and one of them was sadly killed by a guy with a Rex and a Brontosaurus.

If you encounter one weaponless hide behind a large attacking creature that’s not a carnivore. Runaway well the battle is happening.

Here’s some tips for my fellow noobs!
You will encounter these guys. It’s impossible to not see them at least once in the few days after you start the game. If you’re like me and want to avoid them, listen. I mean literally. They make a sort of chittering noise, very different from dodos. Listening to the world around me has saved my butt too many times.
If you want to fight one, wait until you have an axe and have upped your health and damage some. They’re easy kills if you sprint at em from behind and spam the axe. If you see them flash their frill, get to the side. When they flash the frill it means they’re going to spit.
Similar strategy for taming, but instead of an axe use a club. Toss some raw meat into their inventory and keep some narco berries on hand juuuust in case. They tame very quick.
At high levels they are amazing defenders and distractors, though I’d use carbonemys for distracting. They’re also very moveable thanks to their size.

Please have your following distants at low or medium because if it’s at high or higher your Dino will not follow you for a long time and if it’s at lowest your Dino will follow you even wen you move just a little

If you encounter a dilophosaurus early in game and want to kill it for resources such as meat then use a bow & arrow at medium range and spam stone axe during combat since spamming causes fast knockbacks that makes it difficult for the creature to attack you

They usually spawn where dodos and carbonemys do.

Whenever you Team Them they really listen to you

First one I tamed was quickly mauled to death by a giant sloth R.I.P. Ugly