Why Spinosaurus Keeps Rewriting Dinosaur History

Spinosaurus was one of the largest known carnivorous dinosaurs, living about 99 to 93 million years ago in what is now North Africa. Its long, narrow snout and conical teeth were well suited for gripping slippery prey, and chemical evidence plus fossils from river and delta settings support a diet that included aquatic animals, including large fish. Its limb bones were also unusually dense for a theropod, which may have helped with buoyancy control, though exactly how it hunted in the water is s

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