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Dinosaur experts have discovered new information about the elusive Spinosaurus. The giant carnivore acted like a heron when feeding; snatching fish in the water from the riverbank.
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The Spinosaurus is one of the most mysterious big dinosaurs that palaeontologists have been studying.
New research from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Maryland, has reignited the debate around the behaviour of the giant dinosaur Spinosaurus.
Was This Dinosaur More Subaquatic Killer or Giant Wading Bird?
A new study challenges the hypothesis that spinosaurus pursued its prey in the currents of prehistoric rivers.
A life reconstruction of spinosaurus foraging in water.Credit.Bob Nicholls
By Asher Elbein
Jan. 26, 2021
Ninety-nine million years ago, a 55-foot dinosaur stalked the river deltas of North Africa. A sail on its back towered over the water as its crocodile-like jaws and curved claws made short work of car-size fish.
This was Spinosaurus, discovered in 1915. Paleontologists have since debated how this creature lived. Did it prowl through currents in pursuit of prey, as recent research has suggested, or seek its quarry in the shallows more like an enormous wading bird? New evidence for this second explanation was published Tuesday in Palaeontologia Electronica, challenging a hypothesis that scientists had found a dinosaur that lived a primarily aquatic lifestyle.