A very large carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the genusSpinosaurusof the Cretaceous Period, characterized by a long narrow snout and long spines on the back that may have formed a sail-like structure. [New LatinSpīnosaurus,genus name: Latinspīna,thorn+ Greeksauros,lizard.] ...
Spinosaurus is a carnivorous dinosaur that lived in what is now Northern Africa during the Cretaceous period—about 110 million years ago. Most scientist agree that this dinosaur probably hunted both on land and in water and probably lived on a diet of both fish and small mammals. It is belie...
Gigantspinosaurus was a herbivore (plant-eater) that lived in China during the late Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago. It is the earliest known member of the Stegosauria (the Infraorder tha includes Stegosaurus and Kentrosaurus among others). ...
Calculations of Spinosaurus reaching sizes of 18.3 m (60 ft) long and 9 t (19,841 lb) were estimated, however, these claims were over-speculated. With remains having been found in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Niger, the first Spinosaurus remains were discovered in 1912 by Austrian fossil ...
Spinosaurusis thought to have survived primarily on fish, including giant coelacanths, sawfish, large lungfish and sharks, which lived in the dinosaur's river system, according to Ibrahim. "The skull ofSpinosaurushas 'fish eating' written all over it, so those are the kinds of animalsSpinosaurus...
The Spiny Spinosaurus Imagine that your school bus grew five-foot-long spines on top of its roof and learned how to swim, and you'll have an idea of what thespinosauruswas like when it was alive about 100 million years ago. A Spinosaurus Skeleton ...
Whales(at least the baleen ones) are well adapted to eating microprey items, their baleen plates an evolutionary adaptation to occupy a niche that no other animal was really taking at the time. Keep in mind, this was millions of years ago.. ...
Size mm (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Dinosaur tooth is 43 mm long by 12 mm across at base Fossil Site: Kem-Kem Basin, Taouz, Morocco Fossil Code: SPT100 Price: $55.00 Description: Spinosaurus was first discovered over 100 years ago in Egypt by Ernst Stromer. The fragmentary remains indicated...
"Whichever one got in the first big bite would have probably won a fight." In the film it is the Tyrannosaurus that got the first big bite and should have won the fight. Moreover, with a bite force of 3.5-6.5 metric tons the T. rex should have bitten the Spinosaurus head off.Did ...
sail-like structure along its back. This adaptation had not been seen in such prominence in the reptile kingdom since the heyday ofDimetrodon, which lived over 150 million years earlier, during the Permian period (and which wasn't even technically a dinosaur, but a type of reptile known as...