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Dinosaur Predator Larger than T-Rex Discovered- It Sought in Water

September 14, 2014 By Germaine Hicks 1 Comment

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It has been discovered in the desert cliffs of Sahara, a meat-eating dinosaur bigger than T-Rex, with 7-foot spines on its back, was a marine back then. Paleontologists says, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, is believed not just the largest dinosaur marauder know to date; it’s also the earliest known swimmer amongst the meat-eating pack.

The scientists revealed the discovery of new fossil remains in Moroccan the desert cliffs of Morocco, on Thursday. Even though the species had first been observed almost a century ago, these remains were in far better condition and have altered the archetype for how dinosaur predators gazed and acted.

According to the study, the Spinosaurus also is the only known genuine dinosaur modified for a water-loving, semi-aquatic lifestyle, the study found and15 meters, roughly 2.5 meters longer than your average Tyrannosaurus Rex.

In the meanwhile, other marine predators you are possibly thinking about, such as plesiosauruses, were reptiles, not dinosaurs.

Spinosaurus was also the only known 4-footed dinosaur predator, living 95-million years ago in the Cretaceous. Its peers, like T. Rex, Allosaurus and Giganotosaurus, stood erect on their hind legs.

On the other hand, this ogre walked on 4 short legs rather like a monster daschund. The paleontologists claimed that it had a front-heavy build, a stretchy tail and dreary hind feet that may perhaps have been webbed and used for paddling. The scientists further claims, it has elongated jaws and conical teeth that were perfect for trapping slippery fish.

This Dinosaur has topped with a sail-like structure of bony spines 7 feet tall, connected by skin. The spiny rack would have stuck out of the water as Spinosaurus waded and swam after prey, most probably sharks, car-size fish and crocodilians, which it could trap with its sickle-like claws.

A Blast Puffs Up the Remnants

The University of Chicago paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, who guided the study published in the journal Science said, “The animal is unlike any other predatory dinosaur. There’s no blueprint for it. There’s no modern-day equivalent for it. It’s looking at a completely new kind of animal.”

For the moment, the Spinosaurus frightens a huge North African river system from Morocco to Egypt. Ibrahim said, it might not have been nimble on land, but could have taken down other dinosaurs too.

German paleontologist Ernst Stromer stated, Spinosaurus’s subsistence has been known for a century since fragmentary remains were found in Egypt. However those were shattered in a British bombing raid on Munich in 1944. Other limited remains proposed sheer glimpses of its anatomy.

Nevertheless, the myth of Spinosaurus had begun. It was featured in the 2001 movie “Jurassic Park III” conquering a T. Rex.

‘Mystery Man with Mustache’

The whole thing changed when a local fossil seeker revealed a partial skeleton in southeastern Morocco in 2008 near the Sahara oasis town of Erfoud. United with fossils detained in different museums and drawings of Stromer’s finds, an exact reconstruction of Spinosaurus lastly developed.

The grudging scientists of vital information stated, nothing was simple. The remains found by the fossil hunter were feisty out of Morocco.

They required to place the hunter but did not know his individuality further than being “the mystery man with the mustache.” He was lastly found in 2013 and led the scientists to the quarry site. A lot of fossils were excavated up there and the lost partial skeleton twisted up in the basement of a Milan museum.

With the help of CT scans, the scientists’ study the structure of the bones, and created a digital skeleton model and fashioned a life-size 3-D skeleton replica which is nowadays showed at Washington’s National Geographic Museum.

“The most dangerous place in the history of our planet,” Ibrahim explained Spinosaurus’s environment.

Undoubtedly, it was the sovereign of river swarming with sharks and 36-foot crocodiles, Ibrahim further added. Flying reptiles with wingspans of 23 feet flown overhead. On land, the 40-foot dinosaur predator Carcharodontosaurus was on the stalk.

Its fossils exposed distinctive adaptations for life typically in the water. Its strange body plan with a comparatively small pelvis and short hind legs reminds you of mammalian whale ancestors that emerged 45 million years later.

The scientists said, it has tiny nostrils on the center of the skull allowed it to breathe when part of the head was flooded. Opaque bones missing core cavities of other predatory dinosaurs assisted manage resilience. Influential, long-boned feet with long, flat claws were most likely used for paddling. Its stretchy tail possibly will have been used for swimming like in a crocodile.

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Germaine is an avid sports fan and as such, he decided on his current career path with the idea in mind that he would never, ever miss a Yankee game. Until now, he managed to make good on that promise. As you’ve probably guessed, he’s our go-to sports guy.

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