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Spinosaurus, equipped with aquatic adaptations like crocodile-like jaws, webbed feet, has led some researchers to propose that it was predominantly an aquatic predator rather than a terrestrial one.

📹 : Julian Johnson-mortimer / Julian_johnson12345

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Spinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian to Upper Turonian stages of the Late Cretaceous period, about 99 to 93.5 million years ago.

The genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer in 1915.

The original remains were destroyed in World War II but additional material came to light in the early 21st century.

It is unclear whether one or two species are represented in the fossils reported in the scientific literature.

Spinosaurus, which was longer and heavier than Tyrannosaurus, is the largest known carnivorous dinosaur.

It possessed a skull 1.75 metres (roughly 6 feet) long, a body length of 14–18 metres (46–59 feet), and an estimated mass of 12,000–20,000 kg (13–22 tons).

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All hail the Spinosaurus, the aquatic king of Isla Sorna!

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4/19/22

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Ernst Stromer – Scientist of the Day

Ernst Stromer, a German paleontologist, died Dec. 18, 1952, at the age of 81.  

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Let's just all take a second to remember the German paleontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach. He was the first to discover Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, a semi aquatic carnivore that is approx. 49-52 ft in length and ~7 1/2  tonnes, with spines around 5.4 ft high. Today in 1944, hundreds of allied bombers dropped thousands of bombs on Munich, which was where his research was held. The museum was destroyed and so was the only remains of the world's largest carnivorous dinosaur. Spinosaurus was lost to history. These are one of the few surviving image of Stromer's Spinosaurus skeleton. While Stromer died in 1952, his journals and photographs survive, but without skeletons to grace exhibit halls or fossils to study his dinosaurs are overshadowed by others. He was essentially forgotten. But let's remember his amazing contributions to the field of paleontology. And shout out to Nizar Ibrahim who helped revive Stromer's legacy.

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4/18/22