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Spinosaurus, one of the most beloved dinosaurs, keeps getting "nerfed" by expert paleontologists. Memes about the trend are surfacing en masse. Here's why.
About 32 years ago, in June 1993, Jurassic Park brought a new kind of prehistoric predators to the big screen - ones that felt astonishingly real. Combining groundbreaking CGI and animatronics, the ...
Paleontologists have long been puzzled about how the Spinosaurus -- a giant dinosaur and aquatic predator -- would have behaved. Now, they believe it would have been less like an otter, and more ...
July 17, 2023 / 4:33 PM CDT / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) – The Field Museum wants to name a replica of a 46-foot long spinosaurus, the world's largest predatory dinosaur. And you can help name it.
Spinosaurus was perhaps longer and heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex. It lived about 95 million years ago in what is now the Western Sahara but was then a lush environment with deep-flowing rivers.
For years, controversy has swirled around how a Cretaceous-era, sail-backed dinosaur—the giant Spinosaurus aegyptiacus —hunted its prey. Spinosaurus was among the largest predators ever to prowl the ...
Field Museum’s newest dinosaur is crowned ‘Sobek’ the Spinosaurus Of more than 31,000 online votes cast to name the Spinosaurus fossil, Sobek was tops, beating out Sandy and Sabah.
For years, controversy has swirled around how a Cretaceous-era, sail-backed dinosaur—the giant Spinosaurus aegyptiacus—hunted its prey. Spinosaurus was among the largest predators ever to ...
An inflatable version of Sobek the Spinosaurus will be out and about on a shoreline sightseeing tour. It has to go instead of the actual 46-foot-long fossil because the real thing won't fit on a boat.