The Biggest Carnivore: Dinosaur History Rewritten
This is an interesting little report from livescience.com on the Spinosaurus.
The history of the paleontology of the Spinosaurus is s fascinating story. Spinosaurus, a large theropod dinosaur was discovered in Egypt around the turn of the 20th century by the German paleontologist, Ernst Stromer.
Stromer’s collection went to a museum in Munich (if I recall correctly) which was bombed out of existence by allied attacks in the 1944. The specimen were completely destroyed. The was a documentary on one of the Discovery channels recently about a group who recently went back to Stomer’s dig sites and brought back more Spinosaurus fossils.
This new report is now estimating that Spinosaurus was the largest yet discovered meat-eating dinosaur, at 55′ long from head to tail.
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