The giant Cretaceous carnivore had bones adapted to a life in shallow water.
Since its first description in 1915, the spinosaurus has intrigued paleontologists. First, by its large size, which makes it a larger carnivorous dinosaur than the famous tyrannosaurus. But also by certain anatomical particularities, characteristics of animals that live in water, such as its head and teeth, reminiscent in certain aspects of that of crocodiles that live in water but breathe in the open air. However, of the hundreds of known species of dinosaurs, none were aquatic, even if other types of reptiles such as ichthyosaurs were aquatic several tens of millions of years ago. Spinosaurus was he so different from other dinosaurs?
“In 2014, paleontologists argued in the journal Science that the spinosaur was actually aquatic, including that he had webbed feet that could help him hunt fish by swimmingsays Alexandra Houssaye, director of research at the CNRS and specialist in evolution at the National Museum of Natural History…
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