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"If we base the ferocious factor on the length of the animal, there was nothing that ever lived on this planet that could match this creature."
SpinosaurusIt was a chimera: half duck, half crocodile. We don’t have anything al — Spinosaurus
"It was a chimera: half duck, half crocodile. We don’t have anything alive that looks like this today."
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Spinosaurus is a genus of large spinosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North Africa during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, about 100 to 94 million years ago. The genus was known first 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 materi
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"It is a really bizarre dinosaur - theres no real blueprint for it. It has a long neck, a long trunk, a long tail, a 7ft (2.1m) sail on its back and a snout like a crocodile. And when we look at the body proportions, the animal was clearly not as agile on land as other dinosaurs were, so I think it spent a substantial amount of time in the water."
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