Comments on: What Do We Know About Spinosaurs?

By: Terra Nova Previews "Slasher" Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking

Terra Nova Previews "Slasher" Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:40:01 +0000

[...] predators have been discovered and popularized. The crocodile-snouted and sometimes sail-backed spinosaurs, snaggle-toothed predators like Masiakasaurus and Balaur, a dromaeosaur with double sickle-claws on [...]

By: Hidden Dinosaurs and Confusing Teeth | Dinosaur Tracking

Hidden Dinosaurs and Confusing Teeth | Dinosaur Tracking — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:34:14 +0000

[...] know what that the teeth actually represented a dinosaur. The Suchosaurus teeth belonged to one of the spinosaurs, a crocodile-snouted and sometimes sail-backed group of dinosaurs that began to be well understood [...]

By: Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur? | Dinosaur Tracking

Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur? | Dinosaur Tracking — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:07:24 +0000

[...] Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were among the most prominently ornamented of all dinosaurs. Both dinosaurs—a carnivore and herbivore, respectively—had elongated neural spines sticking out of many vertebrate along their backbones, which created prominent skeletal sails. In life, these structures are thought to have been covered by a thin layer of flesh, but in 1997 paleontologist Jack Bowman Bailey proposed an alternative idea. These dinosaurs were not sail-backed, Bowman hypothesized. They were hump-backed. [...]

By: The Dino from Maranhão | Uncertain Form

The Dino from Maranhão | Uncertain Form — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:39:07 +0000

[...] quilombensis that once roamed the earth 95 million years ago is part of the Spinosaur family (more here and here). Interestingly enough, not much is known of the oxalaia quilombensis. Brian Switek of [...]

By: Andrea Cau

Andrea Cau — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:49:07 +0000

“no one has yet found a Spinosaurus arm bone”.
In 1996, Russell described a humerus from a series of isolated dinosaur bones collected in Cretaceous beds in Morocco that is very similar in shape and proportion to the humerus of Baryonyx, and is least 1,5 times bigger. I think that bone belongs to Spinosaurus.