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	North Texas e-News
		Measuring 36 feet (11 meters) in length and 12 feet (4 meters) high at the hip, the specimen is the most complete known of a peculiar group of fish-eating predators called spinosaurs, animals that grew to the size of Tyrannosaurus rex.
		This far-reaching link suggests that, on at least one occasion, spinosaurs crossed the broad Tethyan seaway that separated northern and southern land masses at that time.
		Spinosaur fossils were first discovered in Niger’s Ténéré Desert some 50 years ago and were collected in earnest 25 years ago by French paleontologists.
	www.ntxe-news.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=3&num=8860 (615 words)

	PALEONTOLOGY:Spinosaurs as Crocodile Mimics -- Holtz Jr. 282 (5392): 1276 -- Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The jaw and tooth morphology of spinosaurs is considerably different from that of typical theropod dinosaurs (for example, Ceratosaurus or Allosaurus).
		The anterior end of a spinosaur snout is expanded into a pincerlike "terminal rosette," containing the largest teeth in the skull.
		The anatomical differences in the feeding apparatus of spinosaurs, regardless of the proportion of fish in their diet, may go some way in explaining the high diversity of extremely large theropods in North Africa in the mid-Cretaceous.
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/282/5392/1276 (1437 words)

	Spinosaurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Spinosaurs are a very rare group of dinosaurs.
		The type of teeth that Spinosaurs had are often found in animals that eat fish.
		Baryonyx was found with fish scales in the area of its stomach that had been eaten away at by stomach acid, so it is possible that we know have prrof that at least this dinosaur was a fish-eater.
	www3.sympatico.ca /dinoguy/kspin.html (395 words)

	Pterosaur added to dino's diet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The fossil comprises vertebrae of the flying reptile with the tooth of a spinosaur imbedded in one of them.
		Spinosaurs were theropods - two-footed dinosaurs that were distant cousins of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.
		Their crocodile-like head had an elongated snout and conical teeth that were adapted for eating fish rather than terrestrial animals.
	www.news24.com /News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1550285,00.html (249 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		Theropods (even T.rex and spinosaurs) in general are incredibly lightly built animals and will generally be lighter than a similar length mammal, ornithischian or croc.
		There are accounts of remains of a 2,40 m spinosaur skull found in North Africa in 2000.
		And a spinosaur with that skull would be 17-18 m.
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=14&pid=232128 (1999 words)

	Dinosaur Tooth Found in Flying Reptile's Spine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The discovery adds to the evidence that spinosaurs may have feasted on a wider variety of prey.
		Sporting heads that looked similar to crocodiles' in a number of ways, spinosaurs were among the oddest of bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs.
		The first discovered spinosaur, Spinosaurus aegypticus, was named in 1915 after the long spines that protrude from each of its vertebrae.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/06/0630_040630_dinosaurfossil.html (497 words)

	07/19/01: Dinosaurs
		Spinosaurs were rather lightly-built compared to such theropods as Tyrannosaurs, though Spinosaurus may have been a bit longer than a Tyrannosaurus rex, it was certainly not as heavy, and was probably considerably less powerful.
		Spinosaurus had teeth that lacked the serrations of a tyrannosaur’s; this, along with the relatively lightly- built jaws suggests that spinosaurs had less powerful bites than did tyrannosaurs, and that they weren’t really built to attack large, powerful animals.
		There is at least one species of theropod [sorry, I should explain my terms: the theropods were the 2-legged meat-eating (mostly) dinosaurs] that were larger than and perhaps more powerful than Tyrannosaurus rex (the recently- discovered Gigantosaurus, for example), but Spinosaurus was apparently not one of them.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/finalfantasy/128/44.html (866 words)

	Simpleware Press Releases
		In conjunction with the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Ohio University, USA and the Royal Veterinary College, London, the Museum's Palaeontology Department is using FEA to test the strength and functionality of dinosaur skulls.
		One particular group of dinosaurs, the spinosaurs, had skulls remarkably similar to modern day crocodiles, leading to the belief that they fed primarily on fish, despite belonging to a group that included meat eating dinosaurs such as the T.
		She states that "CT scanning enables non-invasive visualisation of internal cavities within fossil bones and the creation of 3D digital reconstructions to perform FE structural testing that is simply not possible on the real fossils".
	www.simpleware.co.uk /news/press/20050315.php (298 words)

	Science News: Neck bones on the menu: fossil vertebrae show species interaction
		That combination of features suggests that the tooth belonged to the spinosaur species known as Irritator challengeri, a 10-m-long, bipedal carnivore whose bones appear in local rocks of the same age.
		The body cavities of some spinosaur fossils have contained fish scales apparently etched by stomach acid, so paleontologists had suggested that the animals primarily consumed piscine prey.
		However, British paleontologists had previously unearthed a spinosaur that appeared to have preyed upon or scavenged the remains of a juvenile Iguanodon, a herbivorous dinosaur.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_1_166/ai_n6121527 (518 words)

	Huge fish-eating dinosaur emerges from the Sahara
		Measuring 36 feet in length and 12 feet high at the hip, the specimen is the most complete known of a peculiar group of fish-eating predators called spinosaurs, animals that grew to the size of Tyrannosaurus rex.
		In a paper in the Nov. 13 issue of Science, Sereno and his colleagues name the new species Suchomimus tenerensis, meaning “crocodile mimic from Tènèrè,” a remote and forbidding, dune-covered region of the Sahara in the Republic of Niger in West Africa.
		Sereno said that the discovery reveals new information about the peculiar anatomy of spinosaurs, which he called “a dinosaur trying hard to be a crocodile.” Its four-foot-long skull has an extremely long and narrow snout with large teeth near its end, as in specialized fish-eating crocodiles.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/98/981111.suchomimus.shtml (574 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		Over 12 metres long and weighing more than 6,300 kilograms, Spinosaurus, the biggest and last of the spinosaurs, may have been the larger of the two meat-eaters.
		That, and the fact that spinosaurs have been found with partially digested fish in their stomachs, suggests Spinosaurus did wade out to fish for the three-metre ceolocanth swimming the pre-historic seas.
		The spinosaur's sail may have served as more than just a frightening display.
	www.exn.ca /Dinosaurs/story.asp?id=2001070454&name=archives (815 words)

	JPOG: Dinosaur Studies and Extreme Park Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Even their fights, their version of a dominance duel among themselves, seem to be more of a violent version of a pachycephalosaurus joust than a means of rigidly determining who is boss and who gets to play Super Chicken that Tyrannosaurus religiously follows.
		I have actully seen two such packs, one with one tyrannosaur and at least two spinosaurs, and one with a spinosaur and two tyrannosaurs.
		Even a trio of spinosaurs is difficult to keep, as they tend to forget to eat when they are busy fighting.
	home.earthlink.net /~melanthab/DinosaurStudies/spinosaurus.htm (377 words)

	Delta Dental Plan of New Jersey Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The recent discovery of a 100 million year old tooth lodged in the spine of a fossilized flying reptile is changing scientists' perceptions of the spinosaurs' feeding habits.
		However, a fossil of a flying reptile called a pterosaur was found in Brazil with a spinosaur tooth stuck in its spine.
		One theory is that the spinosaur was a scavenger as well as a fish-eater, and that it came upon a dead pterosaur.
	www.deltadentalnj.com /wisdom_tooth_newsletter/newsletter_0904b.html (495 words)

	The Raven - Spinosaurus, the Prehistoric Beach Bum
		The Bayharia Oasis which was were the orginal spinosaur fossils were found, was once a Mangroove swamp.
		Spinosaurs in general are thought to have feed on fish, thus Spinosaurus may have been in and around the waters of the mangrooves eating fish like colecanths and ancient sharks.
		Which also makes the scene of the swimming spinosaur in JP III more plausiable.
	raven.theraider.net /showthread.php?t=3053 (198 words)

	TLW Fix Story The Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The creatures were called Spinosaurs like the ones Veronica told them about that were supposed be on the other side of the fissures.
		The four Spinosaurs that circled the treehouse were about 40-50 fifty feet long, walked on two legs and had large neural spines about 6 feet long coming out of its back vertebrae, the creatures looked up and slammed their tails against the tree causing the treehouse to shake.
		He slowly stepped from behind the tall tree from which he was hiding careful not to step on a twig, he was about to make a move when heard a small growl from behind him, a fifth Spinosaur had been in the area.
	www.tlwfix.com /Pages/tlw_fanfiction_stories_thedream.html (591 words)

	Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Dino Bite Leaves a Tooth
		The tip of a spinosaur tooth (arrow in top image and shown in bottom image) stuck in a pterosaur neck bone suggests that spinosaurs sometimes preyed upon or scavenged the remains of flying reptiles.
		This spinosaur typically grew to be 10 meters long, walked on two feet, and ate meat.
		And some researchers had unearthed a spinosaur that apparently had eaten parts of a young plant-eating dino.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20040714/Note2.asp (386 words)

	DinoTalk: Early July 2001 CoolDinos.com
		Alright, the first thing I would notice about Spinosaur morphlogy is that they were indeed quite lightly-built, and I'm going to describe their skulls as almost (allow me to use the term) "laterally compressed".
		However, an intresting part of Spinosaur morphlogy is their relatively shallow pubis bone that would have made for a shallow gut, indicating that the animal would have been quite light in life.
		The tail is ignored in the diagnosis of Spinosaurus.
	www.cooldinos.com /dinotalk/old/Jul01a.shtml (12951 words)

	Suchomimus tenerensis
		Fish-eating adaptations include a long, narrow snout with special grasping teeth at the front, a slightly expanded snout tip typical of fish-eating fish and fish-eating reptiles such as crocodiles and a long, flexible neck.
		Sails characterize most spinosaurs and were probably used for display.
		Exhibit: The cast skeleton of Suchomimus, the world’s first free-standing mounted skeleton of a spinosaur, will go on display in Explorers Hall, 17th and M streets NW, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Nov. 13, and at the Chicago Children’s Museum, Navy Pier, 700 E. Grand Ave., Suite 127, on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/98/981112.suchomimus.data.shtml (357 words)

	Teach Your Children Well - Homeschool » 2004 » July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this case help came from the bone of a flying reptile.
		Apparently, it had a run in with a spinosaur.
		Spinosaurs were crocodile like dinosaurs that are thought to have mainly preyed on fish.
	www.teachyourchildrenwell.org /index.php?m=20040701 (139 words)

	December 1, 1998 Newsletter
		is a member of a peculiar group of predators called spinosaurs.
		It looks as though is was assembled from leftover parts, but they must have served the animal well.
		Suchomimus appears to be more closely related to a European dinosaur called Baryonyx than to the other southern spinosaurs around it.
	museum.ceu.edu /paleontology/Archive/12-1-98.htm (784 words)

	DINOSAUR-2004Jul by author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs (National Geographic news) Thursday, July 01, 2004
		Energetics - was Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs Monday, July 05, 2004
		Re: Energetics - was Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs Monday, July 05, 2004
	dinosaurmailinglist.cmnh.org /2004Jul/author.html (2546 words)

	JPOG: Dinosaur Studies and Extreme Park Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Once I hatched two out on an island with 20 spinosaurs and other carnivores.
		Three territorial spinosaurs stomped over to challenge the brachiosaurs.
		The herd leader stomped her foot, the ground shook, and three spinosaurs fled in panic.
	home.earthlink.net /~melanthab/DinosaurStudies/brachiosaurus.htm (141 words)

	Neck Bones on the Menu: Fossil vertebrae show species interaction: Science News Online, July 3, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Three fossil neck bones from an ancient flying reptile—one of them with the broken tip of a tooth embedded in it—indicate that the winged creatures occasionally fell victim to meat eaters.
		The tip of a spinosaur tooth (arrow in top image and detailed below) embedded in a pterosaur neck bone indicates that spinosaurs occasionally preyed upon or scavenged the remains of flying reptiles.
		It's impossible to determine whether the Brazilian spinosaur preyed on a live pterosaur or merely scavenged a carcass, Buffetaut notes.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20040703/fob7.asp (521 words)

	Palaeos Vertebrates 340.100 Theropoda: Basal Theropods
		As with modern crocodiles, spinosaurs were not obliged to only eat fish.
		The relationship of the spinosaurids is not completely clear, although the most likely option is that the spinosaurs are cousins to the megalosaurids.
		Known material is scrappy and includes both highly derived Spinosaurs as well as relatively general Allosaur -like Torvosaurids.
	www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/340Theropoda/340.100.html (1905 words)

	JURASSIC CHESS
		If a spinosaur attacks a t-rex the t-rex is killed immediately and a pawn is not placed at its side and the spinosaur takes its place.
		If a players team does not include t-rex’s or spinosaurs then the player’s general is equipped with armour break this means that it can kill an elephant in a single attack just like a spinosaur.
		Spinosaur : spinosaurs move exactly like a horse in orthodox chess.
	www.chessvariants.com /other.dir/jurassic-chess.html (784 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		SPINOSAUR: The spinosaur had a sail of skin held up with bony spikes on its back that it used for heating and cooling itself.
		It had a head like a crocodile, very pointed with many teeth, and a huge claw on its thumb; evidence that it was a fish eater.
		When you defeat the Spinosaur, you will be thanked and the level will end.
	www.cheatplanet.com /psstrategy/dinosaur.txt (6211 words)

	DinoTalk: Late July 2001 CoolDinos.com
		Spinosaurs could have tapped into an abundant food source previously neglected by other large theropods.
		However, based on other spinosaur specimens, most paleontologists would accept that spinosaurs were probably slower than tyrannosaurs of the same body size, because tyrannosaurs (like Tyrannosaurus, Daspletosaurus, and Albertosaurus) have longer shin bones and narrow feet with shock-absorbing structures, while spinosaurs had shorter thicker shins and had broader feet.
		The only scene featuring the Spinosaur that I liked, was the ironically suitable and character fitting water scene, in which Spinosaurus tries fishing the silly humans out of that cage.
	www.cooldinos.com /dinotalk/old/Jul01c.shtml (14843 words)

	Dan's JP3 Page - Fan Fiction - "JP4 CH.5 Grant's reunion" by dinoterror
		But never the less, the spinosaurs was nearing.All of a sudden the Spinossaurs stopped pursuit.
		All of a sudden, the spinosaurs came out of the thick trees ahead.
		The second spinosaurs didn't pay attention to the SCV, it payed attention to the truck already with two humans vaunrable.
	www.dansjp3page.com /fanfic/dinoterror-JP4_CH.5_Grant's_reunion.asp (556 words)

	Rocky Road: Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		What the nomads might have seen to prompt these myths were fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus dinosaurs.
		When in Egypt, Herodotus wrote that he was shown piles of "bones and spines." These may have belonged to spinosaurs, large Cretaceous reptiles with dorsal membraned spines.
		And the giant skeletons of heroes may well have belonged to fossil mammals from the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
	www.strangescience.net /herodotus.htm (228 words)

	Expedition unearths dinosaur fossil
		The claw belongs to a new species of spinosaur, a large predator that Sereno and his team have named Suchomimus tenerensis, which means “crocodile mimic from Tènèrè.” Sereno and his co-authors announced the discovery in the Nov. 13 issue of the journal Science.
		Suchomimus belongs to a peculiar group of predators called spinosaurs that lived in Europe and South America as well as in Africa.
		The earliest spinosaurs all would have lived on the huge continent of Pangea.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /981125/expedition.shtml (943 words)

	DINOSAUR-2004Jul by thread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs (National Geographic news) bh480@scn.org Thursday, July 01, 2004
		Energetics - was Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs Martin Baeker Monday, July 05, 2004
		Re: Energetics - was Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs Neil Taylor Monday, July 05, 2004
	dinosaurmailinglist.cmnh.org /2004Jul/threads.html (4054 words)

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