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| | Jurassic Park - Spinosaurus |
 | | At the beginning of the 20th century, the German paleontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, of the University of Munich, began a series of expeditions to Egypt, where he discovered, in the western Sahara, the remains of several formerly unknown late Cretaceous dinosaurs. |
 | | Stromer's specimen of Spinosaurus, as well as those of several other Egyptian dinosaurs he described, were destroyed in bombing raids during World War II, and much of the important information concerning specific localities was lost during both the world wars. |
 | | What set Spinosaurus apart was the great size of these spines, which rose more than 5 feet (1.5 m) high and formed a "sail" over the back, much like that of the Permian mammal relative Dimetrodon. |
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