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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Spinosaurus gives its name to a family of dinosaurs, the Spinosauridae, of which other members include Baryonyx from southern England, Irritator and Angaturama (which is probably synonymous with Irritator) from Brazil, Suchomimus from Niger in central Africa, and possibly Siamosaurus, which is known from fragmentary remains in Thailand.
It is unclear whether Spinosaurus was primarily a terrestrial predator or a fisher, as indicated by its elongated jaws, conical teeth and raised nostrils.
Spinosaurus was likely to have been a generalized and opportunistic predator, possibly a Cretaceous equivalent of large grizzly bears, being biased toward fishing, though it undoubtedly scavenged and took many kinds of small or medium-sized prey.
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 Spinosaurus- Enchanted Learning Software
Spinosaurus is called "spiny lizard" because it had a series of large neural spines up to 6 feet (1.8 m) long coming out of its back vertebrae, probably forming a sail-like fin that may have helped in thermoregulation, mating rituals and/or intraspecies rivalry.
Spinosaurus was an advanced theropod, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was high among the dinosaurs.
Spinosaurus was a middle Cretaceous period saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaur.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Spinosaurus.shtml   (582 words)

  
 Disappearances-Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus was large and carried 6-foot spines on its back.
Both Cluranosaurus and Spinosaurus were found from remains disco- vered in Africa.
Spinosaurus has been put in a group called Spinosaurids.
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 Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
Spinosaurus was one of the most spectacular looking dinosaurs of all.
Spinosaurus walked on two muscular legs and was a relatively fast, two-legged runner.
Spinosaurus lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 95 million years ago in the tropics near sea level.
www.planetdinosaur.com /dinosaurs_a2z/S/spinosaurus.htm   (260 words)

  
 3-D Spinosaurus Puzzle
Spinosaurus (meaning 'spine lizard') was a theropod dinosaur genus that lived in what is now Egypt, from the Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous Period, about 95 to 93 million years ago.
Spinosaurus provides the name of a family of dinosaurs, the Spinosauridae, of which other members include Angaturama (probably synonymous with Irritator), Baryonyx, Irritator, Suchomimus, and Siamosaurus.
Spinosaurus' sail may have been for heat dissipation - it lived in a swampy environment near the equator during the warm Cretaceous period.
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 Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus var det mest opsigtsvækkende medlem at spinosaurfamilien.
Spinosaurus med et sejl, som nok ikke ligner virkeligheden helt.
Spinosaurus har længere arme, end man normalt ser på de store kødædere, og det er muligt, at den har gået noget på alle fire.
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 Spinosaurus Information
Spinosaurus was the longest theropod, measuring 16 to 18 metres (52 to 60 feet) long and standing at 5 to 6 metres (16 to 20 feet) in height.
Spinosaurus was likely to have been a more generalized and opportunistic predator, possibly a Cretaceous equivalent of large grizzly bears, being biased toward fishing, although it undoubtedly took many kinds of small-to-medium-sized prey.
Spinosaurus sails were unusual, although other dinosaurs of the same time and area, namely the ornithopod Ouranosaurus and the sauropod Rebbachisaurus, developed a similar structural adaptation of their dorosal vertebrae.
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 Spinosaurus - Dinosaur
The Spinosaurus was a spectacular dinosaur with a huge sail-like structure that protruded from his spine.
The Spinosaurus is sometimes confused with the Dimetradon because of the similar sail.
Though the Spinosaurus did not have as spectacular a head and mouth as Tyrannosaurus, he did have greater, bulkier arms that may have been useful for grappling with prey.
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 Urban Dictionary: spinosaurus
However, the depiction of the Spinosaurus in JPIII as an unstoppable superpredator was inaccurate.
Spinosaurus was a large predator, attaining a length of up to 60 feet and 5 tons.
Spinosaurus may have been bigger but didn't have strong jaws and wasn't as musculed as T. Rex was.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=spinosaurus   (907 words)

  
 Would Spinosaurus win a fight with T-Rex? - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Aside from the implausibility of the battle itself, it seems unlikely that Spinosaurus could have simply shrugged off a neck bite by Tyrannosaurus, which possessed among the strongest jaws ever known in the animal kingdom.
Spinosaurus did share its habitat with two other theropods that equalled or exceeded T. rex in size: the massive carnosaur Carcharodontosaurus and the large but relatively lightweight abelisaur Deltadromeus.
Spinosaurus was a fish-eater, with long, reletively weak jaws.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=68148   (1984 words)

  
 Spinosaurus.co.uk - Spinosaur resource - Jurassic Park 3
Spinosaurus was originally described in 1915 from a discovery made in North Africa by Stromer's German team.
It is for this reason that the estimates of its size vary but generally suggest that it was the same length as T rex.
A large Spinosaurus skull, rumoured to be eight feet long, has turned up more recently.
www.spinosaurus.co.uk /spinosaurus-facts.html   (337 words)

  
 Vorarlberg Online
Der Spinosaurus macht dem Tyrannosaurus Rex den Titel als König der Raubsaurier streitig: Untersuchungen zufolge maß der mit langen Zähnen und Rückenkamm bestückte Spinosaurus 17 Meter.
Den nur 9 bis 13 Meter langen Tyrannosaurus und auch den bis zu 14 Meter langen Gigantosaurus stellte er damit buchstäblich in den Schatten, wie das britische Fachjournal „New Scientist“ in seiner Ausgabe vom kommenden Samstag berichtet.
Spinosaurus, der vor etwa 100 Millionen Jahren in Afrika lebte, war ebenso wie der Tyrannosaurus Rex und Gigantosaurus ein so genannter Theropode, also ein Vorfahr der heutigen Vögel.
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 Spinosaurus - Fossilicious.com
Spinosaurus may have been the largest carnosaur ever to have walked the earth.
Spinosaurus lived about 100 million years ago in the early part of the Cretaceous Period.
You may also find that an impressive 2 — 4 inch spinosaurus tooth with a worn tip or chipped enamel can be found for $15 to $30.
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Spinosaurus, a large theropod, was one of the new dinosaurs.
Spinosaurus may have eaten fish, but it is difficult to imagine such a large dinosaur catching enough fish to keep it alive.
Recently, however, a piece of a skull bone belonging to another Spinosaurus was found on a shelf in a German museum.
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 Spinosaurus Facts
Spinosaurus walked on two strong legs and was a fast runner.
Spinosaurus had a lot of large spines (up to 6 feet long) coming out of its backbone.
Spinosaurus' sail (large spines coming out of its back) may have helped in keeping warm or cool and for fighting.
www.emerson.k12.nj.us /staff/rmkelly/custom/DinosaurWQ/Spin.html   (143 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The family Spinosauridae was named by Ernst Stromer in 1915 to include the single genus Spinosaurus.
The first cladistic definition of Spinosauridae was provided by Paul Sereno in 1998 (as "All spinosaurids closer to Spinosaurus than to Torvosaurus).
Baryonyx was found with fish scales and the digested bones of a young Iguanodon in its stomach cavity, one specimen of Spinosaurus had a fish bone lodged in one tooth socket, and there is one documented example of a spinosaurid having eaten a pterosaur (Buffetaut et al., 2004).
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 Spinosaurus Questions- Enchanted Learning Software
Spinosaurus was found in the Baharija Formation, Marsa Matruh, Egypt.
Spinosaurus had long, sharp teeth, powerful jaws, and clawed limbs.
There were many dinoasaurs that may have had a "sail" on their back, including Spinosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus, and others.
www.zoomwhales.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/spinosaurus/Qns.shtml   (474 words)

  
 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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 Spinosaurus May Be The Worlds Largest Carnosaur
Spinosaurus is probably best known as the star of Jurassic Park 3.
Most spinosaurus finds have been from the Sahara Desert in North Africa.
The quality is very good and the animation has lots of spinosaurus facts.
www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com /spinosaurus.html   (384 words)

  
 Jurassic Park III corrections
When the Spinosaurus is chasing the characters on the boat, it emerges from the river.
Spinosaurus was supposed to have straight teeth, yet in the plane sequence when there is a close up of the Spino grabbing Nash's leg, his teeth are curved back.
Spinosaurus wasn't actually as deadly in real life as it was in the film.
www.moviemistakes.com /film691/corrections   (1887 words)

  
 Lex was awakened by a screech
The Spinosaurus was killing for no reason, for its own amusement.
The Spinosaurus whipped its body around and grabbed the advancing herbivore's neck with its useful long arms.
The Spinosaurus' eyes were still open, but it was dead.
www.angelfire.com /freak/tyrannosauronaleash/Chapter6.htm   (393 words)

  
 Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus was first discovered in the early 1900's by German paleontologist Ernst von Stromer.
Today, Spinosaurus is only known from a few bones wrestled from the Sahara over the last hundred years.
In 2001, Spinosaurus was featured in the new summer blockbuster Jurassic Park III.
www.paleoclones.com /dinosaurs/spinosaurus.htm   (227 words)

  
 Spinosaurus.co.uk - Spinosaur resource - Jurassic Park 3
Spinosaurus has recently been made famous by the film Jurassic Park III, part of the lucrative dinosaur film franchise started by Steven Speilberg based on the book by Michael Crichton.
Part of this law of diminishing returns meant two things: More interesting dinosaurs were needed in the films to keep them fresh, and they needed to behave more sensationally.
So when Jurassic Park III came along, something bigger and better than tha T Rex was needed to capture the imagination of the audience and so the remarkable-looking Spinosaurus was brought back to life.
www.spinosaurus.co.uk   (643 words)

  
 My Garage Kit Gallery
The star of "Jurassic Park III," the Spinosaurus is one of the strangest of the large meat-eaters.
The teeth of Spinosaurus are designed differently from any of the large carnivores.
What is interesting is that there were two other dinosaurs living at the same time and in the same vicinity as Spinosaurus who also had large sails on their backs.
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 InfoHub - Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus had long sharp teeth that were not serrated.
Spinosaurus is believed to have had a sail-like projection on its back.
Spinosaurus was officially named by Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach in 1915.
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 Spinosaurus In The Storm (Smithsonian Prehistoric Pals) (Smithsonian Prehistoric Pals) by Ben Nussbaum, G. B. McIntosh
Spinosaurus lives where a river meets the shores of an ocean.
Every young dinosaur fan should pick up Spinosaurus in the Storm, as it details a day in the life of one of the largest (40ft long!) carnivousous dinosaurs ever discovered.
Resembling a gharial with its long, thin snout lined with razor-sharp teeth, Spinosaurus is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the prehistoric jungle.
www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Spinosaurus_in_the_Storm_(Smithsonian_s_Prehistoric_Pals)-1592494595.html   (212 words)

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