Spinosaurus

&nbsp spinosaurus was the longest meat-eating dinosaurs ever, but not nessacarily the bulkiest. its most striking feature was the 2m tall spines protruding from it's back. these may have been covered in skin to create some sort of sail. this may have been used for a variety of reasons such as : keeping the dinosaur's body temperature at the right level. turning the sail towards the sun would've helped the animal to heat up, but turning it away would've cooled it down. Another reason is that spinosaurus might've flushed it's sail with blood to scare off competitors and rivals. It also might have made the animal look bigger than it actually was or was used to impress potential mates. Other animals that lived in the same area as spinosaurus aegypticus, africa/egypt, also had spines on their backs and were probably used for the same purposes. An example is Ouranosaurus, a herbivorous hadrosaur.

Spinosaurus, like it's close relative, baryonyx, was probably a fishing dinosaur. Scientists think this because many of it's body features and weapons were well adapted to capturing fish and other slippery prey.It's snout was elongated and had an overbite near the end, just like crocodiles and alligators today. It's teeth were also different from other theropod dinosaurs; they were small and numerous, also straighter than others. This would've helped the dinosaur to keep hold of wet fish. A heavy, spear-like claw occupied each hand, probably used to snag fish from the water.

spinosaurus grew to lengths of over 16m and heights of over 6m. they also weighed around 6-7 tonnes and were fierce too. Although spinosaurus is thought to be a fishing dinosaur, fossilizedd stomach contents have been found with young Iguanodon bones inside. This shows that spinosaurus may well have scavenged dead animals or hunted other dinosaurs. It had deadly enough weapons; a strong jaw, long and powerful arms and it was fairly fast for it's size.

Spinosaurus became famous in the 1990's when the third "Jurassic Park" film came into cinemas. In this third edition of the hit movies, Spinosaurus is the baddy. Spinosaurus was oringinally found and named by a german palaeontologist when he and his team were digging in egypt for dinosaur bones, but the remains got bombed when housed in the german natural history museum. Later, more bones were recovered.