Spinosaurs

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 * Middle Cretaceous Period 95 - 93 million years ago
 * found in north africa by the tropics of sea level
 * they were carnivors[[image:300px-Largesttheropods.png align="right" caption="(Spinosaur is in the red)"]]
 * there spines were 7 - 11 times the size of their vertibre
 * it was the longest and the largest theropod dinosaur
 * 53.3 - 60 feet in length
 * 7.7 - 9.9 tons
 * the first remains of spinosaurs were found in 1912 in Egypt
 * spinosaur means spiny lizard
 * their spines got up to 6 feet long
 * one of their relatives is the Ouranosaurus. It was a large plant eater, and its name meant "Brave Lizard"
 * a spinosaur was a meat eater, with huge teeth, and crocodile like powerful jaws
 * very few spinosaur fossils have been found, and they are incomplete
 * spinosaur got its name in 1915, 3 years after its discovery
 * ate plant eating dinosaurs and large fish
 * the full spinosaur fossil found in 1912, was destroyed in world war 2
 * males and females may have differed from the size of their neural spines
 * it is possible that their sails were used for courtship, similar to a peacocks tail
 * the function of their sails are still uncertain
 * sails may have been used to ubsorb heat
 * the sail also could have been intimidating to other creatures
 * they also think the sail could of helped them fight
 * fast runner
 * may have also been a scavenger

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