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☆ A team at Chicago's Field Museum assembled a giant dinosaur, larger than T. rex 'Sue', in under 10 hours. Here's how they did it.
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The Field Museum's new Spinosaurus exhibit is longer than its famed T. rex named Sue. The Field Museum"It was well-adapted to eat fish, and would have spent much of its time in and around rivers," said Ben Miller, exhibitions developer at the Field Museum. "For that reason, we decided to display Spinosaurus in a swimming pose, suspended 12 feet above the floor." But that's because this dinosaur exhibit has a few key secrets that made it all possible. That specimen was about 50% complete, Miller said, and is what the Field Museum cast is based on.
Persons: Sue, —, It's, Ben Miller, Miller, Tom Skwerski, Elise Schimke, Musuem Matteo Fabbri, Field Museum who's, Skwerski, Spinosaurus, Chicago Flyhouse, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach Organizations: Service, Field, Field Museum, Sue, Hassan II University, Museum, Chicago, Stanley Field Hall Locations: Asia, Chicago, Northern Africa, Casablanca, Morocco, Italian, Egypt, Munich
☆ New dinosaur found in Spain illuminates history of meat-eating group
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Living about 126 to 127 million years ago, the bipedal dinosaur, named Protathlitis cinctorrensis, was about 33 to 36 feet (10 to 11 meters) long and weighed about 2 tons. It was part of a group called spinosaurs whose biggest member, Spinosaurus, was among the largest meat-eating dinosaurs on record. Spinosaurs lived in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America during the Cretaceous - the last of the three chapters of the age of dinosaurs. Spinosaurus, about 50 feet (15 meters) long and weighing seven tons, lived 95 million years ago in Africa. Unlike Protathlitis, Spinosaurus possessed unserrated teeth - better to capture slippery aquatic prey.
☆ Fearsome spinosaurus wasn't the scourge of prehistoric seas after all
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Sereno and his team returned to their work with Spinosaurus in search of answers about what life had really been like for the fearsome dinosaur. James GurneyNext, the team turned to Spinosaurus’ tail. Dr. Frank Fish, tail mechanics expert and professor of biology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, took the lead. Fish compared the Spinosaurus tail with those of alligators and other reptiles and found the dinosaur would have been too rigid to function well underwater. Spinosaurus fossils have largely been found in the riverbank deposits of Niger’s inland basins, which are distant from prehistoric marine coastlines.
☆ A new species of penguin-like diving dinosaur has been discovered
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —A new study found evidence at least one species of dinosaur may have been an adept swimmer, diving into the water like a duck to hunt its prey. The study, published in Communications Biology on December 1, describes a newly-discovered species, Natovenator polydontus. Scientists from Seoul National University, the University of Alberta, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences collaborated on the paper. The Natovenator specimen is very similar to Halszkaraptor, another dinosaur discovered in Mongolia, which scientists believe was likely semiaquatic. “There is a real question of, OK, you’ve got a swimming dinosaur in the desert, what’s it swimming in?” he said.
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