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Here we have the Wild Kratts looking up the biggest killer to ever exist on land: Spinosaurus.

Spinosaurus was first discovered in Egypt at 1912 by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer. Fossil remains he found of this predator includes several teeth, a lower jaw, and backbones with tall neural spines being as tall as a human.

Unfortunately, Stromer’s Spinosaurus specimen was one night by bomber planes on April 24, 1944 at the height of World War II.

Stromer’s Spinosaurus, which was 95 million years old was destroyed and lost from history.

Over the next several decades, fossilized teeth and other bones were found, but none as good as Stromer’s skeleton.

But then in 2005, an upper jaw was recovered in Morocco. And scientists are able to accurately reconstruct Spinosaurus, and the results came to reveal that Spinosaurus was a true monster between 50 and 60 feet long and weighing 11 tons.

Clearly being bigger than T. Rex

And Spinosaurus is picking up popularity after having the star role in 2001 film, Jurassic Park III.

Spinosaurus lived in North Africa during the Mid Cretaceous, 95 million years ago. Back then, the landscape was vast river system with swamps and forests. And Spinosaurus shared the region with other dinosaurs like Ouranosaurus, Carchardontosaurus, and Paralititan.

Recent studies have shown that Spinosaurus spend a large part of their time in water, and their conical teeth suggested they lived on a diet of fish. And the snout showed a pattern of holes that looked like those of crocodiles. Believed to be pressure sensors, Spinosaurus can detect movement underwater, and has it’s nostrils set higher on its head.

Giving people an idea of exactly how they hunt.

Spinosaurus can likely strike at its prey even without seeing it.

And it has powerful arms and claws to tear it’s victims apart. And recent fossil finds showed its feet were flattened.

And another recent find in 2020, showed Spinosaurus being more bizarre than previously thought. The fossil remains of it’s tail showing tall structures that gave it a fin-like structure allowing it to be a powerful swimmer.

Spinosaurus also had several other cousins, Baryonyx in Europe, Irritator and Oxalaia in South America. Siamosaurus in Asia, and Suchomimus in Africa.

Spinosaurus was the biggest and the last of its kind.

Spinosaurus died out from climate change when sea levels rose, and its habitat disappeared. And Spinosaurus vanished into extinction.

But Spinosaurus went down in history as the biggest land predator of all time.

Description
Here we have the Wild Kratts looking up the biggest killer to ever exist on land: Spinosaurus.

Spinosaurus was first discovered in Egypt at 1912 by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer. Fossil remains he found of this predator includes several teeth, a lower jaw, and backbones with tall neural spines being as tall as a human.

Unfortunately, Stromer’s Spinosaurus specimen was one night by bomber planes on April 24, 1944 at the height of World War II.

Stromer’s Spinosaurus, which was 95 million years old was destroyed and lost from history.

Over the next several decades, fossilized teeth and other bones were found, but none as good as Stromer’s skeleton.

But then in 2005, an upper jaw was recovered in Morocco. And scientists are able to accurately reconstruct Spinosaurus, and the results came to reveal that Spinosaurus was a true monster between 50 and 60 feet long and weighing 11 tons.

Clearly being bigger than T. Rex

And Spinosaurus is picking up popularity after having the star role in 2001 film, Jurassic Park III.

Spinosaurus lived in North Africa during the Mid Cretaceous, 95 million years ago. Back then, the landscape was vast river system with swamps and forests. And Spinosaurus shared the region with other dinosaurs like Ouranosaurus, Carchardontosaurus, and Paralititan.

Recent studies have shown that Spinosaurus spend a large part of their time in water, and their conical teeth suggested they lived on a diet of fish. And the snout showed a pattern of holes that looked like those of crocodiles. Believed to be pressure sensors, Spinosaurus can detect movement underwater, and has it’s nostrils set higher on its head.

Giving people an idea of exactly how they hunt.

Spinosaurus can likely strike at its prey even without seeing it.

And it has powerful arms and claws to tear it’s victims apart. And recent fossil finds showed its feet were flattened.

And another recent find in 2020, showed Spinosaurus being more bizarre than previously thought. The fossil remains of it’s tail showing tall structures that gave it a fin-like structure allowing it to be a powerful swimmer.

Spinosaurus also had several other cousins, Baryonyx in Europe, Irritator and Oxalaia in South America. Siamosaurus in Asia, and Suchomimus in Africa.

Spinosaurus was the biggest and the last of its kind.

Spinosaurus died out from climate change when sea levels rose, and its habitat disappeared. And Spinosaurus vanished into extinction.

But Spinosaurus went down in history as the biggest land predator of all time.