Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus aegypiacus

Diet: Carnivor(Meat-Eater

Name Means: "Spine Lizard"

Length 45ft (15m)

Height: 16ft

Weight: 6 tons (6,000                            Kilos)

Time: Middle Cretaceous -                           100 million years ago

Location: North Africa

Taxon: Theropoda, Tetanuurae, Spinosaurus

This is the main dinosaur from Jurassic Park III and it is also one of the strongest of the large meat-eaters. What makes it so different is the large "sail" ao it's back, formed by spines which were up to 6 feet long. K\No one knows exactly why it had these on it's back; possibly to help it keep warm or cool off, or maybe as a display during courtship. The other really interesting thing about this dinosaur is ti's diet - it seems to be designed to mostly eat fish!

The teeth of the Spinosaurus are designed differently from any other large carnivors; they are long and conical, the kind found on reptiles with a diet of fish? It probably lived along the shore where fairly large fish were abundant. Of course, it could also have eaten any thing it could catch.

What is interesting is that there were two other dinosaurs living at the same time and the vicinity as Spinosaurusho also had large sails on their backs. What was it about this region that gave rise to this body type?

Spinosaurus is somewhat of a trajic story. At one time, there was an almost complete specimen on display in a museum in Germany However, it was destroyed in the bombing of WWII.