The Largest Carnivore Ever To Exist
By Dayne Thompson
Biggest Of All
Have you ever wondered what the biggest most largest predator ever to exist was? Well, maybe not but I’ll share it with you. This creature lived 112 to 72 milllion years ago in the mid-Cretaceous period to the late Cretaceous period. It had a tall sail on its back made by bones of the spine that were as tall as a 6ft grown man! It had along crocodile like snout on its 7 meter long skull! Was longer than a semi truck and weighed about the same as 6 trucks! This dinosaur was Spinosaurus.
My Favorite Spino Fan Art
Spinosaurus Maroccanus
The difference between Maroccanus and Aegyptiacus is that Maroccanus walked on its four arms and hind legs, and Aegyptiacus walked on its two hind legs.
Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus
This is the one I’m researching. Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus. The largest of the Spinosauridae family. It is also the larger cousin of the species found in Morocco. In there names you can also tell where the species were found. Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus was found in Egypt. Spinosaurus Maroccanus was found in Morocco.
Spinosaurus Facts.
How “Spine Chilling” Is That!
Spinosaurus was the largest carnivore of all! It could be almost 60ft long and weigh over 11 tons! It also had 6ft tall spine bones that were covered in a thin layer of skin. How “spine chilling” is that. The spine was also there so spinosaurus could warm its body and be active and on the move before other dinosaurs. It had a 7 meter long skull most of that being the long crocodile like snout. The jaws of spinosaurus were weak though and could probably only brake human bones with its teeth, but that’s if it was still alive today! The snout also has little holes in the front just like a crocodile to where it could sense the prey/fish in the water. One of the fish species were Onchipristis, an 8 meter long sword fish with lethal barbs on its long upper jaw. Now that adaptation does have some common sense. Back to its spinosaurus though. It had a snout like a crocodile but its jaw wasn’t meant for breaking bone. That’s also an adaptation. This is an adaptation because its jaw was meant for gripping onto struggling prey. There’s no way to escape this guys grasp. That’s how the spinosaurus rules! Well I hope you learned some “spine chilling” facts. Thanks for reading. ( by the way the spinosaridae family was Oxalaia, Suchomimus, Irritator, Baryonyx, and Ichthyovenator. if you want to learn about how irritating irritator really was go to the link down below to see my friend Wills smore.)
Jurassic Park 3 Movie (spoilers)
1. Did you know that in Jurassic Park 3 Spinosaurus played the lead dinosaur in the film.
2. In the movie Jurassic Park 3 again the spinosaurus was over exaggerated in size it was 69ft long instead of a normal 60ft
3. The film producers only threw in Spinosaurus because they needed a dinosaur to take on the T. Rex even though they knew Spinosaurus usually only hunted in water unless there was a drought.
4. In the movie the spinosaurus snapped/cracked the T. Rex’s neck. GO SPINO!!!!!!
If you want to see a program about spino here (above) go to this link. (Below) Plus if you want to see part of the Jurassic Park 3 go to the very bottom link. P.S might need headphones for both ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NA7IQMf_Q
Spinosaurus Skeleton
Wow that’s huge!