Jurassic Park was wrong as a new study says Spinosaurus was a water monster

NIRMAL YESODA

The makers of Jurassic Park III were completely wrong in portraying the lead antagonist in their movie, as a new study has suggested that Spinosaurus, the scary monster in the hit franchise, was actually a water monster. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth made this conclusion after discovering thousands of teeth from a Moroccan riverbed.

Until now, experts believed that dinosaurs were land-dwelling creatures, but this new study report claims that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus had lived in rivers.

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“The huge number of teeth we collected in the prehistoric river bed reveals that Spinosaurus was there in huge numbers, accounting for 45 per cent of the total dental remains. We know of no other location where such a mass of dinosaur teeth have been found in bone-bearing rock. The enhanced abundance of Spinosaurus teeth, relative to other dinosaurs, is a reflection of their aquatic lifestyle. An animal living much of its life in water is much more likely to contribute teeth to the river deposit than those dinosaurs that perhaps only visited the river for drinking and feeding along its banks,” said David Martell, a professor of paleontology at the University of Portsmouth.

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Martell revealed that spinosaurus actually lived and died in the rivers. He also made it clear that the number of teeth discovered in the riverbed was a strong indication that Spinosaurus was truly water-dwelling river monster.

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Earlier, another study conducted by Nizar Ibrahim, a National Geographic explorer, had suggested that Spinosaurus had a long tail which helped it to perform advanced aquatic movements. Ibrahim also revealed that these giants had hunted their preys underwater just like crocodiles.