Picture the fearsome movie creatures of Jurassic Park crossed with the shark from Jaws. Then super-size to the biggest predator ever to roam Earth. Now add a crocodile snout as big as a person and feet like a duck’s. The result gives one some idea of a bizarre dinosaur scientists have just unveiled, called the spinosaurus.
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Lead discoverer Nizar Ibrahim of the University of Chicago said it’s so weird that studying it was like working on an extraterrestrial.
The 15-metre-long predator is the only known dinosaur to live much of its life in the water.
Scientists had some bones from the beast already, but the new skeleton discovery forced a major rethinking of what it looked like some 95 million years ago.
The result was described Thursday in the journal Science.
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