Spinosaurus mirabilis

Spinosaurus mirabilis Latest News

A new meat-eating dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was recently discovered in the Sahara Desert.

About Spinosaurus mirabilis

• It is a new meat-eating dinosaur, belonging to ‘Spinosaurus’ species.
• The dinosaur’s fossils were uncovered in the remote fossil area of Jengueb in Niger, deep in the central Sahara.
• It existed nearly 95 million years ago.
• It likely lived in a forested inland habitat dissected by rivers.
• With this new finding, mirabilis becomes the second known species of Spinosaurus. 
• The remains of first known species – Spinosaurus aegyptiacus – were discovered in 1915 from fossils excavated in Egypt. 

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Spinosaurus mirabilis Features

• The most striking feature of S. mirabilis is a massive, scimitar-shaped cranial crest, unlike anything previously documented in the group.
• Based on the crest’s surface texture and interior vascular canals, the experts believe the crest was sheathed in keratin. 
• They reckon that this display feature was brightly colored in life, curving toward the sky as a blade-shaped beacon.
• Other findings from the skull and leg bones show that S. mirabilis was a formidable, semiaquatic hunter. 
• Its interlocking conical teeth and long legs would have allowed the dinosaur to hunt on land, as well as to wade through the shallows and pluck creatures out of the water.

Source: MINT