{"id":88903,"date":"2026-02-20T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=88903"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:45:37","slug":"spinosaurus-mirabilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spinosaurus-mirabilis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinosaurus mirabilis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Spinosaurus mirabilis Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new meat-eating dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was recently discovered in the Sahara Desert. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Spinosaurus mirabilis<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new meat-eating dinosaur,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> belonging to \u2018Spinosaurus\u2019 species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dinosaur\u2019s fossils were uncovered in the remote <\/span><b>fossil area of Jengueb in Niger,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> deep in the <\/span><b>central Sahara.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>existed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nearly <\/span><b>95 million years ago.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It likely <\/span><b>lived in a forested inland habitat dissected by rivers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this new finding, mirabilis becomes the<\/span><b> second known species of Spinosaurus.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The remains of first known species \u2013 <\/span><b>Spinosaurus aegyptiacus <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 were discovered in <\/span><b>1915 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from fossils excavated in <\/span><b>Egypt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Spinosaurus mirabilis <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most striking feature of S. mirabilis is a <\/span><b>massive, scimitar-shaped cranial crest,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unlike anything previously documented in the group.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the crest\u2019s surface texture and interior vascular canals, the experts believe the <\/span><b>crest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was <\/span><b>sheathed in keratin.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They reckon that this display feature was <\/span><b>brightly colored in life, curving toward the sky as a blade-shaped beacon.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other findings from the skull and leg bones show that S. mirabilis was a formidable, <\/span><b>semiaquatic hunter.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its<\/span><b> interlocking conical teeth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>long legs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would have allowed the dinosaur to <\/span><b>hunt on land<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as to <\/span><b>wade through the shallows and pluck creatures out of the water.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/science\/news\/new-spinosaurus-species-found-in-sahara-all-about-95-million-year-old-dinosaur-fossil-discovery-11771550133685.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MINT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinosaurus mirabilis is a new meat-eating dinosaur, belonging to \u2018Spinosaurus\u2019 species. 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