Mmmm, I think I'll eat a shark for dinner tonight.

Spinosaurus, the Biggest Meat-Eating Dino Ever Discovered, Ate Entire Sharks

The sail-backed predator Spinosaurus is not only the biggest meat-eating dinosaur known, larger than T. rex. According to new research, it may also be the earliest known dinosaur to swim. A new study in Science says that Spinosaurus probably hunted in rivers with its sail rising from the water like the dorsal fin of the great white shark.

"Every time I see the sail on Spinosaurus, I'm going to hear the Jaws theme in my head," says lead study author Nizar Ibrahim, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Chicago.

The first fossils of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus were discovered more than a century ago by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach in the Egyptian Sahara. But all of Stromer's fossils were destroyed in World War II during the 1944 Allied bombing of Munich, leaving much uncertain about this carnivore. In 2008, however, 97-million-year-old fossils appeared across the Sahara, in Morocco. Those fossils are now, at long last, revealing Spinosaurus.

The fossils suggest an adult Spinosaurus would be more than 49 feet long head to tail, more than 9 feet longer than the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex. "It was the largest predatory dinosaur to roam the Earth that we know of," Ibrahim says.

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Got to ride the T-Rex this weekend!

After its restoration overhaul in 2009, the Totally Kid Carousel at Riverbank State Park is still rolling with the same 36 critters it debuted with in 1997. The menagerie was created by artist Milo Mottola based on imaginative drawings by local kids; the original sketches are posted above each bobbing animal for your brood to admire before hopping on the refurbished merry-go-round.

Was checking my Plesiosaur listing on ebay and found this.

THE SMALLEST MONSTER IN THE WORLD - William MacKellar hc/dj plesiosaur

Here it is on the bay of e.

Huge is too small of a word

Meet Dreadnoughtus, the Mesozoic monster that patrolled Argentina 80 million years ago

Some species of dinosaur were astoundingly enormous compared to anything alive on land today, which becomes obvious the moment you stand in the shadow of their skeletons in a museum. This remains one reason why we remain fascinated with these long-extinct beasts.
The colossal size of the long-necked species like Brachiosaurus stretches the limits of our imaginations, and exhausts our vocabulary. And nothing quite gets the hyperbole flowing like the discovery of a gigantic new dinosaur.
So, meet Dreadnoughtus, the 65-ton, 26-metre long plant-eating behemoth from the latest Cretaceous – 84-66 million years ago – found in Argentina. It is named after the World War I British battleship Dreadnought.
This discovery comes only a few months after another team of Argentine researchers reported a slightly older, and apparently even larger, long-necked dinosaur. That discovery dominated the science news for days, to the point where elderly relatives, who never took much of an interest in my career in science, were phoning me up to ask how something so huge could have possibly existed.
Although it may stretch logic, these animals were real. They were living, breathing, evolving organisms that, at least to me, are more fantastic than anything humans have created in legends, myths or even deliberate hoaxes.

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Come 'n' get 'em!

Just finished making lots of all-in-one kits for you.

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What's the rush?

Dinosaur discovered 155 years ago in Utah to be excavated

SALT LAKE CITY — Paleontologists are excavating the first dinosaur ever discovered in Utah — 155 years after a geologist discovered the skeleton of the mammoth plant-eater during an Army engineering survey of the West.
When geologist J.S. Newberry found the bones of the Dystrophaeus (dy-stroh-FAY-uhs) on the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers in 1859, he could only dig out a few and told others later there were more bones to be removed.
But that never happened until now.
The Museum of Moab obtained a grant to pay for the work.
Museum executive director John Foster says the bones found above a canyon south of Moab are the oldest sauropod dinosaur bones in North America.
Paleontologists say studying the bones will help them understand the origins of sauropods on the continent.
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