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....then it might be a Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus. Some recent finds and analyses have brought Spinosaurus to the the forefront showing it may have been a more aquatic dinosaur. Meaning, that it spent more time in and around the water like a duck, rather than being a more land based predator. Like other spinosaurs and related dinosaurs (suchomimus) it's head, mouth and jaw construction and conical teeth indicate it was a fish eater. Currently, due to some skeletal parts still missing there is a debate as to how large the hip and back legs really are. New finds suggest the back legs are smaller than originally thought, making it a quadruped on land, but there is some question to this from some dinosaur anatomy experts. All that said, it has been shown that it's rear feet were flat and likely webbed (like a duck) and still no one knows for sure the flesh and muscled structure of the "sail" on its back or why it even has one.

A native of northern Africa in the mid Cretaceous, (between 100-90 million years ago) it lived in a land dominated by rivers, deltas, vast floodplains and swamps. At that time North Africa was closer to the equator and shallow seas separated west and east North Africa until the later Cretaceous. Spinosaurus also shared the landscape with some other large predators of the day, namely Carcharodontosaurus (You can see one on the shoreline here) and Deltadromeus. There were few large, long necked sauropods in the region, if any, but there were lots of giant fish and many types of turtles and Iguanodont types of dinosaurs and of course many crocodillians. Given that there were at least three or four predators in overlapping times and regions, it is believed there was enough diversity in prey, and niches, for everyone to be happy. As we know, this is conjecture based on the perceived environment from the fossil record and things can always change a bit as new information "evolves" (Heh). Again, that said, the knowledge of the flora and geology through the ages is very well trusted and categorized, so paleontologists can make very good educated guesses on physiology and habit of these extinct animals.

Model: SpinosaurusDR2 by Dinoraul over at Renderosity
On shore is Carcharodontosaurus made of Dinoraul's Giganatosaurus and MNArtist's and lmx3d's Carcharodontosaurus morph, also available at Renderosity www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/ca…
Rendered in Vue 2014 infinite.

Description
....then it might be a Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus. Some recent finds and analyses have brought Spinosaurus to the the forefront showing it may have been a more aquatic dinosaur. Meaning, that it spent more time in and around the water like a duck, rather than being a more land based predator. Like other spinosaurs and related dinosaurs (suchomimus) it's head, mouth and jaw construction and conical teeth indicate it was a fish eater. Currently, due to some skeletal parts still missing there is a debate as to how large the hip and back legs really are. New finds suggest the back legs are smaller than originally thought, making it a quadruped on land, but there is some question to this from some dinosaur anatomy experts. All that said, it has been shown that it's rear feet were flat and likely webbed (like a duck) and still no one knows for sure the flesh and muscled structure of the "sail" on its back or why it even has one.

A native of northern Africa in the mid Cretaceous, (between 100-90 million years ago) it lived in a land dominated by rivers, deltas, vast floodplains and swamps. At that time North Africa was closer to the equator and shallow seas separated west and east North Africa until the later Cretaceous. Spinosaurus also shared the landscape with some other large predators of the day, namely Carcharodontosaurus (You can see one on the shoreline here) and Deltadromeus. There were few large, long necked sauropods in the region, if any, but there were lots of giant fish and many types of turtles and Iguanodont types of dinosaurs and of course many crocodillians. Given that there were at least three or four predators in overlapping times and regions, it is believed there was enough diversity in prey, and niches, for everyone to be happy. As we know, this is conjecture based on the perceived environment from the fossil record and things can always change a bit as new information "evolves" (Heh). Again, that said, the knowledge of the flora and geology through the ages is very well trusted and categorized, so paleontologists can make very good educated guesses on physiology and habit of these extinct animals.

Model: SpinosaurusDR2 by Dinoraul over at Renderosity
On shore is Carcharodontosaurus made of Dinoraul's Giganatosaurus and MNArtist's and lmx3d's Carcharodontosaurus morph, also available at Renderosity www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/ca…
Rendered in Vue 2014 infinite.