‘Astonishing” New Scimitar-Shaped Crested Dinosaur Discovered in Sahara Desert: ‘You might uncover a lost world’
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Key Points:
- Scientists have discovered the first clear evidence in over a century of a new Spinosaurus species, named Spinosaurus mirabilis, in the Sahara Desert, described as a "hell heron" that fed on fish despite living far inland from the sea.
- This new species, dating back 95 million years, features a unique scimitar-shaped bony crest likely used for visual display, and lived as a shallow water predator alongside long-necked dinosaurs in a forested, river-dissected inland habitat.
- The discovery challenges previous beliefs that spinosaurids were fully aquatic and coastal, as the fossils were found over 600 miles from the nearest marine shoreline, indicating these dinosaurs hunted fish in inland water environments.
- The excavation was
