Single Spinosaurus over coelacanth on beach (IMAGE)

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Single Spinosaurus over coelacanth on beach

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A single Spinosaurus mirabilis rears over a carcass of the coelacanth Mawsonia on the forested bank of a river some 95 million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert in Niger. A scimitar-shaped head crest and interdigitating teeth characterize this wading giant, one of the last-surviving species of a spinosaurid radiation some 50 million years in the making (artwork by Dani Navarro)

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Artwork by Dani Navarro

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