Spinosaurus: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article revised and updated. Aug 18, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Spinosaurus. Jul 16, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at West Chester University - Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur (PDF). Nov 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Carnegie Museum of Natural History - The Strange Saga of Spinosaurus, the Semiaquatic Dinosaurian Superpredator. Aug 22, 2025
Added top questions. Jun 30, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Evaluating the ecology of Spinosaurus: shoreline generalist or aquatic pursuit specialist? (PDF). Mar 01, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Chicago News - Did Spinosaurus hunt its prey deep underwater or from shore? Analysis continues. Dec 05, 2024
Updated mass estimates of Spinosaurus and noted that it was a bipedal terrestrial predator. Sep 03, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - A century of spinosaurs - a review and revision of the Spinosauridae with comments on their ecology. Aug 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Spinosaurus. Jun 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Palaeontologia Electronica - The ecology of Spinosaurus. Oct 19, 2023
Add new Web site: AZ Animals - Spinosaurus. Dec 29, 2022
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Using linear measurements to diagnose the ecological habitat of Spinosaurus. Dec 23, 2022
Add new Web site: Livescience - Spinosaurus: The Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur. Sep 22, 2022
Noted that the dense bones found in Spinosaurus suggests that the dinosaur was an aquatic predator. Apr 05, 2022
Corrected display issue. Oct 24, 2018
Add new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Spinosaurus. Jul 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Prehistoric-Wildlife - Spinosaurus. Jul 02, 2014
Added photograph. May 11, 2011
New article added. Apr 24, 2009
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