If we base the ferocious factor on the length of the animal, there was nothing that ever lived on this planet that could match this creature - John R. Horner

'Spinosaurus' is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago.

Quotes

• If we base the ferocious factor on the length of the animal, there was nothing that ever lived on this planet that could match this creature.
  • John R. Horner, as quoted in "Spinosaurus makes T. Rex look like a pussycat: When it comes to Jurassic Park III, size does matter", Ottawa Citizen (11 July, 2001)

• It is a really bizarre dinosaur - there's no real blueprint for it. It has a long neck, a long trunk, a long tail, a 7ft (2m) sail on its back and a snout like a crocodile. And when we look at the body proportions, the animal was clearly not as agile on land as other dinosaurs were, so I think it spent a substantial amount of time in the water.
  • Nizar Ibrahim, as quoted in "Spinosaurus fossil: 'Giant swimming dinosaur' unearthed", BBC News (11 September 2014)

• It was a chimera: half duck, half crocodile. We don’t have anything alive that looks like this today.
  • Paul Sereno, as quoted in "Meet the Mighty Spinosaurus, the First Dinosaur Adapted for Swimming", Smithsonian Magazine (11 September 2014)

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