Directory of Spinosaurus Resources

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The spinosaurus was a large meat eating dinosaur, that was even larger than the tyrannosaurus. The spinosaurus was 16 to 18 metres (52 to 60 feet) long and was 5 to 6 metres (16 to 20 feet) tall. It had a very distinctive spine with bones growing up to 2 m long extending from the vertebrae.

Resources in This Category

• Dino Directory: Spinosaurus

  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/spinosaurus.html
  Contains images and information on the taxonomy.

• Spinosaurus

  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Spinosaurus.shtml
  Offers a physical description, its diet, and when they lived.

• Spinosaurus

  http://www.paleodirect.com/spino1.htm
  Pictures of model dinosaur, and descriptions.

• Spinosaurus Towers over T-rex

  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/feb/08/internationalnews
  Article compares the height of this dinosaur with Tyrannosaurus rex.

• Spinosaurus vs. T. rex

  http://www.factmonster.com/spot/dinogrudgematch.html
  Looks at which dinosaur was the biggest and badest.

• The Biggest Carnivore: Dinosaur History Rewritten

  http://www.livescience.com/7066-biggest-carnivore-dinosaur-history-rewritten.html
  Article explains how Spinosaurus is now the biggest meat-eating dinosaur known.

• Wikipedia: Spinosaurus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinosaurus
  Encyclopedia article offers description of what the sail could have been used for.

 

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