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Unicorn-Like Spinosaurus With Unique Head Spike Discovered in the Sahara

via Ars Technica·Mar 7

Paleontologists have discovered a remarkable new Spinosaurus specimen in the Sahara Desert, distinguished by a unicorn-like spike on its head and specialized fish-eating jaws that help resolve long-standing questions about how these massive predators lived and hunted. The find is significant because Spinosaurus remains are exceptionally rare and fragmentary, making each new specimen a potential key to understanding one of the most unusual and poorly understood groups of dinosaurs that ever lived. The discovery adds to a body of evidence suggesting that Spinosaurus was far more diverse and specialized than scientists previously believed, with different species adapting to remarkably different ecological niches across prehistoric Africa.

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