- Natural History Museum
- The badass Baryonyx may be related to the new Australian speciman. Click the above thumbnail to see the full image.
A giant predator (bigger than T-Rex) has been found in Australia, and may be the same species as a British dinosaur:
A 5cm-wide (2in) fossil may have something big to say about how dinosaurs ranged across the Earth.
The 125-million-year-old neck vertebra belonged to a spinosaurid – an animal with a crocodile-like snout that it probably used to prey on fish.
The specimen is the first such dinosaur identified in Australia but one that is nearly identical to a UK creature.
Whoa! Motherfucker has a crocodile head!
Does it speak with a British accent, or using Pictish proto-Gaelic?
If intentional, I applaud your cropping of the photo.
Makes sense. Wasn’t Australia first settled by cast-off British dinosaurs?
Ok, that sucked, when all I was really thinking was what #1 said.
@3 why thank you, yes it was intentional.
@1: That’s spinosaurids for you.
There’s one spinosaurid genus called Irritator. The team that discovered it named it that because the original specimen was all fragile and crumbly, and was a real pain in the ass to put back together.
Anyone else subscribe to the theory that Spinosaurs didn’t have a sail but a humped back like a bison?
Nobody?
Ah well, it was worth a shot.