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A new paleontological discovery has reignited the scientific community’s interest in aquatic dinosaurs. An expedition carried out in North Africa identified a new species of spinosaurus, named Spinosaurus mirabiliswho lived about 95 million years ago.
The find draws attention to the environment in which the animal lived. According to the researchers, the dinosaur lived more than a thousand kilometers from the coast, in a region that, at that time, was part of the Tethys Sea, a vast ocean that separated the supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana.
New species of spinosaurus lived in the Tethys Sea 95 million years ago, expanding knowledge about aquatic dinosaurs/ Photo: Reproduction
Spinosaurs belong to a group of carnivorous dinosaurs adapted to aquatic life. They had an elongated snout, conical teeth ideal for capturing fish and body structures that indicate swimming ability. The new fossil reinforces the hypothesis that these predators were highly specialized in marine and river environments.
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The presence of Spinosaurus mirabilis in waters so far from the coast suggests that these animals had a great capacity for adaptation and occupied varied ecological niches within the ecosystem of the Tethys Sea.
The discovery contributes to expanding the understanding of the diversity of spinosaurs and the environmental dynamics of the planet during the Cretaceous period, when the configuration of continents and oceans was quite different from today.
