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Debate heats up over swimming ability of bizarre-looking Spinosaurus – Livescience.com
Maybe the dinosaur Spinosaurus wasn’t the Michael Phelps of swimming.
The wild-looking Spinosaurus may not have been the Michael Phelps of dinosaurs
, as was recently claimed, but rather more like a casual bathing beauty that preferred to wade gracefully in the shallow zone, a new study suggests.
That’s not to say Spinosaurus
couldn’t swim: It could. But it wasn’t the “highly specialized aquatic predator” that could efficiently chase prey through the water, as it was made out to be in a big 2020 study published in the journal Nature
, the researchers of the new study…
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