From The University of Chicago:
Scientists have unveiled what appears to be the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator reveal it adapted to life in the water some 95 million years ago, providing the most compelling evidence to date of a dinosaur able to live and hunt in an aquatic environment.
The fossils also indicate that Spinosaurus was the largest known predatory dinosaur to roam the Earth, measuring more than 9 feet longer than the world’s largest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen.
The story is being reported by National Geographic and in the journal Science.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 12 2014, @08:26PM
What do you call a gay dinosaur? Megasoreass.
What do you call a lesbian dinosaur? Lickaloddapuss.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 12 2014, @09:19PM
Combine the best ideas from 2 of his previous [wikipedia.org] works [wikipedia.org] and you have a new movie.
Too bad somebody already used the name for a comedy. [wikipedia.org]
Maybe he could call it "Don't Even THINK About Going Near the Water".
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Informative) by stormwyrm on Saturday September 13 2014, @02:03AM
Apparently it already features in Jurassic Park III [wikipedia.org], which is why a Spinosaurus skeleton features in the background of the film's logo instead of the traditional Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was, of course, depicted according to the known science at the time, which makes the appearance of the dinosaur there a little different from the way the TFA shows it..
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Wootery on Friday September 12 2014, @09:49PM
For a moment there I assumed Semiaquatic Dinosaur was an Ubuntu release.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 12 2014, @09:56PM
For a 15m-long sharknosaur, it's a shame that the only thing I can think of is this:
http://s176.photobucket.com/user/runnerpat/media/Boards/sharksfarside.png.html [photobucket.com]
(Score: 2) by fadrian on Friday September 12 2014, @10:10PM
9pm Channel 359 Syfy Megalodonado vs. Spinosaurus (2014) [Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence]: In a time travel experiment gone tragically awry, a herd of Spinosauri are brought back from the ancient past and terrify Manhattan. Leading scientists, led by Dr. Paul Dirkstone (DiCaprio) gather to find a solution to the problem only to find a second tragedy ready to wreak havoc on the city - a sharknado moving up the coastline. In a last-ditch effort to save the city, a quirky young female scientist, Dr. Janet Bloom (Lawrence) suggests a long shot - bring megalodons here from the dawn of time, injecting them into the sharknado to deliver them to the spinosauri for a final battle, giving the scientists enough time to return both sets of creatures to their prehistoric era! Romantic sparks fly between the two members of this September-April romance as they scientists race to save the city - and maybe, even the world - if they don't kill each other first!!!
Oh, wait... It has time travel. That's a bit much for a Syfy viewer to believe. I'll have to turn the sharknado into a "time vortex" and sell it to the BBC for use in Dr. Who. Peter Capaldi always looks like he's needing some.
That is all.