What dinosaur can breathe underwater?

Spinosaurus had a nostril on the back of its head. That made it possible for the creature to breathe when part of its head was under water.
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What dinosaur swims under water?

The adaptations resemble those of early whales and today's hippopotamus, and make Spinosaurus the only dinosaur known to swim, the researchers say.
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Were there any aquatic dinosaurs?

Answer: No dinosaurs were adapted to an entirely aquatic life, although some may have gone into the water to get prey. Baryonyx, for example, was found with fossilized fish scales in its stomach.
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Can T-Rex swim underwater?

Researchers believe the tiny- armed carnivores were surprisingly adept swimmers! Normally when you were a kid pretending you were being chased by a T-Rex one place of safety would be a lake or some sort of body of water…
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Can a velociraptor swim?

All dinosaurs could swim, said Dave Gillette, curator of paleontology at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. "They might not have been graceful, but they could swim nevertheless. Think of elephants, or horses they swim quite well even though their bodies do not look like the bodies of swimmers at all."
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10 Biggest Sea Dinosaurs That Ever Existed on Earth



Was there a dinosaur that could walk swim and fly?

Halszka Fossil: Bizarre, Vicious Duck Dinosaur That Could Run, Fly and Swim Discovered. Take the claws of the infamous Velociraptor, stick them onto the flippers of a penguin and the stilt legs of a wading bird, then top the whole thing off with the long, flexible neck of a predatorial reptile.
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Is an Allosaurus bigger than T. rex?

Rex adults were a significantly larger compared with allosaurus adults. An allosaurus adult was between 8.5 and 12m in length (28-39 ft), while the average T. Rex adult was about 12-15m long (40-50 ft). The average height of an allosaurus was 17ft (a little over 5m) while T.
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Who is stronger Spinosaurus or T. rex?

T-Rex is smaller than Spinosaurus, but the T-Rex is smarter and built to kill. The Spinosaurus was heavier, taller, and longer than the T-Rex, but the latter's bite was far more powerful. The Spinosaurus was also believed to be semi-aquatic, but the T-Rex lived solely on land.
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What is a water dinosaur?

< Wikijunior:Dinosaurs. The Plesiosaur is not actually a dinosaur, but rather a large swimming reptile. Plesiosaur is Greek for "nearer to the reptiles". This name given to this creature because it resembles something that is part reptile and part fish. The whole group of these animals are called plesiosaurs.
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Are mosasaurus still alive?

They were not sea dinosaurs, but a separate group of reptiles, more closely related to modern snakes and lizards, according to the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. Mosasaurs went extinct 65.5 million years ago in the same mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, Live Science previously reported.
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Is the Megalodon a dinosaur?

The dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago. Megalodons came later. The oldest megalodon fossils are from the Miocene Epoch, which began 23 million years ago.
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What was the biggest water dinosaur?

Shonisaurus sikanniensis is believed to be the largest sea dinosaur at 85 ft. The largest sea animal to exist during the age of the dinosaurs was an incredible 85 feet long and is believed to be Shonisaurus sikanniensis.
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What Dino is bigger than T. rex?

Spinosaurus was larger than both T. rex and Giganotosaurus, which was previously the largest carnivorous dinosaur known. But it's unclear just how big Spinosaurus was, due to incomplete fossils.
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What is the coolest dinosaur ever?

Top 10 Coolest Dinosaurs to Ever Roam the Earth
  • #8: Spinosaurus. ...
  • #7: Troodon. ...
  • #6: Iguanodon. ...
  • #5: Ankylosaurus. ...
  • #4: Stegosaurus. ...
  • #3: Deinonychus. ...
  • #2: Triceratops. ...
  • #1: Tyrannosaurus Rex. One of the largest land predators to ever walk the Earth, but not THE biggest as we've already seen, the T.
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Is the mosasaurus real?

Mosasaurs are a group of marine lizards that would have lived in the Badlands area from about 75-69 million years ago. When they were alive, mosasaurs could reach lengths of up to 50 feet, which is roughly the length of a bus! Mosasaurs were top predators of the world's oceans and would eat anything they could catch.
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Can a Ankylosaurus beat at Rex?

An Ankylosaurus probably couldn't kill a Tyrannosaurus rex with the club at the end of its tail, but new research suggests the bony bludgeon could definitely break its ankles.
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What dinosaur killed the T-Rex?

The Spinosaurus after it killed the Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Who would win in a fight T-Rex vs Ankylosaurus?

T-Rex vs Ankylosaurus: Size

Tyrannosaurus Rex could grow up to 15,000lbs, stand anywhere from 12ft to 20ft tall, and measured 40ft long at its utmost. Depending on how large the dinosaur grew, it could beat the Ankylosaurus in every measurement.
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Did T-Rex have a predator?

The new dinosaur, dubbed Siats meekerorum, is part of a group of giant predators known as carcharodontosaurs, and it's only the second of this group to be discovered in North America.
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Who would win in a fight T-Rex or Giganotosaurus?

In a fight between Giganotosaurus and T-Rex, the Tyrannosaurus would win. The two dinosaurs are pretty similar to one another, but their approaches to fighting would make a world of difference.
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Who will win T-Rex or Stegosaurus?

T-Rex would win a fight against a Stegosaurus.

Although Stegosaurus possessed a powerful method of attack that could have severely harmed the T-Rex's legs, a few problems exist with the herbivore fighting off the carnivore. For one thing, Stegosaurus was not an intelligent dinosaur.
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What is the scariest dinosaur?

We've seen some scary dinosaurs before, the T-Rex, Utahraptor and Jeholopterus all come to mind, but the newly discovered Heterodontosaur may be the scariest of all. It was a small, fanged dinosaur species that wandered around the toes of other dinosaurs.
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What is the fastest dinosaur?

The speediest dinosaurs were the ostrich mimic ornithomimids, such as Dromiceiomimus, which could probably run at speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour.
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What was first dinosaur?

Nyasasaurus Parringtoni is believed to be the earliest dinosaur to have ever lived on Earth. It predates all other dinosaurs by more than 10 million years.
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