Well, it looks like modders will have to update their Spinosaurus again.
Remember that new Spinosaurus skeleton from 2014? Palaeontologists went back to the site in Morocco and excavated more bones of the same animal. And as it turns out, Spinosaurus had a tail fin suitable for water propulsion. So it seems the animal was even more suited to swimming than previously thought.
Here are some articles and the scientific publication.
A truly bizarre animal.
Remember that new Spinosaurus skeleton from 2014? Palaeontologists went back to the site in Morocco and excavated more bones of the same animal. And as it turns out, Spinosaurus had a tail fin suitable for water propulsion. So it seems the animal was even more suited to swimming than previously thought.
Here are some articles and the scientific publication.
Reconstructing Spinosaurus, a gigantic aquatic predator
Explore how scientists discovered the largest predator ever lived and hunted almost entirely in the water.
www.nationalgeographic.com
Spinosaurus fossil tail suggests dinosaurs were swimmers after all
Unique among known dinosaurs, Spinosaurus had a finlike tail, which the predator may have used to propel itself through the water.
www.sciencenews.org
Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur - Nature
Discovery that the giant theropod dinosaur Spinosaurus has a large flexible tail indicates that it was primarily aquatic and swam in a similar manner to extant tail-propelled aquatic vertebrates.
www.nature.com
A truly bizarre animal.