Lost-and-found dinosaur thrived in water

Fossils pieced together through ridiculous luck revise view of Spinosaurus

reconstruction of sail-backed Spinosaurus

SPLASHIEST DINO  Sail-backed Spinosaurus was unique among known dinosaurs for its water-adapted body, and four-legged gait on land, as demonstrated by a sculpture in the National Geographic Society’s courtyard in Washington, D.C.

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Fossils brought together by unlikely chances now suggest that the sail-backed Spinosaurus was no mere wade-in-the-water fish-catcher.