Inputs by Krisha Bansal
London, Sep 30: Paleontologists in United Kingdom studied a group of 50 skulls and tail bones, and found that they belong to two new species of Spinosaurid Dinosaurs, a group of large- bodied, semi-aquatic predatory dinosaurs. The bones were discovered on the Isle of Wight in England. One of them was named as Ceratosuchops inferodios, which means ‘horned crocodile-faced hell heron’ since a series of horns and bumps were seen on the brow region. The other one was named after British paleontologist Angela Milner as Riparovenator milnerae, this means ‘Milner’s riverbank hunter’. Their length is estimated to be around nine meters. They belong to the Early Cretaceous period, around 125 million years ago. The study suggests that Spinosaurids might have evolved first in Europe and then moved to Asia, Africa, and South America.
