Forgotten Giants: The Snake Eater

This week, I bring you a very unique dinosaur. Most spinosaurs ate primarily fish and they occasionally shared a different diet. Immediately Spinosaurus, the largest land carnivore ever to live, comes to mind. It probably are a diet of crocodiles, dinosaurs, fish, pterosaurs, sharks and whatever else it could find. The Baryonyx specimen also ate a young Iguanodon before death, and the bones of a pterosaur were apparently found in the stomach of one spinosaur. Pretty open diet, right? Well, for one spinosaurid, the menu was much different. Of the remains found, it appears as though it had the thinnest jaws of any spinosaur yet known. They were very long, narrow and toothy. They also had a "slight downcurve". It had a crest of some sort on its skull and also had a sail or ridge. It was tall at the front of the body but apparently dropped around the back of the shoulder blades. Judging by the fossils found, it had a diet that consisted entirely of snakes. Bones of many snakes were in its stomach before death. Despite being remarkably unique and interesting, it is almost completely unknown. With a mostly complete skull, most of the back, ribs and stomach contents preserved, it is one of the wonders of the world as to why it hasn't even been named yet. It is estimated to be only around 10 feet long, making it the smallest spinosaur. It is known from Egypt and, like the 60 foot Spinosaurus and 50 foot Saurophagus, was unfortunately destroyed in an allied bombing. However, unlike the others, it was never properly described and was never unveiled to the public. It is now considered dubious. [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kemJgl7eE3M/UePMkHJdBBI/AAAAAAAAACo/eKDuNfduQDk/s640/blogger-image-1443896894.jpg[/img] [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oagHHqRphQk/UePMk-6-2DI/AAAAAAAAACw/S4OZald_-fg/s640/blogger-image--546327047.jpg[/img]