A dinosaur that swims

If you said “spinosaurus” when you read the title of this post, then you keep up on dinosaur news. If you said, “Jennifer, you said dinosaurs were land animals,” thank you for reading my blog.

Dinosaurs do live on land. They were not full-time aquatic creatures like whales or sharks. However, one dinosaur was built to swim, and that was spinosaurus. (If one dinosaur can swim, I assume others did too, but we haven’t found them yet.)

I’m not a huge fan of spinosaurus because this guy has gotten a ton of press (which it probably deserves), and I like learning about many different types of dinosaurs, but the story of how the spinosaurus was discovered is remarkable.

I talk about the Shortwave podcast a lot because it is often my favorite. If you haven’t listened to this short form science show, I recommend starting with this one. The amount of luck and perseverance that went into locating the spinosaurus is almost unbelievable.