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Re: Guts-Eating Spinosaurs



> I wouldn't think a Spinosaur-skull is actually the right material to catch
a
> fish that is moving all around, look at the dorsal view reconstruction of
> Suchomimus in Sereno et al. 1998. Is it really possible to try to catch a
> fish with a skull as thin as 30 cm. at the broadest point?

Crocodiles do it all the time, usually with much narrower skulls... :-)
Doesn't the same paper write that the skull was very robust and well suited
to resist torsion?