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reACTIONary

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11. More on this discovery....

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 11:12 PM

9 hrs ago

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-heron-dinosaur-discovered-central-sahara

‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

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Fossils of a new species of huge dinosaur Spinosaurus unearthed in Niger [View all] highplainsdem 15 hrs ago OP

Can we send a couple to Mara Lago? Pretty sure they would set it right in a few hours.... Evolve Dammit 15 hrs ago #1

Naw. It's a Republican. tavernier 15 hrs ago #4

OK. Maybe some indiscriminatory velociraptores? Evolve Dammit 14 hrs ago #6

;-{)..... Goonch 15 hrs ago #2

Awesome. SamKnause 15 hrs ago #3

Well it can't be a "new" species, can it? FakeNoose 15 hrs ago #5

Ah, a fellow hairsplitter -- at least they didn't make the usual mistake of saying "new dinosaur discovered ..." eppur_se_muova 9 hrs ago #10

It probably sounded like an otter or a kitten. chowder66 14 hrs ago #7

A Nigerian prince will be reaching out shortly for more archeology funding. n/t Beartracks 13 hrs ago #8

UChicago announcement here -- yes, it's Paul Soreno and his group. eppur_se_muova 10 hrs ago #9

More on this discovery.... reACTIONary 9 hrs ago #11

So, it was about the length of a city bus, and its back ridge was the height of an adult giraffe? LudwigPastorius 9 hrs ago #12