Dave Hone
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And if you look across all the species and specimens that we have, they're incredibly fragmentary and very badly known.
But they're all basically associated with...
When you look at the Gestalt, you see a whole bunch of stuff for these things.
So they do have a surprisingly crocodile-like head and crocodile-like teeth compared to every other carnivorous dinosaur.
And when you do the mechanical analysis, you see they function in a very similar way.
And indeed...
Teeth.
Oh, here's a Spinosaur teeth.
With very nearly circular cross-section.
Really distinctive.
Similar to crocodiles.
Similar to dolphins.
Similar to fish-eating fish.
So, points to fish.
Crocodile-like head.
Points to fish.
Crocs eat other stuff too, but still.
They're usually found in or near aquatic systems.
Now...
Fossils in general tend to turn up in aquatic systems because you've got to be buried to become a fossil, so water association is common.