We chat with National Geographic Explorer and paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim about his team’s discovery of the Spinosaurus, the first known swimming dinosaur. The discovery and subsequent modeling showing the effectiveness of the Spinosaurus’s tail under water were detailed in Nature earlier this year.
The years-long journey to uncover the fossilized remains ventures into Hollywood movie territory at times, and it all begins with a mustached Moroccan man wearing white.
This discovery was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society.
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