Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur

Ibrahim, N; Maganuco, S; Dal Sasso, C; Fabbri, M; Auditore, M; Bindellini, G; Martill, DM; Zouhri, S; Mattarelli, DA; Unwin, DM; Wiemann, J; Bonadonna, D; Amane, A; Jakubczak, J; Joger, U; Lauder, GV; Pierce, SE

Ibrahim, N (corresponding author), Univ Detroit Mercy, Dept Biol, Detroit, MI 48221 USA.; Pierce, SE (corresponding author), Harvard Univ, Museum Comparat Zool, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.; Pierce, SE (corresponding author), Harvard Univ, Dept Organism & Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.

NATURE, 2020; 581 (7806): 67

Abstract

Discovery that the giant theropod dinosaur Spinosaurus has a large flexible tail indicates that it was primarily aquatic and swam in a similar manner ......

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