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A new genus and species of theropod dinosaur being named Anteavis crurilongus has been described by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia,’ the University of Birmingham, CONICET and CIGEOBIO. An artist’s reconstruction of Anteavis crurilongus. Image credit: Jorge Blanco. Anteavis crurilongus roamed Earth during the Carnian age …

“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says.  “There was a study by Dave Hone and Tom Holtz about how it was waiting on the shorelines, waiting for food to go by that it could fish out.” But Spinosaurus’ foraging wasn’t limited to fishing. There was a pterosaur found preserved in its stomach …