{"id":15185,"date":"2025-07-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:30:59","slug":"spinosaurus-wader-or-swimmer-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/spinosaurus-wader-or-swimmer-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Spinosaurus a Wader or a Swimmer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Paleontologists Can\u2019t Stop Fighting About Spinosaurus\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CrRr9sMBJjw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The massive carnivorous dinosaur\u00a0<em>Spinosaurus<\/em>\u00a0is at the center of a fierce paleontological debate. Was this &#8220;heron from hell&#8221; a shallow-water wader, or a proficient pursuit predator that swam through ancient rivers like a crocodile? A series of groundbreaking fossil discoveries, including a unique paddle-like tail and unusually dense bones, are fueling the controversy and forcing scientists to rethink just how aquatic this bizarre creature truly was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New fossil evidence, from a crocodile-like snout to a massive paddle-shaped tail, has ignited a fierce debate over whether the giant predator\u00a0Spinosaurus\u00a0was a shoreline wader or a powerful underwater swimmer.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/71\/Spinosaurus_durbed.jpg\/2560px-Spinosaurus_durbed.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14094,14091,14086,1703,14092,14089,14095,14090,14093,14085,25,230,12423,14096,3996,304,4005,14087,14083,14084,14088,14082,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-15185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nature","8":"tag-aquatic-adaptation","9":"tag-baryonyx","10":"tag-carnivorous-dinosaur","11":"tag-cretaceous-period","12":"tag-dinosaur-bone-density","13":"tag-dinosaur-fossils","14":"tag-isotope-analysis","15":"tag-kem-kem-group","16":"tag-morocco-fossils","17":"tag-nizar-ibrahim","18":"tag-paleontology","19":"tag-pbs-eons","20":"tag-prehistoric-animals","21":"tag-scientific-debate","22":"tag-semi-aquatic-dinosaur","23":"tag-spinosaurus","24":"tag-spinosaurus-lifestyle","25":"tag-spinosaurus-tail","26":"tag-suchomimus","27":"tag-swimming-dinosaur","28":"tag-theropod","29":"tag-wader-vs-swimmer","30":"tag-youtube","31":"post_format-post-format-video","32":"cs-entry","33":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15187,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}