About Spinosaurus mirabilis:
- It is a new meat-eating dinosaur, belonging to ‘Spinosaurus’ species.
- The dinosaur’s fossils were uncovered in the remote fossil area of Jengueb in Niger, deep in the central Sahara.
- It existed nearly 95 million years ago.
- It likely lived in a forested inland habitat dissected by rivers.
- With this new finding, mirabilis becomes the second known species of Spinosaurus.
- The remains of first known species – Spinosaurus aegyptiacus – were discovered in 1915 from fossils excavated in Egypt.
