Rankings / Prehistoric / Land / Super heavyweight / Spinosaurus
Prehistoric · mid-CretaceousLandSuper heavyweight
Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus · North Africa (Morocco, Egypt)
Record
0–0
Win rate
–
Fight rating
1,500
Fighter stats
Estimates from fossils, for adults- Lived
- About 100–94 million years ago
- Weight
- ~13,000–16,000 lb (estimates vary widely)
- Size
- ~45–50 ft long, ~6 ft back sail
- Top speed
- Unknown
- Weapons
- Long croc-like jaws, cone-shaped teeth, big hand claws
- Diet
- Carnivore: mostly fish
- Lifespan
- Unknown
Power-ups
- Longer than T. rex
- Built to hunt in and around water
- Big claws on strong arms
Weak spots
- Narrow jaws made for fish, not big prey
- Whether it swam well is hotly debated
Fight record
Bars show the share of votes for the spinosaurus. A fight counts toward the record once it has 10+ votes.
In the wild
A 2020 Nature study of the first nearly complete Spinosaurus tail found a paddle-like tail that, in robot tests, gave over 8 times the thrust of other theropod tails.
Source: nationalgeographic.comA 2022 study led by Paul Sereno pushed back: it found Spinosaurus too buoyant to dive and a weak swimmer, more of a wading ambush hunter like a giant heron.
Source: phys.orgThe original Spinosaurus fossils were destroyed by Allied bombing of a Munich museum in 1944.
Source: nationalgeographic.com