Spinosaurs inherited brainpower from ancestors to catch fish

Semi-aquatic dinosaurs which lived 125 million years ago inherited the brain capacity from their ancestors to catch the fish they survived on, according to new research

Artist's impression of a ceratosuchops and the orientation of the endocast in the skull. Spinosaurs were adapted with long crocodile-like jaws and conical teeth to stalk riverbanks looking for prey, often large fish. Picture: Anthony Hutchings/University of Southampton/PA Wire

Scientists from the University of Southampton and Ohio University have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two spinosaurs, which they say helps reveal how these large predatory dinosaurs interacted with their environment.

Spinosaurs were adapted with long crocodile-like jaws and conical teeth to stalk riverbanks looking for prey, often large fish.