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Spinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian to upper Turonian stages of the Late Cretaceous period, about 99 to 93.5 million years ago. It has long been one of the great riddles of paleontology. Reconstructing fossil animals from limited bones is tough work, and few dinosaurs illustrate that as well as Spinosaurus. Discover more about Spinosaurs in this podcast with Namrata Arora