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Thrilled to share our new study led by the @FieldMuseum entitled “Subaqueous foraging among carnivorous dinosaurs” published today in @Nature! We found that, while #Spinosaurus and #Baryonyx could swim underwater, #Suchomimus could not. Thread
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Have you ever noticed how some modern semiaquatic animals do not show striking anatomical traits in their skeleton, such as the hippopotamus and tapirs? If these animals weren’t alive today, how easy would have been to correctly guess their ecology from their skeleton? 
This is what inspired us to investigate subaqueous behavior in dinosaurs: we wondered if we are underestimating the ecological diversity among non-avian dinosaurs and decided to use bone density to test for aquatic adaptations
