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However, in the 2000s, ''Spinosaurus'' has in a sense done justice to the carcharodontosaur, taking in turn the popularity of ''Giganotosaurus'' out thanks to ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. The awesome thing is, in RealLife ''Carcharodontosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' living together in Cretaceous Africa where today is Sahara, maybe contended the "top-predator" niche with each other. While ''Carcharodontosaurus'' was better-weaponed with huge jaws, ''Spinosaurus'' was more enormous-bodied and could have been even twice its weight. They were often considered the "tiger" and the "grizzly bear" of their time respectively, and it was often supposed that ''Spinosaurus'' sometimes chased away ''Carcharodontosaurus'' from their kills like modern bears do with big cats when they live side-by-side -- at least, before recent research controversially suggesting the spinosaur not to be a land-dweller but a semi-aquatic animal with a finned tail. Maybe they never fought in real life, due to the very different habitats (shallow seas and dryland respectively).

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However, in the 2000s, ''Spinosaurus'' has in a sense done justice to the carcharodontosaur, taking in turn the popularity of ''Giganotosaurus'' out thanks to ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. The awesome thing is, in RealLife ''Carcharodontosaurus'' and ''Spinosaurus'' living together in Cretaceous Africa where today is Sahara, maybe contended the "top-predator" niche with each other. While ''Carcharodontosaurus'' was better-weaponed with huge jaws, ''Spinosaurus'' was more enormous-bodied and could have been even twice its weight. They were often considered the "tiger" and the "grizzly bear" of their time respectively, and it was often supposed that ''Spinosaurus'' sometimes chased away ''Carcharodontosaurus'' from their kills like modern bears do with big cats when they live side-by-side -- at least, before recent research controversially suggesting the spinosaur not to be a land-dweller but a semi-aquatic animal with a finned tail. Maybe To that end, perhaps a better modern analogy would be "lions" and "crocodiles"; they never fought in real life, due to the very occupied different habitats (shallow seas habitats, had different ecologies, and dryland respectively).
may not have even encountered each other outside of exceptional situations, let alone competed.

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