A scotoma is a strange name for a common problem. A scotoma, pleural is scotomata, is an area of diminished or absent vision that is surrounded by an area of normal or near normal vision.It comes from the Greek work for darkness. scotoma is a strange name for a common problem. A scotoma, pleural is scotomata, is an area of diminished or absent vision that is surrounded by an area of normal or near normal vision. It comes from the Greek work for darkness.
Spinosaurus (meaning spine lizard) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago.
Image caption Spinosaurus is thought to be the largest known carnivore and would have feasted on huge fish and sharks. A giant fossil, unearthed in the Sahara desert, has given scientists an unprecedented look at the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur: Spinosaurus. The 95-million-year-old remains confirm a long-held theory: that this is the first-known swimming dinosaur. Scientists say the beast had flat, paddle-like feet and nostrils on top of its crocodilian head that would allow it to submerge with ease. The research is published in the journal Science.