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.
Spinosaurus sails were unusual, although other dinosaurs, namely the ornithopod Ouranosaurus, which lived a few million years earlier in the same general region as Spinosaurus, and the South American sauropod Amargasaurus, might have developed similar structural adaptations of their vertebrae.