AS REFLECTED IN RECENT CONTEMPORARY Restorations: we go over quasi-familiar ground by discussing this unusual. charismatic theropod and its scientific and paleontological history. Not interested? Well, Pilgrim, you're out of luck this time. This is what happens when I don't get on-air guests to converse with. My various hobby horses emerge, as here. We do offer poems by Poe and others. We're hoping to expand our repertoire. That apology being tended, the story of Spinosaurus compels interest as the description of an unusual and enormous carnivorous dinosaur, the struggle to excavate the original type specimen, its destruction and obliteration by wartime bombing, the implications prompted by recent discoveries and its reverberations in popular culture. So be forewarned.