How to View Spinosaurus in 3D
Spinosaurus 3D Viewer runs a sail-backed theropod at about 14 m in your browser - drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person for scale, and click the head, a leg, or the tail to read a part fact.
Open the Spinosaurus page and take the camera
Open the Spinosaurus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit the Spinosaurus with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene.
Use the four Spinosaurus controls under the canvas
Under the Spinosaurus canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle breathing and leg sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest length-to-hip-height ratio for the about 14 m figure (hip height about 2.1 m; published mass about 7.4 tonnes / 7400 kg)
Read the Spinosaurus facts panel and click body parts
The Spinosaurus facts panel lists length about 14 m (earlier estimates sometimes up to about 15 m), weight about 7.4 tonnes, hip height about 2.1 m, the 99-94 Mya Late Cretaceous window, diet Carnivore (mainly fish), and discovery in Egypt - fossils from 1912 named by Stromer in 1915. A short click - not a drag - on the head, a leg, or the tail swaps in a part note; click empty space to return to the species sheet. The procedural model shows elongated neural spines as a dorsal sail (spines up to about 1.65 m), a long narrow snout, and conical teeth. Skin and sail color are an artistic reconstruction; whether Spinosaurus was fully aquatic is not settled - the page describes a semi-aquatic lifestyle as debated, not proven.
What the Spinosaurus how-to guide is not
The Spinosaurus how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), does not claim soft-tissue or color accuracy, does not settle a fully aquatic lifestyle, and does not invent game score or win states. For the size story see Spinosaurus size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Spinosaurus 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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