New and interesting article on the spinosaurus.

dinoboy22

¨The biggest and the baddest among meat-eating dinosaurs, Spinosaurus may have also been the first dinosaur to take to the water, swimming in North Africa's rivers some 97 million years ago, researchers reported on Thursday.¨

PHOTOGRAPH BY MIKE HETTWER, ASSISTED BY MARK THIESSEN, NGM STAFF

Check it out its a pretty cool article

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140911-spinosaurus-fossil-discovery-dinosaur-science/ 

*Edited by **AL**

indiana jones

thats pretty cool

DinoSteve93

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/science/a-nomads-find-helps-solve-the-mystery-of-the-spinosaurus.html?_r=0

Here's more.

What could I say? Wow, that thing was uglier than expected. I'm just sorry for all the Spino fans, their dreams just crashed (not saying this in a malicious way).

Svanya

Nice thread!

Lord Vader

Interesting for sure.

Couldn't help but snicker at this paragraph:

"Spinosaurus has almost no 'junk in the trunk,'" Holtz says, noting its narrow hips and short thighs. "This doesn't make much sense for a land animal that makes a living chasing other land animals. But if it is an animal that doesn't spend most of its time on land, but instead in the water, it doesn't need strong leg muscles."

And this image (in link provided by DinoSteve):

Intersting for sure, and what I'm getting of this is that Spino wasn't as powerful as some make it out to be. 

DinoSteve93

Indeed MrHappy. I give Spino (as in that picture) 3 to 5 tons in weight.

Lord Vader

If that my friend, if that. 

DinoSteve93

Well, I see that to be most likely. I mean, Paul Sereno!!! :D

JRR

Its even more waterbased and smaller than i tougth

Silver_Falcon

EWWHHH I'm sorry, but spino is far more disgusting than I ever could've imagined.

dinoboy22

i find its look kind of odd as well but also pretty cool. never thought of it as a quadruped 

Spinosaurus Rex

Dreams crushed? Uhhh no, this is just another opinion and its kinda bad that you look at it as the undisputed truth, this is definately one of the worst descriptions of Spino i have ever seen in my life.

Lord Vader

It's amazing what evidence will do to change a person's view on something, is it not? Haha, I'm going to have a hard time accepting that if it is true, and that's coming from a "Rex Fan Extremist" as I've been dubbed apparently. Imagine what those mega-ultra Spino fanboys would have to say about this. Guess we won't find out since no one on these forums is like that. 

Tyrant king

Wow, it is so small and a wuadrapedal animal.

Lord Vader

Haha, not to mention something only a mother could love, eh TK?

Tyrant king

It looks like a postosucus mixed with a dragon and a dimetrodon.

JRR

Well when i wahs joking that Spino wahs cuadrupedal it turended out true...

Spinosaurus Rex

I mean Spino a quadriped? No, just no, as all of the large quadriped predators died in the triassic, as well as it being purely a river wading animal? This article makes me want to laugh almost excessively as well as throw up at the same time.

DinoSteve93

Not really undisputed truth, I said "most likely". Also this is Paul Sereno's "opinion", so quite relevant.

You do have a point however, we cannot be sure just yet. Future finds will tell more. I honetly have no problem with this Spino, I'm not the kind of person that gets influenced by nostalgia.

I'm just stating this reconstruction brings a lot of sense to Spinosaurus. Just my opinion though ;)

JRR

Srex, pepole whre like that when they discovered dinos had feathers

Lord Vader

Well, Africa was pretty swampy way back then. It's entirely possible that Spino was almost exclusively water based. Is it likely? Possibly. I always thought the thing was like 70% water based. That's just me though. 

Silver_Falcon

You know what, it's kind of growing on me. I'll never look at it the same way again, but I am ok with this. I guess.

Tyrant king

I can't see it as mainly water based.

JRR

Well at least its not very uggly, it looks kinda cool in its own whay

Lord Vader

Indeed Cat. Especially if you look at it in the perspective of the first image. 

I too, may not look at Spino the same way again. Or I'll completely forget about this and have my old opinion back by 9. 

Spinosaurus Rex

Not "all" dinosaurs had feathers, they just made that claim due to the impressions in rock that showed that some of the smaller dinosaurs had feathers. None of this here is evidence, its just yet another claim made by a scientist that has some sense, let me emphasize "sense" with what he is saying.

JRR

You are also in deniall that Trex and other terophods had feathers?

Tyrant king

I just don't think an dinosaur that large is a quadraped.

dinoboy22

well spinosaurus rex is right it is indeed just a theory. it could be right or wrong

Lord Vader

I've said this countless times at this point, but here we go again. Everyone has different opinions. That won't change wether you like it or not. You can say this "Spino is aquatic" and whatnot stuff makes no sense, I can say your "T-Rex was an overweight scavenger" theory makes no sense. It's all opinions. 

Tyrant king

I'm sure only smaller theropods had feathers. To each their own I guess.