Spinosaurus: The Dinosaur That Shook Paleontology

[@animalogic]

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[@MysticLGD]

Nice

[@nicbommarito8837]

Elephants, Giraffes, or Zebras next please. 🐘🦒🦓

[@jjhggdcqz]

Please make a video about Quetzalcoatlus.

[@jjhggdcqz]

Could you make a video about Baryonyx itself?

[@ginam5497]

it's not biger than t rex

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

10 years from now, we will discover that Spinosaurus actually lived in space and had rocket boosters on its feet.

[@curefestive1774]

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s revealed that the sail is actually a pair of wings

[@spencerson7516]

If you play ARK just give it another 6 months with the way that game is going.

[@andrewknickerbocker314]

Also there were robots and sharks

[@phoebusapollo8365]

@@andrewknickerbocker314 yes, but the robots and sharks are its nieces and nephews it visits on Jupiter every thanksgiving

[@TylerJayWalker]

​@@spencerson7516where is it

[@sussekind9717]

I always thought the spineosaurids, were the most interesting looking of all dinosaurs. Somewhere between really cool, and really nightmarish.

[@boosted.boyo.]

accurate opinion

[@ครยฬร]

Megaraptor looks alot like a transitional state from a megalosauroid to spinosaurid despite not being closely related and honestly i think they're pretty cool

[@SoothinglyUnbenounced]

Not that they slowly turning into a giant duck, looking more odd with more discoveries.

[@niallmoseley6760]

They are really cool in a nightmarish way

[@lambdadelta821]

what happen to the unique looking herbivores?

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Fun fact: One of the Spinosaurus fossils that helped lead to its modern reconstruction was discovered not far from Tataouine, Tunisia, where a beardy guy filmed some space movie, or something.

[@MercyTheSecond]

wasnt it Space Battles or something, i think someone named Jorge Luke filmed it idk

[@mark6302]

i heard you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany

[@hungreyginger7478]

Wasn’t the main character like a space wizard? I think there was also laser swords but idk.

[@prestigev6131]

@@MercyTheSecond no you’re thinking of Sun Conflicts by Jorge Luka

[@wildanimations]

yeah there were these weard blocky white things with guns or something? I dont really remember

[@bskec2177]

When I first considered the sail as an arch, i couldn't imagine the dinosaur as a capable swimmer, and thought it more as a wading hunter. However, since the discovery of the tail fins, and the proposal that the sail was more of an M shape, I have rethought that position. The "m" shape strongly reminds me of sailfish dorsal fins, and they are exceptionally fast swimmers. A more semi-aquatic lifestyle seems more and more likely to me now.

[@bruhmingo]

Well all new evidence refutes that, the tail being the most telling. It’s vertebrae we’re simply not designed to withstand being used for propulsion. All evidence points to the sail and tail being display structures.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@bruhmingo It's actually looking very similar to basilisk lizard.

[@MrBcummings8521]

The sail fish can put its sail down for speed though. It doesn't swim with it erect.

[@DneilB007]

@@ExtremeMadnessX Now I’m imagining a 6-9 tonne Jesus lizard flailing across the surface of a primordial swamp. I wonder if their hips could actually rotate like that.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

Its head which looks basically like a skinny crocodile is the most obvious clincher on it's _at the very least_ semi-aquatic lifestyle

[@MsJesseHN]

That gorgeous illustration at the end makes the creature look so triumphant and confident like, "Yup. I did that. I tore families apart with my fossilized bones."

[@phoebusapollo8365]

That IS a flex tho

[@davidclaudy4822]

The program used to draw the dinosaur is really cool.

[@Mysterialic]

That drawing is so beautifully detailed. I love it!

[@ShiftingStorms]

Same! It’s beautiful!

[@revillus8173]

Better than I could ever hope to draw

[@theresalovaas9093]

It is rely cool men i,m enprest love it ;)

[@lennarthagen3638]

Nah

[@Hankbob_Hillpants]

I like the idea that the spines were used as anchor points for immense neck muscles, allowing the spinosaurus to yeet lesser dinosaurs

[@tobiasjensen1504]

Imagine if we were wrong and that idea is right, so that Spinosaurus was just som Apex predator that ate other dinosaurus, like a giant mix of a duck and a T-rex

[@stonefist8590]

Omg I have picture of that, built like a buffalo

[@svenheuseveldt7188]

This has been disproven as the long back-vertabre(the spine bones) don't show any signs of rough texture, which you would see if there was a lot of muscle attachted to it. It was likely for display. Doesn't mean there were no muscles attatched, there is just nothing to support your suggestion.

[@tobiasjensen1504]

@@svenheuseveldt7188 true, but its still a fun idea

[@stonefist8590]

@@svenheuseveldt7188 true but it's funny as hell think about

[@brettwood1351]

I love this weirdo. It's the Duckbilled Platypus of Dinosaurs. I also love the "Hippo" hypothesis that it just ran on the bottom of bodies of water, like modern Hippos do.

[@hungreyginger7478]

If this was true wouldn’t it’s nose holes be much further down the snout so it can breath easier whilst underwater?

[@Deform-2024]

@@hungreyginger7478 Plesiosaurs and birds manage it just fine.

[@bruhb7611]

@@Deform-2024 both don’t have a gigantic immovable sail made of hard bones.

[@Deform-2024]

@@bruhb7611 Doesn't really matter when you're walking along the bottom.

[@brettwood1351]

@@Deform-2024 There's still so much to learn about this weirdo.

[@kenjiro2676]

Spino is still changing, this isn’t even its final form!

[@davidlundquist1979]

We probably won't be able to describe its final form until we've found over 9,000 specimens.

[@fnafgachafan1644]

what

[@kenjiro2676]

Spinofaarus That is all

[@bgonzales817]

I don't think we will ever truly know what most dinosaurs actually looked like.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Prehistoric Planet was closest to that.

[@PhantoRoyce]

Not until we can CLONE them

[@karnage2948]

Which is sad

[@ksoundkaiju9256]

Yeah, most Dinosaurs like Psittacosaurus, Microraptor, sinornithosaurus, we know exactly what they looked like

[@goomba8170]

@@ksoundkaiju9256 That’s a reach

[@holliegould3463]

spinosaurus has been my fave dino ever since JP3 came out 🥰 every time i see a new "accurate" update my love for them grows even more

[@mckinniesmovies3598]

Same

[@UmbraStarWolf]

Same

[@onelastchowmein]

Same here too

[@mayro4803]

👏

[@RandomizedRandom]

1915: cooler trex 1980: wayy cooler trex 2001: jurrassic park reference 2010: its a croc that walk on land 2016: its just a wayyy cooler croc 2020: tadpole

[@marcospinheiro352]

I too love Spinosaurus and spinosaurids. This iconic dinosaur is indeed so much debated about its main lifestyle and appearance since 2014 and then 2020. Love the Spinosaurus head artwork too, Danielle Dufault. I liked your final message about this dinosaur fossil case. I'm looking forward for the next spinosaurid discoveries and scientific papers. Great paleovideo! :D

[@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214]

Spinosaurus: *Adds a confusing new piece of evidence to the puzzle* Scientists: *struggle to explain but eventually solve it* Spinosaurus: I’ll fuckin do it again

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

The Spino is the result of when the game developers don't know what class type to apply to their OC, and end up just complicating things more down the road with unnecessary patch updates. When I was still playing in the Meta, the Spino was just a cool looking character. But thanks to all the updates in the last 22 years, this thing might as well have flown too. Smh such a OP character

[@jordonjbmc9321]

Tier zoo moment

[@GeneralLDS]

recently studies show that it’s sail rotated like a helicopter blade, allowing it brief bursts of flight

[@jordonjbmc9321]

@@GeneralLDS 😭😭😭

[@dinos_preston]

@@GeneralLDS nah the sail is definitely a jet

[@vastolordeking6285]

@@GeneralLDS BRUH

[@Mikethekingboss]

I love Spino!

[@jordanjohnston8462]

Me too

[@earth5853]

Same here

[@cosmictrash697]

so do I

[@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz]

All Dinosaurs: "Why can't you just be normal?!!!?" Spinosaurus in a nutshell:

[@xenomorphiia]

I like the spino design in ark, it could walk on four legs then rear up on hind legs.

[@Tbirdgames]

Me too even though I rage anytime one of them kills me

[@laurablyth]

@@Tbirdgames SAMEEE

[@Jemoeder-l8]

Spino looks awesome in ark

[@foxglow6798]

@@Tbirdgames and with that DPS, that ends up being pretty darn often.

[@narutofan657]

The Spino is my favorite dino. Ever since JP3. In the steam game The Isle people nicknamed it spoon and since I am autistic and use the spoon analogy a lot (You only have so many spoons in a day. Say I start with 20 spoons. Getting up takes 1, going to shower and brush depending on pain level may take 1-4 spoons...ect) My family gets me spino toys all the time. I am up to about 10 spoons including a tooth. (My dentist loved seeing it lol)

[@Patchwork_Dragon]

AUTISTIC SPOON USERS UNITE

[@CEOofAutism]

Wha

[@vornamenachname989]

I am autistic as well and... What?

[@narutofan657]

@@CEOofAutism look up autism spoon theory

[@narutofan657]

@@vornamenachname989 look up autism spoon theory.

[@scarletletter4900]

I'm loving the ide of a toy dinosaur as a visual aid 🦕🦖

[@lindsaystevens4062]

Me too

[@ashprice1123]

its a figure/model not an actual kids toy... (papo 2019 spinosaurus)

[@scarletletter4900]

@@ashprice1123 Distinction without a difference, it's a toy 🦖🦕

[@Second_UNIT]

Im astounded that you guys didnt go more in-depth to the recently uncovered tail segments for Spinosaurus. The new tail segments made significant changes to the prepercieved models we had for Spinosaurus, accentuating the "axolotl" perceptions to a farther degree than previously speculated. I'm inclined to believe the spine segments and tail segments were fully connected, but that's simply a theory lmao

[@brydonthunder]

Things are still and will likely continue to be up in the air. The same people who published these findings then made new finding contradicting their own previous evidence, now believing Spinosaurus to be entirely a bipedal land dinosaur which hunted on rivers.

[@jasonalcatraz5817]

Animalogic going Paleologic with the best Dino? Sign me up! Also, to add to the spino mystery… I am in favor of all of the above. Maybe Spino was one of the most versatile theropods in all existence, and its adaptations suited a hybrid lifestyle. Regardless of what the truth is, I love this strange and awesome dinosaur puzzle. It’s like the platypus of Dino’s. A prehistoric chimaera

[@leoc4177]

The little dino models are EVERYTHING

[@ALAPINO]

A tip to the editor: Playback the b-roll of the dinosaur models/miniature tableaux in half or quarter time. It is sells the scale when the water behaves more "slowly."

[@gishathosaurus6828]

Really informative as always, and the sketch? Amazing, It's a real treat to see you draw dinosaurs ^_^

[@kimbratton9620]

Ah yes my favorite animal channel talking about spinosaurus!!

[@myramadd6651]

Actually, A couple of years ago, I was looking at the newest concept of Spinosaurus and wondering a lot of those questions.Then, on my way to a fish dinner , ironically, in a neighboring town, I was surprised to see a river otter surrying across the road, between two wetland areas. Looking closely, and watching this modern semi-aquatic fish eater move, I went home that night, looked up pictures of Spinosaurus AND the river otter. I think it moved a bit like an otter.

[@Guhhhhhhhggg]

I think otters and Spinosaurus are way too diffrent too compare the main issue being the enormous diffrence in mass

[@myramadd6651]

@@Guhhhhhhhggg I wasn't considering it a 1 for 1 conversion. But rather some similarities in lifestyle and locomotion. Both have relatively long bodies with short legs. Both are semi-aquatic with a diet of fish. I could totally see Spinosaurus moving in a similar way to an otter. But like I said, not a one for one. We also have to look to Crocodiles, bears, other animals, as well.

[@stinkycat3137]

@@myramadd6651 Spinosaurus isnt a quadruped though...

[@dwainedwards615]

@@stinkycat3137 except current scientific opinion is that Spinosaurus was like Quadrapedal.

[@myramadd6651]

​@@stinkycat3137 Yes it is, but not a pure quadruped. Like Otters.

[@CreatureCal]

10 years later: Breaking news! Spinosaurus could fly with dragon-like wings!

[@simplicitylost]

Future fact: Could also breathe fire.

[@4li-g8r28]

Very likely due to spino being the closest thing to a dragon goose we’ve discovered

[@BairdOThello]

It kinda does look like a dragon thing

[@loofy530]

Sadly we'll never know for sure until if somebody discovers extremely well fossilised remains with visible soft tissue, and the likelihood of that happening is excessively small.

[@Garyvilla97]

I think it's beautiful we will never know, keeps us humans humbled

[@rhonafenwick5643]

That's no reason to just give up trying to learn what we can. And who knows? Incredibly well-preserved fossils do turn up from time to time and allow us unprecedented new insights. _Borealopelta_ is a great example of this, and there are nice coastal and marine strata in Egypt's palaeontological record that could hypothetically have allowed a _Spinosaurus_ to become preserved in a similar fashion.

[@Itsachapel]

Using the spino model for nature shots was super smart! It came out amazing and looked very nice.

[@charlinalupus3300]

Suggestion: I think mastodons would be a cool episode. The mastodon is the state fossil of Michigan.

[@nananaszbefott]

There are state fossils? Wow i didnt even know.

[@brettwood1351]

@@nananaszbefott DC even has one, Capitolsaurus. Don't have to be Dinosaurs though, Eurypterus, aka the sea scorpion is NY's for example.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

I had no idea state fossils were a thing?! Wow this is like the day I found out every LGBTQIA subgroup has it's own flag to represent themselves. Humans just love collective identity badges!

[@nananaszbefott]

@@brettwood1351 The above mentioned mastodon isnt a dino either :D

[@matthewzito6130]

I can imagine it behaving somewhat like an egret or heron, but instead of standing over its prey and stabbing downwards it would probably swing its head to the side and snap its jaws like a crocodilian. It's also possible that it would position itself between a fish and the water's edge, perhaps even herding fish toward its waiting jaws with flick of its tail. If it did hunt in this manner, the sail would help prevent the fish from escaping.

[@evthespineconfiscator8652]

Ooh, i like this analogy

[@Deform-2024]

Spinosaurus was likely a semiaquatic ambush predator. Hunting armoured prey underwater while walking along the bottom similar to hippos and capybaras. It wouldn't matter if it was a slow swimmer and the sail won't be such a hindrance. As for on land it would be a slow, 'mediocre' biped that would be enough for it to walk but not much else.

[@bestuan]

cool interpretation

[@Boredomsjunkie]

A hippo is what sprung to mind for me as well. If the tail couldn't propel it, but it had denser bones than comparable theropods and enjoyed staying near the water - it's as likely as anything.

[@jessehunter362]

cool theory, back it up with proof?

[@Deform-2024]

@@jessehunter362 Easily. • Waders don't have dense bones. • Hindlimbs better designed for aquatic movement rather than terrestrial. • Wide torso for better stability • Animals with similar tail designs are ambush predators that are slow swimmers (crocodilians, newts, lungfish, etc.) *Part 1*

[@jessehunter362]

​@@Deform-2024 The dense bone stuff's not confirmed, there are other animals which have similar tail designs and are not ambush predators that are slow swimmers, "wide torso and slow walker" also applies to a lot of terrestrial animals, and none of this really precludes a wading lifestyle. Most animals don't really need to do much but "walk". I'm not against it being a semiaquatic ambush predator in theory, but we don't have the data needed to make such inferences with confidence.

[@bequemjoe]

I personally would love if a fully-aquatic Spinosaurid existed

[@yourpersonalflotationdevice]

Well there is spinofaarus, the closest thing we have to that atm. Even though it’s fictitious

[@Blackclaw1000]

@@yourpersonalflotationdevice Its not only Fictious Its only a Joke that really many people taking serious .The Artist of it Just hating it how its Turned out and how ita now Exist as a meme in general because to many people thinks its real.

[@brettwood1351]

@@yourpersonalflotationdevice Also the Kaiju Titanosaurus (no relation to the actual dinosaur), is now headcanoned by some fans to be an evovled Spinosaur.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

This creature has gone under more "redisigning" than any other I know of.

[@BUDOKAIultimate3]

That's what happens when more "evidence" is found.... Wonder what the Spino will "look like" in 20 years?

[@jjoohhhnn]

Eremotherium has gone through some serious redesigning, they were more like hippo's than giraffes.

[@widodoakrom3938]

Spinosaurus be like: this isn't my final form

[@cookiesontoast9981]

You can thank Jurassic Park 3 for making me interested in the Spino, still my favourite dinosaur ever.

[@spacemalla]

This is my favourite dino, and I love all of its weird designs

[@jenisia3600]

"When i grow up, i want to confuse and cause multiple debates among people!!!" -Spinosaurus

[@dilophosaursniper5399]

Paleotologist to the spino: 5 minutes, can you not change you physical anatomy *FOR 5 MINUTES*

[@araptorjesus7305]

So happy to see my favorite dinosaur being talked about here

[@johnsober]

I wonder which, if any, theories would become more plausible if spineosaurids had a lot of soft tissue and muscle I know paleontologists and paleoartists have stopped shrink wrapping for a little while now so I'm sure people have considered this possibility already

[@TheGreatWolfYT]

I love how you presented all the theories, the spino is definitely an odd but very awesome creature, always have been my favourite dino

[@RandomizedRandom]

when a theropod woke up one day and just said: "aight imma be crocodile

[@HeatherFPV]

If you could do one about mules that would be awesome. They carry everything in and out of phantom ranch at the bottom of the grand canyon. I live a work down here and feed them mule snacks all the time.

[@ooooneeee]

That's rad! What kind of snack do they like?

[@therecombinant6215]

Am we appreciate the camera man going to these dangerous environments to get footage of a Dino. Truly a tour de force.

[@grigori9061]

I thought we found more fossils for the tail and were able to conclude that the tail was very crocodilian in shape and was actually one of the best designed tail paddles ever discovered

[@TheHighlander2024]

Great presentation and illustrations, Danielle! Outstanding info as usual! Continued success to you. Our entire family will be anxiously awaiting your next presentation.🙂🙌🏿👏🏿

[@dracodracarys2339]

at this rate maybe in a decade or so they'll discover that spinosaurus was actually a fish lol

[@depressed_Trex]

It seems like we've gone from a spinosaurus built like other theropods to a spinosaurus built like a wiener dog with a tadpole tail.

[@mikeswartz1523]

Awesome video! It seems that the more we find out about Spinosaurus the stranger it is. Also I really dig the music, it kind of reminded me of Kratts’ creatures from my childhood 😀

[@canihave1dab724]

To be fair, it was the paleontologists who initially thought spino looked like the jp3 style depictions. Look at what paleontologists thought of T. rex for the majority of the 20th century. The fact is, it’s the paleontologists that always make the first mistakes and then get upset 15 years later when the revisions to theory haven’t been adopted by the public.

[@Indoraptoad]

It was the people who started global warming, there’s no point in people getting upset at and trying to resolve the issue that they started

[@calebdrawsstuff4446]

I love that I am seeing this now. I actually did my senior year English presentation on this very subject while also being very clear on how unclear the answer actually is. In the presentation, we had to argue for one side on a topic so I tried to argue that the Spinosaurus was a swimmer which I used the snout, leg anatomy, and tail as the evidence for it. I read quite a lot of articles. I genuinely hope we find more fossils to come to a more unified conclusion on this debate.

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

From the badass of Jurassic Park 3 to a gold mine for the Paleo-meme economy.

[@chrisofthehoovers4055]

This is the creature that got me into Dinosaurs as a child and when I saw it in Jurassic Park 3 I knew this was gonna be one of those things I'd obsess over for years to come.

[@gebbygebbers]

1:58 hey it's Jim Pickens without the grey hair 😂

[@dracomadness792]

Spinosaurus is the best, it just looks so badass. The jaw depictions are awesome

[@mattjensen5358]

When you're six you love dinosaurs, when you're 36 you love learning about dinosaurs... Do we ever grow up? I hope not lol

[@mcnorcan]

I like the way you presented this. You were very objective and made a balanced presentation. Thanks.

[@jamescarrier8477]

Love your Pink Bullets by The Shins reference.

[@ensignocean6286]

YAY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED!!!!! I LOVE THE SHINS‼️‼️‼️

[@EdwardM919]

Danielle is by far the best host on KZbin, plus her art is always a welcome treat.

[@filonin2]

Unpopular opinion

[@AdamTehranchiYT]

Crazy theory the spines were broken in surprisingly frequent slap fighting 😆

[@Jet-Throw]

This things bone structure changes every few months now, makes me nostalgic when it was only every few months

[@HoodFrieza]

Spino is the GOAT and deserve that title 😈🐐

[@annadachowska24]

I got into paleontology pretty late in my life and I don't have any sentiment from childhood. Spinosaurus happen to be my favourite of all, and I still wait for more puzzles so I will buy cool figure for my shelf lol. Sad to know it will have to wait for mor speciments haha.

[@lordawesometony2764]

“Paleontologists hate this” I see you’re a person of culture 🤌🤌🤌

[@andrewquinn9550]

Love spinosaurus, so weird and wonderful

[@adventuresphere82]

watching these kinds of videos proved me how interesting dinosaurs are and that they arent just old dead creatures

[@lindsaystevens4062]

This is my favorite theropod. The fact that there is little known adds to its popularity in my opinion, and that the information available is constantly changing also adds to popularity. People do love to speculate, especially when the subject has limited information

[@LimeJ0SH]

every since the rex/spino fight scenes from Jurrasic Park 3 I've always loved the Spino. My love to play Ark: Survival Evolved has exposed me to alot of different species/familys I've never even heard of prior.

[@stueaston1043]

Brilliant, well done 🙂 I'm not a paleo peep, but found the presenter and production engaging and fun 🙂👌

[@gmark007isGianmarcoMaioli]

Spinosaurus is like the iPhone of the dinosaur kingdom. It gets a new feature every few years, sometimes changing it quite a lot. Defo my favourite dinosaur, although I’m still waiting for the “flying three-headed breathing fire Spinosaurus” version.

[@kevinquinonez838]

7:15 "Or like a pangolin, using it's tail to balance while walking on two feet" Did... did you forgot how all theropods walk because that is how all of them walk, and guess what type of dinosaurs spinosaurus is, it's a theropod

[@dino_drawings]

Therizinosaurus would like a word with you

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@dino_drawings It also used tail for balance.

[@dino_drawings]

@@ExtremeMadnessX but it stands upright, which was my point

[@xavirki]

did you forget*

[@MustardSkaven]

@@dino_drawings And Kevin's point was also that they stand upright. Congratulations, you agree with each other.

[@kunalroyKR]

Not ignoring beloved Spiny, I'm more fascinated by Danielle 😍😍😍

[@DjurrenArt]

Used to have a Zoids version of this. One of the most awesome looking action figures I've owned.

[@Dipstikk]

I love the fact that you gave your spino a rigid, keratinous sheath along the snout. It just feels so birdlike for some reason, and I'm a sucker for anything that gives dinosaur reconstructions more birdlike qualities

[@miguelcabreracastro6968]

me too

[@CalvesFanatic]

Love your videos! Also your art is amazing ❤️❤️

[@fabiomorandi3585]

It hit me as she summed up what we knew about the animal at the end: this thing looked like a crocodile in a duck-shaped package and lived like a carnivorous hippo.

[@keerathekitsune8406]

Spinosaurus is one of my favorite dinos.

[@cameronjim2983]

Palaeontologists: “For 5 minutes, can you not keep evolving like a Pokémon?... FOR 5 MINUTES!!?!?”

[@voodooonevipersonstation663]

I remember I saw a meme where it suggested the spinosaurus sail was like a bison hill and it had a powerful neck for picking up prey. Either way the fact that we just don’t know anything about this famous dinosaur is weird. My personal belief is it made its home in swamps and rivers and it hunted like modern birds that stand in the water and scoop up fish.

[@Dreadwing20]

Spinosaurids are the type of theropods who are cross between a crocodile and the bear

[@titushowse]

It is a very unique dino I love it because of it's ability to live in a swamp

[@trevonbonds1948]

The scientists hated the spinosaurid genus so much, they named one “irritator” 😂

[@AgroAcro]

That is jne if my favorite dinosaur names for that reason

[@Spider-Man2094]

I remember so many fans of the Jurassic Park 3 design being in denial when it’s hind legs were discovered to be short. “Those legs could have been from another dinosaur”

[@oskarlonnqvist7074]

I love the Jurassic Park movies but have had to accept that the representations of dinosaurs in those movies are like 90% of the time totally wrong! 😅 No one can use Jurassic Park movie dinosaurs as a serious reference. They might get some dinosaurs right but otherwise all I hear in these type of videos how paleontologists just rip apart what Jurassic Park movies have depicted. 😬

[@curts7801]

@@oskarlonnqvist7074 the thing was back in 2003 that WAS the most accurate depiction of spinosaurus at the time. They were using the best science available then. Not for the raptors, nor the t.rex, but they definitely made a go at showing spinosaurus accurately. As far as we knew THEN spinosaurus *was* a 12 ton titan.

[@alternativeuniverse6257]

Spinosaurs is like that oc in some games that allows you to change it like your oc,like was some random dude to a random dude with a wild hair style but it's still the same guy

[@ladaikaijuartistique4048]

The spinosaurus also could have walked the floor of the river body like a hippo perhaps

[@matheusfiorelli8829]

and not even 3 months later, new Spino stuff came up xD

[@jjoohhhnn]

Oxalaia (a sister or synonymous taxa to Spinosaurus) is found in Brazil, suggesting they swam across the Atlantic Ocean during the cretaceous, implying they're excellent swimmers.

[@bruhb7611]

Africa and South America used to be one. Learn about plate tectonics before saying this.

[@jjoohhhnn]

@@bruhb7611 learn the timelines, South American and Africa were a few hundred miles apart. Oxalaia is closer related to spinosaurus than South American spinosauridae, implying it arrived later (post continental seperation).

[@jjoohhhnn]

@@bruhb7611 spinosaurus and oxalia are ~100myo, South America broke apart from Africa 140 Mya, that's a difference of 40 million years.

[@jjoohhhnn]

@@bruhb7611 it was small enough I should call it the Atlantic sea, but it definitely existed at the time we're discussing

[@bruhb7611]

@@jjoohhhnn have you ever thought that speciation happened before that? At 100 million years ago the distance between 2 continents was literally the same between two sides of the kem kem formation.

[@evangregory981]

Did…did you just quote the Shins? I love this channel

[@xvdd1]

Not having spent any real time studying dinos my first thought for the sail was a heat collector to counteract long periods semi submerged in cold waters although there have been some outrageous body forms just to attract the opposite sex through the millennia so who knows.

[@gabethebabe3337]

Spinosaurus: Never let them know your next move

[@SysterYster]

I love spinos, and always have. They're very pretty, and I like the crocodilian look and sail. I think, personally, when looking at its body length and front-heavyness that it'd be impossible for it to walk on two legs (at least on land). I hope more fossils will be found so we can learn more about them. :)

[@JohnnySilverFinger]

"paleontologist hate this" "single dinossur on your area" "you wont last even 30 seconds"

[@hadeskillerparagon]

I think the Spino was likely a semi-aquatic dinosaur. The short limbs suggest a more 4-legged approach to life on land but the fact remains that it had features that were more than well suited for swimming and catching fish

[@MustardSkaven]

You need to update yourself to the latest studies. It was more than capable of walking on 2 legs so why walk on 4? It would also have been a pretty terrible swimmer. The sail creating so much drag, it would need to submerse itself at least 10m to get rid of the extra surface drag alone. Estimated top speed of 1.2-1.4 m/s, which makes it slower than a trained human swimmer. It's not catching any fish by chasing it. The sail would also create massive torque tension if it were to ever roll on its side while in the water.

[@karnohell]

@@MustardSkaven which studies are you referencing?

[@MustardSkaven]

@@karnohell Use Google.

[@SRGIProductions]

The Jurassic Park III Spinosaurus design may be ENTIRELY inaccurate compared to today's fossil records, but it will always be my favorite design. "Baryonyx with a sail on its back."

[@marcospinheiro352]

I hope you make a video about giant sauropods: maybe Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus or Patagotitan. :)

[@memopinzon]

That drawing is incredible.

[@hollyodii5969]

I hope someday they find a whole, complete spinosaurus! Or at least a whole sail back of vertebrae.

[@hamzab2k]

The bizareness and coolness of the spinosaurus is why it's my aboslute favourite dinosaur of all time.