Spinosaurus Was Not An Aquatic Dinosaur? (Again) | 7 Days of Science

The Spinosaurus Wars continue! A new study has criticised a previous paper that supported Spinosaurus being a swimmer. Also, a new species of living deer has been found, the oldest evidence of hominins in Europe have been uncovered, and much more!
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New living deer species found:
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www.sci.news/biology/pudella-...
Penguins have Avian Flu:
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/peng...
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Sturtian glaciation:
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The Anthropocene has been rejected:
www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
The Spinosaurus debate continues:
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
New species of prehistoric bird named after David Attenborough:
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
New ornithopod dinosaur Chakisaurus nekul from Argentina:
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Earliest presence of hominins in Europe:
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
www.sci.news/archaeology/homo...
0:00 - Introduction
0:29 - New species of living deer discovered!
1:41 - Penguins have avian flu
3:09 - What caused the Sturtian Glaciation?
4:25 - The Anthropocene has been rejected
6:00 - The Spinosaurus Wars continue!
8:25 - Prehistoric bird species named after David Attenborough
9:50 - New dinosaur species from Argentina
11:10 - The earliest presence of hominins in Europe

[@StealthyPig]

2 weeks from now: Spinosaurus was entirely subterranean and the sail aided in burrowing somehow

[@loupblanc7944]

2 more weeks later. Actually, Spinosaurus was an early human ancestor :).

[@oliverhendrix8176]

@@loupblanc7944 Another study 1 day later, actually Spinosaurus was an alien.

[@gracekanagaraj1826]

@@oliverhendrix8176 study 1 day later, Spinosaurus is actually the ancestor to modern dung beetles

[@kinggoon565]

1 month later spino actually used it sail to glide across the sky and it actually served him aid like a sharks fin but for the clouds

[@gracekanagaraj1826]

@@kinggoon565 1 year later, Spino was actually a time traveling deity that used its sail to cause a rift in the space-time continuum and had psychic powers and apparently, Spino isn’t extinct but in the 5th dimension

[@panqueque445]

Spinosaurus doing some weird shit back in the day: "This is gonna drive scientists mad one day lmao"

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Probably just doing something totally normal, but it seems weird to us, because we have no vast shallow sea habitat to compare to.

[@doragonzx]

At this point, its more about Ibrahim that deseperate to stay relevant so he counter everything that they trow at his Dino. It happen every generation, Cope , Marsh, Horner and now Ibrahim.

[@eugeneflynn7435]

Gary Larson: Are you hearing this?

[@Marioman110000]

Some weird apes one day are going to love this

[@ReaperCreeper1102]

​@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana Hmm, thats actually pretty insightful to the mystery of Spinosauru's.

[@josephlongbone4255]

If you take all the papers seriously, Spinosaurus couldn't walk, couldn't swim, couldn't run, couldn't hunt and couldn't fish. It therefore couldn't have existed, but it did, and presumably survived powered by pure spite alone...

[@draconinja2728]

Or maybe all these papers were made on specimens of different age and thats why it doesnt make sense Pretty sure we can consider the opposite to what they say, it could walk,run and hunt ,it could swim well or walk on the river bottom like a hippo and pretty sure it was explored that Spino Snout had the same organs crocs use to fish.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

I think it’s important to know it’s a paper and always up for debate. I knew when they found that thicc basliosaur a few months back that it seemed way too good to be true. Just because a new paper comes out doesn’t mean it’s the latest truth

[@erikhamann]

If you read all the papers seriously and understand nuance and scientific use of word, you will find that your comment is wrong. It's like me telling you:"I'm not an olympic sprinter." And you thinking:"Oh shit, he sits in a wheelchair."

[@josephlongbone4255]

@@erikhamann it's also a joke Einstein.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

The spinosaurus was not a good "swimmer" however the tyrannosaurus rex was an excellent swimmer.

[@atronachh]

The verdict on this one changes every few months. At this point Spinosaurus is the Schrodinger's dinosaur, being simultaneously aquatic and not aquatic at the same time

[@timexyemerald6290]

Spinosaurus achievement enlightenment and reached Nirvana😂

[@bird-watcher-91]

This comment wins the Internet today. Bravo 😂😂😂

[@voraxumbra1]

Perhaps thats the trick. Maybe they were well adapted for both environments and some populations primarily hunted in water and some primarily on land.

[@saltyvanilla3304]

"ah shit, here we go again"

[@cristhianmlr]

Again

[@ItsEnderDiego]

I had the same reaction upon seeing the pop-up for the vid

[@leechild4655]

Personally I think it is self-evident as to its lifestyle from its head and jaws not to mention that bod. How was it not at least semi-aquatic. Are you kidding me?

[@erikhamann]

​@@leechild4655 "semiaquatic" is a term that doesn't have a proper definition in biology and thats the main problem the different people use that word differently. What do you mean by that? Like a duck? Like a crocodile? A hippo? A beaver? A grizzly bear because he hunts salmon? They have very different levels of being aquatic or terrestial. The anatomy of Spinosaurus shows many adaptation for a heron-like life style. And they are usually not labeled "semiaquatic".

[@abdulsabri6551]

My exact reaction

[@TheCreativeNick]

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Spinosaurus turned out to be a mammal

[@grahamstrouse1165]

It’s Man-Bear-Pig

[@CindyandRicoTheCoonhoundCross]

😂

[@yokaiou5848]

Or a late surviving Pelycosaur

[@justalizard7192]

Becomes the Spinofaarus

[@luroluroluro]

It’s a bruco

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

Spinosaurus lived like a cross between a Hippo & a Crocodile. That’s my take on Spinosaurus.

[@abdulsabri6551]

Wow, you did absolutely nothing to offend anyone. Litrally nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. Let's cancel you.

[@TheBeverlyp3132]

My take is that it hunted on the shore and had the tail for locomotion

[@christosvoskresye]

Or is that your spin on Takeosaurus?

[@howlpendragonfan0487]

The giant fish-eating stork hypothesis is pretty cool too!

[@Scrinwaipwr]

Heron, hippo and crocodile.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Plot twist: it was actually a flying animal.

[@Celebratory_Diaper]

Nah, it lived in underground tunnels and caves

[@Nelo_Wolf]

Yup a flouting animal

[@mynickisalreadytaken]

I'm pretty sure Spinosaurus was a Jet Animal.

[@chrispified]

obviously it used its spine like a flying draco to glide from tree to tree

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-db2ff]

@@chrispifiednah they hugged and glided around like those baby dimetrodon

[@gonzalitorg5124]

Spinosaurus could fly using his spine as sail and his tail as a propeler.

[@user-gr1io9is3v]

Its actually the spinosaurus that evolved to fly into space, found an asteroid and directed it towards earth to get easy food. Spinosaurus > goku

[@sleeper6548]

I imagined it and it's funny

[@beastmaster0934]

1:31 “Thanks for saving my life, I’m going to name a deer after you.”

[@christosvoskresye]

It's better than "naming a star after" him.

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

Or a super small asteroid.

[@Dragoon..]

So the spino debate has devolved into a pissing match

[@timexyemerald6290]

Yep😅.

[@J242D]

Always has been

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

It like they are fighting over a date with the prom queen

[@__-be1gk]

That's all of science, guy. You're supposed to look at other people's research and prove whether its bullshit or not. Its always been a debate, it needs to be.

[@Samthebritishgent]

We must be missing something. I don’t see a way in which an animal can be SO inept at walking, SO inept at swimming and SO bad at defending itself and yet thrive as the longest and possibly heaviest dinosaur ever (note I’m saying possibly because scientists seem to disagree on the weight as well). Edit: as a kind commenter reminded me it’s the longest CARNIVOROUS dinosaur

[@patricklee5239]

You mean theropod, not dinosaur. Spino is nowhere near the biggest dinosaur.

[@dinolover]

Because they keep pulling shit outta their ass instead of just saying "we don't know because there's not enough proof of any of the shit we claim"

[@timexyemerald6290]

And apparently spinosaurus is bad at swimming😂. And Trex is addept at swimming😅 Fcking crazy. 😂. Wtf is that tail for them. Another sexual display to attract females?.

[@birbdad1842]

​@@dinoloverYou tell those scientists, internetwarrior!

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@birbdad1842He’s got a point. One of the main issues with spinosaurus is data insufficiency.

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

"Okay in today's Spinosaurus news, it looks like... (spins wheel, click, click, click, click, click) Spinosaurus wassss... _not_ aquatic and was in fact... _arboreal,_ with the sail being used to glide between trees... tune in tomorrow for another exciting spin of the wheel!"

[@blazingtrs6348]

spinosaurus's sail is actually attachment points for dragon wings

[@mojom.9221]

He's a semiaquatic Egg laying Dinosaur of action He's the fully controversial Spinosaurus. Agent SP

[@fenrirgg]

Who said anything about eggs? New spino info: Spinosaurus reproduced itself by binary fission.

[@carnoraptor79]

@@fenrirgg It's a Perry the Platypus joke lol

[@fenrirgg]

@@carnoraptor79 I know, but I wanted to add something less funny 😭

[@collin4555]

Spinosaurus used its sail to protect itself while it curled up into a ball to roll around the primeval Earth

[@sebastiannielsen9740]

3 years later: Spinosaurus could... fly?

[@cac_deadlyrang]

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if _Spinosaurus_ never actually existed.

[@Strawberry92fs]

That's why we have so many spinosauroids, like Baryonyx. But the sails were hoaxes. The holotype CONVENTIENTLY gets destroyed allied bombing efforts? Open your eyes sheeple /s/

[@oliverhendrix8176]

Or they could fly or created the first ancient civilization.

[@Vegitanimator]

Idk, but you definitely shouldn't.

[@MonsterZilla452]

Definitely agree. New spino looks bizarre compared to any other animals. Probably didn't exist

[@Gojira-ri6rj]

@@MonsterZilla452baryonyx and suchomimus

[@sayvionwashington1939]

"What is a Spinosaurus?" "Pfft, I don't fucking know. You don't fucking know. Nobody fucking knows."

[@lochness5524]

Ru referencing something?

[@eagle162]

Of course not but spinosaurus can fly, dig underground and was the first to discover fire.

[@omarsali2990]

No for gas holding sack that made them hlide and float

[@elementxxxi9287]

It clearly lived along and in the river systems, but might just have stuck to the shallows. It probably hunted like a stork (with just a hint of crocodile ambushing with the pressure sensors), but unlike storks it couldn't fly to move between hunting spots. That means it almost certainly swam, maybe just at the surface and maybe just for short periods to get across the river, but it had to swim more than an average dinosaur.

[@RowieSundog]

The real Spinosaurus is the friends we made along the way

[@mikelitty552]

How does spinosaurus evolve a tail that looks like an oar and not swim?

[@erikhamann]

To look bigger. They live alongside Chacharodontosaurus and can neither fight or outrun them. Look much bigger than you are and nobody messes with you.

[@lenosflarrethedragonking4300]

​@@erikhamannThat's a dumb argument.

[@thenutella8846]

​@erikhamann yeah, but that's not going to work in the long run, eventually the predators will learn.

[@johnscanlon8467]

If they wanted to swim with it, they should have evolved bigger transverse processes on proximal caudals.

[@martijn9568]

​@@thenutella8846Tell that to all the species that mimic a much more dangerous species to hide from predators. It's a much more reasonable suggestion than you think.😉

[@eikebehrmann3493]

Can we all agree that Spinosaurus fulfilled the same ecological niche as the Platypus, ie, messing with biologists?

[@matthewdavies2057]

That tail had something to do with swimming but the nose and sail sure weren't made for underwater use. I say compromise. It lived in the trees!

[@greenhydra10]

They're in the trees! -some poor Hadrosaur

[@matthewdavies2057]

@@greenhydra10 "Never say Hadrosaur!" - K. Janeway

[@monkofkrayak6235]

Like a termite?

[@albatross4920]

0:52 that's a very metal sounding name for a tiny unassuming deer 🤘🏾

[@thelittleal1212]

Personally, Spinosaurus likely didn’t swam but walked in deep level shallow waters where it can still stand. since it’s preferred pray, which is bigger sawfish, would prefer to be in deeper shallow waters, so Spinosaurus definitely had to go further from shore.

[@magiv4205]

My take at this point: Spinosaurus was the theropod equivalent of a hippo. Hippos actually can't swim either, instead they literally just walk along the bottom of the rivers they inhabit and bounce themselves off the riverbed to surface.

[@williansnobre]

Next month: Spinosaurus used to roll like a buzz saw in order to cut trees and build dams

[@purplepothos5794]

They should just rename Aegyptiacus to Shrodingus.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

😁😁😁👍👍👍

[@velutumbra]

Someday someone will come up with a study proving that Spinosaurus was either not real or a flying giant...

[@persianking44]

Paleontologist: Behold! My new paper about whether or not Spinosaurus could swim! Teacher: *Paleontologist, this is the millionth week in a row you've shown a new paper about Spinosaurus' lifestyle in class!*

[@rodrigopinto6676]

Definitely the spinosaurus was not a good "swimmer" however the tyrannosaurus rex was an excellent swimmer.

[@MonsterZilla452]

​@@rodrigopinto6676Tyrannosaurus isn't a good swimmer either.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

@@MonsterZilla452 t rex was an excellent swimmer.

[@crustypineapple9549]

​@@rodrigopinto6676 more of a floater rather than a full on swimmer, it could cross distances but definitely aint swimming across deep water for fun

[@Redbeardblondie]

Here’s my take on the Spino. Basically, the Spino wades into the water until they are partially submerged in the shallows. There, they settle, curving their body into a strongly hooked almost G-shape. They place the tip of their snout, mouth slightly agape, in the water; the snout then makes the extra little inward-facing arm of the “G.” The sail structure, across the entire body’s length, creates an artificial enclosure. Fish then swim into this enclosure, believing themselves to have found a safe hollow. The Spinosaurine, through the collaborative senses of the extra-oral tissue’s sensitivity to disturbed water, and possibly even sensory organs capable of detecting bioelectrical signals, is able to easily and placidly hunt. Once they sense a large enough fish in their trap, they lunge forward and snap down on it once it is within range of their bite.

[@erikhamann]

Theropod torsos are not flexible enough to curve that much.

[@monkofkrayak6235]

That sounds far-fetched. The more likely scenario is that the spines were used to move underground like how the graboids used their spines in tremors.

[@__-be1gk]

This is so stupid you could get funding to write a paper about it

[@thenerdbeast7375]

Starting to think The Allies didn't try hard enough to obliterate this thing from history when they bombed Munich in 1944.

[@ogrejd]

Oh. "South Georgia" is an island down near the Antarctic Circle. Okay, was wondering WTF penguins were doing on the Black Sea... :P

[@christosvoskresye]

Or even around Valdosta.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

I was trying to figure out what they were doing in the southern United States!

[@davidm5746]

You know what I dont get? You have google and it's not that hard to figure out. Why are you lazy.

[@Caprisunss]

@@davidm5746 sir, this is a mcdonalds

[@J242D]

⁠@@davidm5746you know what I don’t get? You have all this good content and are bitter in the comments. Why don’t you get a hobby

[@WingedFish66]

Am I a swimmer? Wader? Biped? Quadruped? Turns out, I am all of them. I am, the Spino Warrior

[@rodrigopinto6676]

"Swimmer" probably not.

[@william3100]

​​ @rodrigopinto6676 the paper didn't settle anything and only criticized the previous paper, in which the authors of the previous paper then criticized the new paper. In short, it's STILL possible spinosaurus might've been a good swimmer or maybe at least "swam" like a hippo. The wadding heron idea for spinosaurus begins to feel off when you realize that spinosaurus has short legs whereas herons have long legs.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

@william3100 again the spinosaurus was not a good "swimmer" however the tyrannosaurus rex was an excellent swimmer.

[@william3100]

@rodrigopinto6676 T. Rex wasn't more excellent at swimming than most other giant land animals. Just because they made a big stink about it on Prehistoric Planet doesn't mean it's the most amazing thing in the world. Sloths are excellent swimmers, cats are excellent swimmers, hippos are excellent swimmers, and humans are excellent swimmers. Just about anything can be excellent at swimming. It's not hard to do. It makes sense that spinosaurus would also be an excellent swimmer, regardless if it looks like it wouldn't be.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

@william3100 once again evidence suggests t rex was an excellent swimmer boomer.! However the spinosaurus was not a good "swimmer"

Spinosaurus is rolling in its grave

[@davidrox4591]

Can't roll, sail's in the way.

[@salvador_69.11]

Year of tyrannosaurus and spinosaurids

[@carlosalbuquerque22]

And prehistoric mammals

[@evelynlamoy8483]

I wonder if Spinosaurus hump/sail and tail selection was driven by conspecific competition and mate selection. Perhaps they had reached such a size where increasing in actual size was no longer advantageous and instead appearing larger in silhouette was.

[@user-gv4by8tv6l]

Spino certainly knows how to hog the limelight. Great news about the new deer.

[@wildtoonproductions4427]

new spinosaurus news: oh dear we go again new species of deer that is alive in the 21 century: ohh that nice bird flu news: oh boy

[@sskuk1095]

Nanotyrannus *epic handshake* Spinosaurus Driving scientists crazy!

[@Annihilator27]

Spinosaurus “I’m tired boss”

[@farkasmactavish]

"The Spinosaurus fandom scares the shit outta me." --Lindsay Nikole

[@konstantinavalentina3850]

Although mammals, I wonder if Polar Bear and Moose were included in the bone density data set used for comparison with Spinosaurus. Moose have been documented to dive 10 meters, fully submerged to eat some river and lake grasses. Polar bear, of course are well known for swimming, even jumping from rocks to prey on some whales.

[@Do27gg]

The sails on a spino are gonna be wings at this rate 😂

[@CazabichosManny]

At this point, I would not be surprised if Spinosaurus is found to be the friends we made along the way.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Any palaeontologist seeing Spinosaurus pop up in a paper. "No god please no god. No. GOD! Noooooooooooooooo!"

[@niallmoseley6760]

I think the reason spinosaurus is gone is not because it went extinct, but because it became sentient, discovered space travel and they all moved to another planet. One day ,when they eventually get home sick, we will be invaded by sentient spinosaurus

[@WaterShowsProd]

There's a popular celebrity in Myanmar whose nickname is Pudu (real name: Naw Phaw Eh Hter) because she's quite petite and in Burmese "pudu" means "flower bud". I'll have to send her a photo of this deer that shares her name.

[@MonsterZilla452]

So spinosaurus much denser bone was debunked as it's no longer a swimming dino. There bone density is average for a megatheropod ( 0.97-.99)

[@Local_custard]

it's really disheartening that the avian flu has spread to the penguins. Especially with the fact there is currently no cure for it...

[@christianhunt7382]

I think semi aquatic is the best answer for Spino. he has a piscivourous diet, and features that split his skill tree between terrestrial and aquatic. I'd imagine that Spino hunted in the water, but slept and bred on land. doesn't seem like much of an argument, even with the discrepancies in the data

[@Lordmegs132]

At this point, I think Spinosaurus is a type of shape-shifting creature that chose whatever ecological niche it wanted.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Whoa. What a packed episode of 7DOS! Great reporting! ❤

[@alexarias4099]

The Spino is actually the evolved version of humanity 69 million years in the future

[@runnercomet9191]

The year is 2050, we are pretty sure now that Spinosaurus had chainsaw on his back and was capable of interstellar travel, at least for now.

[@tyrannozilla1]

Spinosaurus is now a croco stork again

[@featherless2524]

“You are swimming alone. I am not you, of course. Yet here I am, swimming right towards you.” - When the Sea Dinos Cried

[@strangevision99]

I think we need a rule regarding spinosaurus news. No updates for at least 10 years, and then provide the latest update to last for the next decade. "It's been 10 years and now after many overturned discoveries we know that Spinosaurus was probably a flying slug of some sort. Come back next decade for the next update."

[@batoolal-ali1324]

The spino was just in creative mode 24/7

[@mistingwolf]

I'm so happy that Sir David has an animal named after him! He more than deserves it.

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

There are some other, extant animals named after him too.

[@Ozraptor4]

Along with this bird, he already has a plesiosaur, echidna, placoderm, marsupial lion, lizard, frog, butterfly, damselfly, weevil, locust, snail, spider, two crustaceans and four types of plants named after him. Not that he doesn't deserve it, given his pivotal role in popularising natural history.

[@CrazyDrawer62]

Great format, you gained a new sub!

[@hyliano]

Oh boy, I can't wait until they find the spinosaurus' wings and then debate about if it walk, swing or fly

[@EdJUber]

So, the question is whether the bone density of the limbs made it able to swim underwater, or whether, once internal air is taken into account, they were so buoyant as to be totally unable to swim, just like a duck.

[@badlander2000]

I love how all the other dinosaurs have something new every ten years or whatever, meanwhile spino is a whole new animal every six months.

[@Bullboy_Adventures]

Im convinced the scientists saying spinosaurus couldn't swim are just mad it wasn't like the spino from jurassic park 3. You really expect me to believe spinosaurus could even stand very long with those disproportionately tiny legs and front heavy build??? Why isn't anyone comparing spinosaurus to ducks? They have small legs AND can float/swim just fine. That's the closest animal I can compare spinosaurus to anyway

[@Anthelia.]

My take on spinosaurus is that it was to heavy to swim and walked along the bottom of river bed, and when on land it was like a stork, hunting giant fish and having a large neck pouch like a pelican, and when it wasn’t hunting fish, it hunted medium sized iguanadontids, and young carchardontosaurus, if you don’t like my take, don’t respond, but if you have info that supports or does not support my take,

[@Deform-2024]

The study didn't apply the high density to the other parts of the body, only the legs. This is despite the Fabbri paper showing that the ribs, hands, tail, and sail all have dense bone. The argument for land Spino is still flawed. Until a proper biomechanical analysis based directly on the bones is done, submerged ambusher is the most likely ecology for this taxon.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

Wrong "arguments"

[@erikhamann]

Not really. The heron-like behavior is preferred by most paleontologists and for very good reason.

[@Deform-2024]

@@erikhamann There is a fair share of researchers who disagree with that notion. No known wader has this body structure.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

@@erikhamann bro the Deform-2024 is a "guy" who thinks he knows more about the experts it's better that you don't pay attention to him.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

@@Deform-2024 you don't know anything about science and paleontology stop commenting please.

[@truskoysusaventuras]

What if Spinosaurus are all the friends we made along the way?

[@markbuchbach9639]

The sail on a Spinosaurus was in fact a jet pack mounting point.

[@andrex1456]

The mystery and constant changing of the Spinosaurus is part of why it’s my favorite dinosaur. It represents the constantly learning science of Paleontology. But… every once in a while, the back and forth can be a tad insanity inducing 😂

[@dafttool]

Once they find the fossilized remains of the Spinosaurus’ inflatable water wings, we can finally put this aquatic debate aside.

[@ian.r5261]

6:05 i think this new paper just reiterating some previous studies (can't...resist...to...sing...the...song...again)

[@carlosalbuquerque22]

Aw, no Indoconodon? That was a very relevant discovery too

[@Ashadar_Resouley]

you'd think they just meet in the middle and say "yes it swims but not well enough where it can hunt while swimming and so has to stand on the shore catching fish as they swim by" just because it doesn't hunt while swimming and does it from the shore doesn't mean it wasn't aquatic and it also doesn't mean it couldn't catch something while swimming if something swam close to its mouth rather then actually trying to chase fish, it likely wasn't a good swimmer due to its size and was likely more of a floater that slowly made its way down rivers

[@bignelly9476]

Next time: Spinosauras fly at the speeed of Mach 1.6

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

What's next, having water powers and fighting with other super-powered dinosaurs throughout the world?

[@inswedishmynameisdik]

Man, poor spino, imagine being this dragged around so many millions of years after you went extinct

[@Yungbeck]

Thanks a bunch for the news!

[@NotaScrimp]

Imagine if spinosaurus just slapped each other with their oar tails lol

[@bnup2791]

I can't wait for the next study to suggest spino was a burrowing dinosaur

[@istvansipos9940]

a mammalian pine tree, it was.

[@justinpettenuzzo8210]

Too bad time machines don't exist. Then we can finally settle on what spinosaurus does in its daily life.

[@matthewlong7547]

The Spinosaurus' sail was actually used as a windmill along with 3 other Spinosaurus by the Flintstones.

[@ironiccookies2320]

Spinosaurus was actually a flying alien from Mars

[@untro7287]

Aww yeh spino back at it again!

[@Triceratops98]

spinosaurus: this isn't even my final form

[@MrH2O1998]

Can't wait to discover Spinosaurus use their sail as a mean to house the algae they ingested and they were, in fact, a species of sea slug.

[@thecoolestguy847]

The Spinosaurus is the dinosaur equivalent to a live service game.

[@sassa82]

7 days of fun!🎉

[@kennyhagan5781]

Until the plastics starts showing up in the geological record, we're in the holocene. Whether Spinosaurs swam or not, I don't care,just as long as I never see a living one. Snowball Earth,I never want to see that either.

[@LouderThanLife7]

Well, at least it wasn't the T. Rex lip debate? I don't care what they say, my baby Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was a GREAT SWIMMER! That sail wasn't just for looks, they were the original sail-ers 😆 I apologize for the terrible joke

[@obambagaming1467]

Imagine your genus name is "Pudu", but your species name is that of the devil

[@kris6038]

We're back with another Spinosaurus update

[@istvansipos9940]

A Sir David bird! Great. More than deserved honour.

[@Specogecko]

Spinosaurus actually was only able to walk backwards and couldn’t smell.

[@greenkoopa]

Spinosaurus, don't ever stop changing Jurassic Park 3 spino is my spirit animal

[@daviddimitrov3696]

Spinosaurus: *exists* Scientists: *makes a flip every few years "changing spinosaurus forever"*

[@michaelthomas5433]

I await hearing that Spinosaurus was actually.. a type of MEGALODON!

[@carnoraptor79]

I mean, hippos can't technically swim either, but they are still absolute menaces who perfectly thrived in the water thanks to their dense bones alone. 🤷‍♂️