i think the only way to know is to wait and see.

Very cool. I like it.

My first topic was a fight between my two favorite dinosaurs. It was ok... It wasn't pretty though:

http://www.jurassicworld-movie.com/community/forums/topic/33805

These are some of my newer fights, I have definitely improved if I must say:

http://www.jurassicworld-movie.com/community/forums/topic/37683

http://www.jurassicworld-movie.com/community/forums/topic/37553

Sounds interesting!

Rooting for Allosaurus.

Nevermind, the contest ended.

I'll make an entry later today. Is there a special place where I can enter?

Scifi ling I messed up my fight that way.

Yes, but having the wrist rotation like any theropod, with the hand facing each other, rather than facing the body like in a Gorilla.

"The Spinosaurus, as a reptile, probably didn't have the right muscles or joints to allow such movement. Now, we know about its long tail, used for swimming, could have a lot of weight in it, to support the creature. Hwever, Spino would probably walk quadrupedally when it had the chance, such as in shallow water, sandy shores, and other soft places, to avoid claw damage."

So basically this is the only thing I don't agree with (which is okay).

There is no reason its hands structure wouldn't allow such a motion capability, as that degree of finger rotation is supported in almost every theropod's anatomy. This also supplies for strong muscles in the arms, that would also have been convenient for hunt or in case of defence.

So I'm not stating Spinosaurus was FULLY quadrupedal. The new evidences just suggest it walked like that most of its time, but it could still require on bipedal walking for short amounts of time.

^Yes. I don't realyl believe Spino spent too much time on all fours, but that doesn't say it was 100% bipedal. Still, I don't think leg or arm fossils were found, and I heard the Nat Geo specimen is fake.

You mean knuckle walking like a gorilla?

There is no reason a Spinosaurus could have damaged its claws walking on all 4s. The wirst articulation allowed it to walk on its knuckles, without the claws even touching the ground. This is what I mean: 

As you can see, its left hand is touching the ground by the knockles, that could in some way sustain the weight of the first half of Spinosaurus' body.

Also thank you for including the PK Spino! :)

(First of all, SOMEBODY STAR THIS DISSSION!!!)

Now, let's look back on my first topic, back on page 74:

Custom Dinosaur

This is a contest. Once enough comments are posted, I'll post the winner of this create your own dinosaur contest!

Now, one of my latest topics:

Spinosaurus: My Analysis

(I forgot how to get a link here, so I'll edit it on later.)

Also, I remember my first fight. No pictures, no paragraphs, not much. Now, I have pictures and descriptions of the creatures, along with around 6 paragraphs per fight. I've come a long way... 

^ I don't believe that Spino wasn't fully a quadruped (let me go edit that). It probably walked on all fours in shallow water, sandy shores, and other soft places where there was no possibility of damaging its claws. On dry, hard land, like a forest, it would probably walk bipedally, to not risk claw damage.

(Also, did you like my addition of the PK Spino? :3)

Maybe a copmy.

Nice job! It's a lot better than what I could do. I thought it was TTTAAP-1 for a minute because of the coloring, but a blue Megarex is cool.

(Also, can you PM the drawing to me, so I can keep it for the end of the contest? Thanks!)

I agree with some things stated here.

I believe that Spinosaurus was mainly a fish hunter, but as any opportunistic predator, it wouldn't mind other prey too if it had the chance to get it!

I however see the possibility of a quadrupedal Spinosaurus pretty plausible. You have to remember the new reconstruction isn't based off of fantasy, but is supported with the available fossil remains (that aren't many either way).

Those remains point out at pretty short legs for a theropod standard, suggesting that Spinosaurus was, in fact, a quadruped, its short legs not being able to fully support all that meat.

Still, I do not exclude the stance of an occasional bipedal locomotion.

Finally, I agree with a mix of your points combined to a new reconstruction, that make Spinosaurus go higher in my list of favorite dinosaurs.

All this new statemens made with the recent, new recostruction point towards a far more adaptable predator that we could imagine, making Spinosaurus very special in my eyes.

I started posting pencil made artwork on a kind of celebration topic... I think it was started by Paden...

I don't remember what the celebration was anymore, but we were invited to post dinosaur pictures.

And here I am, 1 year later. I don't think I've changed pretty much at all... maybe just my skills have slightly improved with age? Either way, I've changed a couple of (my) opinions, especially about the fragile matter of feathered dinosaurs.

Seems like my dinobrawl but who cares I like your idea and rooting for allosaurus.

MR.gappy hahaha just like Maine of my first topics.

Haha, UCMP, don't sweat it. We all make mistakes. 

You're welcome JPCerato. 

Nice job on this Primal. It's cool, and nice backstory to the image. 

Looking forward to the feeding show image. 

Nice, I like it.

Nice drawing, that's actually pretty good. Better than anything I could do. 

Interesting. You know who I'm rooting for. 

Cerato image didn't work, I'll put up a new one. 

Well, for my first two weeks, I didn't know how to start a topic (there was a big green button that said "start discussion" right above the status board at that point). So yeah, as noobish as they came. I'd only login if I was going to comment on a new topic or respond to a reply directed at me, and I really only joined because of Rex vs Spino. My first topic was about two sentences long if I'm not mistaken. 

That was back then though, and you all know what I'm like now. 

Oooh, looking forward to this, seems pretty damn awesome so far.

Anyway, after looking through pretty much everything I could find on the internet about the new Spinosaurus (especially the study that Carnosaur posted) I must say that this new version could actually be almost correct, I still do not agree with the regular quadrupedal stance and the extreme short-ness of it's legs, but otherwise it seems more and more realistic to me.

He's a niceguy, you don't have to rex-communicate him.

plz no lock.

ugh

Congrats on your 100th post. Thanks to you I just realized that I'm almost at 1000 as well. Anyway, looking forward to that, so far it seems very interesting.

Writing on a phone is extremely bad, especially when you live in Austria and your phone doesn't realize that you're writing in English and about dinosaurs and don't just have terrible german grammar.

This.Is.Hilarious. I can't wait for Episode 2. I can already tell, a new age has come upon this forum, not an age of debate and war, but rather an age of laughter and magical short-shorts.

Thanks for the help!!! 

I am incredibly dumb. How did I not manage to realize that it was a shadow? Well, sorry for that.

The King, Queen or Rexy...either way...something hungry thats for sure!

Yep. Something BIG has arrived.

Ahhh! I see it! I huge surprise look just went on my face! lol

I see now...yes a pair of jaws...

Also, look at the shadow on the para's face. Remind you of anything?

Yes! This gonna be epic...can't wait!

Good guess! We have a winner. It is one of those two. A Feeding Show....

Mosasaur feeding show? Rex feeding show? Instead of goat? 

"Rex dosen't want to be fed, he wants to hunt..." 

Maybe visitors get to watch a hunt/kill?