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my guess is that its in a really relaxed state. in the river cruise scene they have there tails up at a proper level 

Yeah thats what I said, its swingning and is not touching the grass so its probably just low...

Ah. I see where your concerned. To me it appears to be swinging it a little bit. So it probably is the camera angle.

Okay! :D Yay! In my fight they kinda work together....

I like both T-rex and Spino too.

Just did what you said, and:

I'll rephrase my statement and just chalk it up as a maybe. It's more-so the almost vertical position of the base of the tail in the video that's making me speculate. Perhaps it's the camera angle.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

JPC

Loved this fight! Mainly because it includes Spino and I. rex...

I know, I just meant the average joe would usually say he/him, I don't I refer to them a she/her in JP, the spino is really one of the onyl ones I say him/he (aside from the Bull/Buck and some raptors)

AWESOME!

I watched the trailer again, and no, it is not dragging its just low.

Very flexible horizontally, not so much vertically. The pose is taking it a bit too extreme.

If anything, it should be a convex curve than a concave.

In a recent study, they found that Stegosaurus tails were very flexible, and so that pose is definitely possible. However, it is still not dragging. It even appears to be standing up or rearing a little. People simply complain too much.

It's low, yes, but is it dragging?

Those dinosaurs are far from being 100% accurate. "Approaching" does not represent what is shown.

Maybe "Within 30% of reaching complete accuracy."

It shouldn't be that low, that's for sure.

I guess mark up another inaccuracy for Jurassic World, then. What are we at now, 20?

Don't worry JPCerato, Spinosaurus became my new favourite when I first saw JP3.  T.rex was and will always be my default favourite, but to a 7 year old dino fan, any theropod that can take down a T.rex is a big deal :P

It's interesting that you bring up the tendency to refer to dinosaurs as male, no matter what the sex is.  If the average person were to see an animal, let alone any of JP's dinosaurs, they'd first think of the animal as a "him", just because it doesn't look "girly".  Says a lot about our own sociology, especially since most of JP's dinosaurs are female and would those theropods would gladly eat us for lunch.  Just because something is big/scary/not "girly-looking", it's got to be a him because strength, size, and even "ugliness" are associated with men.  Really sexist when thinking in the context of gender sociology.

Even in Jurassic Park the novel, Dr Wu said "We tend to refer to some of them as male-such as the Tyrannosaurus rex; we all call it a 'him'-but in fact, they're all female.  And, believe me, they can't breed."

Nice battle Rex Fan. Good to see you again.

A pretty good fight, but wouuldn't it be more realistic if Zilla (or Zilla Jr?) was the size of the Indominus rex?

Either way, I'm happy this was a thing.

Does this make you happy?

Sorry... :( 

I love both T-Rex and Spinosaurus so it has always been hard for me to pick a side...

^

How dare make that gif.

Not going to go into full detail, but I always considered it a boy. I always say he/him, but this is not because "he or him is more common"thing people have told me, infact he is one of few males in JP. But yeah unless we get a confirmation, I will say he/him.

And yes she/he is beautiful...A magnificent creature.

(Please no one get ag at me, I just did it for my own fun, he's my favourite animal in JP)

Nice work!!! It's so good to see your posts again! I loved the fight, some of my favourites! Zilla was the first Godzilla moive I saw and I loved it when I was little so I have a soft spot for him, but the I-Rex is also so cool!

Good job! I hope we see more!

I want more! More... Num num

JPCerato

I'm (and others?) are talking about Nublar, where there are still wild raptors.

Good matchup but just wanted to say, Zilla doesn't have firebreath. The thing he used was some form of breath just air that set a Car on fire.

Battra, those crests probably weren't main display structures.  They were too small to be on such a large creature.  They probably were there to help accent the individual's sex, like how a strong jaw line is more common in men than women.  The sail was the most likely to be a display structure, some recent piece of scientific literature (which was probably about the Spinosaurus' new reconstruction) said that temperature regulation was ruled out for nw because of a lack of blood vessel grooves or the presence of them (I can't remember which).

Stating that the animal's aggressive territoriality could mean that it was a male is reasonable, and I originally thought that too.  But because JP is more about genetic engineering with dinosaurs being its medium rather than dinosaurs only, I reject the hypothesis using aggression to determine its sex.  Modern animals' behaviours are known enough that most males are more aggressive, while other animals have the females being moreso, such as hyenas and harpy eagles, but since we don't know exactly what those geneticists did and what real dinosaurs did in their behaviour, genetics has to be the basis for my theory.

^Please, let's not start this again. Nobody wants to know who would win, and I don't think anyone really cares anymore about that bloody fight.

As for the topic at hand, it is plausible the Spino is a female. I recall hearing that the crests, while misplaced, could have been used as a sexual ornament to attract potential mates, although they don't really look that suited for display to me (little brown stubs, not that striking). And like RexFan said, the dull coloration of Spinosaurus and the rather aggressive behavior stand out more than other examples; one being the Tyrannosaur buck from TLW.

Are you familiar with the saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all?"

Why would you pit a massive mutant iguana against something that would make itself look like a lap dog to Zilla?

Not a debate, a written story. I already know Rexy would win since she was much older and more powerful that the sub-adult that challanged the Spinosaurus.

Tyrannwright, I would not take that action.  Too many times in years past a T.rex vs Spinosaurus debate here resulted in chaos, and I wasn't even a part of it.  I knew enough to stay away from it, and all the real stuff has been said about it.  So everyone can think to themselves about it, but I will not be involved in any kind of a Spino vs T.rex debate here, much less make one myself.

It would be fun, sure, but it has been proven to get out of hand too many times.

Rex Fan, I heard that theory too, and the aggressive behaviour is the evidence to support the theory that this Spinosaurus was/is a male.  But it's easily countered with how aggressive certain female dinosaurs were in the whole franchise.  Rexy could have been just as aggressive, the raptors were were right up there, and Indominus rex will be the most insane animal we'll ever see in the franchise.  It can be argued that the Spinosaurus was more aggressive than any of those because how the animal followed everybody intentionally, but even the male T.rex from TLW while in San Diego wasn't that scary, more scared.  He didn't cause as much damage or act as savagely, so the correlation between gender and aggression is weak.  Yes, different species are used in the sample, only because there's nothing else to compare the Spinosaurus with.

I see what you mean about the female thing. My understanding is that the Spinosaurus was a male because of it's aggressive, territorial nature and relatively dull colors. But that's technically not confirmed, just a leading theory.

Rexy vs JP3 Spino anyone?

Siks, I wanted us to know for technical reasons since Universal never told us anything :P

Yes Sci-FiKing25, that question is worthy of being pondered.  I say no, because having valuable fossils worth a lot of money in the middle of a large square with tens of thousands of people is a result of poor judgment.  They could be replicas though, like in most museums.

But those bones are definitely NOT those of the JP3 Spinosaurus.  Those bones aren't big enough for a 13+ metre Spinosaurus, the sail extends too far up the neck/upper back, and it has a crest just above and between the eye sockets instead of 1 crest above each eye (which was inspired by Suchomimus because in the late 90's, nobody had a complete Spinosaurus skull yet).

Plain and simple, it couldn't have been her, so we shouldn't feel conflicted if the T.rex smashes it on her way to fight Indy.

True. It could just be an artificial display piece in Jurassic World meant to act as nothing more than symbolism for audiences watching the movie.

I don't think it really matters if the spino is male or female; the point is we would run at the sight of it, but it would be nice to know for technical reasons what Universal claims what sex it is.

Someone tell the Pteranodon to stop choosing heavy meals, it damages his diet.