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New and interesting article on the spinosaurus.

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¨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.¨

 

Picture of a model of the SpinosaurusPHOTOGRAPH 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/ 

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indiana jones
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thats pretty cool

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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).

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Nice thread!

Wat

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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. 

 

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

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If that my friend, if that. 

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

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Its even more waterbased and smaller than i tougth

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

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

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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.

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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. 

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Wow, it is so small and a wuadrapedal animal.

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

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

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

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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.

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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 ;)

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

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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. 

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