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can someone make a skeleton image so I can use it as a reference to make my blender spinosaurus look like that since this is meant to be the most accruate spinosaurus yet?
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There's the reconstruction from the new paper a short ways down this page here , if it helps.
(Link goes to sciencealert)
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I think I am all set now. but thanks
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guess this is more evidence for it swimming then
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Nice, but the base of the neck seems a bit too thin.
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That animal does not look functional, it's the legs man, those sticks for legs, they seem too brittle in the anatomy
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on land maybe, but this design looks to be the transition to being a fully aquatic dinosaur. had not for the inevitable extinction.
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I'm still not convinced, granted I haven't seen that video about it yet, but I don't see why the biggest carnivore in the area would require to be fully aquatic, it used to live in Africa for crying out loud, there were already crocodilians that would have already filled in the neache of fully aquatic Hunter
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I don't see why the biggest carnivore in the area would require to be fully aquaticTo address this specifically: one issue that's been around studies of the Cretaceous Sahara is that it had a lot of predators -- Spinosaurus, Caracharodontosaurus, Rugops, and a number of smaller- to medium-sized theropods -- but very few herbivores of any kind -- one or two smallish sauropods seem to have been it. This makes it difficult to understand what all the giant meat-eaters were living on.
By contrast, there was a tremendous amount of fish -- giant lungfish, freshwater sharks and coelacanths, ray-finned fishes -- living in the waters alongside turtles and crocodiles. That would explain whatΒ Spinosaurus was doing in the water -- that's where all the food was, and its family was already adapted to eating fish anyway.
there were already crocodilians that would have already filled in the neache of fully aquatic HunterThe crocodiles were also a lot smaller than Spinosaurus -- they seem to have all been in about the same size range as modern ones, meaning two meters are most. SpinosaurusΒ exceeded ten meters in length on average, and the largest specimen is thought to have been fifteen meters long. They wouldn't have competed any more than foxes and tigers do. If anything, the crocs would have been one more food source to draw the dinosaur to the water.
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What about sarcosuchus?
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They didn't coexist, or at least not very long -- Sarcosuchus seems to have vanished from the fossil record about the same time as Spinosaurus starts showing up.
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like i said, Spinosaurus seemed to be in a transitional phase, so they weren't 100% in the water at all times, they'd probably hunt surf and turf, and considering the aquatic fauna's size and quantityΒ at the time of spino, there was definitely room for everyone at the dinner table. And if a giant croc was in its waters, ol' spino could easily go after a dinosaur on land if it wanted to.
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I'm aware of That, but those legs man, they do not look right, at least on most reconstructions
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that's partially why there's the debate about it maybe being semi-quadruped.
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need i remind that dis boi is 8.2 tones, those arms aren't like a megatheriums or gorillas,Β they are thinner and designed for grabbing, i still don't get where they came up with that strange concept, like with the legs of some reconstructions, it doesn't look like a functional method for the creature to move, with the amount of weight it has, it would break its wrists surely.(apologies that i'm still going on about this, it just boggles me to no end, with some of these reconstructions[not yours, yours is one of the few that looks functional with the new discovery])Β
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(how so? what's difference about mine?)
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the legs are a bit more robust on yours, the lower legs don't look too thin or brittle, and the tail seems more streamlined and consistent.
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