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ZeWqt — The misadventures of Mr. Spinosaurus
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Published: 2015-09-12 01:41:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 4168; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 10
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je n'ai pas grand chose à dire à propos de cette image (j'ai même pas besoin de traduire je pense), je veux dire, elle parle d'elle même...I don't really know what I can say about this picture, I mean, it speaks for itself...
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I have been laughing at this for about 10 minutes. I fucking love this!
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Oh my! This poor animal is suffering! This is not a laughing matter, you rude ableist!
I sure love to roleplay as an average a tumblr user
Thank you by the way!
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Yeah, he was bipedal, but would have looked really goofy and clumsy looking
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Yup, a while ago, I made a sketch of a cartoony Spino walking awkwardly and trying not to fall, even though the real critter, while still not being a paragon of grace on land, probably never had such problems.
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So spinosaurus wasn't a quadruped? What a shame, it was such an amazing, unique creature, but I guess it still is. Just not as cool.
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Yeah, that's what I was acknowledging.
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To my knowledge it WAS biped but the rest of the body looks a little horizontal (Sorry if you can't understand, here's an example.) cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/i…
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I know spinosaurus couldn't have walked on four legs 
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''' Theropod arm couldn't possibly pronate onto ground '''
And
Spinosaurus arms weren't like gorilla arm's anatomy...
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I'd rather compare it with a anteater or a pangolin
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More likely to be CrocoPelican by both compared diet and lifestyle; not to mention Spinosaurus was a carnivore' not an extreme strict obligate piscivore\fish eater like Pangolin.
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well, I was referring to the arms and the body posture
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Pangolins don't eat fish......
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Yeah I heard about that too
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Oh; also the 2014 reconstruction is proven to be a real chimera !!
They used different individual animals fossils when they making it; the individuals were also from different growth patterns\ages; they also use another species of spinosauroid when they were making it; the sigilmassasaurus; they simply 'dumped' it as a synonym but it proven to be not the case
peerj.com/articles/1323/
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I believe it is because the arms could not have supported the weight; in fact, there was a scale problem with the Ibrahim Et Al find, where in the model they made, the proportions were different. When fixed, the arms went down to around the ankles, but didn't touch the ground.
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YEah i know about that. but there was something else about the anatomy of the shoulders? like it couldn't rotate it's arms seperately ack and forth like other animals, kind of like how you can't bend your pinky finger without the other finger bending.
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I'm not sure about that, to be completely honest
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just curious, what people found that Spinosaurus was not only bipedal, but also hunted on large animals in packs before T-rex? Just being speculative.
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what. they never hunted in packs.
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There could be evidence for that. We just don't know yet.
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Well there is difference between speculation that don't clash with what we know and speculation that does. Even if the Spinosaurus is rather poorly known, the knuckle-walking Spinosaurus theory is against evidences, same for the big game, ground based, pack hunter Spino, actually.
If you want to speculate, do it on things that we don't know or not realy possible to know, like my llama-like Pelecanimimus thing (yeah, it's silly).
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Well I still think Spinosaurus was bipedal.
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Yeah, there is no reason to think the contrary.
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I think that Spino was most likely like a hadrosaur in terms of posture, able to switch between a bipedal or quadrupedal stance whenever necessary.
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Except that Theropods (not even Spinosaurids) were adapted to a quadrupedal posture... Sooo....
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I doubt Spinosaurus could walk at all....
On land they might have been like loons or tropicbirds. Unable to be qadrupedal or bipedal.
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They probably would have been able to be bipedal on land. Although obviously they wouldn't have been as good at walking as other theropods, spinosaurus did have flat footed feet which would have allowed it to walk on muddy terrain. I personally imagine spinosaurus to be more like a flightless cormorant 
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I just don't think a spinosaur came onto dry land at all......maybe wet ground.
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How the heck is it gonna lay it's eggs then? Burying eggs on wet ground is going to drown the next generation before they can even hatch. Ornithodiran eggs are porous to allow the developing baby to breathe.
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It can still move on land by crawling.
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Or, more likely, walk like a pangolin.
blogs.andbeyond.com/suzie_mack…
4.bp.blogspot.com/-jnxoWXH-Jeg…
blog.africageographic.com/afri…
blog.wcs.org/photo/wp-content/…
www.ifaw.org/sites/default/fil…
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Didn't Sereno and Cau agree that the femur was unusually dense internally in Spinosaurus and apparently it had strong muscle attachment sites? Thus making walking possible right?
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Well, I could find these:
paulsereno.uchicago.edu/discov…
"short hind legs with muscular thighs"
theropoda.blogspot.com/2015/01…
"Interesting about the femur Spinosaurus described by Ibrahim et al. (2014) is as short and robust compared to other large theropodi, and that the fourth femoral trochanter is placed more distally: this combination of characters indicates a femur capable of generating more power at the expense of speed."
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Yeah I agree, they don't have any reason to go inland where they could face competition.
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Exactly. Stay where you rule.
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Then, it would die pretty quickly, since seasonal droughts were probably a thing in Early Cretaceous North Africa.
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Move out to sea?
Also, Kem Kem was permanently tidal, to my knowledge.
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Not only that actually, Spinosaurids were not only fishers (uh...) they were more generalists, we don't really have evidences of that for Spinosaurus itself but it safe to assume that it was also not so hyperspecialized that it couldn't go on land.
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You don't have to be on alnd to be a badass predator. Mosasaurs? Sharks? Crocodilians? Leopard seals?
Spinosaurus is one of those types of predators.
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I don't get it... Did I said Spinosaurus wasn't a predator that deserved respect because it would be clumsy on land? Because yes, I think it was perfectly bipedal, but wasn't able to run or thing like this, but it was still a huge multiton predator with huge claws, so...
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