Meet Spinosaurus Mirabilis, a smaller species of Spinosaurus that as usual is fragmentary like most Spinosaurids but it did preserve an interesting Unicorn like crest and it has longer legs compared to Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus!https://www.popsci.com/science/new-horned-dinosaur-sahara/
>>5102462hes cute :3
>>5102462Oh cool, the paper is out
>>5102462They really don't know what to make up to sell new toys, do they?
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Is it possible this is a case of sexual dimorphism?
>>5102463so, they really have short-ass legs? what a dissapointment
>>5102478Crestlet seethe
Shouldn't Spinosaurus fossils be more common and complete if they lived in areas with freshwater/mud? I think there should be more specimens that died and whose bodies were buried in the mud and better preserved.
>>5102527A single specimen fossilizing is already a miracle
At least we know now Spinosaurus was evolved to stand its ground and fight. Or at least, a certain species.
>>5102527Spinosaurid fossils are cursed to be eternally fragmentary and spontaneously combust into flames.
Every new find is just "this is what makes female dinosaurs horny"I don't know what to do with this information. I only now know female spinosaurids in Niger found scimitar horns sexy. Ok thanks???
>>5102478at least this one is an upgrade
>>5102562They are related to birds what did you expect? birds are the ultimate simps
>>5102466imagine a giant wearing that skull as a helmet like injuns did with deer skulls
>>5102539kek
>>5102462>those forward facing wristsoh no no no... he's gonna shit up the thread isn't he?
>>5102462Now whenever someone asks about a Tyrannosaurus vs Spinosaurus fight, you can say >which specieswithout looking like an idiot
>>5102483There are two morphs of the crest already.
>>5102478Rexfags just got BTFO after spending 20 years claiming T. rex was so amazing it outcompeted literally every other mid size or greater theropod in its continent
gnome hat
>>5102715Elaborate
>>5102778There is a thicker and a thinner morph.Interview with the guy that found the lizzer. https://youtu.be/_HlsB3dn7sk?t=1448
>>5102792Interesting
>>5102715>>5102792I suspect it's just individual variation and not sexual dimorphism
>>5102718I don't see anyone except you caring about this.
>>5102464Noo Jinka is cuter!! He is a good boi! He has frens. Is this what they looked like? I just hit up Gemini and asked for Spino.. Got this - I just like the look of it. See you guys like Spinos so ill drop "Jinka" in.
>>5102915
weren't they supposed to have feathers or was that retconned again?
>>5102908Pull up any article about late Cretaceous Laramidian ecology from before last year and count how many run the line that T. rex dominated almost all predatory niches and was just uniquely different from other carnivores everywhere else.>muh juvenile rexes would outcompete all other smaller therapods!>muh cranial metamorphosis!Literally the standard claim for 20 years even when it was obviously nonsense and no other dinosaur ecosystems ever demonstrated something similar.
>>5102923There has never been any reason to believe spinosaurus and its relatives had feathers. And even if there was Spinosaurus itself is too big for them
lmao they have barely found one Spinosauraus and now they are saying they found a new species of one. its probably the same species
>>5102929Spinosaurus is pretty well understood at this point. Most of the skeleton is known tho that doesn't stop people from engaging in useless debates about whether or not it could swim
>>5102929Spino is actually pretty complete nowadays. This skeletal doesn’t have completely correct proportions but it does do a good job of illustrating how much material we have.
>>5102539>when you get bonked so hard the lump is preserved in the fossil recordBrutal>>5102940>ChineseEhhhh...
>>5102467>no feathers, no lipsPretty based.
>>5102940I'm still hoping those legs were from a younger specimen that was on the same place as the adult
>>5103037you think they didn't check the growth rings or something? Spino is short, that's not a bad thing.
>>5103037Even if they were all it would do is add a couple inches. Its smaller cousin also has short legs despite them being slightly longer proportionally >>5102463 it’s over, Spinosaurus was part of the short leg club along with Ceratosaurus and Majungasaurus.
>>5103047>you think they didn't check the growth rings or something?Lol'd
>>5103103what kind of magic trick did they do to make the teeth here >>5102465 disappear like that!?
>>5103103>let's add some fucking neck pubes for no reason
Cute guy, looks a bit like an eel so now I want to eat one.
>>5102924>Literally the standard claim for 20 years even when it was obviously nonsense and no other dinosaur ecosystems ever demonstrated something similar.NTA but it is pretty fucking insane people believed that for so long. You don't even need to look at other extinct ecosystems to see how bullshit that whole theory is. Great white sharks also exhibit ontogenetic niche partitioning, where juveniles prey on cold blooded fish while adults focus on warm blooded marine mammals. By the logic of that rex theory, this means mako sharks, white tip sharks, salmon sharks, and any other medium sized shark that preys on fish shouldn't exist due to juveniles whities already "occupying that niche".Even if Nanotyrannus was invalid, that couldn't mean there wasn't some alioramin or giant raptor being the medium sized predator of Hell Creek. It's just a rushed conclusion people liked to pretend was forgone. The only reason it ever caught on was because Rex gets so overhyped people forget it's just another animal at the end of the day. Not the perfect organism designed in a lab to completely and utterly dominate all forms of life.
>>5102924no other vertebrate has had that kind of metamorphosis either. They really thought le Rex was the most super special animal ever
>>5103217just another reason why modern science is full of people with shit for brains. Politicking takes precedence. It's "unethical" to use a private fossil. That genus doesn't exist because waah waah the man didn't let me have it for free. Ubirajara isn't real, it's invalid and that name can never be used again, because um the guy who discovered it... moved it across borders!!! What do you mean we can just acknowledge a law was broken and still accept the papers? The papers don't count, the guy did a social faux pas! We refuse to examine the fossils!
>>5103229The fossil still exists genius, it just has to be given another name now. Though given how mirabilis was found in various expeditions varying between 2020, 2019 and 2000 in date and it's only been published now, it'll probably still be in limbo
>>5102462>a smaller species of SpinosaurusNone of the material came from adults
>>5103275I don't think you're on the same page. I'm complaining about that politicking, such as picking another name, and delaying officiating nanotyrannus and their handling of ubirajara. The fossil still exists and the scientific industrial complex is furious that they didn't get their way with either. I didn't bring up nor mention the spinosaurus in the OP at all.
>>5103229That shit is indeed retarded
>>5102947Be normal please
>>5103151Better than whatever this is On a side note holy fuck these new captchas are so annoying
>>5103938Lips on spinosaurs look so fucking stupid.Also personally i find these new captchas easier than the previous ones
>>5103938It's chin looks like the hairy bottom of my nutsack.
>>5103938Why can't paleofags stop themselves from drawing the ugliest most distasteful reconstructions imaginable?
>>5102462Man, jews are on a quest to ruin Spinosaurus forever, huh. And without feathers, even.
>>5104789this one's good. Feels like it could have been made in 05.
>>5104790
>>5102585So basically what that mutant ape thing did in Primal but with a triceratops skull
>>5104789nice
does someone recognise which film/documentary this screenshot is from?
>>5106807this is shown immediately before, but sadly that's all I've got
>>5106673I need to watch Primal.
>>5106821it's pretty good
