A swimming dinosaur: The tail of Spinosaurus
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- A new fossil of one of the most unusual dinosaurs, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, suggests it was a swimming predator powered by a fin-like tail. The find comes after decades of debate on how much of its life Spinosaurus would have spent in the water, and how reliant they might have been on aquatic prey. Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim has been working at the dig site in the Sahara and describes his amazement at the unique tail bones they found under the rock and sand.
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There is no way 2020 could surprise us anymore.
Spinosaurus: *this isn't even my final form*.
LITERALLY! HAHAHA
Who blames them everything spinosaurus old looks were thought of where based on more complete relatives like baryonx and suchomimus
LOL AHAHA
Bro haha
Don't want to brag about it but I kinda really expected it, Spinosaurus' most notable aspect since its discovery was it's "sail" and every successive discovery pointed more and more towards a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Not only the sail itself could theoretically serve as a stabilizing dorsal fin but it also increases the potential that tail vertebrae could have similarly elongated spinus processes that would flatten the tail so that it could be used for propulsion.
Cant wait till the spino is discovered to have wings
They probably didn't have feathers, but this didn't stop them to fly
Top comment right here
Lowkey it kinda resembles a dragon of legend
What if it has an acidic sac that when spat out mixes with saliva and becomes a volatile flame?
spino 2030:spino was actully a flying dinosaur
"So its a river monster"
Some spinosaurus 95 million years ago seeing Jeremy Wade:
"Why do I hear boss music?"
@Edwin Jose LOL Jeremy Wade would be in Heaven if he could travel to late Cretaceous North Africa. Pretty much everything that lived in the rivers back then was a "river monster".
@@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist Once he'a finished with out time period he travels back a million years and catches everything that went extinct😭
"And when everyone is a river monster...no one is"
-Syndrome Wade
This is a god tier comment
Jeremy Wade could team up with Nigel Marvin!!
I love the way he can't help himself smiling while talking about it, it's so wholesome. This is an incredible discovery!
You’d smile like that too if you were the world expert on one of the coolest dinosaurs on the planet.
@@sarahwinn2453 i love how this dino get more and more wierd and diferent from its cousins bryonyx and suchomimus, it is like the wierd cousin of the family xD
@@SaurusWarriorSotek spinosaurus, oxalaia, suchomimus, irritator, baryonyx, siamosaurus, ichtyovenator, and ostafrikasaur are a weird chimera like creature
This scientist was also instrumental in communicating with a local dinosaur hunter to find the secret location of the most complete spinosaurus dig site when interesting bones began showing up for sale. It turns out that this hardened older local bone hunter was really just, at heart, a kid who loved dinosaurs and they found a connection that advanced the science together when the university-trained paleontologist treated the older local guy respectfully. It also didn't hurt that they spoke the same language.
He's really into Spinos. Like, he's the one responsible why we have a real Spino skeleton now because the last specimen we had was bomb during WWII and since then Spino bones only existed thru black and white photographs.
Paleontologists: Can you just please stop changing your appearance... *FOR FIVE MINUTES*
Spinosaurus: Man give an extinction veteran a break.(and I don't mean end of cretaceous)
lizard zilla ............Didn’t have the back spine
Paleontologists: AHHHH
lizard zilla spinosaurus: *t h i s i s n ' t e v e n m y f i n a l f o r m*
Helicoprion: *amateurs.*
nah
Paleontologist: Can you please tell us what you really look like?
Spinosaurus: No.
Spinosaurus: I’ll show you!
I'm quite sure spinosaurus legs can't be that small it can be more than twice the size of it's arms which could allow him to be around 4 metres tall to the hips it's simply a dinosaur even if it was a swimming one it cant be like a mosasaurus or a crocodile it must look different
@@karimmohamed2891 I think not. Reconstruction shows that legs of that size are perfect fits for the hips. Socket stress patterns confirm this. Additionally, reconstructions with weight distribution are performed, and confirm that it's capable of balancing in such a way.
@@Mothwater no I think it should be that big and have a little thicker bones and stronger muscles like it'srelatives longer legs will allow him to swim even faster and walk properly on land the smaller legs should have belonged to a juvenile spinosaurus not a fully grown one
@Arihant Arya ok
Spinosaurus is like a biological chimera: It has the head of a crocodile, the neck of a swan, eagle feet and talons for hands, duck legs and feet, the sail of a swordfish, and the tail of a tadpole.
What a bizarre yet fascinating animal.
Imagine if Spino had had a chance to evolve further had it not been for the Cenomanian/Turonian extinction event? I reckon it might have evolved into a whale-like organism. The speculation is exciting!
@@keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934 it would be a croc like whale creature
It would have looked like a mosasaur.
It is the platypus of Dinosaurs hehe.
@@Ahturos yes
2030: New fossil with feathers discovered
2040: New fossil with wings discovered
2050: New skull with flamethrower discovered
Spinosaurus is officialy a dragon 😂
Charizard?
You forgot to mention; Spinosaurus possibly could spit poison with the precision of being able to hit a target in 246 meters.
@@samblack3446 that has actually been proven wrong, it's almost 420 meters.
The 2050 discovery is not very real but, 2030 is actually really possible
Theropods: Why can’t you just be normal?
Spinosaurus: *screams*
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ahahahahahahahhahahaaha!!!!
I'm in tears
@@sincityalley9824 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WRYYYYYYYYYY
BaBaDookDook!
Aaaaaand the Spinosaurus in Animal Crossing is now outdated...
We can petition for an update on the tail, that shouldn't be too hard seeing as it's already in the right position.
@@RubyCarrots3232 and with such a detailed find, it should be too hard to implement into the game.
That's what I said.
RIP spinosaurus in Animal Crossing
Update the plesiosaur too. Plesiosaur necks are stiff and inflexible
Then they found out that the tail can spin like helicopter thus makes Spinosaurus fly.
They also found out that the arms were actually wings
@@lizardzilla correction, the legs were wings, the arms were actually there to hold balloon membranes for buoyancy
And don't forget that it had side boosters on its feet
Pterosaurus: you cant catch me!
Spinosaurus: bbbbrrrrrwwwwwww
@Gi Gi everywhere
Paleontologists: \o/
Paleonerds: \o/
Paleoartists after making really detailed depictions of Spinosaurus: 😢
I like to think of paleoart as snapshots of our understanding. :)
Even with art that doesn't match new fossils, it shows us how people and civilization imagined life to be, which is elegant and historical in its own way.
Nah, paleoartists are just a tail edit away from update
Real nerdy paleoartists: *push up glasses*
*CHALLANGE ACCEPTED*
The Isle game developers are not happy
Some Paleoartists: I anticipated this so I made one with fins.
When you think it could not get any stranger. The tailbones are like: "Let us introduce ourselves."
Sorry, but... Croc-like dino has croc-like tail for propulsion and agility in the water where it lives ≠ strange.
In 2021 where just gonna discover that the ''sail'' was actually a way to hold fire which spinosaurus would use in order to ignite it's enemies
@@raptormage2209 Yeah, maybe... Or maybe like the back fin of a fish for stability in the water.
@@WR3ND No, that tail shape plus a massive sail on it's back equals strange, it almost looks more like a marine reptile/crocodile or archosaur descendant than a Dinosaur
@@jpdicey789 No, that tail doesn't make it any more strange than what it already was. It actually kind of makes sense and likely helps explain the dino's niche better overall. I'm not sure what you were expecting though and why you would underestimate the diversity of dinos. That's on you.
So spinosaurus is basically a croc-theropod-duck-newt hybrid with a giant sail on its back.
To me it makes a whole lot more sense with a tail adapted to it's environment. Strange, how they don't see it fitting?
He's the Platypus of Dinosaurs
Bet Kirk Cameron would love to see this xD
@Thorus Zwolf
Tell him and Ray Comfort that we finally found his Crocoduck.
May be crocs, theropods, ducks and newts came from spinosaurus.
Paleontologist : so do you have something else we haven't discovered about you
Spinosaurus : *P E R H A P S*
Paleontologists in 2030: And so basically, the Spinosaurus now has wings and can fly.
@@ether2275 spinodragon
Florence actually spinosaurus had a mechanism in which it can produce inflamable sustances out of his mouth , this added to the hability to create a spark with his claws gave spinosaurus the hability to spit fire
@@ulforcemegamon3094 Is that a joke or Is It Real?
Bass 4546 is a joke
This is more interesting than the UFO thing the Pentagon just released. What a time to be alive.
2020 gonna be the biggest hit in history
@@kingofbruhssia4639 yeah as the worst year🙃
@@Vic_Lit344 last*
@@Vic_Lit344 Absolutely not!
And just as made up.
The dinosaurs never conquer the waters.
Penguins and ducks: Excuse me ?
Lol true but i think they meant non avian dinosaur xD
Birds became aquatic and semi-aquatic many times. As far as we no, non-avian dinosaurs never colonised the open ocean as birds havr
what it means "not avian" dinosaurs? :c
El Tío Predalien Avian Dinosaurs are all Birds and Non Avian dinosaurs are all other dinosaurs that aren’t birds
So birds are reptiles than?
So...the legends of the crocoduck were true all along
G I A N T
E G Y P T I A N
C R O C O D U C K
Always has been *gunshot*
2025: Spinosaurus has atomic breath
Kourosh aghelie I understand this reference. =D
Then he will be the real Godzilla 😄
2030 spinosaur is actually a ocean rat
Evolution: Choose carefully, Land or Water
Spinosaurus: ... *Y E S* ...
Both
God*
“Hides”
Spinosaurus:"so Basically I'm just a giant crocodile now."
Dienosuchus: You're no crocodile!
@@TheMrPeteChannel Just related, kinda
Sarco:No No No No
@@phanvanhai3269 It's amazing that spino and sarco lived together in Cretaceous Egypt
@@kingofbruhssia4639 i agree with that but we
human expect to see Rex And Spino live in the same era XD
So apart from inaccurate physical appearance, the Spinosaurus river scene in JP3 is one of the closest portrayed dinosaur habits to real life
Planet Dinosaur definitely portrayed Spinosaurus better when it came to rivers.
@@hypn0298 Because one is an action hollywood movie that's just there to wow viewers and another is a documentary meant to educate viewers on dinos.
The worst part is, that he is now scientifically inaccurate in Animal Crossing New Horizons.
There's only room for one big yoshi around these parts
@@PatelKai challenge accepted
@@waixler83 Cheese
😂😂
@Todd Crispin is just game why you have to be mad
- Random russian guy (i think)
spinosaurus when becoming aquatic : yknow those lizards in the water kinda look cool, maybe i can join them
dinosaurs are not lizards.
@@jamesginty6684 Well he referring to the typical marine reptiles such as mosasaurs, plesiosaurs.
Basilisk lizard?
No guys he was referring to the prehistoric lizards the mosasaurus evolved from I think they were called like dasplatesaurs or something like that
@Brandon Jones Oh now I feel stupid.
This kind of makes the Spino even cooler than it was before imo
Well, I guess that article saying "Spino can't swim and is therefore very light." has just been snatched out of the water by Spinosaurus.
They're still probably right since being heavy and bulky makes it so much harder to swim ontop of already having that massive sail on it's back
SpinoGuy /Spinosaur Slasher/ I think they’re right about the weight. 7 to 8 tons seems reasonable considering it’s size and build.
But doesn't the water itself give Spino extra buoyancy? Since we now know Spino would have been able to submerge like a crocodile, it wouldn't have been out of the realm for it to have weighed a bit more like at 9 tons due to the square-cube law.
Well actually, Spino weight estimates are literally all over the place and there is no definitive weight. But SpinoGuy does have a good point, the square cube law is mainly applied for weight estimating on semi-aquatic animals and since Spino would have been a 15 m. giant, 9 tons probably makes more sense than 7.
@@maximmihailov8167 the biggest living creatures in the world were swimmers
"This was a river monster"
Anyone else get an image if Jeremy Wade fishing for a Spinosaurus in their head?
LMAO
3:42 - "For a very long time, paleontologists assumed the one thing dinosaurs never did was invade the watery world..." Birds: "Are we chopped liver to you???" :p
Spino’s a big ol’ prehistoric duck 🦆 lol.
Penguin u say
Literally so many water birds out there. Gulls, penguins, ducks, cranes, king fishers
yep, birds still count as dinosaurs, you never stop being what your ancestors were.
their therapods.
The correct pronounciation would be "first known swimming NON-AVIAN-Dinosaur"
Platypus: " im the most unusual creature in earths history
Spinosaur: "hold my fish"
or maybe "hold my tail"
Platypus is still weirder. But many other contenders too, such as Anomalocaris, and then there are humans.
The spinosaurus was living in my home country and 99.99% of moroccan dont even know that this type of dinosaurs was on earth
I am Moroccan,and I know that spinosaurus lived in this country.
Mohamed Chafik thanks for specifying
Most people don't know about these things.
Who knows what other bizarre dinos your home country is going to yield.
I know bro 🇲🇦😉
When paleontologist see Jurassic Park 3
“I’ve got a bone to pick with you.”
hehe, fossil pun
Pat M lols, but they did have a scene where the spino is swimming around in the water chasing the main characters on the boat tho
Screw continuity, but it would amazing if in Jurassic World 3 they make an updated Spinosaurus.
Random Dinos: yo, bro. Why your tail look all weird?
Spinosaurus: well, I’m glad you asked.
Halszkaraptor, Liaoningosaurus and Koreaceratops left the chat
What in the world are those things?!? An ancient Dino duck and a two legged, river ceratops!?!
about Koreaceratops and Lianingosaurus we don't have much evidence to be certain of semiaquatic lifestyle, but halszaraptor really was like a flightless heron, they were indeed aquatic
Can we expect them to be rage tweeting shortly?
@@misterdayne2792 And an edgy turtle
Lurdusaurus and Icthyovenator: B r u v
Okay, this got my interest in Spinosaurus again.
I like your channel name mate! And gorgonopsids are badass!
@@keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934 right? All hail dimentrodon
Why would you lose your interest
@@SirKolass I lost interest after I heard about the outdated study that Spinosaurus wasn't as good as a swimmer as the media hyped it up to be. This however, got me interested again.
the jurassic park 3's spinosaurus is more dated than ever... and the real one it'ss much coller and deadly, holy shit
EDIT: GUYS, I DON'T EVEN MENTIONED T-REX IN THE COMENT... Why bring this stupid fight again? In real life their fight never would be fair to both creatures dependending on what arena you choose.
If you put a spinosaurus to fight a t-rex in land, that would'nt be fair... t-rex would destroy spino.
but if t-rex was in water to fight a spinosaurus... that wouldn't be fair either.
please, stop this dumb discussion.
EDGY NECK BEARD the real one wouldn’t have beat the T. rex because it had short stubby legs and wouldn’t have went inland.
@@Yellow_Car_Bad it never would have met the T Rex considering they lived on opposite sides of the world
@@velvetdarksoul8741 WOULD. WOULD HAVE BEAT THE T-REX
@@velvetdarksoul8741 and like 50 million years apart. Give or take 10 millionish.
@@Yellow_Car_Bad they could have if a Rex went all the way across the world and took a sip of water, spino could be like, HELLO DINNER
Everyone: This is amazing!
Jurassic Park: Damn it!
Andy any Jurassic Park after the first one was never meant to be accurate. The first one was meant to be accurate as it finally revealed to the public that dinosaurs were not slow, tail-dragging behemoths. But that was in the early 90s, and there is more to dinosaurs than just being active and horizontally-postured. Jurassic World which still have Velociraptor looking like a scientific depiction from the 1980s, when they should have feathers.
Andy
Well, in JP3 they depicted the Spino as aquatic....so they got that right!
@@hypn0298 Also velociraptors in jurassic park are ridiculously oversized
Velociraptors were not much bigger than chicken with long tails
I like this scientist’s enthusiasm. He found a job he really loves, and that’s a blessing, not many people are this lucky 😔
Gowtham Krishna NS Palaeontologists are some of the most excitable types of workers. They have such a passion for the Great Dinosaurs of the past, and every detail and finding can completely unravel mysteries of the earth itself
Markus Haahr True, even I had a passion for dinosaurs when I was small, eventually it died down as I reached teenage
For the people who say that crocodilian tails would fail if they had the design that Spinosaurus had. With the tail getting thin quickly and the vertebra spines overlapping each other. Keep in mind that just because Spinosaurus had many crocodilian like features, does not mean that is the only living animal we should compare it to.
The features of its new tail are very akin to that of active swimming, pelagic, ray finned fish like sailfish. In short this new tail discovery more closely matches designs some of the oceans fastest swimming predators, rather than crocodilian tails.
I hope they update it in animal crossing lol
Me too
People really play this retarded game...
@@SirKolass This gets to you why?
Jjjh pw to attend anjj#
Imagine going to a swim and then you suddenly see this sail rising up out of the water.
I think it would be scarier than a shark because not only are they much bigger, a Spinosaurus could chase you down outside of the water and he's got the jaw necessary to do some serious biting!
I would swim and run to the high ground
In the water it would get you but it may have been too slow on land.
It would be scary af, and you might as well say goodbye. Your only hope would be if it didn't particularly like your version of meat, or if it had just eaten a huge meal.
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2040: Spinosaurus has a new part!
That part: Let me introduce myself!
Spinosaurus can fly
Just as I have expected a crocodile dinosaur
Imagine being a crocodile and NOT having op meathook arms and a kickass sail crocs are nerds
It's quite fascinating how derived of a creature Spinosaurus is. It is an absolutely bizarre lifeform, even when compared to it's close relatives like Suchomimus or Barionyx
Yes! It's just so adapted to a highly aquatic lifestyle and i love it
North Africa 100 million years ago: Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Deltadromeus, Rugops. A predatory bonanza!
It’s beginning to rival late Cretaceous Western North America as the most popular dinosaur time period and location.
Afrovenator.
Oh look a major revision of the appearance and behavior of Spinosaurus THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE
Well originally it was known just by some backbones, and for 50 years we had nothing else because they got destroyed.
Then we started to find them again, and as we found them it became easier to find more since we know where to look. And of course, eventually the dinosaur which looked like T-rex with a sail is now a river monster that would make you think twice about jumping in the water in its day and age.
Tyler W yes it did. It happened in 2014. The only new thing in this video is the tail.
HypnoGaming bro he was being sarcastic....
@@hypn0298 several times:. They revised its skull, they found it had a small lump on its forehead as well, which was a revision alone, they revised the legs, now the tail. 😅 I think i may have missed one or two revisions...
Grant: Do you hunt on land or water?
Spinosaurus: Yes
No matter how many new discoveries happen spinosaurus remains awesome
I like this new spinosaurus, can anyone agree with me?
Safe to say this probably wasn't the only aquatic dinosaur.
Baryonyx and other related spinosaurids may have also been aquatic. Baryo had no sail that we know of but perhaps that was just for display as it may have been in Spino's case.
@@dondragmer2412 Haha Icthyovenator go brrrrrrr
People in 2018: wow, Spinosaurus couldn't possibly get weirder
2020: haha newt
I saw a tweet recently that said that Ichtyovenator had a tail like this Spinosaurus as well. This gives me hope that other members of the spinosaurid family (Irritator, Oxalaia and Vallibonavenatrix) had one too
im pretty sure oxalaia is considered to be a juvenile spino by some paleontologists
Can't wait for Trey's reaction to this!
That “Spinosaurus” at 2:04 is now super outdated... remember the time before 2014, when we thought it was accurate (minus the wrist pronation).
Spinosaurus: Hey can I copy your homework?
Crocodiles: Yeah just change it up a little bit so it doesn’t look obvious.
Phytosaurs: HEY! You stole my homework!
actually,it should be the crocodiles asking the spino to copy their homework lmao
55 Spino fans of JP3 dislike the video...
Manuel 1987 why they dislikes i dont understand. Spino have two form this and jp3 version maccaron and aeg
@@aslanl4171 the JP3 version is fake...
The real Spino have legs much more short...
I'm so glad this new skeleton was found! I was heartbroken when I read in my very first National Geographic magazine that the first Spinosaurus fossil was destroyed during Allied bombings in Germany. It's also so wonderful to know what these guys could've looked like and what habitat they occupied. Ah, dinosaurs. The best creatures that have ever graced this planet.
A Jaw of a crocodile, A sail like dimetrodon, a tail of a tadpole, a claw like tiger and feet like a land predator.
To quote Ash : "A perfect organism"
5:05 FELLOW ITALIANS XD
Here’s to hoping that Jurassic World: Dominion uses this updated design!
nah then the fans would freak out ,lol.
LOL! That's so funny! Keep be less than 30 years behind paleontological discoveries. That joke brightened up my day.
I don’t watch JP for accurate dinosaurs. I was JP to watch JP. I read articles for accurate dinosaurs.
Personally I’d rather they keep continuity with the previous entries than suddenly revise stuff for one movie. Didn’t work so well for feathered Raptors in JP3. Movie monsters are movie monsters.
Jimmy Gee JP is our only chance to change the public’s perception on dinosaurs, like the original did in 1993. That was the only JP film that was meant to be accurate.
@@jimmygee3219 Yep, except most people won't realise it's inaccurate, most people will think that's what dinosaurs look like
When ark survival evolved game more scientifict than jurasic park 3 movie
Tbf JP3 did come out almost 20 years ago, back when all we had were drawings of a jaw bone, teeth and spine, not even the bones themselves.
@@Rogue_Satellite bruh it came out in 2005 (I’m not a trex fanboy I love the spino I’m just saying it was 15 years ago plz don’t take this as trex fanboy drama)
@@Drheims 2001 dude
@@Drheims JP3 was released in 2001
Oh shit it did come out in 2001 my bad
It's only "strange," because people's imaginations are sometimes a little ridiculous and get carried away. Sorry, this wasn't battling T-Rex on the side of a jungle mountain over a kill during a thunderstorm with lightening crashing around them or whatever.
Probably because they lived on different continents millions of years apart.
Point being, they're often compared and weighed up against each other for some strange and perhaps whimsical reasons, when really they were quite distinct from each other, living in different habitats, and having different characteristics and attributes. I happen to think they merit interest for their own reasons. I also happen to not be a time traveling Pokemon trainer. YMMV
WR3ND It’s rather petty and childish considering they keep matching them for fighting when Spinosaurus’s spine literally has a sign saying ‘Free Bites!’
WR3ND No, we’re not considering the facts of how Dinosaurs functioned on the very similar primal instinct like many animals we have today. It’s be like a Lion fighting a crocodile. Yeah, it “COULD” happen but... no, it wouldn’t
WR3ND they’re called awesomebros in the dinosaur community. They prefer “coolness” and “epic” ridiculous dinosaur fights over realism.
Imagine something comparable in size to a T-rex swimming through a river like a crocodile!
T. rex
Palaeontologists: Can’t you just be normal for five minutes!?
Spinosaurus: *screams*
Whoa, there’s no way in hell I’ll be swimming in Cretaceous North Africa no way of knowing there could be something huge in the water.
rory searle swimming during any period of dinosaurs/prehistoric animals seems scary lol
I love that this new discovery is getting some attention but why do they keep on trying to make it sound like some kind of movie monster instead of an animal? "River monster" "conquer the waters" "bigger than T.rex" and so on. It makes it sound like they are pandering to children and people that call every theropod a "T.rex".
i mean we call fatass catfish and crcodiles river monsters so thats what this is. though talking about it in comparison to t rex is really dumb yeah, apples to oranges
hype.
Your basically have a dinosaur you'd want to never swim with.
People also may not call every dino a T-Rex, but T-Rex tends to get over hyped so much that unless you catch someone's eye, they'll ignore it.
tyranofishy rex
2:56 So the Spinosaurus is deinitely no longer the largest theropod, it is so long and slender, almost like a sea snake fused with a monitor lizard. It might still be the longest theropod, but in terms of body mass, pretty sure it is smaller than the Giganotosaurus, the T-Rex and the Carcharodontosaurus. I am sure it weights less than them too.
Carcharodontosaurus actually probably weighed less, but Giganotosaurus was about the same or a bit heavier, and T. rex was most definitely heavier. Look up Franoys on Deviantart for GDI estimates (he hasn't updated the tail of his Spinosaurus yet, but the new tail wouldn't add that much weight anyway, and his estimates are still pretty good.
Next major discovery: Spinosaurus had tentacles and was a frequent watcher of anime....
Incredible! I was just watching a documentary on Spinosaurus and the way it could have swimmed through the waters, then this pops up. The timing couldn't have been better!!
I love this kind of fresh new discovery!
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Spinosaurus new shape make it seem way more like a crocodile then theropod. Wonder if it could propel its body out of the water like crocs can do. That would be crazy.
This study actually says it could (not surprising), though slower than crocodiles.
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If the sail on the back is not 1 but 2 and it acts as the bone structure of 2 wings and the cartledge and skin material created a leather or fish scale with finer bones like a fish and the tail was horizontal and similar in design to the wing sails ...you have a dragon
A flightless dragon. Unless we find evidence some day that it could fill its air sacs with hydrogen.
"Dinosaurs went on to conquer the skies, but this is the strongest evidence yet that at least one of them conquered the waters."
Yes, because penguins don't exist.
Ever heard the term "non-avian dinosaur"?
@@xenomorphoverlord but they didn't specify non-avian, so the assertion that dinosaurs (in general) never conquered water was wrong.
@@YooTooLoB precisely.
Everyone: Spinosaurus so strange and other stuff.
Me: How did they find the fossil and researched it while under quarantine
They dug it out in 2019 and piblished the news in april 2020
Being in the middle of the Sahara surrounded by dinosaurs _is_ my quarantine.
and stuff
@MinutemanSam thank u i didn't know that
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It's been boggling my mind to figure out how exactly spinosaurus swam/moved through the water. The tail would seem to indicate it could undulate side-to-side like a crocodile, but its bone density (at least in the legs, as discussed by Paul Sereno in another video) would seem to be closer to a hippo, which cannot swim, only hop along the bottom. Makes me wonder if the spino was more like a manatee, which has very dense bones but can float on the surface of the water so long as it doesn't go too deep (around 10m/30ft), or could it control its buoyancy like crocodiles do via inflation and deflation of their lungs, or if it was more like a hippo in that it couldn't float at all and simply ran on the floor of the river, utilizing its tail as means for steering. If you guys have any ideas, please let me know. This is really interesting. :)
Who knows. Spinosaurians probably wanted to go out into the ocean and become truly aquatic but the marine reptiles was like......"nope".
Penguins also have the increased bone density while they are exellent swimmer both on the surface and underwater(though I doubt Spinosaurus whent fully underwater for long periods of time). To me the most likely and most reasonable option is like we see in this video at 2:34: th-cam.com/video/Of_oLnDQjUc/w-d-xo.html
With it's slim elongated body serving for less drag and it's fin like tail propelling itself through the water with aid of it's legs and arms very likely
He could also have (like some crocodiles do) just walked on the hind legs across the river floor sticking its head out of the water.
@MinutemanSam Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought whale bones were actually more elastic than land-based animal bones to help them better withstand the pressures of deep diving. super dense bones seem mostly for creatures living in shallow waters, like hippos and manatees. I admit I am not an expert in the exact mechanics of negative vs. positive buoyancy and there could be a lot more to aquatic life than just dense vs. light bones.
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Fascinating!
It's AWESOME, baby! A few old bones appear and weird becomes wonderful.
I can't believe that something as bizarre and amazing as spinosaurus can exist, but a horse with a horn on it's head is apparently way to far fetched...
Accept rhinoceroses as real unicorns and chonk queens!
But... Artificially created unicorn goats exist. Surprisingly majestic. It involves surgery when they are newborn yo move and reinplant the horn nubs so they will fuse into a mono horn. Some horned mammals can be occasionally found with a single horn, like cows. Unfortunately since horses don't have horns in the first place the process can't be done.
Swimmy boi
He e e l
I think that Papo's new Spinosaurus did something really close to this video here.
Kevin O'Bill The person who designed that figure must be feeling wild right about now 😂
Yup, all the Paleo geeks were hilariously shocked at Papo's clairvoyance.
Therapist: Irish Ryan Howard isnt real, he cant hurt you.
Irish Ryan Howard:
Great discovery!!
Imma just give spinosaurus a couple more years buddy might have some sort of new enhancements next week
Sooo.... Like a Sail-finned dragon? :D who is also aquatic? Has a big fin for a tail?
Spinosaurus in 2070:
*JUST STRAIGHT UP KING K ROOL*
Guys who modeled and animated CGI dinosaurs: "Damn it."
The first time I heard of this I found out the only specimen was destroyed in ww2. It's such a relief they're finding more specimens and information. So cool!
2:06 what an appropriately awful animation and model.
Look at those hands
What? I liked it!
Caleb Cruz it looks so goofy, like why is it strutting? Lmao
Of course the tails had to have those long bones. That's where the torpedo launchers were attached, just under the laser array.
Next step will be Spinofaarus
haha spino seal go brrrr
Platypus: I'll randomly chose pieces of other animals just to baffle scientists
Spinosaurus: Mmmmh... good idea!
Steve irwins ancestors must have had a hard time then
Steve Irwin's ancestors were up in the trees or in burrows on land, so except for maybe a few swimming proto-mammals, they were safe from Spino and its ilk.
So the Jurrasic park and quad spino looks are wrong?!
Damn I like him even More
Spinosaurus : humans keep making me look wierd
Nizar Ibrahim : I'm surely not leave your back Buddy
my friend is from Arfoud, a city near a place where they found the Dinosaur's bones and his so excited about the news like if it's his grandfather's bones... hahahah
*Anyways, i'm also happy about this i hope that they won't give em to a museum outside of Morocco*
Spinosaurus was dinosaur software running on crocodile hardware.
Omg that's actually rly exciting that we've confirmed that this dinosaur rly DID swim in the water at times! 🤩
Beautiful