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Post by eriorguez on Feb 24, 2011 19:40:23 GMT
qilong.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/spinosaurus-a-hint/ (the fourth skeletal). I think it looks more like a real animal thay way (well, and Concavenator looks even more ridiculous), but there is something odd about that silouette, and I cannot explain what it is.
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Post by Horridus on Feb 24, 2011 19:55:42 GMT
Will be interesting to see who picks up on this idea.
As for there being 'something odd' about the silhouette...could it just be because of how we're used to seeing the animal portrayed? Especially as the sail is highest over the hips.
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Post by simon on Feb 24, 2011 20:32:00 GMT
Well, given these animals were piscivorous, and most good fossils are of animals buried by silt at the bottom of lakes/rivers, HOPEFULLY we will eventually have a nice complete Spinosaurus skeleton to solve the mystery. If these fossils weren't located in such a distant, bloody hot, and politically unstable part of the world, I expect we might already have some ...
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Post by DinoLord on Feb 24, 2011 20:47:17 GMT
The Sideshow Spinosaurus is inaccurate!
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Post by dinoguy2 on Feb 25, 2011 4:33:18 GMT
The Sideshow Spinosaurus is inaccurate! Maybe. It all depends on Jaime's identification of the longest spine as being from the tail, rather than from the back as everyone has always thought. Until more complete remains are found the exact locations of the spines along the spinal column will up somewhat up for debate. |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Feb 25, 2011 4:59:30 GMT
Technically just about EVERYTHING we have that takes the least bit guess work is open to being inaccurate. Just think...10 years all these dinos we collect will probably be inaccurate by scientific standards...heck most everything we could have NOW is prob inaccurate. Just buy what ya like and satisfied with it .  |
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Post by dinoguy2 on Feb 25, 2011 7:07:16 GMT
Technically just about EVERYTHING we have that takes the least bit guess work is open to being inaccurate. Just think...10 years all these dinos we collect will probably be inaccurate by scientific standards...heck most everything we could have NOW is prob inaccurate. Just buy what ya like and satisfied with it . True, to some degree. It should be very hard to mess up a Carnotaurus or Microraptor, where every last detail is known down to the exact size of individual scales/feathers. That doesn't stop people from constantly getting those two wrong. People just live to give Carnotaurus fingers with claws, or make Microraptor's wings the wrong shape/size. So it's unlikely this will ever change the way anybody depicts Spinosaurus |
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Post by sid on Feb 25, 2011 7:58:48 GMT
Meh, it's just another restoration, as valid as the others... Until we'll find an almost complete skeleton of ther beast we can only guess.
Oh, and who said that Carnotaurus couldn't have had claws?
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Post by Horridus on Feb 25, 2011 17:53:52 GMT
Oh, and who said that Carnotaurus couldn't have had claws? The fossils  People are forever getting the arms and hands of Carnotaurus wrong though, simply because (as with all abelisaurs) they are so weird. Back in the '90s it seemed like artists were always trying to 'correct' them, make them more like carnosaur arms. |
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Post by stoneage on Feb 25, 2011 18:26:57 GMT
Oh, and who said that Carnotaurus couldn't have had claws? The fossils People are forever getting the arms and hands of Carnotaurus wrong though, simply because (as with all abelisaurs) they are so weird. Back in the '90s it seemed like artists were always trying to 'correct' them, make them more like carnosaur arms. ;D Not according to the Austrailian Museum! australianmuseum.net.au/image/Forelimbs-of-T-rex-and-Carnotosaurus/ |
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Post by Horridus on Feb 25, 2011 19:01:28 GMT
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Post by sid on Feb 25, 2011 19:11:39 GMT
Dang, i don't have access to the paper... |
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Post by eriorguez on Feb 25, 2011 20:48:45 GMT
The fossils People are forever getting the arms and hands of Carnotaurus wrong though, simply because (as with all abelisaurs) they are so weird. Back in the '90s it seemed like artists were always trying to 'correct' them, make them more like carnosaur arms. ;D Not according to the Austrailian Museum! australianmuseum.net.au/image/Forelimbs-of-T-rex-and-Carnotosaurus/Museums also say that Sue is 4 meters tall. Sue's leg is 3 meters long, one bone straight after the other, the living animal having angles on their legs, and, in any case, not having 1meter tall vertebrae. Museums tend to make bad skeletals. |
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Post by dinoguy2 on Feb 26, 2011 0:46:52 GMT
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Post by primeval12 on Feb 26, 2011 1:39:48 GMT
spinosaurus should lay off the titanosaurs
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Post by zopteryx on Feb 26, 2011 3:52:42 GMT
Wow, either its neck is really thick or the artist extended the sail up it. I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of this reconstruction (I like the head though). I'll admit I've always thought we undersized Spino's sail, but that looks a little too big.
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