Besides Therizinosaurus, Spinosaurus might have been the most bizarre looking Dinosaur ever. It had a giant sail on it's back, a crocodile-like snout, a long pelican-like neck, long powerful arms and surprisingly short legs (the opposite of T-Rex actually lol) flat probably webbed feet, a long muscular tail, and to top it all off it might have been feathered. It's a shame humans never got to see this strange yet beautiful animal alive and in it's natural habitat.
Ever consider that a super intelligent niche was missing from this planet that just had to get filled eventually? if not by apes I think itd eventually have gotten filled by something else and once a certain intellectual threshold is breached it'll suppress all other creatures from nearing it's level. Of course this is also guesswork as humans, fuck, no creature on the planet has existed long enough to just assume anything I just said could be fact. Just a thought. When a niche is available and evolution starts down a path I think it can run with it pretty quick.
Spinosaurus is definitely my favorite dinosaur. I love how mysterious it is, and how the idea of what it's like is always changing. It's really bizarre.
You want some irony? Oxalaia, a close cousin to Spinosaurus, has now lost the only fossil specimen from a massive fire in the National Museum of Brazil.
Deform 2018 I din;t know that... I was wondering when more material for Oxalaia will be uncovered, and now we lost the material we had... Saddest news I heard today...
That's the newest find but *most evidence tends to outweigh the newest Single evident. It didn't have a damn Beaver Tail. It was a surface swimmer.. it was not covered in feathers... and it was a glorified swamp-trudging Megalosaur!!
@@nickolausafon5458 I don't know where you're getting a beaver tail idea, it was similar to a crocodile tail: vertically flat for swimming steadily through the water, with occasional assistance by the limbs (there have been underwater tracks found that show strong similarities with crocodilian movements underwater) *Most evidence* as you say, supports the paddle tail Spinosaurus, since tail fossils have been extremely rare, and the only complete tail vertebrae found have the boney extensions indicating a sail/paddle
HAHAHA Loved the intro!!! PS: The back legs still look very short which leads us to believe that it might have been mostly aquatic, like crocs. Great video btw!
Alteori It adapted to life by the water, but like whats shown, it was not a good swimmer. It most likely adapted to simply sitting by the river bank waiting for its meal. Legs weren’t necessary, but because it had thick dense bones, they were still more than enough to walk and fight, which helps especially when considering it’s overall size. - Alastair
@@DangerVille what if it lived in a similar fashion to a modern hippo, hippos can't swim yet they are pretty boyant with feet walking across the bottom of the shallow water and like juvenile hippos it could be possible that a juvenile spinosaurus could probably swim but as it matures it losses the ability to swim. But this is just a speculation.
basically spinosaurus wasnt a bipedal crocodile it was more like a giant loon or a heron with teeth wading in the muddy waters dipping its snout in to try and find something to snap up like an onchopristis or a young sarcosuchus
It's silly that at least the guy in the video takes "legs not good at paddling" as "it couldn't swim" Last time I checked, modern crocodilians don't doggie paddle around, so why would spinosaurus?
About the feathers. It’s highly unlikely for Spinosaurus to have them. T. rex was a large animal that lived in a warm environment, thus not needing them and losing them. Spinosaurus is even larger than T. rex and lived in a warmer climate. It was also semiaquatic and would often be in water. You can say “but penguins and puffins have feathers and go underwater! Spinosaurus could probably do that too with feathers!” Well, puffins and other seabirds have feathers to be able to fly most importantly. Penguins still have feathers to keep themselves warm in cold water. With all this, I would say Spinosaurus having feathers is super unlikely. The paper on Spinosaurus not being able to dive was also debunked, so it would be able to go underwater. With this and saying that the Jurassic Park stegosaurus is accurate, I wouldn’t say that your information is reliable.
Edit: I think a lot of people got the wrong idea with my ‘feathered’ recreation. The fact is, when it comes to that area, we just don’t know what it’s skin was like or if it were feathered. But when I added them to this reconstruction, it was merely to open the conversation on the possibility of it having something many people wouldn’t even consider. Dinosaurs are strange and beautiful creatures, and are often times dumbed down to simple BROWN or GREY skin tones. Look at the amazing colourful creatures in the animal kingdom, especially in birds, there’s so much variety in nature. I simply wanted to get people to think “hmmm maybe there IS something we’re missing’. Of course, this video combines both science and speculation to come to this conclusion, but this is what I firmly believe the Spinosaurus looked like, though there may be a great variety of patterns across the species. What colour do you think the Spinosaurus was? - Alastair
That study on Spinosaurus buoyancy is actually flawed. It needs more verification to make a better conclusion. "Is it now impossible for Spinosaurus to be semiaquatic?" by André de Oliveira www.quora.com/Is-it-now-impossible-for-Spinosaurus-to-be-semiaquatic/answer/Andr%C3%A9-de-Oliveira-6?share=3cedef48&srid=5FXAZ This pretty much explains why Henderson's paper is unreliable.
Deform 2018 i checked your link, well it's always the same Until we actually find a full skeleton or at least nearly a full one, we can't say for sure how it looked liked, but we now for sure it was bipedal and it has very dense and thick bones compared to other dinosaurs (mostlikely very heavy) and it spend a lot of time near to wather I'm not sure anymore, if it could swim and live in water or not I hope it could, i loved that ability of him One thing didn't changed all this time: Spino is the biggest carnivore known until now 🔥
The new spinosaurus looks beautiful, it looks like a giant pelican with some crocodile dna in it. And along with it's low infrasound just like T Rex, now we know what the famous therapod dinosaurs really are. You guys have finally got the job done successfully! :)
Remember when Kurt Kameron said that evolution is false because we didn't have a duck-crocodile? WELL, HERE IT IS. Spinosaurus is basically a giant duck with a crocodile face. It even feeds like a duck, standing on top of the water waiting for fish, and has feathers too. I wonder if they were water proof, like a ducks. AVE CROCODUCK!
True, but it's a therapod dinosaur, so it's not unrealistic to assume. I probably wasn't fluffy, but it probably had some light feather covering at least. Even marine mammals aren't completely furless, and spino was only SEMI-aquatic.
True, but it's a therapod dinosaur, so it's not unrealistic to assume. I probably wasn't fluffy, but it probably had some light feather covering at least. Even marine mammals aren't completely furless, and spino was only SEMI-aquatic.
It's a non-ceolasaurian (Probably destroyed that spelling) dinosaur. That includes allosaurs, ceratosaurs, and spinosaurs, along with many others. There is no evidence of feathers for any non-ceolasaurian dinosaurs. But there is a decent amount of evidence for ceolasaurian feathers. So just saying that it might have feathers because it's a theropod, is a pretty weak argument.
2020 and new skeletal remains shows that the spinosaurus tail was basically a giant fin that actually worked better then a crocodile tail, and allowed it to be pushed through the water quite easily.
SpinoGuy /Spinosaur Slasher/ NANI THE FUCK. it’s a fucking awesome raptor, and who are you to say it’s invalid? Every dinosaur is valid, even if some get more attention then others
to be honest, the new study of the swimming ability was very flaut, for example was the width of the Spinosaurs way to smal. It is like using the quadrupidle study as an arguemnt.
The legs wouldn't prevent the Spino from being overly buoyant. But the study was indeed done with the new specifications, though the images may not look that way due to the posture. - Alastair
Spinosaurus is best it bigger stronger (the strength of the arms is stronger than the rex bite also it had a mouth and a tail) and its sail was too high for the rex to reach
Another thought on Spinosaur hunting strategies - perhaps it was like a huge egret or heron, standing in shallow water while waiting for passing fish. With water helping to support it's weight, its front-heavy design wouldn't be a problem.
Iam also not a big fan of the reconstruction you made. Like I said, that the study of the swimming ability was falut, but spinosaurus like all Megalosauroidea has no real evidence of feathers, and even if feathers would be present, the feathers wouldnt be compleatly cover the animal,, since it lifed in a much hoter climate than T-Rex for example, and had a somewhat aquatic lifetyle. Also is the colour somewhat unralistic. The spine sail would probely be much more colourfull, since it used it for body language.
There's a lot of evidence that points fingers at the spinosaurus sail actually resembling more of a bisons hump than your traditional stegosaurus spine. The hump would have raised as it aged and its body developed more, which is a definite sign of maturity for females. - Alastair
no im pretty sure it was a sail for display use. the bones where a different surface you would expect if it had vat tisseu attached to it, we also dont see the extreme amount of blood vessels. this really only leaves a sail as an option.
A Frustrated Gamer Feathers among large Dinosaurs are designed for cooling. Ravens are found in desert environments, but because of their reflective coating, it takes only a gust of wind to cool it down. There’s many different types of feathers. I didn’t just throw this together without considering the environment, but the beauty of it is that your guess is as good as mine. - Alastair
feathers also help cooling down an animal. and seeing how it was semi-aquatic i dont really think heat would be its biggest problem. i do agree with the no feathers. all megalosaurids show no sign of having feathers. but spinosaurus was quite uniqeu, you never know, maybe it did posses feathers, ducks have it, geese have it, swans have it. although larger birds dont have feathers on the neck and legs(ofcourse all birds dont have feathers on thier legs) an ostrich lives in a hot climate and still has a thicc coat of feathers around its body(exculding the legs and neck)
this only works with more modern feathers, like Maniraptoriformes show them. Spinosauroidea as far the evidece show would only have very promitive proto feathers. Wich woudnt have the same cooling effect, like on Emus or the T-Rex.
A few days ago I read about paleontologists that had found proof that the spinosaurus could actually swim to hunt on its prey, they base this on his tail wich he would use to be able to swim.
The thing is, If the Spinosaurus had small legs that were far back...well, it just doesn't look right. I mean, It just looks like it would fall on its face, so either it would have to actually have a REALLY long tail, or that's inaccurate. So I think that it had much longer legs than the drawing, and actually kind of had the same type of body structure as the Jurassic world spino
Ninja Hombrepalito And then he proceeds to translate it into “Moroccan spine lizard” when it should be “Egyptian spine lizard”. Spinosaurus Moroccanus, obviously, is the Moroccan counterpart.
mino323 Roblox Is there really a point in correcting me? You knew what I meant, it’s easy to misspell considering Morocco is spelt with an O in stead of an A after the M.
Yes, the Spinosaurus was an apex predator in its time, and it probably looked much like the movie, but it did not move or hunt like in the movie. That was done for dramatic effect. The Spinosaur and similar family line were water-based creatures, similar to our alligators and crocodiles of today. They were very slow on land, and the theory is, they used their long limbs to steady themselves as they crawled on land, not ran fast on two legs. In that one aspect, JPIII got it right when the Spinosaur attacked them on the river from underwater.
I think most of the information on this video was spot on! But when it comes to the final simulation of what Spinosaurus might have looked like the result was diabolical... You guys described the animal COVERED by feathers when there is absolutely no evidence at all that this species would have feathers. Even the T Rex species were not covered by feathers, they might have had on the head, neck and some of the torso only. To describe a Spinosaurus fully covered by colourful feathers was a bit far stretched I'd say.
Sydnei JV It was more of a fresh interpretation more than anything, it wasn’t necessarily to say ‘it definitely had feathers’ but to merely open up the conversation on the possibility of it having feathers since it’s never discussed. - Alastair
WW2 took Stromers discoveries(refused Nazi membership so museum boss refused to put his finds into a safe place), his dreams, and 2 of his sons. JP3 gave him back his dream of Spino being as popular as the T-Rex. The discovery of a new Spino probably made his ghost cry tears of joy.
Yeah. The T-Rex would completely destroy a Spino! T-Rex had one of the most powerful jaws of all dinosaurs! One single bite from the T-Rex to the Spino's neck and it would be history (no pun intended)!
Damn. I was honestly in love with the whole aquatic Spinosaurus theory, it all seemed to make sense. Spino is honestly my favorite dinosaur and I'm so thrilled with all the new discoveries lately.
@@DangerVille I think the idea would look like this... secure.img2-fg.wfcdn.com/im/95745581/resize-h700-p1-w700%5Ecompr-r85/1470/14702369/Jurassic-Sized+Spinosaurus+Dinosaur+Statue.jpg
Thank you so much for this beautiful representation and thank you for finally disclosing if it walked on four or two legs, and as good as it looks I don’t think feathers would completely cover it
your illustration doesn't seem right how could it balance itself out??? it would faceplant in no time. you can obviously see that there's way more mass on the front! Edit: furthermore they say that he stay his snout submerged in water for a long time waiting for fish to swim around it would be pretty hard to remain hunched forward for a long time if he didn't help himself with his hands. I think the truth lies in the middle semi quadrupledal semi bipedal like a grizzli or a parasaurolophus.
It makes no sense to me that Spinosaurus would walk on all fours when every single one of it's relatives in the Spinosauridae family walked on two legs. It just doesn't sit right with me. If you belong to an animal family, then you are meant to share the same body plan and physical features, otherwise Spinosaurus would be a completely different animal. The most recent construction of Spinosaurus looks right to me, given how its relatives looked.
Other than the fact that spinosaurus obviously couldn’t support its weight on its arms, there isn’t really any valid argument against bipedal spinosaurus. Remember, even though it’s center of gravity isn’t exactly at the hip, like most theropods, they had quite beefy tails, with legs and feet that could move around to adjust its gravity. One work around I often see is that spinosaurus possibly held itself higher up, like it was tearing itself back. This would theoretically push its center of gravity back to its hips. Of course the latter solution is speculation, but it’s more plausible than a bipedal predator becoming so elongated that it needs to completely change up the anatomy of its arms so it could support it’s weight.
How about this : the spinosaurus spent most of its life in very shallow water. Which can explain shorter limbs, to make it more dynamic or agile in water. Like otters pinguïns and crocs do. So it would kinda walk/ swim its way trough. Also living or partialy living in water would reduce the weight the spinosaurus had to carry. It could explain its odd shape. It would be cool if that would be the case. Then we have a therapod dinosaur showing signs of having a life in water.
I heard that paleontologist have discovered the tail of spinosaurus was like a crocodile tail. So can you please do an episode on could the spinosaurus really swim?
I love that quick shot of the ark spino mid way through, cause for the longest time the community fought over that model. They eventually split the difference and gave it a bipedal stance too
Imagine, you're' dead, your species is loooong gone, but your remains have managed to survive for millions upon millions of years.... telling the world of your existence so long ago....only to be obliterated in a second by some stupid mammal war. XD
"I don't want to spread missinformation" then you show a paper that used inaccurate models. If you look at the model used you'd notice how slim the model is from the top, the real life spinosaurus had a barrel chest and would have made it perfect for aquatic life.
Honestly, I think that the legs on the new bipedal one are inaccurate, because they look too small to support a 7-9 ton create like this. And that model was also made for swimming, which the Spinosaurus could no longer do. I say the Spinosaurus at 0:27 is the most accurate.
I'm sorry my good friend but that might be scientific facts and accuracy which I respect. But I'm so sticking to the Jurassic Park 3 Spinosaurus because it looks 10X Better!!!
When you watch Jurassic Park 24/7 as a kid you start to get used to what you see and believe as far as dinosaurs go even though they're not scientifically accurate.
Yeah, here's the thing: it's okay to like the Jurassic Park dinos! It really is! Just know that they're not dinosaurs! They're movie monsters! Even Dr. Wu said it in the first Jurassic World: "Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! ... if their genetic code was pure many of them would look quite different but you didn't ask for reality; you asked for more teeth." That goes for Masrani (and Hammond before him) in the movie, but it also goes for the audience. If given a choice between "cool" and accurate, every director of anything but a straight-up documentary is going to go with cool, every time. We don't get reality; we get more teeth. And that's okay! There's nothing wrong with that! Not every movie has to be completely accurate, and it's okay to enjoy movies that aren't. I grew up with Jurassic Park, too. But science has moved passed the movies, and now we know that the dinosaurs looked (and often acted) very differently from what we see on our TV screens. JP Spinosaurs isn't the same animal as real Spinosaurus, any more than a unicorn is a horse. Similar concept, but very different execution. But the thing is, it's completely possible to like them both, at the same time, in different ways.
Its because dinosaurs were confirmed to have feathers well not every dino but the new pelican like features to the spino probably led to it having feathers and more related to ducks? I guess
Your comments pretty ignorant actually considering with a simple google search you’d find some. evidence actually suggests some dinos had feathers, even if in certain areas, there is some evidence out there so there’s definitely room to speculate, not for all though.
@@fuckedupspinosaurus4785 Not to be that guy, but I'd be careful on what you call ignorant. It's true that some Dinosaurs had feathers, as far as I know there are about 30 confirmed species, however, it's still highly debated if all Dinosaurs were covered in feathers and/or to what extend. Recent studies from 2017 (can be found by a quick google research too) which investigated the fossilated skin of T-Rex and other Tyrannosauride suggest that it was more scaly and reptile like than being covered in feathers. There is also the problem that beyond a certain scale and mass depending on the environment and clima, a feather cover loses its advantages and actually becomes a problem. A feathery T-Rex likely would have overheated itself. That's the reason big modern day mammals like Elephants, Rhinos or Hippos barely have hair, let alone fur. Some bigger Theropods discovered in China actually had feathers, however they lived in a highly different clima than T.Rex and still were nowhere near as big and massive. The original comment may be somewhat ignorant, but I agree with the core message that we shouldn't put feathers on every Dinosaur just for the sake of it. In Spinosaurus case, given its size and mass as well as the environment it lived in, there is more evidence towards it at least not being fully covered in feathers than basically a Penguin Spino.
Duc Nguyen you're late with the news. Skin impressions from t-rex, tarbosaurus, daspletosaurus and othe t-rex related dinosaurs proove that tyranosauroids were covered in scaled skin, not at all feathers. The only t-rex related dinosaurs that had feathers were proceratosaurs like Yutyranus or Dilong, but them having feathers doesn't proove that t-rex had as well, since they weren't related close enough to share such traits. Most of the paleontologists already admited that t-rex was most likely 100% featherless at any point in its life. So your favorite dino is safe from the feather nazis from now on.
This has got to be the most (currently) accurate video I’ve seen on Spino! I saw one posted like 2 weeks ago completely based on the 2014 quadruped theory 🤦🏼♂️
ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME SOMEONE MADE A PENGUIN SPINOSAURUS
I know, right?
Lol
Spinosaurus=Penguinsaurus
There is ZERO evidence that says that Spinosaurus had feathers.
Gavin Myatt I mean it’s a theropod so that’s one good point
Before: jp3 spinosaurus
Now: akward bipedal quadrupedal crocodile thing
Later: it's a long neck goose with a tall back
2132 : spinosaurus was a bug
3018 spinosaurus was a tree
Pretty soon he never existed
Flashback to 2018 the spinosaurus identifies as a T Rex
6450: Spinosaurus was smaller than an ant
Besides Therizinosaurus, Spinosaurus might have been the most bizarre looking Dinosaur ever. It had a giant sail on it's back, a crocodile-like snout, a long pelican-like neck, long powerful arms and surprisingly short legs (the opposite of T-Rex actually lol) flat probably webbed feet, a long muscular tail, and to top it all off it might have been feathered. It's a shame humans never got to see this strange yet beautiful animal alive and in it's natural habitat.
A Frustrated Gamer interesting...
Maybe one day it will live again in a dinosaur park ...
Ever consider that a super intelligent niche was missing from this planet that just had to get filled eventually? if not by apes I think itd eventually have gotten filled by something else and once a certain intellectual threshold is breached it'll suppress all other creatures from nearing it's level. Of course this is also guesswork as humans, fuck, no creature on the planet has existed long enough to just assume anything I just said could be fact.
Just a thought. When a niche is available and evolution starts down a path I think it can run with it pretty quick.
Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus I actually think yi-qi was the weirdest dinosaur, but spinosaurus is pretty high up in the list.
The trex has strong arms, just not long
Spinosaurus is definitely my favorite dinosaur. I love how mysterious it is, and how the idea of what it's like is always changing. It's really bizarre.
Oxalaia is also a massive and even more mysterious one.
Spinosaurus my favorite too, I just hate how people keep cheating him or her lol💯
You want some irony? Oxalaia, a close cousin to Spinosaurus, has now lost the only fossil specimen from a massive fire in the National Museum of Brazil.
WHAT? NOOO!!! What does the universe have against spinosaurids?
Deform 2018 I din;t know that... I was wondering when more material for Oxalaia will be uncovered, and now we lost the material we had... Saddest news I heard today...
That's horrible
_Oxalaia_ is known from only fragmentary remains, right?
@@meme_guy924 Yes.
”The Spinosaurus might not have been a good swimmer after all”
Spinosaurus' tail: Allow me to introduce myself
Lol
Yes
That's the newest find but *most evidence tends to outweigh the newest Single evident. It didn't have a damn Beaver Tail. It was a surface swimmer.. it was not covered in feathers... and it was a glorified swamp-trudging Megalosaur!!
Paleontologists: why can’t you just be normal!
Spinosaurus: ha ha tail go whoosh
@@nickolausafon5458 I don't know where you're getting a beaver tail idea, it was similar to a crocodile tail: vertically flat for swimming steadily through the water, with occasional assistance by the limbs (there have been underwater tracks found that show strong similarities with crocodilian movements underwater)
*Most evidence* as you say, supports the paddle tail Spinosaurus, since tail fossils have been extremely rare, and the only complete tail vertebrae found have the boney extensions indicating a sail/paddle
Glad I had the opportunity to help you on this one :)
Same
I hope you can do this again.
HAHAHA Loved the intro!!!
PS: The back legs still look very short which leads us to believe that it might have been mostly aquatic, like crocs.
Great video btw!
Alteori It adapted to life by the water, but like whats shown, it was not a good swimmer. It most likely adapted to simply sitting by the river bank waiting for its meal. Legs weren’t necessary, but because it had thick dense bones, they were still more than enough to walk and fight, which helps especially when considering it’s overall size.
- Alastair
Two of my favorite youtubers in the same comment? Am I in heaven?
@@DangerVille what if it lived in a similar fashion to a modern hippo, hippos can't swim yet they are pretty boyant with feet walking across the bottom of the shallow water and like juvenile hippos it could be possible that a juvenile spinosaurus could probably swim but as it matures it losses the ability to swim. But this is just a speculation.
@@thestreak7284 yep! You are!
@@DangerVille I only watched Alteori once so I don't know who to believe, Dangerville or Alteori.
basically spinosaurus wasnt a bipedal crocodile it was more like a giant loon or a heron with teeth wading in the muddy waters dipping its snout in to try and find something to snap up like an onchopristis or a young sarcosuchus
Akaryusan Probably the best description I’ve seen.
- Alastair
Yep
Pretty much.
Pretty awesome :)
Personally I think the spino had a crocodile like neck, as it would make the whole pressure sensor thing pointless if it had a pelican like neck.
2018 Study: Spinosaurus Wasn't That Aquatic!
Paddle tailed Spinosaurus: oh hello there!
It's silly that at least the guy in the video takes "legs not good at paddling" as "it couldn't swim"
Last time I checked, modern crocodilians don't doggie paddle around, so why would spinosaurus?
I know it walks on 2 legs know because this guy help me thank bro
Spinosaurus was actually a very beautiful animal, why do we turn them into war machines?
bull indominus rex all dinosaurs were beautiful creatures
Because Jurassic Park 3 said so :D
@@burningspinozilla446 if you like that then you don't know anything about dinosaurs.
Bull indominus rex I was being sarcastic :/
bull indominus rex the only war machines out there are t-rex and megaladon
All other animals are grounded
About the feathers.
It’s highly unlikely for Spinosaurus to have them. T. rex was a large animal that lived in a warm environment, thus not needing them and losing them. Spinosaurus is even larger than T. rex and lived in a warmer climate. It was also semiaquatic and would often be in water. You can say “but penguins and puffins have feathers and go underwater! Spinosaurus could probably do that too with feathers!” Well, puffins and other seabirds have feathers to be able to fly most importantly. Penguins still have feathers to keep themselves warm in cold water. With all this, I would say Spinosaurus having feathers is super unlikely. The paper on Spinosaurus not being able to dive was also debunked, so it would be able to go underwater.
With this and saying that the Jurassic Park stegosaurus is accurate, I wouldn’t say that your information is reliable.
Penguins are also fricken tiny
Can you please direct me to the study that proposes that Spinosaurus was able to dive. Thanks.
@@Zabi-S very late and i don’t have the study but i assume by now you’ve heard about the spinosaurus tail.
The JPIII Spinosaurus is more accurate than this feathered example. Feathers are just more advanced scales...
I agree with youre statement
You guys are going to need to redo this video again now that the new discovery was made. Spinosaurus was aquatic and could swim
We might have to
@@DangerVille Might? You've got to!
@@DangerVille Do it now
@@DangerVille You have a requirement
What if the spino was aquatic and had the same way of moving around as a hippo. Hippos don't swim, they tip toe on the bottom of bodies of water.
That actually makes great since, something I would have never even considered but now that you mention it that really makes since.
Omg that makes so much sense. We need more people like you.
What if it swam more like a swan or duck?
In the video itself they said that it was too buoyant, it wouldn't be able to sink to the bottom
Hipposarus
Edit: I think a lot of people got the wrong idea with my ‘feathered’ recreation. The fact is, when it comes to that area, we just don’t know what it’s skin was like or if it were feathered. But when I added them to this reconstruction, it was merely to open the conversation on the possibility of it having something many people wouldn’t even consider. Dinosaurs are strange and beautiful creatures, and are often times dumbed down to simple BROWN or GREY skin tones. Look at the amazing colourful creatures in the animal kingdom, especially in birds, there’s so much variety in nature. I simply wanted to get people to think “hmmm maybe there IS something we’re missing’.
Of course, this video combines both science and speculation to come to this conclusion, but this is what I firmly believe the Spinosaurus looked like, though there may be a great variety of patterns across the species. What colour do you think the Spinosaurus was?
- Alastair
That study on Spinosaurus buoyancy is actually flawed. It needs more verification to make a better conclusion.
"Is it now impossible for Spinosaurus to be semiaquatic?" by André de Oliveira www.quora.com/Is-it-now-impossible-for-Spinosaurus-to-be-semiaquatic/answer/Andr%C3%A9-de-Oliveira-6?share=3cedef48&srid=5FXAZ
This pretty much explains why Henderson's paper is unreliable.
A Frustrated Gamer same
Deform 2018 i checked your link, well it's always the same
Until we actually find a full skeleton or at least nearly a full one, we can't say for sure how it looked liked, but we now for sure it was bipedal and it has very dense and thick bones compared to other dinosaurs (mostlikely very heavy) and it spend a lot of time near to wather
I'm not sure anymore, if it could swim and live in water or not
I hope it could, i loved that ability of him
One thing didn't changed all this time: Spino is the biggest carnivore known until now 🔥
You should do next what the baryonyx really looked like.
The new spinosaurus looks beautiful, it looks like a giant pelican with some crocodile dna in it. And along with it's low infrasound just like T Rex, now we know what the famous therapod dinosaurs really are. You guys have finally got the job done successfully! :)
I'm not too certain about Spino having feathers. I feel like that wouldn't be too functional in the swampy, semi aquatic area it lived in
Ducks, Geese, and Swans do pretty well in water amongst a multitude of other birds.
@@DrownInLysergic so do the platypi
Remember when Kurt Kameron said that evolution is false because we didn't have a duck-crocodile? WELL, HERE IT IS. Spinosaurus is basically a giant duck with a crocodile face. It even feeds like a duck, standing on top of the water waiting for fish, and has feathers too. I wonder if they were water proof, like a ducks.
AVE CROCODUCK!
President Togekiss there's no evidence of it possessing feathers
True, but it's a therapod dinosaur, so it's not unrealistic to assume. I probably wasn't fluffy, but it probably had some light feather covering at least. Even marine mammals aren't completely furless, and spino was only SEMI-aquatic.
True, but it's a therapod dinosaur, so it's not unrealistic to assume. I probably wasn't fluffy, but it probably had some light feather covering at least. Even marine mammals aren't completely furless, and spino was only SEMI-aquatic.
It's a non-ceolasaurian (Probably destroyed that spelling) dinosaur. That includes allosaurs, ceratosaurs, and spinosaurs, along with many others. There is no evidence of feathers for any non-ceolasaurian dinosaurs. But there is a decent amount of evidence for ceolasaurian feathers. So just saying that it might have feathers because it's a theropod, is a pretty weak argument.
Whenever I do finally get Jurassic World Evolution, I have been planning to name my two Spinos Kirk and Ray, for that very reason.
Recent studies show that spinosaurus was a shoreline ambush predator and have a more bipedal stance
plot twist. spino and trex are just giant ducks and chickens, respectively
Ji Yo I doubt the Spino was a duck but the Rex and the modern day chicken do share genes
Daniskil Or Daniil i think spino is a more like a penguin and trex being a cassowary
2020 and new skeletal remains shows that the spinosaurus tail was basically a giant fin that actually worked better then a crocodile tail, and allowed it to be pushed through the water quite easily.
T-rex = chicken
Spinosaurus = Sailfin dragon
Chicken = Tyrannosaurus-rex
Penguin + Pelican + Duck + Goose = Spinosaurus
What did the Trodon look like?
Yeah actually the troodon would be awesome to see.
Just a crow with tail
Pato K yeah xD and clawed hands and teeth
Troodon is now an invalid species
SpinoGuy /Spinosaur Slasher/ NANI THE FUCK. it’s a fucking awesome raptor, and who are you to say it’s invalid?
Every dinosaur is valid, even if some get more attention then others
to be honest, the new study of the swimming ability was very flaut, for example was the width of the Spinosaurs way to smal. It is like using the quadrupidle study as an arguemnt.
The legs wouldn't prevent the Spino from being overly buoyant. But the study was indeed done with the new specifications, though the images may not look that way due to the posture.
- Alastair
Honestly feathered dinosaurs be looking like clowns
Finally someone who actually follows sience-news 🤩🤩🤩
Thank you for this video
Steve DeCarli we could talk about the swimming part, since it's not that clear
But anything else is true
The scientifically accurate Spino is so beautiful although the JP3 design is the one that made me love this creature 💕
This is NOT scientifically accurate!
I love the spino
Fuck you trex better
Spinosaurus is best it bigger stronger (the strength of the arms is stronger than the rex bite also it had a mouth and a tail) and its sail was too high for the rex to reach
Sagezilla08 Another salty rex fan.
I still quite like the T. rex
@@deadgunner8104 it funny how salty you are
Your use of Boards of Canada alone is worth a thumbs up.
5:44 well, that aged poorly.
Another thought on Spinosaur hunting strategies - perhaps it was like a huge egret or heron, standing in shallow water while waiting for passing fish. With water helping to support it's weight, its front-heavy design wouldn't be a problem.
Spino is my favorite
Your not a true jp fan if you don't like the trex
Me too (because spinosaurus NEVER HAD FEATHERS AND ITS BIGGER THAN THE T-REX)
I ❤️ spinosaurus
mr48leg3nd gaming spino is bigger than T-Rex
Omar Attia doesn’t mean it’s stronger though.
This guys vids make my childhood disappear of what I thought dinos would look like from Jurassic park 😭
Iam also not a big fan of the reconstruction you made. Like I said, that the study of the swimming ability was falut, but spinosaurus like all Megalosauroidea has no real evidence of feathers, and even if feathers would be present, the feathers wouldnt be compleatly cover the animal,, since it lifed in a much hoter climate than T-Rex for example, and had a somewhat aquatic lifetyle. Also is the colour somewhat unralistic. The spine sail would probely be much more colourfull, since it used it for body language.
There's a lot of evidence that points fingers at the spinosaurus sail actually resembling more of a bisons hump than your traditional stegosaurus spine. The hump would have raised as it aged and its body developed more, which is a definite sign of maturity for females.
- Alastair
no im pretty sure it was a sail for display use. the bones where a different surface you would expect if it had vat tisseu attached to it, we also dont see the extreme amount of blood vessels. this really only leaves a sail as an option.
A Frustrated Gamer Feathers among large Dinosaurs are designed for cooling. Ravens are found in desert environments, but because of their reflective coating, it takes only a gust of wind to cool it down. There’s many different types of feathers. I didn’t just throw this together without considering the environment, but the beauty of it is that your guess is as good as mine.
- Alastair
feathers also help cooling down an animal. and seeing how it was semi-aquatic i dont really think heat would be its biggest problem. i do agree with the no feathers. all megalosaurids show no sign of having feathers. but spinosaurus was quite uniqeu, you never know, maybe it did posses feathers, ducks have it, geese have it, swans have it. although larger birds dont have feathers on the neck and legs(ofcourse all birds dont have feathers on thier legs) an ostrich lives in a hot climate and still has a thicc coat of feathers around its body(exculding the legs and neck)
this only works with more modern feathers, like Maniraptoriformes show them. Spinosauroidea as far the evidece show would only have very promitive proto feathers. Wich woudnt have the same cooling effect, like on Emus or the T-Rex.
A dinosaur less consistent with the fossil record than JonTron's upload schedule.
A few days ago I read about paleontologists that had found proof that the spinosaurus could actually swim to hunt on its prey, they base this on his tail wich he would use to be able to swim.
Man...I really don't know what to think anymore about dinosaurs, every time I think I know what a Dino looked like its drastically changing
8:00 that is the scariest penguin I've ever seen in my life.
Thank for the effort you gave in providing information, and combining said information with that of Jurassic Park, #DangerVille!
so it was basically a penguin war god.
oh well... science doesn't care about badassery
The thing is, If the Spinosaurus had small legs that were far back...well, it just doesn't look right. I mean, It just looks like it would fall on its face, so either it would have to actually have a REALLY long tail, or that's inaccurate. So I think that it had much longer legs than the drawing, and actually kind of had the same type of body structure as the Jurassic world spino
Ae-gyp-TIA-cus, you said ae-gy-PI-TA-cus
Ninja Hombrepalito And then he proceeds to translate it into “Moroccan spine lizard” when it should be “Egyptian spine lizard”. Spinosaurus Moroccanus, obviously, is the Moroccan counterpart.
mino323 Roblox Is there really a point in correcting me? You knew what I meant, it’s easy to misspell considering Morocco is spelt with an O in stead of an A after the M.
Yes, the Spinosaurus was an apex predator in its time, and it probably looked much like the movie, but it did not move or hunt like in the movie. That was done for dramatic effect. The Spinosaur and similar family line were water-based creatures, similar to our alligators and crocodiles of today. They were very slow on land, and the theory is, they used their long limbs to steady themselves as they crawled on land, not ran fast on two legs. In that one aspect, JPIII got it right when the Spinosaur attacked them on the river from underwater.
I think most of the information on this video was spot on!
But when it comes to the final simulation of what Spinosaurus might have looked like the result was diabolical...
You guys described the animal COVERED by feathers when there is absolutely no evidence at all that this species would have feathers.
Even the T Rex species were not covered by feathers, they might have had on the head, neck and some of the torso only. To describe a Spinosaurus fully covered by colourful feathers was a bit far stretched I'd say.
Sydnei JV It was more of a fresh interpretation more than anything, it wasn’t necessarily to say ‘it definitely had feathers’ but to merely open up the conversation on the possibility of it having feathers since it’s never discussed.
- Alastair
So basically a big toothy mallard...NICE!
I love this channel ❤
8:01: heres what the spino looks like
Me: *WHERE DAT GOD DANG FISH TAIL*
Spinosaurus was also a vegetarian and it was very friendly and could communicate with other species and hang out with them on the weekends.
😂😂😂😂
*dinomania logic*
ITS FINALLY HERE OH HOW I BEEN WAITING.
Oh my God, what an intro.
Great video Alastair, as always! ;)
Old Spinosaurus you never stop giving us reasons to study you cuz even among dinosaurs you're not consistent
WW2 took Stromers discoveries(refused Nazi membership so museum boss refused to put his finds into a safe place), his dreams, and 2 of his sons.
JP3 gave him back his dream of Spino being as popular as the T-Rex.
The discovery of a new Spino probably made his ghost cry tears of joy.
The Spino is the best dino!! 💯
denis Puljek no barny
denis Puljek debatable
Trex is better like if you like the trex
Lol I was was expecting to see a lot of people say no dinosaur is the best but everyone said T. rex instead of one
Sauropods
Yeah! The Scott Hartmann proved em wrong.
This was so satisfying to watch
RANULF NEUMEYER true
The music at the beginning with them being scared of it was priceless. X'D
YEEEESSSSS I ASKED FOR THIS ONE😀😀😀😀😁😁😁😁😁
Damn, that is interesting. Thank you Sir : )
But the real question is - could Spino beat T-Rex in any way? In my opinion it's a win for the T-Rex.
Yeah. The T-Rex would completely destroy a Spino! T-Rex had one of the most powerful jaws of all dinosaurs! One single bite from the T-Rex to the Spino's neck and it would be history (no pun intended)!
People who argued about the spino legs:
Ah shit here we go again
Then, suddenly out of nowhere, the new tail came along right after this video was released
What a magnificent creature. I like it more and more as we learn more about it.
Damn. I was honestly in love with the whole aquatic Spinosaurus theory, it all seemed to make sense. Spino is honestly my favorite dinosaur and I'm so thrilled with all the new discoveries lately.
And now the Spinosaurus has a flat, tadpole like tail. Seems like it did swim after all..
Damn, information overload!
But did the Spinosaurus have feathers around the bottom of it's arms like the Velocoraptor picture you had in this video?
ForTheKaiser Unlikely.
- Alastair
@@DangerVille Spinosaurs was bipedal and quadrupedal. Maybe Spino was like the
Pangolins.
@@DangerVille I think the idea would look like this...
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That intro though...... Epic
Awesome, that’s how it looked
currently :)
im pretty sure it does but we still have not found enough to tell with 100% certainty(as far as i know)
No. It's inaccurate. It didn't look like that.
Thank you so much for this beautiful representation and thank you for finally disclosing if it walked on four or two legs, and as good as it looks I don’t think feathers would completely cover it
Penguin spinosaurus is not very attractive lol
how not? it has a PELICAN NECK
@@papaidoceuteamamuito5975 actually that's un-decided. It may not have
Any chance you're going to redo this one with the newest spino information about its tail and such?
your illustration doesn't seem right how could it balance itself out??? it would faceplant in no time. you can obviously see that there's way more mass on the front!
Edit: furthermore they say that he stay his snout submerged in water for a long time waiting for fish to swim around it would be pretty hard to remain hunched forward for a long time if he didn't help himself with his hands.
I think the truth lies in the middle semi quadrupledal semi bipedal like a grizzli or a parasaurolophus.
It makes no sense to me that Spinosaurus would walk on all fours when every single one of it's relatives in the Spinosauridae family walked on two legs. It just doesn't sit right with me. If you belong to an animal family, then you are meant to share the same body plan and physical features, otherwise Spinosaurus would be a completely different animal. The most recent construction of Spinosaurus looks right to me, given how its relatives looked.
He already said it. Spino was bipedal. It just had shorter legs than usual, but that didn;t prevent him from walking...
spinosaurus can't walk on 4 legs or else the wrists and knuckles would break because it's wrists and knuckles cannot support its own weight.
Other than the fact that spinosaurus obviously couldn’t support its weight on its arms, there isn’t really any valid argument against bipedal spinosaurus. Remember, even though it’s center of gravity isn’t exactly at the hip, like most theropods, they had quite beefy tails, with legs and feet that could move around to adjust its gravity. One work around I often see is that spinosaurus possibly held itself higher up, like it was tearing itself back. This would theoretically push its center of gravity back to its hips. Of course the latter solution is speculation, but it’s more plausible than a bipedal predator becoming so elongated that it needs to completely change up the anatomy of its arms so it could support it’s weight.
How about this : the spinosaurus spent most of its life in very shallow water. Which can explain shorter limbs, to make it more dynamic or agile in water. Like otters pinguïns and crocs do. So it would kinda walk/ swim its way trough. Also living or partialy living in water would reduce the weight the spinosaurus had to carry. It could explain its odd shape.
It would be cool if that would be the case. Then we have a therapod dinosaur showing signs of having a life in water.
Thank you for using Boards of Canada as the music. Awesome job!!
I heard that paleontologist have discovered the tail of spinosaurus was like a crocodile tail. So can you please do an episode on could the spinosaurus really swim?
if it had feathers it would be a super sized goose
The only Dino that looks good on feathers is “raptor”
I love that quick shot of the ark spino mid way through, cause for the longest time the community fought over that model. They eventually split the difference and gave it a bipedal stance too
Pin me please, I am a Spinosaurus Fan since i was a Kid.
Best Dino Channel ever
...a goose. A fucking giant goose.
HJÖNK
Not even the Spino's final form
The new spino tail contradicts the idea that “spino can’t swim”
Imagine, you're' dead, your species is loooong gone, but your remains have managed to survive for millions upon millions of years.... telling the world of your existence so long ago....only to be obliterated in a second by some stupid mammal war. XD
The artist's rendering does make me think of a pelican, and other sea birds.
The feathers could be like the ones on penguins or swans
Zinc -U had no feathers
The spinosaurus is so confusing and is constantly changing, but that’s what makes it interesting
5:44 yeah that got proved otherwise
That last pet was nice. Also is my favorite dinosaur.
"I don't want to spread missinformation" then you show a paper that used inaccurate models. If you look at the model used you'd notice how slim the model is from the top, the real life spinosaurus had a barrel chest and would have made it perfect for aquatic life.
Honestly, I think that the legs on the new bipedal one are inaccurate, because they look too small to support a 7-9 ton create like this. And that model was also made for swimming, which the Spinosaurus could no longer do. I say the Spinosaurus at 0:27 is the most accurate.
Let me introduce you to my friend the Spinosaur or as it's more commonly known as "THE TERROR GOOSE"
Video starts:
Me after hearing the opening: n a n i?
I'm sorry my good friend but that might be scientific facts and accuracy which I respect. But I'm so sticking to the Jurassic Park 3 Spinosaurus because it looks 10X Better!!!
Antonio Brown
Science doesn't care what you think looks better
Antonio Brown That’s just dumb.
When you watch Jurassic Park 24/7 as a kid you start to get used to what you see and believe as far as dinosaurs go even though they're not scientifically accurate.
aslong as you know spinosaurus was nothing like the one from jp3
Yeah, here's the thing: it's okay to like the Jurassic Park dinos! It really is! Just know that they're not dinosaurs! They're movie monsters! Even Dr. Wu said it in the first Jurassic World: "Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! ... if their genetic code was pure many of them would look quite different but you didn't ask for reality; you asked for more teeth." That goes for Masrani (and Hammond before him) in the movie, but it also goes for the audience. If given a choice between "cool" and accurate, every director of anything but a straight-up documentary is going to go with cool, every time. We don't get reality; we get more teeth. And that's okay! There's nothing wrong with that! Not every movie has to be completely accurate, and it's okay to enjoy movies that aren't. I grew up with Jurassic Park, too. But science has moved passed the movies, and now we know that the dinosaurs looked (and often acted) very differently from what we see on our TV screens. JP Spinosaurs isn't the same animal as real Spinosaurus, any more than a unicorn is a horse. Similar concept, but very different execution. But the thing is, it's completely possible to like them both, at the same time, in different ways.
So now we have the swan raptor, the bat raptor, the four winged raptor, and now the duck/penguin spinosaurus. Wonderful!!!!
I guess it’s both quadrupedal and bipedal...
I love your channrel bro :) and also im soooo happy i just picked up Jw evolution 😁
Whats with everyone wanting to put feathers on every dino, especially when theres no evidence for it arugh!
Gary Palmer I know it getting annoying
Its because dinosaurs were confirmed to have feathers well not every dino but the new pelican like features to the spino probably led to it having feathers and more related to ducks? I guess
Your comments pretty ignorant actually considering with a simple google search you’d find some. evidence actually suggests some dinos had feathers, even if in certain areas, there is some evidence out there so there’s definitely room to speculate, not for all though.
@@fuckedupspinosaurus4785 Not to be that guy, but I'd be careful on what you call ignorant. It's true that some Dinosaurs had feathers, as far as I know there are about 30 confirmed species, however, it's still highly debated if all Dinosaurs were covered in feathers and/or to what extend. Recent studies from 2017 (can be found by a quick google research too) which investigated the fossilated skin of T-Rex and other Tyrannosauride suggest that it was more scaly and reptile like than being covered in feathers. There is also the problem that beyond a certain scale and mass depending on the environment and clima, a feather cover loses its advantages and actually becomes a problem. A feathery T-Rex likely would have overheated itself. That's the reason big modern day mammals like Elephants, Rhinos or Hippos barely have hair, let alone fur. Some bigger Theropods discovered in China actually had feathers, however they lived in a highly different clima than T.Rex and still were nowhere near as big and massive.
The original comment may be somewhat ignorant, but I agree with the core message that we shouldn't put feathers on every Dinosaur just for the sake of it. In Spinosaurus case, given its size and mass as well as the environment it lived in, there is more evidence towards it at least not being fully covered in feathers than basically a Penguin Spino.
Lets be honest here, you're just mad you don't have your movie monsters anymore
What an amazingly detailed final picture lmfao
Thx for ruining my childhood
EDITORR!!! I DIDNT TELL YOU TO MAKE THE SPINOSAURUS INTO A PENGUIN VERSION
the t rex has feathers and i'm okay with that but the spino errrrrr...
Duc Nguyen well it’s feathers were probably like penguin feathers
Dino Fan now the spinosaurus look more like a duck
Duc Nguyen you're late with the news. Skin impressions from t-rex, tarbosaurus, daspletosaurus and othe t-rex related dinosaurs proove that tyranosauroids were covered in scaled skin, not at all feathers. The only t-rex related dinosaurs that had feathers were proceratosaurs like Yutyranus or Dilong, but them having feathers doesn't proove that t-rex had as well, since they weren't related close enough to share such traits. Most of the paleontologists already admited that t-rex was most likely 100% featherless at any point in its life. So your favorite dino is safe from the feather nazis from now on.
the t rex has feather or not doesn't change much about the beauty of it but the spino is kinda let me down a little
Duc Nguyen I agree so hard
This has got to be the most (currently) accurate video I’ve seen on Spino! I saw one posted like 2 weeks ago completely based on the 2014 quadruped theory 🤦🏼♂️