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not a dino but still

 

Sorry to ruin your youthful imagination, but spino was NEVER a monster. It's a giant kingfisher.

 

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Yeah, I'm too used to the JPIII Spinosaurus. Which is why I say...

I don't care, I'll still see it as the bipedal predator we saw in JPIII. Sue me for preferences.

 

for me i dont mind when its revealed that an animal looked different than how we thought. i keep an open mind regarding new descoveries. heck if one day its said that T-Rex had monkey-arms i would be open with the new image of the T-rex

 

I love the look of Icthyosaurs, such an underrated prehistoric creature.

Imagine having a nice bisque from that.

 

Seems legit, but a good example of how we have to work with a lot of assumptions about what dinosaurs were like in our studies of them.

Clone. Kill. Bread. Deep-fry, Hong Kong style. Serve to me. Thank you in advance.

 

Clone. Kill. Steam, with vegetables, and melted butter or Clone. Throw in aquarium. Study

 

Thank you, Chopperface dear! Here's to the bipedal JPIII monster of our imagination!

 

I can understand preferring Spinosaurus to be a bipedal giant. There is something amazing about a bipedal creature being that massive.

At the same, I love dinosaurs for what they are and not what I want them to be, and I was quite happy about the largely quadrupedal semiaquatic hunter revealed this last fall.

Also, it's not like there weren't bipedal spinosaurids.

Indeed. In my opinion ichthyosaurs, along with cetaceans, are the best examples of tetrapods that have evolved to live and feed in a marine environment. They start out as relatively small reptiles with serpent-like bodies, but their vertebrae become more disc-like, their bodies more barrel-shaped, and some even develop more than five digits in their flippers. Also, many of them develop huge eyes for hunting in deep water or at night; Temnodontosaurus had eyes similar in size to giant squids. They also gave birth to live young like many marine reptiles.

I'm biased towards ichthyosaurs because the giant Triassic ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis is the state fossil of my current state (Nevada). At a total length of fifty feet it was the biggest known "fish lizard" for years until the British Columbian ichthyosaur Shonisaurus sikkaniensis was named in 2004. That beast grew to seventy five feet! Some studies peg S. sikkaniensis as being a member of the also Triassic genus Shastasaurus, but I digress.

I also have some Ichthyosaur beer in my fridge. No joke!  

 

same here

 

I watched the latest episode of Dino Charge, and they still use "Pterodactyl" instead of "Pterosaurs" and they even called it a flying dinosaur.  

2015 people, 2015!! and they still use outdated 1801 terminologies AND call them dinosaurs! It's a bigger fail when you have a dinosaur-themed series with cast that are supposed to be dinosaur fans WHO WORK IN A FREAKIN' DINOSAUR MUSEUM!!

 

It's not preference, it's scientific inaccuracy.  

Get out of your fanboy fantasies, spino is a quadrupedal river creature, not a T. rex killer.

 

I just assume Power Rangers takes place in an alternate dimension where Pterodactyls are flying dinosaurs and move on. I mean, you can breath on the moon in that dimension.

 

This. Plus, I don't see why some are still up in arms about Spinosaurus being an enormous quadruped, as it was still a HIGHLY dangerous, aggressive, and powerful animal; just not the T-Rex killing monster that JP3 so inaccurately made it out to be. I do think however that, like modern day apes, Spinosaurus COULD walk in a bipedal stance, but not for very long; and would be uncomfortable doing so for extended periods of time.

 

If anything, it's more dangerous now! It could hide in swamps, waiting for unsuspecting ornithopods...

 

Oh yeah. Seeing as new studies state that Spinosaurus might have been built for the water, and was an exceptional swimmer, a 49 foot, several ton Spino coming towards you underwater would be a horrific sight indeed.

 

Thanks for not inflating spinos size like many have a habit of doing.  

Seeing as Baryonyx was a biped, perhaps the spinosauride was more morphologically diverse than we thought.

 

Well spinosaurids were theropods that would have been specialized to hunt fish and other prey in water, although they ate other things (dinosaurs, pterosaurs, etc.), and many members of that family retained the bipedal gait of their ancestors. Spinosaurus merely took the aquatic-hunter lifestyle to the next level of specialization.

A biomechanical study of Baryonyx's jaws showed that its jaws functioned much like those of a gharial, a long, slender-snouted and critically endangered crocodilian from the Indian subcontinent that snaps up fish with its conical teeth. Even though it still retained a bipedal gait, Baryonyx was still very much adapted to hunting in the water.

I like to think of Baryonyx and Suchomimus as the equivalent of animals that hunt in water but still move on land much like their ancestors. Grizzly bears come to mind (I know they're ominivores and have jaws nothing like that of a baryonychine spinosaurid, but I digress). On the other hand, Spinosaurus is like a dinosaurian version of a crocodile or Ambulocetus (a whale ancestor from Pakistan that is a lot like a mammalian crocodile). They can still move around on land, but they're not as quick or agile in terrestrial environments as their ancestors.

 

So far that we know, ambulocetus was not an ambusher.