Spinosaurus new look!

[SpartanSquat]

Paul Sereno reconstruct a new version of the Pharaon!


http://luisvrey.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/that-was-then-this-is-now/
http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/exhibits/2014/09/12/spinosaurus-lost-giant-cretaceous/
Looks like Spinosaurus now have a feeling like Icthyovenator.

[tyrantqueen]

So Spinosaurus is now believed to have a dip in the middle of its sail? I can't make out much from the photo, but its body looks quite low slung compared to how I've normally seen it depicted. 

And also, does that mean that new Spino specimens have been found?

[Trisdino]

Darren Naish tweeted that something new had been found, but that the previous reconstructions of the new look are inaccurate, so take from that what you will.

[stargatedalek]

aaannnddd the sail(s) look even more shrink wrapped than normally...

I never understood the whole "obsession" everyone seems to have with adding decorative spines all over spinosaurus...

[tyrantqueen]

aaannnddd the sail(s) look even more shrink wrapped than normally...

I never understood the whole "obsession" everyone seems to have with adding decorative spines all over spinosaurus...

This is Luis Rey we're talking about...adding superfluous spines and spiky bits is pretty much his shtick (much like Todd Marshall's is...)

[SpartanSquat]

Darren Naish tweeted that something new had been found, but that the previous reconstructions of the new look are inaccurate, so take from that what you will.

Where he posted that?
Do you mean this new reconstruction is innacurate?

[Yutyrannus]

So Spinosaurus is now believed to have a dip in the middle of its sail? I can't make out much from the photo, but its body looks quite low slung compared to how I've normally seen it depicted. 

And also, does that mean that new Spino specimens have been found?

Indeed it does, sort of like Majungasaurus actually.

[Ultimatedinoking]

Ok, I'll be the first to say it. It's fat.

[SpartanSquat]

So Spinosaurus is now believed to have a dip in the middle of its sail? I can't make out much from the photo, but its body looks quite low slung compared to how I've normally seen it depicted. 

And also, does that mean that new Spino specimens have been found?

Indeed it does, sort of like Majungasaurus actually.

And Utahraptor new look, according to Hartman

[Yutyrannus]

What? Did you look at the skeleton?


How is that fat? That's like the complete opposite.

[SBell]

So Spinosaurus is now believed to have a dip in the middle of its sail? I can't make out much from the photo, but its body looks quite low slung compared to how I've normally seen it depicted. 

And also, does that mean that new Spino specimens have been found?

Somewhere, I believe I saw something that said Paul Sereno was working with new material--hence the new reconstruction.

I for one welcome the JP3 people to pull a George Lucas and rework the Spinosaurus to have that body shape. 

[Ultimatedinoking]

I ment the artwork, that is a very tubby theropod.

[tyrantqueen]

Ok, I'll be the first to say it. It's fat.

It looks within the realms of plausibility to me.

It looks quite stocky and thick set, like a crocodile.



Even if it is "fat", what does that matter? If that is how the animal looked, then that's that.

[Yutyrannus]

What's wrong with that? At least it isn't shrink-wrapped.

[Yutyrannus]

Ok, I'll be the first to say it. It's fat.

It looks within the realms of plausibility to me.

It looks quite stocky and thick set, like a crocodile.



Even if it is "fat", what does that matter? If that is how the animal looked, then that's that.

Exactly.

[Ultimatedinoking]

It got ahold of too many mc doubles. 

It looks like it's trying to pull itself out of a hottub, with his buddy going over to the air jets.

[Yutyrannus]

It got ahold of too many mc doubles. 

It looks like it's trying to pull itself out of a hottub, with his buddy going over to the air jets.

So? It's still far better than any of those shrink-wrapped depictions of the species.

[Ultimatedinoking]

It got ahold of too many mc doubles. 

It looks like it's trying to pull itself out of a hottub, with his buddy going over to the air jets.

So? It's still far better than any of those shrink-wrapped depictions of the species.

Shrink wrapped? You mean the fit looking Paulian dinosaurs?

[Trisdino]

This spino does not look bloody fat. Stocky? Yes, but that is not the same as fat.

And shrink wrapped is NOT the same as fit.

[Yutyrannus]

Yes, those no-muscles, no-organs, just skin stretched over bones dinosaurs .