The New Look of Spinosaurus 

G O D literally just Platypus but it’s scarier and bigger

Spinossaurs:the platypus of the cretacius. My god i want so bad to this nickname to catch

2001

"What's this? A Spinosaurus?" *Puts on fedora* "*Gasp!* Perry the Spinosaurus!"

@@wtwta.17452 Platypus requiem

I read that as sphinctocopter and assumed scientists had found a flying dinosaur that loved shitting on everything from the air and named it after that fact

I think the spinosaur’s sail is the key to understanding how it functioned underwater. As water pressure doubles does it somehow aid in stabilizing and providing buoyancy, neutral buoyancy, or diving ability? Models have to be made.

@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol They're called pigeons.

John DC it was quite funny though

It had me laughing no lie

A croc or a bear alone is scary already let alone them combined

Croc-bear? Oh God

Croc-bear-murder hippo.

Ursacrocoduckopus.

Or giant ancient newt of death!

Lmao

That is completely ridiculous. Everybody knows that all Fossil Pokemon have to be Rock type, not Ground.

I'm just gonna run aqua tail, spino seems like a physical attacker

I need to find out if it get’s rock or ground stab

@@eliphashunter960 dracovish, dracozolt, arctovish and arctozolt: we already know we're jokes...

It’s no longer a super T. rex. But being a hippo crocodile so well adapted to the water it grew fins and a fish tail is pretty scary

@@randomancrossoverfan we lost spino as a giant t-rex.... but in the process we got godzilla.

@@budja1501 we got dino platypus

@@randomancrossoverfan I like him so more cause he looks so cool

same

This comment is SO underrated

"I hate you, PAM! I want to go live with my real mom!"

Relatable

Baryonx and other spinosauroids : ight ima head out

Well keep in mind that many spinosaurids don’t posses a complete skeleton much like Spinosaur. there could yet be a stranger looking one

Btw, which part of Spino's body left that we haven't found the complete fossil? Just curious.

@@androyus I'm convinced those neural spikes aren't complete. Once we have those, we'll hhave a more coomplete picture of the animal.

@@androyus I'm pretty sure most of the limbs haven't been found yet. Just Wait till it turns out he had fins

@Grant Willis Three sails

@@androyus Just look at the orange-and-white drawings of the bones shown in this video. The orange are all the bones already accounted for. Everything white we don't have yet.

@@resurrectedhelicoprion Listen kid, I don't have much time. The correct helicoprion reconstruction is-

The tail would make a good looking great sword

That or Deinocheirus.

@@resurrectedhelicoprion Well you are not really a shark.

“He’s a semi aquatic egg laying mammal of action”

So, a King Ghidorah of the seas.

MrWhatdafuBOOM that’s terrifying, he just propels himself at astonishing speeds and takes chunks out of other animals

@@nutcrackerreal100 And instead of hurricanes, he creates giant maelstroms.

The Leviathan...

Still less wtf than Platypus

Stephano T it’s not the biggest carnivorous dinosaur . T. rex is much more massive

@@Jedtumble bruh

@Kein Herz アニ Biggest is measured by mass not length. T rex wins by a land slide.

Kein Herz アニ , if you measure who is biggest by length, Bobbit worm with it’s 30 metres can easily compete with blue whale.

@@Chujoi0 www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk011hO0w5S9ZMdUuzvZ-CT8LkrUaSA:1596100682647&q=bobbit+worm+record+length&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwig1Nux0vTqAhUBKewKHdKzDO8QBSgAegQIDBAq&biw=1857&bih=1006 Bobbit worm record is 3 meter bruh

Right? It was brilliant.

Loved it!

I mean if nothing else it's comparable to the absurd lengths some people will go to to claim spinosaurus wasn't aquatic.

It's unexpected though. That Spinocopter got me good

Lol ikr hahaha

Just wait until 4:40 gets proven to be true and spinosaurus gets renamed helicoptrion.

@@Tibovl Spinocopter?

Any good video on the Helicoprion?

For anyone interested in reading a GREAT book on Helicoprion (and other cartilaginous fish), I suggest "Resurrecting the Shark" by Susan Ewing

at this point, you might just be on to something

Oh naw

Why did I hear Tom Tucker?

Spinosaurus fossil found buried with stone tools and a utahraptor pet.

@@good7bad13 I see you everywhere lol

Or feathers. It was a large duck all along.

the fact it lived in egypt aswell 💀

Imagine this theory was true

@@imcodezero1112 that means theoretically, the lizard people theory could be correct.

bro💀

2030: new spinosaurus fossil found that spinosaurus had a stand

Sprazzmatic internal combustion engine bones.

spinocopter takes rolls Royce to court for infringement on it's 100 million yr old turbine engine design... nevermind the tail rotor idea every helo design clearly stole.. in the future spinocopter will be more careful with his breakthrough aviation design ideas

@@colk5373 such a good comment and no one properly reacting to it

Interior crocodile alligator Spinosaur: STANDO POWAH

The sail on the back was a dorsal fin. There probably was skin and muscle connecting the tale fin to the back fin

Death Tadpole

@@osmosisjones4912 Spinosaurus could probably stay in shallow water with just its fin sticking out to bask all while avoiding land, it possibly had webbed feet and and arms and some form of counter-shading. Imagine a furry spino with dark otter like fur, unlikely but than again it has had multiple changes throughout its history.

@@FAKELIEN animals that massive don't need hair. Take hippos for example.

Maybe one day, maybe one day.

*95% of the ocean hasn't been discovered..* Spinosaurus: haha i go hide hide

@@wlt3r382 i'm not exaclty a paleontologist but i don't think the fossils of spinosaurus would be in the ocean

@@noirody6256 there are tons of fossils of land-dwelling animals found in the middle of the ocean. This is because of the movement of tectonic plates, which, over millions of years, can bring land masses that were once above the ocean down into it, bringing the fossils with them. Similarly, you can find fossils of extinct ocean creatures in the peaks of mountains, because that land was once under water.

I imagine god laughing at us

I study paleoanthropology, you have NO idea how many times the same thing has happened to Neanderthals.

Spinosaurus, the Transformer of the Cretaceous era - now with swimming tail!

@@Skeptical_Numbat next with fucking electro reception oh wait YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING THIS GIANT HAD ELECTRO RECEPTION man this makes humans specialization look like nothing comparison YOU HAVE HANDS FOR TOOL USE COOL I have a snout that can sense small vibrations in water GET ON MY LEVEL

@newb mann The *Spinosaurus* does seem to be an extraordinarily unique critter, remarkably adapted for a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Though it does _appear_ peculiarly front-heavy, with hind/primary legs which seem slightly too far back to be at the balance point (center of gravity). For me, how this would work out is an intriguing question. Perhaps it has much denser/heavier bones in the tail to counter it's buoyancy. Many semi-aquatic organisms (like ancestral whales) have this adaptation. I'm also pretty curious about where it lived in the environment of the whole vast (there's never been any river/lake/estuary system at this scale, before or since) *_Kem-Kem River/Wetlands/Lakes/Estuary System_* & how that would have influenced it's attack strategy. Crocodiles are stealth hunters, but Spiney couldn't stay completely hidden underwater due to that wonderful spinal sail (the purpose of which is still a puzzle up for debate). There were some seriously wide/deep lakes & rivers, full of deadly fish & other dangerous creatures, and some damn big ones, too: • *Mawsoniidé* A 4-5 meter long/300+kg giant lobe-finned fish. • *Lepidotes* a 500+kg/2.5 meter long goldfish on steroids. • Not to mention some big sharks & some humongous *Sawfish/Sawsharks* estimated at weighing 2.5 metric tonnes, over 9 meters long & with a 4 meter long *_Rostrum_* studded with 10cm long teeth (Note that *Cartilaginous* fish - like *Chrondrichthyes/Sharks/Rays* - don't fossilize all that well, but the *_Rostrum_* is composed of denser pseudo-bony cartilage, with a high enough calcium content to fossilize). They also have one of the most sophisticated Electrosensitive systems in nature, with a high density of *_Electroreceptors_* called the *_The Ampullae of Lorenzini_* densely dotted on the underside of it's gigantic *_Rostrum_* to find fish hiding beneath the muddy seafloor & slash them into bloody shreds. There'd have to be an immense number (& diversity) of fish & other organisms to support the uniquely large number of predators living in this region & era.

@@Skeptical_Numbat what was the foliage in the area I wonder idea just popped into my, it's 4 am brain is what if the sail was more designed to help camouflage it as a bunch of plants floating in water or even if some of the non boney parts allowed for it to brush against foliage on land and have it stick to the sail, since cartilage doesn't preserve well maybe there is some extras onto it that may add more function. As weird as this thing already is who knows it may have a special organ connected to its lungs in some way that fills up with air to help increase bouancy while it has maybe more fat to make it weigh more and sink. But who knows.

End of the world spinosure wasnt a dinosure🤣

2040: spinosaurus is a fungus

2050: "Spinosaurus could spit acid." "FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU--!!!"

3000: Spinosaurus could survive in space for up to a decade

3500: Spinosaurus was telepathic and could communicate with beings from other dimensions

yeah, paleontologists are gonna mess up their grammar like that funny enough comment, too, I gave it a like. (Felt like I needed to say that so you wouldn't get defensive after the first sentence, your comment is not that bad)

Indeed, the Dinosaur Laser Fight was a true thing of beauty

That is a grievous misconception the lasers come from its eyes and the fire comes from its mouth, and it's not even fire it's radiation breath.

Godzilla's dad confirmed.

Finding new information on a species absolutely changes what we previously knew about said species… All these comments make it seem like scientists and paleontologists have no idea what they’re talking about

I love this kind of jokes in serious documentary 😂😂😂

AardvarkLord you mean crocodile? I would kinda be surprised.

Spinosaurus might as well be a weird sea serpent or dragon at this point. Or heck, it could be a living helicopter like Ben G Thomas hinted at.

The Gen 8 fossil Pokémon we needed.

This sounds like a job for David Peters Man!

Reconstruct Spinosaurus out of dragonflies. Cannot get any weirder

Every update on this dinosaur makes it cooler and cooler

If that were the case then we'd probably need all the other dinosaurs to follow suit. Even as we discover new things, I'm wondering how they'd pull off a scientifically accurate dinosaur movie; maybe as a Walking With Dinosaurs-esque documentary that doesn't feel like a kids cartoon?

Have it replace the "mosasaur" as the new aquatic threat.

Bk Jeong tbh that could work, seeing how suitable it is in water, it could be a new water threat

I love the genetically altered monsters we have in the JP films. Even the book says that they are not scientifically accurate due to having DNA from other modern animals, the JP3 spino is actually a genetic hybrid, hence why it's not at all accurate [at the time it was]

@New Lunar Republic Official yes very true but again this is from the genetics. The Raptors In Jurassic park are Deinonychus which at the time of the book shared the Latin Name Velociraptor, only their secondary names where Different. This is why they are much bigger than the Raptors found in Mongolia

I can except at least walking/running upright i pray there is no knuckle dragging or insane slouch position unless it's hunting for fish

If they can create the abomination caled indominus rex i think its easy for them to create spinosaurus genetically modified to be a land based vicious evil man hunting dinousaur.

D3 Hybrid indeed they cannot take away the spino walking on its hind legs most of the time

Also palaeontologist: haha T. rex beats Spino

@@paulzan2246 why are we talking about a jurassic park debate completely different subjects bro can i get a comment that actually matters please

You joke but for all we know that may have actually been how the gigantic dinosaur swam, with legs in the air.

@@quitlife9279 possible

@@quitlife9279 ...

Like otters swimming with their back facing down while eating sea urchins

Sipping cocktail and eating sushi

That will put a smile on my face

Lmao

Not till June

I am Unicron word!?

Plot twist, a Spinosaurus killed all the dinosaurs.

@Аleksa Despotović "“According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly."

Sounds like something from a Tremors sequel

Spinodragons, those sound like they would sell.

FIRST INDOMS THEN INDOS NOW SPINODRAGONS!? INGEN WHY!? 🤣😂😆

They would be scary as fuck

😂😍😂😂😂😂😂

It's human nature. We hate being proven wrong

The buoyancy paper used an inaccurate model even without taking this new tail into account.

@Bk Jeong did it? Lol serves me right for assuming w/o reading the paper myself!

Witton was very defiant about that tail too. It's good to be skeptical, but why in the heck would a tail look like that if it can't be used to swim? xD

They made spino too thin that why it was unbalanced

This. I'm SO interested in following how our image of Spinosaurus develops at this point. I loved it back when it was a theropod, but it's just getting more and more interesting the more we learn about it.

🤣🤣🤣👍

And still he could pull of the boat attack scene...

XD

@Boi! I agree. That would be pretty cool

Hmm.. that's not impossible

They could find one with a snorkle in its mouth and arm bands on and some scientists would still claim it lived on land.

"A newt??" T-Rex

@@saintpossum6036 "I got better" Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus: *middle finger* Carcharodontosaurus: oh damn, thats a huge arm.

@@Scazoid ..... not cool spino

Chilantasaurus:errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......

Electric eel

*Lagiacrus intensifies*

@@matteussilvestre8583 cool you know lagiacrus? I fought one today

@@matteussilvestre8583 *Land and Sea tremble intensifies*

@Raccoon Boi monster Hunter

A frog with a spine there u go

Bruno Bucciarati.

nah its just the in between of the crocodiles and some terrestrial carnivore.

@@cryingisthenosebleedoftheh790 r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh?

@@aCrocodileMan Colloso-frog with a spine*

THANK YOU. Pretty much everything indicates Spinosaurus was indeed an aquatic predator.

That does also solve the problem of it rolling over onto its side constantly. It wouldn't do that if the water's shallow enough for it to have its feet on the bottom. Plus, I think there's a lot of evidence that it would've filled an ambush predator niche similar to a crocodile.

I think it makes a lot of sense for it to mainly stand in shallow water and to use the tail for occasional bursts of speed, a lot like a hippo with a newt tail. But I'm not sure how effective it could hope ambush anything with eyes considering the freakin gigantic sail on its back... maybe aquatic animals but definitely not land animals like a croc.

@@quitlife9279 - Yeah, I was thinking of an ambush on fish, mainly

@@quitlife9279 Would work if the sail was used as some type of lure. Certain color? Bio-luminescence? Heh, now I'm thinking how cool it would be that the spino was a night fisher.

The buoyancy paper used an erroneous model where the spino was way too narrow. Tipping over was not a problem and that sail seems like it could help stabilize it while submerged. Having said that, I do appreciate the idea. At this point, we're getting a more and more complete image and conjecture is becoming less wild.

Imagine being so derived compared to others of your genus that it could genuinely be argued you don't belong in the genus that bares your name.

@@Akaryusan If Spinosuchus weren't already taken by a Triassic croc I'd think Spinosaurus be renamed Spinosuchus

@@ciernselar6549 you can't just rename a genus like that. basilosaurus is still basilosaurus even though we know it's a whale and not a lizard

@@ciernselar6549 this isn't how dinosaur naming works. Brontosaurus and troodon agree

@@Akaryusan The family Spinosauridae is named after the genus Spinosaurus, which was the original sole member of the family, and the others were added later. If we end up splitting the family, then AFAIK Spinosaurus gets to keep the family name, and the others are designated into a new family of their own.

It certainly lives up to the 'spino' part now, since it had more then they thought. Appropriate name. Even more then then before.

This make me like it less

@@lukeallen7304 JP3 fanboy alert

Scazoid Yeah you right

What if it ended up being a cryptosaur

spino slaps t-rex in JP3 resulting in insta kill 🤣

Spinosaurus: allow to reintroduce myself

i think its less cool that the spinosaurus has stubby ass legs

I hate the modern recreation of its arms... It looked like a make a wish paralyzed child on steroids... But realism is more important than cool looks...

@@maxim6088 well that is mostly the reason because dinosaurs couldn't pronate their arms like mamal

It got nerf

The Spinosaurus proceeds to devour the bartender, drink all his booze, and drunkenly return to the lake until its time to do it all again.

Can you imagine Capcom making an aquatic Spinosaurus inspired Brute Wyvern?! I would love Capcom forever!

Manic Yamanacki Yeah that would be super cool! They’d have to bring back aquatic battles though.

*tremble of sea and land starts playing*

Would be awesome

*BEST. COMMENT. EVER!!!*

I would not be surprised

Another commentator already did that

You are my new hero

this should have 20k likes!

Lmao this is amazing

You are a legend!

I wanted to do that :(

Gabriel Benejam A TyrannoCroc is cool and frightening- yeesh

BFDT I think he died from coronavirus.

The tail comes from the same specimen as the short legs described in 2014, and there's another expedition planned to recover more arm and possibly skull material as well. So we're looking at one animal that is getting uncovered and published one piece by piece, essentially.

Unfortunately with the rampant black market for fossils. I'm afraid that's a going be nearly impossible.

Sail fish fold down their sails when hitting top speed. Spinosaurus sail couldn't do that and was probably a hindrance like a peacocks tail in most situations except for mating and sexual selection.

@@johno1544 the fin of the sailfish is for the purpose of manoeuvrabilty in high speed, perhaps the dorsal extension of the spinosaurus was for the same purpose but not at high speed?

I have a good point there. This dorsal sail really looks like the one of the present day sailfish. If so it would have helped this dinosaur to prevent fishes going away in the same way so to catch them with ease. Nothing to do with speed to my view at least...

Who knows, the shadow cast by the sail could have also acted similar to the shade cast by some heron species, attracting fish or making it easier to spot them. I doubt that was the main reason, but it might have been a useful byproduct of having a massive sail

@@zenebean yeah that's the odd thing sail seems so weird but there could be a bizarre hunting strategy it takes a big part in.

Jesus this thing just can't make up it's mind

@@jkosch Meanwbile in religion: "hey guys we have this new scientific evidence for x!" "no you don't, that's just Satan"

Most likely Spino " cruised" the surface using more " lazy" flaps of the tail than butt-wiggling like a giant dog.

@@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf than it absolutely disproves going against the 'strong currents' argument right away

Mark Witton "withdrew" his tweet saying that with added soft tissue and muscles the neural spines wouldn't overlap each other allowing for more flexion then he previously thought/suggested. But Spinosaurus wasn't able to use it's tail as flexible like a crocodile as the tail is only supported by large muscle groeps for about 1/3 of the tail only. So it's likely it swam more gently and calmly through the rivers and it wouldn't be capable of persuiing it's prey in the water, more likely waiting for fish to come by and latch, more like a bear type hunting tactic by letting the fish come to him. but thats my guess.

@@svenheuseveldt7188 I did not see him withdrew his tweet though; he stil posts it; he only added an additional part as 'except this was the case' which he appearently skeptical - still keeps the theory, as far as his page appears. Though wasn't the fragility of the tail out-deletes the swimming entirely against the strong currents part as the article has established?

@@thedoruk6324 As far as i've been informed Mark Witton indeed questioned the flexion of the tail saying the neural spines would overhang three or so other neural spines which would limit flexion. But as far as I'm aware with added soft tissue and muscle the neural spines would actually deform, and the soft tisseu would actually bend the spines to maintain their shape allowing for flexion of the tail, which Mark Witton didn't account for which he did admit in his later tweets Obviously a rigurous analsys of the bones hasn't been made yet, so we won't know for sure until then. But here is the tweet: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/580413794900246540/706582642199625758/unknown.png Here the actual site: twitter.com/MarkWitton/with_replies

Even as a kid, i always sayd ''Its clearly a fish eater that lives in rivers'', like, its head is obviously most similar to a garial

@@jesusramirezromo2037 I have to recite that currently known spinosaurids shown more evidence for generalistic eating rather than obligate piscivory like the gharials (Example Irritator and Siamosaurus fossils)

The DORUK I wonder if spinosaurs hunted land animals like a crocodile jumping out of the water and dragging them to their doom.

@@bennettfender1546 not with that billboard sticking out the water....

He's still an epic predator tho