Spinosaurus: The Dinosaur That Shook Paleontology

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Created by Dylan Dubeau
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Danielle Dufault
Editors: Jim Pitts and Cat Senior
Writer, Researcher, Producer, Camera Operator: Andres Salazar
Illustration: Danielle Dufault

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Taking a deep look at the past and the animals that lived in it.

[sussekind]

I always thought the spineosaurids, were the most interesting looking of all dinosaurs. Somewhere between really cool, and really nightmarish.

[The_Story_Of_Us]

10 years from now, we will discover that Spinosaurus actually lived in space and had rocket boosters on its feet.

[Beedo_Sookcool]

Fun fact: One of the Spinosaurus fossils that helped lead to its modern reconstruction was discovered not far from Tataouine, Tunisia, where a beardy guy filmed some space movie, or something.

[bskec]

When I first considered the sail as an arch, i couldn't imagine the dinosaur as a capable swimmer, and thought it more as a wading hunter. However, since the discovery of the tail fins, and the proposal that the sail was more of an M shape, I have rethought that position. The "m" shape strongly reminds me of sailfish dorsal fins, and they are exceptionally fast swimmers. A more semi-aquatic lifestyle seems more and more likely to me now.

[MsJesseHN]

That gorgeous illustration at the end makes the creature look so triumphant and confident like, "Yup. I did that. I tore families apart with my fossilized bones."

[Hankbob_Hillpants]

I like the idea that the spines were used as anchor points for immense neck muscles, allowing the spinosaurus to yeet lesser dinosaurs

[Mysterialic]

That drawing is so beautifully detailed. I love it!

[kenjiro]

Spino is still changing, this isn’t even its final form!

[brettwood]

I love this weirdo. It's the Duckbilled Platypus of Dinosaurs. I also love the "Hippo" hypothesis that it just ran on the bottom of bodies of water, like modern Hippos do.

[benderbendingrodriguez]

The Spino is the result of when the game developers don't know what class type to apply to their OC, and end up just complicating things more down the road with unnecessary patch updates. When I was still playing in the Meta, the Spino was just a cool looking character. But thanks to all the updates in the last 22 years, this thing might as well have flown too. Smh such a OP character

[bgonzales]

I don't think we will ever truly know what most dinosaurs actually looked like.

[holliegould]

spinosaurus has been my fave dino ever since JP3 came out 🥰
every time i see a new "accurate" update my love for them grows even more

[marcospinheiro]

I too love Spinosaurus and spinosaurids. This iconic dinosaur is indeed so much debated about its main lifestyle and appearance since 2014 and then 2020. Love the Spinosaurus head artwork too, Danielle Dufault. I liked your final message about this dinosaur fossil case. I'm looking forward for the next spinosaurid discoveries and scientific papers. Great paleovideo! :D

[xenomorphbiologist-xx]

Spinosaurus: *Adds a confusing new piece of evidence to the puzzle*
Scientists: *struggle to explain but eventually solve it*
Spinosaurus: I’ll fuckin do it again

[xenomorphiia]

I like the spino design in ark, it could walk on four legs then rear up on hind legs.

[jasonalcatraz]

Animalogic going Paleologic with the best Dino? Sign me up!

Also, to add to the spino mystery… I am in favor of all of the above. Maybe Spino was one of the most versatile theropods in all existence, and its adaptations suited a hybrid lifestyle.

Regardless of what the truth is, I love this strange and awesome dinosaur puzzle. It’s like the platypus of Dino’s. A prehistoric chimaera

[Second_UNIT]

Im astounded that you guys didnt go more in-depth to the recently uncovered tail segments for Spinosaurus. The new tail segments made significant changes to the prepercieved models we had for Spinosaurus, accentuating the "axolotl" perceptions to a farther degree than previously speculated. I'm inclined to believe the spine segments and tail segments were fully connected, but that's simply a theory lmao

[narutofan]

The Spino is my favorite dino. Ever since JP3. In the steam game The Isle people nicknamed it spoon and since I am autistic and use the spoon analogy a lot (You only have so many spoons in a day. Say I start with 20 spoons. Getting up takes 1, going to shower and brush depending on pain level may take 1-4 spoons...ect) My family gets me spino toys all the time. I am up to about 10 spoons including a tooth. (My dentist loved seeing it lol)

[myramadd]

Actually, A couple of years ago, I was looking at the newest concept of Spinosaurus and wondering a lot of those questions.Then, on my way to a fish dinner, ironically, in a neighboring town, I was surprised to see a river otter surrying across the road, between two wetland areas. Looking closely, and watching this modern semi-aquatic fish eater move, I went home that night, looked up pictures of Spinosaurus AND the river otter. I think it moved a bit like an otter.

[ALAPINO]

A tip to the editor:

Playback the b-roll of the dinosaur models/miniature tableaux in half or quarter time. It is sells the scale when the water behaves more "slowly."