Spinosaurus “Update” 2024 - Still a huge prehistoric mystery box

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Spinosaurus, the biggest paleontological underdog story ever told, has earned its place among the most famous dinosaurian archetypes due to some new spectacular specimens and the incessant yapping of everyone’s favorite hard-working paleontologists. However, despite all this work and the new fossil discoveries, much about this largest of theropod dinosaurs remains a mystery. The only way the mysteries of what it looked like will be solved is with a perfect whole specimen from the exact region where the original was found. Even then, though, how it lived will remain elusive, but perhaps less than it is now. I’ve made no allusions to being personally burnt out on Spinosaurus talk, even making a never-ending series - which you should check out when you get the chance - and a brand-new step in the process has been published. So, let’s take a gander.
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Пікірлер: 137

@walkingwithdragons251 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus, the walking identity crisis of the dinosaurs.

@alihmaulaakmal 4 күн бұрын

Imagine next year spinosaurs get new form

@ZeleQxD 4 күн бұрын

@@alihmaulaakmalSuper Spinosaurus?

@splabooshkey3343 4 күн бұрын

When people agree if it walks or swims lol

@SpinosaurusEnjoyer 4 күн бұрын

@@alihmaulaakmal Super Saian Spinosaurus

@rhedosaurus2251 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus learning that man still hasn't figured out what it looked like: No...NOOOOO!

@metal_pipe9764 4 күн бұрын

Why would it complain about that? Or even care?

@nolol6537 4 күн бұрын

@@metal_pipe9764because humans think they are the center of the universe, which we are!1!1!

@Moulton_Lava 4 күн бұрын

We all know that Spinosaurus is going to turn into a dragon so let's not deny it any longer

@SuperBurdens 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus’s name in Chinese means “the spiky dragon”

@SpinosaurusEnjoyer 4 күн бұрын

@@SuperBurdens Not wrong

@yeeticusprime 4 күн бұрын

I'll never get tired of spinosaurus content

@necroseus 4 күн бұрын

I don't understand why everyone is so annoyed by this debate. This debate is a perfect representation of a *core principle* of science! I would even argue that it is *THE* core principle of science. Much like in a courtroom, two sides (or more) take different stances on a given subject and relentlessly nitpick each other until one side can no longer refute the other and a conviction can be safely and confidently concluded. The team which claims that spinosaurus didn't swim is forcing the team who claims it does to come to the table with irrefutable, unambiguous, and entirely logically sound proof. With every flaw they find in the swimming hypothesis, they only strengthen it. Both sides will get stronger and more evident until one beats out the other by being infallable. This is *good!* This is what science is all about! Without debates like this, where a team or individual makes claims that seem outlandish to the scientific understanding of their peers, we would not have known that birds were dinosaurs. We wouldn't have even known that a meteor took out the dinosaurs! Spinosaurus is my favourite dinosaur. I know it's many of yours' too! Sit back and enjoy the ride, because at the end of this we will know what is *most likely* the truth!

@Pedrosa2541 4 күн бұрын

Mixed Berserk reference and Spinosaurs, two one of the most awesome things to ever exist. This instantly became one of my favorites videos of all time.

@SatanenPerkele 4 күн бұрын

It's a mood

@uchuuseijin 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus is most certainly the weirdest fungus paleontologists have ever mistaken for an animal

@Ballingerdalinger1425 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus is getting beaten up in these new papers 💀

@haksbro 3 күн бұрын

How

@thedoruk6324 4 күн бұрын

That thumbnail picture perfectly captures how enigmatic that the Pharaoh has gotten. We desparetely need more fossils. Albeit wasnt ben g thomas channel talked about another not a swimmer update

@thelittleal1212 4 күн бұрын

For how big spinosaurus is and how big it’s pray likely was, it likely still had to reach pretty deep level shallow waters, like 2-3 meters(where it can still at least stand) But, since some fishes like onchopristis (dunno how to spell it) sawfish and other lung fish like to hang out in more shallower waters, Spinosaurus likely didn’t had too travel Far, but it’s tall size would still at least likely have helped it better.

@user-xb2jf4zb1y 4 күн бұрын

Spino be like: it's not even my final form

@NorwayPlanes 4 күн бұрын

spinosaurus getting yearly updates

@__-be1gk 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus gets more content than Minecraft

@paulgermano7837 4 күн бұрын

Stay tuned for '25 and the following years.

@gregs619 16 сағат бұрын

Nah quarterly updates 😂

@deino5594 4 күн бұрын

God the thumbnail and the intro was so perfect for both spino fans and spino alike. Just man.

@antimatterhorn 4 күн бұрын

this whole debate has been embarrassing to watch, as paleontologists argue back and forth whether a theropod with a crocodile head, a pescavorian mouth, and severely diminished limbs from the theropod body-plan was actually aquatic. obviously it was a tree-climbing nut-eater.

@edgargaebolg9307 4 күн бұрын

Wrong, it didn't climb. It stabbed its sail on the trees to slide up and down like a zipper. It also fed on gamma radiation except on Thursdays, then it ordered Chinese

@necroseus 4 күн бұрын

This isn't embarrassing. This is THE POINT of science! You bitterly nitpick and disprove each other until one theory or the other is *infallible.* Then the truth is known. The people arguing that spinosaurus is not a swimmer are making it so that those who claim it is must have a water tight set of evidence. This is *good!*

@predalienplush780 4 күн бұрын

There's several problems with that. Why have nostrils further up on the head if it's going to be submerged? Reduced limbs, if those legs aren't chimeric or from a young specimen and actually belong to an adult Spinosaurus, are not the only trait of a formerly terrestrial animal adapting to an aquatic lifestyle. While we barely have any fossils of it, aquatic animals usually have a large chest to support massive lungs, and Spinosaurus's ribcage seems to be quite narrow. Not to mention, why have the sail if it's a submerged predator?

@antimatterhorn 4 күн бұрын

@@predalienplush780 spinal extensions for sails aren't usually big flat tongs like what spinosaurus has. dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur, but you can see fairly well what a sail support structure looks like on one, or a sailbacked lizard. spinosaur vertebrae look a lot more like what you find on "humped" animals, like bison.

@SatanenPerkele 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus = seal

@shafqatishan437 4 күн бұрын

All I see is Nizar Ibrahim & Paul Sereno playing tennis with spinosaurus bones! 😂

@laseriedeladilophosaure9246 3 күн бұрын

Moi aussi 😂

@lorddaro7771 4 күн бұрын

All this confusion around Spino's live style makes me wonder, if the genus was perhaps in the process of transitioning from one style to another. Could be interesting to compare Spino with some ancestors of whales.

@miguelisaurusbruh1158 4 күн бұрын

imagine you made this whole video and then tomorrow they find something

@Parroting_Australia234 4 күн бұрын

easily the best dino

@dns0095 4 күн бұрын

Spino: ah ya here we go again

@Dystopian-toast 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus our favourite dinosaur with an identity crisis

@rayztremex2292 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus probably swims like a hipo and hunt like an heron

@metal_pipe9764 4 күн бұрын

So they can't swim?

@gojitsar7505 2 күн бұрын

@@metal_pipe9764I think he’s referring to Duane Nash’s vocal support of Spinosaurus being a bottom punting predator.

@__-be1gk 4 күн бұрын

"I just wanna eat fish for gods sakes!"

@MrEmilable 4 күн бұрын

this is just a Theory of mine but, i Think Spinosuarus is Still aquatic, it´s just the Tail is more of a Rudder and it swims with it´s Legs, kinda Like a darter with other kinds of Spinosaurus been more like Herons, even so im still unsure about that tho the best Surpports for that idea is based on how Alot of Aquatic Birds use thier legs to swim(not talking about penguins BTW)

@Shaden0040 4 күн бұрын

why not compare them to marine iguanas Granted their herbivores but still they have some of the same adaptations strong clause to grip the subsurface peculiarly designed it draw structure to feed a flattened tail to give them power the ability to streamline their arms and legs to reduce drag when swimming in the water I can't think of anything else other than maybe a dorsal ridge For helping for not for propulsion but for stability now the other thing I always figured that the dorsal spine on spinosaurus will be used for is when they're in cold water it reduces their efficiency in feeding and digesting therefore the soil sail is solely there to provide a heat exchange To warm them up so that when they're feeding they can digest right away instead of having to wait to halt out of the ground and warm themselves back up again I mean granted they're probably warm blooded but still you're going to get cold and cold water water sucks away heat like 10 times faster than air so if they can heat themselves back up again while feeding that's an advantage.

@CJM-rg5rt 4 күн бұрын

I never understood why it's so debated. To me this thing is so obviously crocodilian in lifestyle/morphology.

@EDGEscience 4 күн бұрын

Because science has more to it than just assumptions.

@necroseus 4 күн бұрын

This is THE point of science! It functions similarly to a court room: Two (or more) sides to an argument nitpick eachother relentlessly until the winning side's proof is *infallable.* What the people arguing for spinosaurus not being able to swim are doing is forcing the people who claim it can to provide a water tight case. This is good science! And everyone's complaining about it! Lmao

@PaleoAnalysis 2 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus is never ending job security for paleo content creators... 👀 I totally get being burnt out on it though. I feel like that after just making one video!

@theblackpearl3880 4 күн бұрын

Why can't it just be a swimming heron? It floats in the water or stays by the shore and catches fish like a heron, and it adapted to swim to different locations to make hunting easier.

@timexyemerald6290 4 күн бұрын

Nah. They already made unable to stand up. Can't even swim faster than Trex even though the massive tail. Spinosaurus is sunfish at this rate. 😅

@theblackpearl3880 4 күн бұрын

@@timexyemerald6290 but it can stand up, and this video already went over a study showing it's tail is acceptable for swimming. It probably didn't dive but nothing says it couldn't swim on the surface like a giant duck using it's tail

@je9503 4 күн бұрын

Maybe it walks under water like a hippo.

@theblackpearl3880 3 күн бұрын

@@je9503 except this video went over the fact that it probably wasn't able to sink as well

@rubric-eo5yj 4 күн бұрын

bro this is like the finno-korean hyper war

@floweryomi5351 4 күн бұрын

I think this video helped me better understand why there's a huge debate. I didn't realize that they were trying to prove that it was a semiaquatic *pursuit* predator. I do feel like the sail alone would cause too much drag for that kind of thing. I think it being an amphibious *ambush* predator would make way more sense - either in a predator way or in like a gharial way.

@juliancaraveo5700 3 күн бұрын

You know what I've had it. Spinosaurus was semi aquatic. There no more " new studies" needed.

@TheRealJosephCrane 4 күн бұрын

Just based off its physiology, spino's ecology was probably a mixture between an otter and a heron, but leaning more so on the heron side of things. Debate over, yw

@EDGEscience 4 күн бұрын

A physiology that is not fully understood?

@laseriedeladilophosaure9246 3 күн бұрын

@@EDGEscienceoui comparé un animale de plusieurs tonnes à un héron est un peu trop ridicule surtout que les spinosauridea sont des opportuniste

@thenewguyinred 3 күн бұрын

An enigma within an enigma. That’s the best way I can describe Spino.

@ChacaloJr 4 күн бұрын

Bro, even with the pre-historic servers down, we still getting patch notes on this guy lmao

@daviddimitrov3696 4 күн бұрын

Oh boy, let's see what's different now. Maybe it had wings, at this point you never know 😂

@NZHazard Күн бұрын

Given that most of the scientists agree that Spinosaurus lived in an area that likely a riverplain or swampland, similar to the European Baronyx, but the sail or "hump" suggests that it may have suffered through periods in the year when food is scarce, therefore the need to travel through the swampy areas (either from flooding or dry season) to get to the rivers. The streamlined body may be for wading in deep water, and allowing it to travel up stream without having too much drag or to move around trees in a flooded forest. I can't work out why they are fixated on whether it was an "active" hunter, as its would be difficult to hunt underwater with its body shape.

@PelicanMobBoss 4 күн бұрын

Stop only writing papers on spinosaurus challenge

@lemur88 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus challengeri

@sqrt2295 4 күн бұрын

2025 Update: Spinosaurus confirmed not to be a theropod but rather an extremely derived relative of the Carboniferous Tullymonstrum.

@NilasJunkyard Күн бұрын

Love the intro music choice.

@rileyernst9086 4 күн бұрын

So you have reinforced arms so you can go wrestling 5m long ceolocanths and 4m sawfish. Makes a ton of sense for a giant scaley storky boi.

@Kurotitan7125 4 күн бұрын

Did you know Paul Sereno actually played a bit of the dinosaur survival game Path of Titans to study how the game portrayed their Spinosaurus? It was on a Twitch live stream

@Marcin9200 4 күн бұрын

I want to cry... i cant take it anymore

@rileyernst9086 4 күн бұрын

That nostril position study is really really weird. Like did they forget the nostril positioning of cormorants, penguins, mergansers, ducks, etc ad nausium? To me it would seem they did not. Which is really really strange, considering that spino does have modern semi aquatic relatives(the aforementioned feathered beasts). All the nostril positioning study proves is that when it swam, it probably held it's head in an S shaped bend above the water, like a water bird. You can be semi aquatic without being a whale/seal or crocodile.

@EDGEscience 4 күн бұрын

The birds are so distantly related to spino as to be quite bad homologues.

@rileyernst9086 4 күн бұрын

@@EDGEscience As are crocodiles and whales. Arguably more so. Regardless there is more structural parallels here. And the fact that the paper likens it to the nostril position of a heron specifically, a wading bird specifically is absurd, as all kinds of water birds have simliar nostril set ups to the spino. If you are going to distinguish from the placement of the nostrils, that if a dinosaur, of all creatures is semi aquatic, I think missing out on semi aquatic birds is a far oversight. And this is my issue with the paper. Like crocs and phytosaurs have their nostrils where they do so that the water conceals them. No-one is proposing that spino was ambushing giant dinosaurs and pulling them into the water to drown them. Personally I maintain that any possible conclusions from the nostril position is the implication that the animal floats more than it sinks, and that it holds it's head out of the water when swimming, like said birds, which would help it spot prey and survey it's enviroment. It's not concerned by hiding from land animals(unless there is a scary big Carchie around with a taste for the sea food...).

@rileyzugan6022 4 күн бұрын

11:31 that vertebrae looks kinda sus.

@fedusa3639 4 күн бұрын

I like the music you used for background, it's from the Spore

@jointcerulean3350 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus paperi 📖📜📑📃📄📰

@ian.r5261 4 күн бұрын

can't...resist...to...sing...the...song...

@metal_pipe9764 4 күн бұрын

What song?

@ian.r5261 4 күн бұрын

@@metal_pipe9764 "we don't talk about Spino"

@c.jackson275 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus bones and ecological is pretty much a deep difficult situation

@DemonCrab1995 4 күн бұрын

The spinosaurs is the only dinosaur prefect for the guts theme considering how much the poor dino went through with new discoverys

@edgargaebolg9307 4 күн бұрын

"I don't wish to be fossil anymore, I just want to be happy" - Spino, 2024

@eaglewolffox6275 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus may have used its flat tail for display purposes.

@SatanenPerkele 4 күн бұрын

Nah

@barrybarlowe5640 4 күн бұрын

I find this whole thing amusing. Looking at the latest reconstructions I feel Spinosaurus principally hunted by wading, like a heron or a grizzly bear. I doubt it hunted while swimming. It could swim, though. that high spine was likely a mating display, but also, like a camel's hump, could store nutrition. It could walk on all fours or bipedally. Like bears, it chowed down and stored fat in its hump for the lean seasons, when fish weren't as readily available. During lean times, it scavenged, or ambushed prey, but moved as little as possible, waiting for opportunities.

@rileyernst9086 4 күн бұрын

The way I see it Spinosaurus had to be able to swim. It could not fly and lived in a wetland environment. To not be able to swim well would put it at a competitive disadvantage to conventional therapods, to not be able to swim at all would make it ecologically improbable. The genre lived on at least 2 continents (East and West Africa)and in multiple wetland systems so it additionally needed to disperse to these areas and possibly maintain a genetic exchange. Secondly, it would likely have multiple foraging strategies targeting multiple prey items. I do not follow the heron line of thought, because that is silly, a stork is a much better analogue as storks are active hunters (they will wade along and look for fish and small animals in the water, and flush them out etc, herons sit and wait). So if Spinosaurus could float I would additionally propose a merganser like feeding ecology, ducking it's head into the water to catch fish and such. If spinosaurus could not float, it could bottom punt like a hippotomus. Although I suspect it is more likely that it floated at least as an adult.

@EDGEscience 4 күн бұрын

No one ever stated it couldn't swim.

@rileyernst9086 4 күн бұрын

@@EDGEscience That paper which found if it lost stability it probably floated neutrally on it's side with no hope of righting itself, or the model that had it floating upside down(can't remember what paper it was from) would be my primary example. It was probably more competent in the water than that, considering that conventional therapods did not seem to have this issue and floated perfectly well.

@jahovah2979 3 күн бұрын

There is no doubt spinosaurus can swim. Current debate is if it was an underwater semi aquatic pursuit predator or if it was a wading shoreline generalist.

@ScrimmyBingus42 4 күн бұрын

I'm always down for more spinosaurus controversy

@mixtheory1412 4 күн бұрын

0:53, HONG KONG MENTIONED, I WAS THERE

@paulgermano7837 4 күн бұрын

Imagine a near complete Spinosaurus being discovered and telling us how right and wrong a lot of the past research was.

@gregs619 15 сағат бұрын

I say it was pretty damn aquatic. Walking around on land with those little legs, doesn’t seem very productive especially for a adolescent age spino who may need to defend itself it’s just too awkward 🤷🏾‍♂️ I can’t even imagine a fully grown spino standing it’s ground against even a mid sized theropod and I read there were carcharodontosaurus around... It would probably quickly slide back in the water instead of risking an injury because it was outmatched for sure even fully grown

@KoPita-kg3zj 3 күн бұрын

Spinos rib-cage looks weird, if you take a look at it there is no rib bone to hold the organs or is very small. Other Therapods have a very big one from what I noticed, it makes me believe water helped it hold it’s organs like in fish. Please note this is just a wild uneducated guess…

@leechild4655 4 күн бұрын

It must have dominated the shallows around the sea or where it could find easy prey like turtles lizards snakes birds, anything that gets too close, and if its too big it escapes to the shallows.

@Annihilator27 3 күн бұрын

“I’m tired boss”

@ThisHandleIsDefinatelyTaken 4 күн бұрын

ah, i was concerned that spino might have stablized

@wolfsavage7647 Күн бұрын

I wonder can the weight of the spinosaurus sink in the water just like a hippo in the tail of the spinosaurus just help it swim a little better but mostly they walk in underneath the water I wondered can that be a possibility?

@GaasubaMeskhenet 4 күн бұрын

seen a lot of paleo art of injuries but not of a busted air sack injury. Can happen without skin puncture and it makes the whole area puff up

@kitchengun1175 22 сағат бұрын

man the earth devs really are struggling to balance this guy huh

@azhdarchidae66 3 күн бұрын

so basically every semiaquatic/subaqueous forager does what it does differently?

@user-pv3xc7hj5b 4 күн бұрын

С каждым новым видео о спинозавре я перестаю удивляться окружающиму меня странным вещами :)

@joshuavis2736 4 күн бұрын

There’s a guy called frank fish in the paper of spino not being a swimmer. I have my doubts, he could be trying to spite the spino by discrediting it as a non swimmer. Or maybe their ancestors passed down the knowledge of spinosaurus not being a swimmer. Very hard to tell

@necroseus 4 күн бұрын

Lol

@colerosenthal4738 4 күн бұрын

I’m just dying to know how they’re going to choose to portray this guy in WWD. Anyone’s guess at this point

@GaasubaMeskhenet 4 күн бұрын

pet theory is still that aquatic babies grow to lose the ability to swim

@calebchristensen900 4 күн бұрын

With no more accurate form, possibly be the giant sea sloth from South America? I mean it forged on sea grasses, the only major hindrance would be that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore. That we know of.

@claudeJUNIOR 4 күн бұрын

Poxa!...

@tyrawr4394 4 күн бұрын

yoo more edging science content!

@samwill7259 4 күн бұрын

We're not gonna solve this before we invent time travel, are we?

@danbernardes1726 4 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus was a giant duck, case closed 🦆

@AifDaimon 4 күн бұрын

Seriously, they should just stick with one and roll with it!!! I'm sick of all this Spino debate

@somnolentus3267 4 күн бұрын

Rise up Spinofaarus truthers our time is almost at hand

@SatanenPerkele 4 күн бұрын

The blob is the final form

@Otodusmegalodon 3 күн бұрын

Spinosaurus never seem to stop its narcissistic attribute lol

@wingedhussar1453 4 күн бұрын

It was a polar bear

@bhuggins6059 4 күн бұрын

Man

@jugadug 3 күн бұрын

at this point these guys are making a chimera spino all kinds of theories and math and graphs and statistic analysis and regressions etc. just need a semi complete skeleton or a few key bones to get a really good idea what spinosarus was all about not sure how an animal that big would have a long flatened tail for propulsion and some say it would be mediocre for that