Spinosaurus: Most Controversial Dinosaur Ever

Sppinosaurus has always been my favourite large theropod, but I have only loved it more and more as it got weirder and weirder. Got to see Ibrahim give a small talk at a conference recently and it was awesome! To be honest, I don’t think an animal would evolve that many aquatic adaptations and not spend a good amount of time in the water. It may not have been the best swimmer, but I really don’t think it needed to if it was hunting like heron? Great content, always love the kind of videos that spark discussions 😃

Spinosaurus will no doubt go down in history as the most controversial dinosaur of all time. What are your thoughts? Mike

I love ur content boss man. I grew up loving dinosaurs. Then got older and studied them more even more amazing. U just put more real facts into my head. I wish i could see them. Bit not get eatin.

I think it is the studies that aim to understand Spinosaurus are, well, fickle...

Prof. Ibrahim and his team found out that Spinosaurus' degree of bone density is similar to only one other dinosaur: the penguin, who over months lives a fully aquatic life on the high sea. This provides a clue that he might have been able to hold himself completely submerged under water. Why should he have such a rare ability - for dinosaurs that is - if he wouldn't make use of it? And, just a thought by myself: Perhaps he would have been big enough to use his sail then even somewhat like a funnel for leading fish (regarding to their prefered direction of movement or migration or just the water flow) directly onto his mouth - if he placed himself at a strategic point in a river???🤔 Nevertheless, this doesn't exclude any of the other options you've pointed out.

I wouldnt say most cpntroversial, ad science is always changing amd adjusting based on new info. Remeber Megalodon usead to look like an iguana, pteeosaurs used have hair, and wing membranes that were more like flying squirrels..

They have found spino teeth In Carcharodontosaurus vertebrae and vis versa they found a neck vertebrae of Carcharodontosaurus tooth in a spino vertebrae I think they know a hell heroin that could swim all dinosaurs could swim maybe not all the best but all animals can swim to some extent