Dinosaur of the Month

109 2018-08-10 by Cdace

I’m going to start introduce all of you to a new dinosaur 🦖 each month by giving a short introduction on our majestic overlords once a month starting with my favorite dinosaur 🦖, Spinosaurus!

Named for its seven-foot-long spines, Spinosaurus lived about a hundred million years ago during the Cretaceous period. It inhabited what is now North Africa’s Sahara region, which at the time featured a large river system. It is a Theropod and the largest known land Carnivore coming in at 39 ft tall. The first Spinosaurus fossil was discovered in 1912 in Egypt by a Kraut paleontologist makes Ernst Stromer.

Spinosaurus was well adapted for aquatic life. Its nostrils were further up on its snout than the nostrils of other dinosaurs. This would’ve allowed the animal to breathe even with most of its snout submerged. Its crocodile-like teeth were ideal for catching fish. The reptile’s dense bones—which resemble those of modern-day aquatic creatures such as the manatee—helped it float better. And its paddle-like webbed feet would’ve allowed the animal to swim. Even the dinosaur's sail—which likely stuck out of the water while Spinosaurus was swimming—helped the animal survive in its river home.

Scientists believe that Spinosaurus may have used its sail as a warning signal to intruders. The sight of the sail jutting out of the water would tell others to back off—unless they wanted a fight.

94 comments

1 Honk4Tits 2018-08-10

Gallimimus was fucking robbed.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Carnivores > Omnivores

1 Honk4Tits 2018-08-10

good point, no soy dinosaurs.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Soyosaurus

1 niggerpenis 2018-08-10

https://i.imgur.com/ZsfL0yo.jpg

1 3E4K3RWRGZPR970NVH28 2018-08-10

Funny how it has been higher order mammals that seem to have won out.

But I already told you create plasma.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

believing the mammals have won

FAKE NEWS

1 3E4K3RWRGZPR970NVH28 2018-08-10

I've been censored! What is this coming to?

1 Redactor0 2018-08-10

Lol. Suck on your mom's tit, milk-drinker.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

The dinosaurs 🦖 return I hope

1 Redactor0 2018-08-10

I infer from this that it will at least be several months before our overlords return to take their rightful place. Ugh. I guess I'll have to be patient until the second coming of dinos.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Only dinosaurs 🦖 know the day of their return, but I know it shall be soon

1 JumbledFun 2018-08-10

Spinosaurus is a badass and is way cooler than a t rex. They really get the short end of the stick in dino fandom

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

My brother 🦖 (when do I get my Spinosaurus emoji)

1 ApugalypseNow 2018-08-10

The "velociraptors" in JP were Utahraptors, you mongo.

1 JumbledFun 2018-08-10

Oh really? The raptors in JP were 20 ft long? Or were they around 10ft long like a Deinonychus you utter plebe

1 ApugalypseNow 2018-08-10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahraptor

Snout to tail, the largest Utahraptor was 20 feet long, gussy-lover. I know Crichton said they were Deinonychus, but he also wrote "Prey" and "Timeline." His judgment was... suspect.

http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Utahraptor has some interesting discussion about Deinonychus/Velociraptor/Utahraptor.

1 JumbledFun 2018-08-10

It says right there in that link they unearthed it in the midst of the controversy. Crichton wasn't a prophet

1 ApugalypseNow 2018-08-10

Crichton wasn't a prophet.

Clearly you didn't read Congo.

1 Psycho_Robot 2018-08-10

Deinonychus used to be called Velociraptor antirrhopus, although the name was already considered outdated by the time the book was written. The author just thought it sounded cooler.

1 JumbledFun 2018-08-10

Also for making them so tiny. Dilophosaurus were quite big and were an apex predator in the Triassic, were like 25ft long or something

1 Pewkie 2018-08-10

I got a spinosaurus tooth and a Ceratops toe bone on my desk. I'm looking for a nice piece of Amber to add to my collection, but the good ones sell out so fast... :(

1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-08-10

Dinos > RINOS

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

True 🦖

1 DeathBahamutXXX 2018-08-10

I thought they were still debating size between this and Gigantosaurus because of incomplete fossils?

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Fake News scientists don’t know shit! Spinosaurus > Gigantosaurus

1 DeathBahamutXXX 2018-08-10

MY favorite was the T-Rex. HE may not be the biggest any longer but he is still probably the heaviest land carnivore ever.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Some like them tall, some like them heavy. Fat girls need loving too

1 DeathBahamutXXX 2018-08-10

/r/TrollXChromosomes and /gendercritical are arguments against that.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

They needed a different kind of love from a male role model... like a Spinosaurus or a father

1 DeathBahamutXXX 2018-08-10

Or a Stygimoloch or Pachycephalosaurus

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Hell just give them a Utahraptor and call it a day

1 DeathBahamutXXX 2018-08-10

The only good thing to come out of my state.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Do the Mormons at least sell good bread like the Amish?

1 DeathBahamutXXX 2018-08-10

No it's all Wonder bread or hipster gluten free crap that costs $10 a loaf.

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

1 Fiat-Libertas 2018-08-10

Named for its seven-foot-long spines

Does it have a seven-foot-long dick too?

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

Only for the faithful

1 BobMcBobGuy 2018-08-10

How would denser bones let it swim better?

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

I’m a fake paleontologist not a fake biologist

1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-10

It help for diving. Most semi aquatics animals (hypopotamuses, crocodiles work the same way).

Here is a book about the subject if you are interested

1 BobMcBobGuy 2018-08-10

Makes sense. Thanks, will give it a read.

1 Redactor0 2018-08-10

r/drama once again proves that it's userbase is unironically the best informed on reddit.

1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-10

Eh, I just knew this because I went to a zoo who explained how despite being balls of fat, the hypopotamus could dive.

1 Redactor0 2018-08-10

I went to a zoo

That requires leaving your basement, which puts you ahead of the protagonist of Thomas est amoureux who is the prototype of redditors.

1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-10

I can't even argue that.

1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-10

While that's not wrong, I can't help but feels that just having an userbase able to act like regular humans beings should not be enough to be the best informed on reddit.

1 ironicshitpostr 2018-08-10

Thomas est amoureux

government prostitution program brings Thomas into contact with real people

It's like looking into the future

1 Zizac 2018-08-10

I have seen more meaningful philosophy discourse here than nearly anywhere else on reddit, somehow... the points are just interspersed with bussy memes and retard calling

1 DistortedLines 2018-08-10

This is why I come to drama

1 a_cute_grill 2018-08-10

damn i actually wanna read that now

1 Dildokin 2018-08-10

I'm too retarded to read all of thiis without any pictures, put dino pics next time

1 Cdace 2018-08-10

since you refuse to google and learn even more 🦖

1 Matthew94 2018-08-10

rawr xD

1 parameciidae 2018-08-10

pics