NOONE WILL EVER CHANGE THIS ANIMAL I HAVE BECOME🗣️🔥💯‼️‼️
It’s cool that we get another Spinosaurus species, that being called Spinosaurus Mirabilis
#paleoart #spinosaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurs #spinosaurusmirabilis #spinosaurids #spinosaur #theropod #art #dinosaurart
Some PCAs about #spinosaurids
Top: using the data reported in Sereno et al 2026, PC2-PC3
Middle: log-transformed measurements, PC2-PC3
Bottom: ratios (divided by occipital width), PC1-PC2
Diagram showing Jurassic and Cretaceous timeline with spinosaurid occurrences, and claimed occurrences.
It's coincidental that our paper on alleged Late Cretaceous South American #spinosaurids has just been released.
I've written a lot over the years about the piecing together of our knowledge of #spinosaurids. Incidentally, a documentary from 1987 that I remember fondly - BBC's Claws: A New Kind of Dinosaur - is on YouTube... youtu.be/qitS6jBZPkA?... #dinosaurs
A hooked upper jaw top from a spinosaurid.
Fossil in a box, blacked out to maintain secrecy.
Render showing branching internal structures within a fossil.
This has been a week of mostly #crocodyliforms and #spinosaurids. A lot of great stuff in the works with @christijanibarker.bsky.social @neilgostling.bsky.social and others.... stay tuned.
George and Mark in Neanderthal poses.
Hutchings and Witton palaeoart scenes, on boards suspended high in gallery.
Anthony Hutchings photographing spinosaurid head made by Karen Fawcett.
Paleogene section showing Witton art.
That's not all. There's a good showing of #palaeoart, mostly the work of @markwitton.bsky.social (#dinosaurs, Paleogene, Pleistocene) and also Anthony Hutchings (mostly #spinosaurids)...
Can I take a moment to comment on how unique the skeletal morphology of #spinosaurids are? Theropods with relatively greater head and neck lengths than other #theropods. Artwork by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday. So excited to talk about #spinosaurids next week at #2024SVP meeting. Ever wondered how #Spinosaurus and its relatives fed? Stay tuned! Art by Dani Navarro
