Whats wrong with dinosaur reconstruction?

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DariusAmurdarja

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I guess all of you know how a T rex, Stegosaurus or Spinosaurus looked like. Thing is, they did most likely not look like that.

Take Spinosaurus for example. Its mostly portraied like that:
Spinosaurus.gif

Problem: Such a sail would make mating impossible. Its also unlikely that a predator would have such a fragile structure on its back.

Let us look at the bones. The fossil looks like that:
300px-Spinosaurus_skeleton.jpg

Let us look at the bones of a common bison:
haybison.jpg

A bison has no sail on its back. Infact it has a hump that hold massive muscles. Same goes for Spinosaurus. There was no sail but a hump which did hold massive muscles which allowed him to move its head fast through the water to catch fish.

Another example is Stegosaurus. That species also could not mate if it was build up like it is portraied today.

And most Sauropods had their nostrils high on their head. Why? Only explanation is that:
trunked_sauropods_panoply_20-3-2009.jpg

Spinosaurus.gif

300px-Spinosaurus_skeleton.jpg

haybison.jpg

trunked_sauropods_panoply_20-3-2009.jpg
 
Seriously we have to give credit where credit is due. Though it's a integral law of science that any time a scientist says something is impossible they are almost always invariably wrong and any time they say something is possible they are almost invariably right, I do give scientists their due. They spent along time studying and researching and putting their heads together and came up with a general consensus as to what a dinosaur might look like. So though they may be wrong, it's more probable that they're right. I personally don't engage in conjecture about subjects I'm not well informed in. (I'm a prideful and vain S.O.B. and don't like looking stupid.lol!) So I wouldn't be so hasty to question people I would considered to be better informed than myself. Unless I dabbled in the subject. So I'm gonna go with the dino-geeks on this one.lol!
 
koltsix said:
Seriously we have to give credit where credit is due. Though it's a integral law of science that any time a scientist says something is impossible they are almost always invariably wrong and any time they say something is possible they are almost invariably right, I do give scientists their due. They spent along time studying and researching and putting their heads together and came up with a general consensus as to what a dinosaur might look like. So though they may be wrong, it's more probable that they're right. I personally don't engage in conjecture about subjects I'm not well informed in. (I'm a prideful and vain S.O.B. and don't like looking stupid.lol!) So I wouldn't be so hasty to question people I would considered to be better informed than myself. Unless I dabbled in the subject. So I'm gonna go with the dino-geeks on this one.lol!
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What i explained above is the current scientific standard. It just didn´t made it into popular science yet ;). The view we had about Dinosaurs changed alot in the last 30 years. I just say feathers.
 
DariusAmurdarja said:
Problem: Such a sail would make mating impossible.

Another example is Stegosaurus. That species also could not mate if it was build up like it is portraied today.
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Perhaps, that's why they're extinct!
 
^ :ROFL:

Dude, who's to say they mated in a mounting fashion like modern Chelonians... maybe it was more of an exchange by the tail thing, like Snakes.
 
Bottomfeeder said:
^ :ROFL:

Dude, who's to say they mated in a mounting fashion like modern Chelonians... maybe it was more of an exchange by the tail thing, like Snakes.
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impossible for 9 tome animals with two legs. You suggest they did lay on their side, belly on belly. also their tails were stiff and not very flexible.
 
DariusAmurdarja said:
impossible for 9 tome animals with two legs. You suggest they did lay on their side, belly on belly. also their tails were stiff and not very flexible.
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everywhere you go you make a lot of assumptions. live a little bit 24 years old is pretty young to know everything about everything
 
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