2016 seems to be an illustration of Dimetrodon instead. But yeah, spinosaurus has many looks it's pretty funny and exciting every time a new paper's out lol
Not a paleontologist, but these renditions seem shockingly consistent for a dinosaur. T-Rex for example went from full upright to balanced to covered in feathers in half this timeframe. And let's not even talk about poor iguanodon...
When all you have is a few bone fragments and a bunch of teeth, it’s pretty hard to figure out what my dude looked like! With each new fossil we get a better picture.
He keeps getting better and bite-ier every year.
A friend of mine was cleaning out the home she grew up in and gave me some old dinosaur cards that she found for my nephew. I looked at them and had to laugh and said they are quite antiquated. She said yes, they are from the early 90's. I said that they need an update badly. She was shocked and said dinosaurs didn't change in millions of years. Yeah but our understanding. She really really did not believe me.
Did they fire the scientist in 2015 and ask an intern to make the model for 2016?
Why does it has a moustache?
Aren't these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?
But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3821-the-osteology-of-irritator
This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.
I don't know why the dinosaur memes have been on the rise recently, but I like it.
...it shrunk a bit...
Peaked in 2005
Oh my dear Baruch, what did they do to you..
