spinosaurus WIP
now let me tell you what's interesting about this. this drawing is based of a new skeletal mount of spinosaurus who findings suggest it was very short legged. a study was recently released, suggesting spinosaurus was a possible quadrupled theropod who would walk on it's risks for terrestrial locomotion and would of been primarily aquatic. the study is well done, but it does have a couple of questions and/ or problems. first, spinosaurus forelimbs, although large, were not built for supporting it's weight on all fours, so quadrupled motion is out of the question. next, many paleontologist got on the subject on spinosaurus hind limbs. some had said spinosaurus legs in their reconstruction are more then 20% undersized. and the study hasn't really given any comfirmable info on why spinosaurus " sail" is orientated like that. I read the study and barley found any strong evidence for the posterior holotype spine being a anterior caudal, but that's just me. I personally think spinosaurus had considerably longer legs then what this sleletal mount represents, but come on, it's an extreamly cool idea. a quadrupled theropod that could of belly slide across mud and swim like a crocodile. basically an example of convergent evolution were spinosaurines where becoming fully aquatic just like how our mammalian cetaceans came to be.
this is a sketch so more progress would come