reminder that the existence of the hump of mammoths could not be deduced from any finds, skeletons, frozen specimens etc., and we only know about it because cave paintings and orbamental carvings consistently show humped mammoths.
It had a fatty hump that was supported by the raised neural spines. The raised spines on the tail show that it was supporting weight between the two groups of spines. It's becoming more evident that this was a common characteristic among Carchs. The recent discovery of Meraxes has similar though far less extreme structures. >tfw JW was accidentally almost right when they gave Giga a hump
To keep the saddle in place. Cro Magnons would have had a difficult time riding them without saddles.
And they could hardly follow the herds of hadrosaurs without riding them.
I think back then life was still experimenting with different layouts and details, and their dna had too much trash that's all filtered off today. Is ancient junk dna a thing? Is that why creatures had such bizarre bodies in the distant past?
It's just their prototype before their final form, Acrocanthosaurus
Spinosaurus
naw, that's the final form of Ichtyovenator
Carcharodontosaurids all aspire to have humps like Acros, while Spinosaurids shoot for sails like Spinosaurus
dromedary analog
Demonstrative behavior. Birds do that shit all the time. Carnosaurs did not have feathers, so they had to get out in other ways.
reminder that the existence of the hump of mammoths could not be deduced from any finds, skeletons, frozen specimens etc., and we only know about it because cave paintings and orbamental carvings consistently show humped mammoths.
It had a fatty hump that was supported by the raised neural spines. The raised spines on the tail show that it was supporting weight between the two groups of spines. It's becoming more evident that this was a common characteristic among Carchs. The recent discovery of Meraxes has similar though far less extreme structures.
>tfw JW was accidentally almost right when they gave Giga a hump
could dimetrodon also have big fat reserves along its spine?
They found a second big ol sail thing on the tail.
I think the idea now is that maybe the space between them was filled with fatty tissue.
It was for riding on
To keep the saddle in place. Cro Magnons would have had a difficult time riding them without saddles.
And they could hardly follow the herds of hadrosaurs without riding them.
fuck you he's cool
>shark fin
I think back then life was still experimenting with different layouts and details, and their dna had too much trash that's all filtered off today. Is ancient junk dna a thing? Is that why creatures had such bizarre bodies in the distant past?
He got hit by an Acme anvil and got a comically large bump from the bruising.
Carcharodontosaurids had this weird M-shaped spine ridge above the pelvis that was extremely pronounced in Concavenator
Bubblesaurus
>dinosaur has weird spine that gives it a crest/sail on its back
>why would someone ever draw it with a weird sail on its back?
What's the reason for the weird spine?
Nobody’s fully sure, so probably display
It's a handle for a rider. These were domesticated.
it was a base for where it's turret, it just didin't fossilize
What is this from? How do you paleoschizos find this stuff?