A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/science/spinosaurus-dinosaur-fossil-dive.html

by Petiver • 2 years ago

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pvg• 2 years ago

It's touched on in the article but some more background on the older and more recent history of this beast.

https://carnegiemnh.org/the-strange-saga-of-spinosaurus-the-...

It's a bit like if someone made up a controversial fossil find for a movie (found, gigantic and crazy-lookig, destroyed in war, found again, raging nerd debates for a century, etc) except real.

bediger4000• 2 years ago

After reading some paleontology primary sources, I'm inclined to regard pop sci articles like this as trifles. For each and every paleotontological theory, there is automatic gainsaying. Emphasizing the opposition part of the gainsaying is a mistake. Usually, opposition signifies problems with the original theory, but in paleontology, so much is unknown that an opposing theory means almost nothing, except that another interpretation can be summoned to explain the fossil.

trimethylpurine• 2 years ago

Hard scientists call it soft science.

Sj0505• 2 years ago

Interesting Read..!

gdcbe• 2 years ago

https://archive.is/jS5Ww

A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says

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