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The spines on spinosaurus are identical to the back spines on camels, buffalo, and rhinoceroses. Their spines support fatty humps latticed with thick layers of supporting muscle tissue. As such a large animal, spinosaurus wouldn't have needed such heavy anchor spines for a fin, but if it had huge fat humps, then it definitely would have needed wide, square, dense back spines.
But why? Maybe they had a lifestyle like a bear, wolfing down fish and anything else in fertile seasons and then going into hibernation, or migrating and needing to survive on their fat stores.
Another aspect of spinosaurus that many tend to not see is just how similar they are to a pelican or duck. Hefty, powerful, graceful necked aquatic carnivores who specialize in snatching things smaller than them, having to always live around water, and very fatty animals. Could spinosaurus have been the pelican bear of their time?
Don't get lost in "what's cool", but take a neutral stance from a scientific perspective.

Description
The spines on spinosaurus are identical to the back spines on camels, buffalo, and rhinoceroses. Their spines support fatty humps latticed with thick layers of supporting muscle tissue. As such a large animal, spinosaurus wouldn't have needed such heavy anchor spines for a fin, but if it had huge fat humps, then it definitely would have needed wide, square, dense back spines.
But why? Maybe they had a lifestyle like a bear, wolfing down fish and anything else in fertile seasons and then going into hibernation, or migrating and needing to survive on their fat stores.
Another aspect of spinosaurus that many tend to not see is just how similar they are to a pelican or duck. Hefty, powerful, graceful necked aquatic carnivores who specialize in snatching things smaller than them, having to always live around water, and very fatty animals. Could spinosaurus have been the pelican bear of their time?
Don't get lost in "what's cool", but take a neutral stance from a scientific perspective.