New findings Support Spinosaurus Sail as thermal regulator (My own theory)

["Vlad Petnicki" <bucketfoot-al@justice.com>]

I'll throw something out to the professional scientists out there that dawned 
on me today:

The sail could not only have been added ballast, it may indeed have served a 
heat regulatory purpose. I think this is doubly likely since the new findings 
establish that it was skin covered rather than a hump - the easier to warm the 
blood that courses through the vessels just under the skin.

Think about this: Crocs need to get out of the water to sun themselves (yes, I 
KNOW that Spinosaurus was most likely NOT (as) cold-blooded as Crocs are), but 
regardless of how "warm-blooded" it was, if the water ever got too cold, the 
swimming/wading Spinosaurus could just turn the sail towards the sun - and 
voila - thermal regulation that does not require it to leave the water.

Make sense?

--- DINOSAUR@usc.edu wrote:

From: DINOSAUR@usc.edu
To: Dinosaur Discussion List  <DINOSAUR@usc.edu>
Subject: DINOSAUR digest 1678
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:04:05 PDT


                            DINOSAUR Digest 1678

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Spinosaurus proportions/limbsize/exploding head quotient
        by "Vlad Petnicki" <bucketfoot-al@justice.com>
  2) RE: Spinosaurus proportions/limbsize/exploding head quotient
        by "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>
  3) RE: Spinosaurus proportions/limbsize/exploding head quotient
        by "Mallison, Heinrich" <Heinrich.Mallison@mfn-berlin.de>
  4) =?UTF-8?Q?Australian_dinosaurs_=2B_Ricardo_Mart=C3=ADnez_=28news=29?=
        by Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>
  5) Re: Spinosaurus redescribed as giant semiaquatic theropod
        by Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>




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