Quote from: ikarop on Aug 31, 2014, 04:22:58 PMI believe these things usually take years to get officially announced.
Yeeeup. It's extremely common for new finds to become locked in palaeontological development hell waiting to be officially described in peer reviewed literature. There have been major Utahraptor discoveries sitting on a shelf for years, and (despite a couple of leaks) aren't likely to see the light of day any time soon. And that's just one particularly well-known example.
I have no idea how long Sereno etc. have taken between discovering and describing their Spinosaurus discovery, but it's perfectly possible that it dates before 2011.
Anyway, now we have Darren Naish saying the illustrations are inaccurate, so I guess we'll find out the truth in the next few weeks.
To me, that full illustration does look like it deviates from the low-res skeleton photograph in a few ways - lower jaw doesn't swell at the back, neck's too skinny towards the shoulders, sail's not in an M, arms look a bit too long and a bit too weak. Or maybe I just need my eyes tested.
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That model with humans for scale, by the way.)