Mr. Weird

National Geographic calls you Mr. Big, but for me you are just Mr. Weird. 

I produced this quick watercolor painting (with an "weird" and an "even weirder" stage) to illustrate a new hypothesis about Spinosaurus posture which is a bit more
Ibrahim-friendly. The author is no one else than Andrea Cau, who, I think is maybe the best man to mediate between the two positions.
Here his article about this reconstruction: translate.google.com/translate…|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8
I used for this painting a All Yesterdays like style, inspired by pelicans and the Parasaurolophus painting of John Conway. 
Cau's hypothesis is actually very near the thoughts I had about the new Spinosaurus neck, when I encountered the skeletal drawing for the first time my first thought (ok, here I'm lying, it was my second) was: "man, that's a neck for a powerful down-stroke. Here I made it a bit more mammal-like, but when following more bird anatomy it could be a bit more skinny too. 
What would be the world without a few extremes  

Edit... again: Now with two more likely versions

I hope for more information and follow the discussion very curious, let's see what comes next.

Graphic from Ibrahim et al. 2014, modified by Cau.


Note at the end: this is a fast produced piece without the try to make something scientific important, it's more another stone I through in the arena of discussions