Isisaurus - that's one wierd looking dinosaur

I was following a hyperlink trail trying to find out about Thuggees after watching the movie "The Deceivers" starring Pierce Brosnan and I came across this dinosaur. The movie is entertaining but it's a bit odd that no one figures out Brosnan is not an Indian, doesn't look Indian, is browning-up with make-up, has a dodgy accent (I expect), and doesn't get punished for aiding and taking part in the murder of innocent people alongside the Thuggees. It's a fictional film but has some grounding in historical fact - the Thuggees did exist and there was a British army leader, William Henry Sleeman, who was commisioned to route out the cult.

So where's the link between Thuggees and Isisaurus you ask? Apparently, while on his mission of trying to disover buried corpses, Sleeman came across a hill where he dug up petrified tree remains and discovered fossils which he sent to the Indian museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata). Some British scientist called this new unidentified species Titanosaurus (Titanic Lizard) which was a silly name, so in 2004 they decided to rename it Isisaurus. Wikying isisaurus I came across this artists' depiction of the dinosaur.


What a ridiculous looking dinosaur. At first look it reminded me of a giraffe because the neck was disproportionately long, but it look thicked and muscular like a horses. I wouldn't be surprised if this dinosaur used its neck to fight with! (Youtube: giraffe fighting)

Then I looked at its front legs and it reminded me of a chimps arms! Man are they wierd! Both front and back limbs look quite long. The front limbs are like our arms and flex forward, compared with say a horses legs, which flex towards the back. This is not a great configuration for running - when your front arms bend like this > and your back legs bend like this <, you'd have to adapt your canter to stop the elbows meeting >< - you try running on all fours. The artists depiction makes it look like it had fingers but evidence suggests otherwise.

If this dinosaur did exist (I'm half-starting to suspect this is some sort of comical, elaborate hoax), then it would have used its back legs to stand up on, while using its front arms to grab the trunk of a tree to balance itself and extending its neck into the high branches of a tree to eat the leaves. Notice the horizontal orientation of its neck? It doesn't seem to have bent its neck much to reach up into the trees so that's why it would have stood up on its hind legs to reach leaves. I suspect it also had some tree-climbing abilities but won't extend that to swinging in the tree tops from branch to branch! lol! What a sight that would be considering it weighed around 15 tons! It would have tried pulling itself up the trunk a bit to reach further.

Once again, what a weird looking dino.

Edit: just found this: http://qilong.8m.com/Titanosaurus_colberti.html