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Velociraptor “Knife Bird” mongoliensis.

Well, it’s been a while since I took a stab at this old classic! I approached this from the perspective of “I want this to literally look as Birdy as possible” and I’d like to think I’ve succeeded! I think it is my new favourite piece in this style.

#velociraptor #dinosaur #raptor

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Archaeopteryx with Archaeops’ palette and Utahraptor 🦖 commissioned by @trusty-alt

#raptor #archaeopteryx #utahraptor #dinosaur

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Many modern birds are capable of seeing into the ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and some of their non-avian dinosaur ancestors might have had the same sort of vision. And much like their living relatives, that means various parts of their bodies and plumage may also have been UV-reflective and UV-fluorescent.

So here’s a Velociraptor with some speculative UV coloration – although this is just what it would look like to human eyes under a blacklight. What it would actually look like to a creature that can see extra colors is impossible to depict on a screen designed for trichromatic vision!

#raptor #velociraptor #dinosaur

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More domestic dino-birds! From top to bottom: a blue parakeet, a grey cockatiel, a Fischer’s lovebird, and a zebra finch.

(Disclaimer: I tried to do my research, but I’m no paleontologist - no doubt I messed up the anatomy in multiple places.)

These are available as stickers, tote bags, t-shirts, and such on Redbubble and TeePublic!

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Walking the big dumb dog

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Island Weirdness #02 – Europasaurus holgeri

Sauropod dinosaurs are mainly known for being enormous, and so even some of the smallest members of the group were actually quite large compared to modern animals.

Europasaurus was an early brachiosaurid that lived during the Late Jurassic, about 154 million years ago, on a small island in the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany. It was an example of insular dwarfism in a sauropod, only growing to around 6.2m in length (~20’) – less than half the size of some of its other relatives.

A layer of rock just above the deposit of Europasaurus fossils also gives us a clue about their eventual fate. Footprints of large carnivorous theropods – bigger than the mini-sauropods themselves – suggest that at some point the sea level dropped and predators from the mainland were able to reach the island.

Since there were no large predators on the island before then, the small Europasaurus had no defenses against these new giant invaders. They very likely were literally eaten into extinction.

#dinosaur #europasaurus

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I put colors on this sketch I did last month!

Sunbird can now woo his special lady in full watercolored glory. :D

#dinosaur #raptor

bobthedragon

all the dinosaurs with discovered pigments with their accurate (to my knowledge) colors!

#dinosaur #microraptor #archaeopteryx

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Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus

Silvia Pasqualetto

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Utahraptor! 💖

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Stalking Utahraptor by FredtheDinosaurman

#raptor #dinosaur #utahraptor

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Dinoween Prompt no. 9: Zombies

Okay, so this is less ‘zombie’ and more ‘really shrinkwrapped awesomebro Velociraptor’, but some palaeoartists actually drew dinosaurs that looked like emaciated zombies so I’d say this probably counts (look up Ely Kish sometime).

#velociraptor #dinosaur #raptor #undead

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It’s Dimetrodon! I can’t make up my mind whether this is supposed to be a sunset or a sunrise so let’s just call it both for now.

Dimetrodon is another prehistoric animal that often gets mistaken for a dinosaur (particularly by toy companies), but it is in fact a member of the synapsid family. For those of you not up to date with your science vocabulary, synapsids are a huge group of land-living animals that include mammals.

Often called mammal-like reptiles, synapsids are actually not reptiles of any kind, and instead split off from early amphibians independently of the reptiles, or sauropsids to give them their fancy scientific name. That means Dimetrodon is more closely related to bats, giraffes and humans than it is to any dinosaur or reptile, which is pretty cool. Now if only toy stores would stop putting them in their “dinosaur” bargain bins.

It just now occurs to me that for a blog called I Draws Dinosaurs, I haven’t really drawn many dinosaurs for a while

#dimetrodon #synapsid