crimson

a dinosaurs digital diary

[cretaceous-creature]

DMNH71122, or Crimson

he/it/she/they | minor, 14 | paleotherianthrope

nanuqsaurus, appalachiosaurus, nyctosaurus | no dni list

updated 14th of sept 2025

other blog: @talankii

[cretaceous-creature]

I haven't been on this blog in a month, but for good reason.

A while back i mentioned feeling like appalachiosaurus, but not doing anything about it because i believed it would go away. It did not.

Im not sure how long ago, but recently, I had a memory. I was stalking a pair of hadrosaurs down a river that started with a waterfall, maybe 40 or so feet tall, split into two by a bit of land and was boxed in on both sides. The only way out was the way you came in. I have tried to find an image close to it, but no luck. It was almost like a washed out golf bunker.

The bit of land in the middle separating two streams if you know what i mean. Anyway. One was green, the other brown and black. They both seemed very stout. The pair was drinking out of the crystal clear river. I remember there being a lot of foliage here, like ferns specifically. I dont know if I caught the hadrosaurs or not as the memory doesn't tell me.

This got me thinking. Dinosaurs.. mountains.. Appalachiosaurus? I decided to properly look into Appalachiosaurus. Its so me. The size and build are EXACTLY what I view myself as. A long and slender tyrannosaur that lived in forests. Looking at appalachiosaurus makes me feel so giddy! That's me, thats my species! I know that I looked like the Quianzhousaurus from prehistoric planet, but was darker and not so red. I think i was a female? A very aggressive female, something is telling me.

This doesn't mean that im not a nanuqsaurus. I still think I am, but im not entirely sure. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it

[cretaceous-creature]

When I first found out about Nyctosaurus, I assumed we would've been huge. Near pteranodon huge. Look at the size of our crests!

But no.

We are very small for late cretaceous pterosaurs

[cretaceous-creature]

You know those reconstructed dinosaur sounds? The ones that used a loon call for spinosaurus..

I love them regardless of the inaccuracies. I specifically love the sounds of large herbivores. The deinocherius one makes me feel an instinct to call back, but I can't. It's so homely to me. I also love the therinzinosaurus one. It sounds almost like something I heard coming from the sea as a nyctosaurus whilst fishing underwater.

Ough. I really can't describe how close that one hits to home. It's like I need to reply.

This one, as mentioned, sounds like something i heard whilst fishing one day.

Yes, I get these might not be fully scientifically accurate. Yes, I also get that my memories might be wrong (it has been 84 million years, to be fair). These are simply what sounds similar to stuff I heard at some point through my lives.

[cretaceous-creature]

I'm doubting being a nanuqsaurus again.

Every now and then, I go through this issue of doubting being a nanuqsaurus, but I know I am one. It's annoying.

I have memories of being one, although they have been less common recently. I remember how I died, hunting, my group, a lot of stuff.

I have noticed a common denominater each time I do doubt being one: I have found a new theriotype. Last time, in April, I believed I'm a allosaurus, so I also believed I was never a nanuqsaurus. Then I discovered it's actually the opposite way around: I've never been an allosaurus. This time, I discovered im a nyctosaurus.. now, I'm doubting being a nanuqsaurus. I don't know why I do that

Maybe it's because for a while, I thought I chose to be a nanuqsaurus? I discovered nanuqsaurus through a tiktok made by another nanuqsaurus. Instantly, I knew it was me. Looking back on it, nearly 3 years later, I almost interpret it as choosing. However, regardless of if I did or not , I identify as one now. Choicekin, I believe. Adding onto that, I was aware of my pastlife as one much before, although unaware of the species. So once I found out about nanuqsaurus, I subconsciously started identifying as it.. which wouldn't really be choicekin?

I don't know. I'm a nanuqsaurus, i think I just need to relearn to accept that

[haltraveler]

Digitized version of a doodle I made last week to entertain some 3rd graders

[santeri-surkea-deactivated20250]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE ARE SO BACK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[cretaceous-creature]

Nyctosaurus Gracilis

I'm a pterosaur therian, no doubt about that. I've cycled through basically every species I can think of trying to find my species, most recently Quetzalcoatlus and Alamodactylus. Although, I have been thinking recently.

Back in dec 2023 - may 2024, I knew a nyctosaurus therian. The species always stuck out to me, but I didn't want to say anything about questioning it because I had this idea it couldn't ever be my species - no other species ever fit, so why would this one?

Then we stopped talking and so on. In February of this year, when i started getting back into the alterhumanity community, I started searching for my pterosaur theriotype. I was and still am determined to find it. Is it any surprise for a short while I landed on nyctosaurus? I did end up switching up again and deciding 'no, that's not my species'.. Well.

Surprise, surprise, I now think im a nyctosaurus again. Every time I've been posting about possibly finding my pterosaur theriotype, the species has never felt right. Nyctosaurus was always, and im not kidding when i say always, just lurking in my mind whilst writing the posts. Every time I think of nyctosaurus, I genuinely get this pit in my stomach. It's almost like that feeling when you are so excited for something or nostalgia.

Despite all this, I am considering the possibility of being 2 species: nyctosaurus and some mystery species (maybe alamodactylus). I have always been a male animal, always. From my very first life until now. Nyctosaurus had this crest that was extremely large for their body size (55cm), and most of the time, I see myself having such a crest. Sometimes, I see myself without a crest and living a completely different lifestyle to nyctosaurus. I do think I was 2 species of pterosaur

[talankii]

I've been really kinsidering american bison recently. I have been in a bit of denial since I like just feeling like an orca (I haven't felt like my other kintypes recently). Also, because, yet again, I found out through one of my interests, and I don't want it to be ruined for me.

But there's so many signs of me being a bison. I've gotta look into them more, though.

[cretaceous-creature]

Adding onto this on my paleotherianthropy blog..

It's really making me doubt being a triceratops. Triceratops and bison are quite similar when you look at it right, no? Maybe I just got them mixed up

[cretaceous-creature]

Okay, late night post, but I feel it's too important to leave until the morning.

Alamodactylus

On this blog, I've recently been posting a lot about being a pterosaur, a Quetzalcoatlus, and some mystery species. But I found that mystery species.

I'm on summer break from school, and with that time, so I don't feel like I've been wasting it entirely, I've been looking into my therianthropy hence all the new updates and discoveries. Earlier on, 6 hours ago at 9 pm or so, I was on pinterest looking at pictures of Quetzalcoatlus for one to put in my intro post. A recommended image was one of a pterosaur called Alamodactylus. I looked at it, and it clicked. I found my species after nearly 3 years of searching. Small crest, costal, medium wingspan, late cretaceous, north America, down to every last bit, it is me.

I did some research, although I didn't really need to do much for me to kinfirm, considering the near 3 years of research into my pterosaur identity. It didn't take me long to kinfirm it.

Alamodactylus is a part of pteranodontia and nyctosauromorpha, which I believe could explain why I was always drawn to pteranodontids and nyctosauromorphs when trying to find my species. Alamodactylus also has a slightly larger wingspan that I thought I had, which did kind of throw me off, but I do think that was due to questioning smaller pterosaurs more so I began to imagine myself as small. Their wingspan is 13-16 feet, which feels very suitable for myself.

Alamodactylus is pretty unknown. There's few pieces of art on it, a combined total of 2 tiktok and tumbr posts on it (each 3 years old), no animations for it, the most famous appearance is ark, etc. But i kind of like being unknown. I know I'm likely the only alamodactylus alive right now, so I don't really have to worry about my memories being different from someone else's.

[pexisnotwell]

Beware the quetzalcoatlus, king of the sky

[pexisnotwell]

Some more quetzalcoatlus art

[thecutestgrotto]

hi!! I was wondering if you could make or have made any parasaurolophus/fossil themed dividers? I love all your work on here :))

Hi anon! I was able to do some fossils for you 💗

[princefluph]

<:.) could I ask for a very fluffy nanuqsaurus if you so desire friend

I do very much love fluffy rex like dinos! Here have a bonus too of an even fluffier baby one.

[bugg-thing]

Useful Website for Theriotype Questioning

just a collection of websites that I find useful when kinsidering!

Wikipedia - Good for finding basic information about a wide variety of things!

AWD - an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology from the University of Michigan

Macaulay library - wildlife media archive. Hundreds of thousands of videos, photos and even audio of animals!

A-Z animals - an Animal Encyclopedia, simpler and more concise then AWD

RefSeek - Academic search engine. Good for finding scientific documents

Animalia - another Animal Encyclopedia

Species specific websites

Monkey Worlds - All about Monkeys!

Dinosauropedia - a Dinosaur Encyclopedia! made by Animalia.

Genuine Mustelids - All about Mustelids

All about Birds - As the name says!

Ultimate Ungulate - All about Ungulates, Hooved mammals!

I might end up making an actual compilation of websites to help anyone who is kinsidering

[cretaceous-creature]

Quetzalcoatlus Northropi

I'm a pterosaur, and I have known that since about 2022. I'm small (7 foot wingspan maximum) and live at the sea. But recently I have realised im also an azdarchid, more specifically a Quetzalcoatlus.

Quetzalcoatlus has always stood out to me for many reasons, more than being the largest pterosaur. I envy everything about them, and I often wish it could be me. I'm especially envious of their build. I don't understand why I can't just fly, and I don't have a massive wingspan everyone else can see. I want to live their lifestyle, flying around, but still going on land often to hunt and do other Quetzalcoatlus things.

I think I've talked about this before, but the 'standard' feline or canine form for quadrobics has never felt right for me. I used to have this very unique way of doing quadrobics. I would walk like any other quadropedal animal, but I would turn my hands around to be backwards or facing outwards, like a pterosaur. It's hard to explain. It always felt right to do, but I gave up after a while for whatever reason.

I really suck at explaining how I discover new theriotypes

I already know what I look like colour wise thanks to questioning being a large pterosaur in the past. I've got brown markings on my beak, like the swirls on a whale almost. My throat/neck is blue, my underbelly is off white, and my back is a light tan. My wings and feet are dark brown. The crest on my head is a rectangle, like pictured on other Quetzalcoatlus. The closest image I can find is put below, and it is a hatzegopteryx. Imagine that with a more Quetzalcoatlus build and the beak patterned like the swirls on a whale, minus the purpleish colour on the wings, and then that's me

[the-full-moons-teeth]

gonna go ahead and say the quiet part out loud but

if you assign human morals to nonhuman/theriform animals and genuinely hate said animals for failing to follow those moral systems- i would rather you not be on my blog.

something i notice is folks REALLY go after dolphins and penguins with this stuff and not really any other animal? even though like, hamsters/mice eat their babies when they get stressed. zebras/lions/LOTS of animals kill the young of rivals to mate with the mom. AWDs are known for eating their prey alive. etc.

if you want to apply human morals to nonhuman animals, then apply it to ALL animals. the picking and choosing just shows youre falling for sensationalism. if you actually stick to your guns, you arent gonna like any nonhuman animal, because none of them give a shit about human morals.