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Cody Cobb

A desperate Allosaurus fragillis trying to figure out how to take down a full-grown Supersaurus vivianae without dying in the process. Late Jurassic Colorado

#art #Allosaurus #Allosaurus fragilis #Supersaurus #Supersaurus vivianae #Dinosaurs #Jurassic

flippantsmeagol

The Milky Way rising above Munds Mountain. Hiking into the dark depth.

#nature #Jurassic

allosauroid

“It’s okay to live a life others don’t understand.”

— Jenna Woginrich (via otherkinwords)

#text #quote

dromaeosaurid

"The Asian tyrannosaur, Tarbosaurus, emerges from the darkness of the riverbanks, then splashes through the water as it chases after several Saurolophus. The hadrosaur Saurolophus is known from North America and Asia, and was probably the prey of tyrannosaurs on both of these continents. Length of Tarbosaurus is approximately 10 m (32 1/2 ft); and Saurolophus is about 12 m (39 ft) long."

From Dinosaurs: A Global View (1990) by Sylvia J. Czerkas & Stephen A. Czerkas. Illustrated by Douglas Henderson, Mark Hallett, John Sibbick.

#Tarbosaurus #Saurolophus #art #dinosaur #Cretaceous

manymorph

For me, being a paleotherian is as much about what is missing as what I feel. I can't look up videos or photos of my species; we died over 100 million years ago. My memory of the earth is a ghost; it lingers in the forests and floodplains of modern day but is misaligned, a little to the left. It's an unscratchable itch. Something about this earth is incongruent with how I remember, how I feel it should be - as beautiful as it is. Like an old friend who comes back changed; you still love them dearly but the memories drift out of sync with who they have become.

There is no longer any objective truth to be found about my species' behavior; we can not be studied except through old bones that never tell the complete story. There is speculation, and I am grateful for every advance science makes, but it will never be the same as being able to go out and study the natural behavior of, say, a modern wolf. I am an endling raised by humanity and I don't even know what I don't know. A chick that never learned to be a bird.

I have my instincts, another ghost that I carry with me, but I know some of those are likely flavored by the life I live now. Every raw feeling I have, every flash of memory and instinct, I treat as a priceless treasure. It's all my kind has now. I am a creature out of time and place, alive again in a world so painfully close to and different from my own.

#'I am an endling raised by humanity'#you put the feeling into words so perfectly #text #therianthropy

eldritch-nonsense

#forest #nature #Jurassic #Cretaceous

d3admoth

Nanotyrannus is a real dinosaur we are so back

#Nanotyrannus #dinosaur #art #Cretaceous

medkitphightingirl

fuck human expressions of anger. bring back growling. bring back snarling. lets snarl at each other.

#text #although in fairness #I wouldn't say growling falls too far out of the human expression of anger

morganathewitch

August forest, Skottvång Sweden.

#Jurassic #nature #forest

infernodrakon

Haven't posted here in a while.. Sketch of an Albertosaurus with a scar on its lower jaw.

#Albertosaurus #dinosaur #art #Cretaceous

danzadidiavoli

#nature #Jurassic

ravenfleesfire

On that note when therianthropy becomes about being a human roleplaying as an animal then a lot of folks start feeling a need to call themselves clinical lycanthropes and even psychotic delusional when they simply aren't. Just because they know they actually are the thing they identify as and it isn't a game. The same thing happened to fictionkin in the 2010s and we're now watching it happen to therians in real time.

#text #community