[cantdenytheviewthough]

Littlefoot and his mom. 

The Land Before Time (1988)

[nezdr]

The Land Before Time.

[alex-m-perez]

[iheartjurassicpark]

alex-m-perez:

circuit breakers

Jello

electric fences of any kind

ladles

jungle leaves

flares

Barbasol shaving cream

90s work boots

exposed piping/cables on the ceiling

red bandanas

the words “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” on side view mirrors

airplane seat belts

and door handles that look like this:

[rickraptor]

Saltasaurus loricatus. V 1.0 Entirely drawn on Adobe Photoshop CS4, using some pieces of Elephant for the skin texture, although most is freehand drawn. I used Greg Paul's 2010's Saltasaurus silhouette as a reference, with some modifications in the neck (which was much too thin in the original). The skull was drawn after that of Rapetosaurus krausei, making the antorbital fenestra just a bit smaller to make it a little different. This version lacks the dermal armor which was associated with the skeleton. I am working on a 2.0 version with the armor, which will soon be posted.

[pakozoic]

Welcome to my life #Superman #ManOfSteel #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Science #DCcomics

[rickraptor]

Triceratops, drawn after Bob Bakker's skeletal reconstruction (with modifications).

Entirely drawn in Adobe Photoshop CS4, using rhinoceros skin and freehand drawn scaly skin for texture.

[rickraptor]

Staurikosaurus pricei

Based upon the skeletal reconstruction available online. [link] The protofeathers have been added assuming that the integumentary structures found in ornithischians are homologous to that of saurischians, making "feathers" a synapomorphy of the clade "Dinosauria", if not Ornithodira (assuming the structures of pterosaurs are homologous too). This was entirely made on Adobe Photoshop CS4, in order to try an experiment: to see if I was capable of drawing a "close enough" dinosaur only by digital means.  It has proven to be a quick way to draw, though I still prefer the results of combining freehand pencil drawing and coloring in Photoshop.

[beyondthepiines-deactivated2021]

“All Men Dream, but not equally”  My favourite quote

[rickraptor]

Mine too.

[harrisonfords-deactivated201211]

[harrisonfords-deactivated201211]

[rickraptor]

FORTUNE AND GLORY!

[iheartjurassicpark]

September 14, 2012 Sam Neill

Happy 63rd birthday Sam Neill! Wow, the years go by so fast. We’ve enjoyed all the variety of films and tv you were in! You’re awesome and wonderful and amazing! Happy happy happy birthday!!

[rickraptor]

If it wasn't fot this dude's portrayal of a paleontologist I wouldn't be studying paleontology right now... Happy Birthday, Sam!

[devoureth]

[rickraptor]

One of the most interesting contemporary tetrapods. This cute thing is an example of a biological feature known as Heterochrony, in which an animal overdevelops (peramorphosis) or underdevelops (paedomorphosis) a structure or even its whole being  by changes on the timing of their development. This feature might be an important evolutionary mechanism and may have the ability to explain evolutionary trends in the fossil record.

[niknak79]

[rickraptor]

Totally true.

[perpetualartistsblock]

[rickraptor]

True, unless your name is Alan Feduccia xD

[fhlostonsparadise]

[rickraptor]

Gotta love this scene xD

[blue-brazilians]

[rickraptor]

How to get girls 101. By Prof. Henry Jones Jr.  xD

[rickraptor]

Concavenator corcovatus.

Drawn freehand, edited, colored and corrected with Adobe Photoshop CS4. 

Thanks to Dr. José Luis Sanz, Dr. Francisco Ortega (authors of the original paper published in 2010 in Nature) and Elena Cuesta (Dr. Sanz's PhD Student) for their comments and suggestions.

Ortega F., Escaso, F. and Sanz, J.L. (2010). "A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain." Nature, 467: 203-206. doi:10.1038/nature09181 PMID 20829793