#paleo study

[datgreenmonstah]

Trying some animation out for a little fun, did some rough sketches to get the idea down, plan to go back and work the frames better.

Move only drawn little stick figure animations in the corners of books when I was in school, so we’ll see how this goes 😅

[datgreenmonstah]

Because someone was talking about entelodonts

Daedon and archeotherium are the two most known, though daedon is much larger than their smaller archeotherium cousins which give me peccary vibes while daedon given me hippo

I’m still working out the nasal and cartilage structure and looks at more muscle structures on the jaw and face of these two

Both closely related to hippos and cetaceans more so than most bovid

[datgreenmonstah]

This was a theory I came up with back in 2017(as well as a few others apparently!) where velociraptor has fused index and secondary fingers instead of free moving digits outside of the thumb.

I had been using the fighting dinosaurs fossil as a study piece for this considering how velociraptor grips the protoceratops head