#protarchaeopteryx

[artbyconnorross]

Though pachycephalosaurs are probably my favorite dinosaurs, I’ve drawn oviraptorosaurs a lot too. Top piece is Caenagnathasia, 3rd and 5th pieces are Anzu, and the last is Gigantoraptor. I drew the Gigantoraptor in my senior year of high school with no references, so I’m sure parts of it are off, but I still like it.

[palaeofail]

The agony of Protarchaeopteryx.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Protarchaeopteryx robusta

Source: http://www.jurassicworldnews.com/community/forums/topic/25983

Name: Protarchaeopteryx robusta

Name Meaning: Before Archaeopteryx 

First Described: 1997

Described By: Ji & Ji

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Oviraptorosauria

Protarchaeopteryx, despite being featured in the video game Zoo Tycoon 2, is a small theropod we actually know very little about. It was about the size of a turkey, or around 1 meter long. It was found in the Yixian Formation in Liaoning, China, like almost all the other early oviraptors we have introduced so far. It lived 124.6 million years ago during the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous. It had very long legs, making it a quick runner, with very well developed feathers. It had symmetrical feathers on its tail, like flightless birds today, and so it is assumed that Protarchaeopteryx was also flightless. It could have been arboreal, jumping from tree to tree and using its forelimbs as a parachute. 

Source: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protarchaeopteryx

Shout out goes to stuka-goggles!

[nonegenderwithleftbees]

making fun of triggers is like making fun of allergies but EVEN MORE personal since theyre often caused by serious or traumatic events in people's lives. why do people make fun of triggers. ugh.

that what my line of thinking was, it's like going around and shoving peanuts in a person who as a peanut allergy and laughing and going "how do you live in the real world!!! just deal with it!!" 

it's horrible like triggers aren't hurting anyone they're doing the opposite. 

[etherealfelina]

Could you pixel a river otter? ;w; thats a really simple request ahaha but yeah !

added to list!

[threeselves]

Are the images some sort of (maybe incredibly zoomed in) puzzle?? Like a jigsaw puzzle sort of thing where we have to combine them in a certain order? I don't have any sort of decent program to put them all together or try to figure anything out but I'm just wondering if they all go together somehow (maybe this was obvious tho OTL)

That's what we're thinking!! A few people in funchat are attempting to piece them together right now. (The GIF images are throwing ppl off)

If anyone pieces together a coherent pic, submit!!

[nonegenderwithleftbees]

protarchaeopteryx replied to your post “The worst part of my URL is whenever I’m arguing with MRA or dudebro’s...”

lmao my sj blog is a meme how do u think i feel

yeah i think you win this time

[aromanticnerd]

Maybe you could, uh, ask for more than one opinion on the elodiefay ordeal, seeing as she has apologized for literally everything she's said REPEATEDLY. Hyaenahart is not innocent in this ordeal and openly admitted to harassing her after being blocked. And elodiefay has apologized, again, for literally everything she has done and said and the fact that that means nothing and you'd listen to syr and refuse to accept the flag because of that is pretty gross

Also keep in mind hyaenahart isn't the only one with receipts. I have receipts of ableism and harassment from syr. Elodiefay has repeatedly apologized for everything she said in the past and, again, the opinion of one person who won't accept an apology really shouldn't be the final decision for refusing to show off the pride flag made by someone

I understand all of this, but hyaenahart is not the only place that I know about claire from. se is just the person who made me realise that that blog is run by claire. I definitely don't agree with everything se has done, but I definitely don't want to support claire. I don't really want to turn this into a discussion about her though. I would rather move on.

-mod meg