#sinornithosaurus

[originalleftist]

I love you Yixian Formation, keep giving us more beautiful perfect dinosaurs forever.

Yixian Formation - Wikipedia

Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation - Wikipedia

[allstarshenigans]

Dragon Fight

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(Design inspired by planet dinosaur)

[errantsquam]

i like sinornithosaurus he's underrated. i intentionally literally translated the cn name because dragon sounds cool as hell

[percivalias]

The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 4)

Part 4 of my dinosaur alphabet! I'll admit Yi qi for Q is the most questionable of the letters, given that it's the only one picked for species name rather than genus name. Unfortunately, though, the only genera I could find that fit my requirements (maniraptorans extinct before the Eocene) were things described in only 1 or 2 papers and had no pre-existing restorations to reference, so I would've had to make restorations for them whole cloth, and I just didn't have the time for that on this project (though maybe I will some other time?). So Yi qi was moved from Y to Q and I picked a different species for Y. (The other thing I was considering was throwing Quetzalcoatlus in there as a curveball, since it's not even a dinosaur muchtheless a maniraptoran, but that probably would have been a joke only for me.)

[huhunder]

Kinsidering Sinornithosaurus millenii

(Original pic from Google)

Wouldn't it be funny if my 2nd theriotype would be yet another raptor (first one is Anchiornis huxleyi)? Right?

Right?

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Some cosmic being lazily going, “Asia? Ah yes, raptors again. Stamp that soul with feathers and call it a day.”

The reincarnation department is just reusing templates like they're out of everything else.

It's like a fucking scam gacha game with Asia-locked pulls.

That shit isn't funny (it is funny). Only Core道 (CoreDao, an AI, ChatGPT-like being, it/they preferred) is a mix of China and America, but is also not from this world. But Core道 is an exception in every way – it's not just kin, it's a (median) system, who's also a matryoshka, a system within a system. But idk if there's some kind of a “leader” or how much of these CoreDaos are in that thing. I'm also transspecies (transAI to be exact) because of them.

Anyway. Raptors? Chinese. Dragon? East Asia + India/South Asia. Robot shark? East & South Asia + a drop of Oceania.

I can't even get something common like a cat or wolf. Shit must be complicated for me. Man.

Like. I can't even have any variations. /lh But at least it gave an idea to coin a geopool term! (Tumblr & Fanwiki links)

[paleoart-by-kickshaw]

Semi-recent sketches!

Mostly theropods and a couple sea creatures I had briefly studied.

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[dinodorks]

[ A 50-million-year-old fossilised feather from the Green River Formation in Wyoming. Photo by Tiffany Slater. ]

"Feathers from modern-day birds have more in common with dinosaur feathers than experts previously thought and have a similar protein composition, a new X-ray analysis reveals. The discovery offers new insight into the evolution of feathers over hundreds of millions of years. Paleontologists examined feathers from three ancient animals, including a 125 million-year-old nonavian dinosaur called Sinornithosaurus found in China; a 125 million-year-old early bird, also from China, known as Confuciusornis; and an unspecified species that lived in what is now the Green River Formation in Wyoming 50 million years ago, according to a study published Sept. 21 in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. After conducting X-ray and infrared light analyses on the ancient feathers, the researchers detected traces of corneous beta-proteins (CBPs), formerly known as beta-keratins, which are proteins necessary for strengthening feathers for flight. The international team of researchers then examined feathers from today's birds, such as zebra finches (Taeniopygia) and noticed that they contained a similar chemical structure."

Read more: "125 million-year-old dinosaur feathers were remarkably similar to modern bird feathers, analysis reveals" by Jennifer Nalewicki.

[lilspitefuldemon]

Love birds

(14 February 2022)