May 12
Titanosaurs Migrating. 9x6" Acrylic on wood panel; a Prehistoric Planet frame study.
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Titanosaurs Migrating. 9x6" Acrylic on wood panel; a Prehistoric Planet frame study.
"The Titanos made short work of the coasts. Spraying boiling hot steam around the city, reducing them to muddy and moist wastelands so they could adapt to being outside the water" More Titanosaurs from Godzilla: Black Mass
As a brewing storm heralds the beginning of the wet season 99 million years ago in what is now the Kem Kem Beds of Morocco, a lone Spinosaurus aegyptiacus roams across a vast tidal flat while a distant Carcharodontosaurus feeds on a recently-killed basal titanosaur and attracts the attention of two Akharhynchus and two Alanqua as a flock of Anhanguera, the Chaoyangopterid Apatorhamphus and two Xericeps fly overhead, and an Araripesuchus ratoides scurries across the foreground with a random teleost fish caught in its mouth as two larger titanosaurs can be seen strolling in the background.
#Paleostream 30/05/2026
here are this week's #Paleostream sketches
this week we sketched Kank, Velociraptor, Plumadraco, and Chloridops regiskongi (the King Kong Grosbeak)
Sea of Light
Dying Alamosaurus lulled to sleep by the gentle waves of bioluminescence dinoflagellates.
Koleken harassing a Titanomachya.
The small sauropod however has an unusual defense mechanism. From glands along its neck it sprays a foul smelling liquid onto the abelisaur.
This idea is completely speculative and would probably never preserve. It's based on the one hand on golden tailed geckos and on the other on the fact that we have in South America a bunch of very small titanosaurs living in ecosystems with enormous theropods.
Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer. It comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating
Isisaurus colberti was a sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now India and Pakistan at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 70-66 million years ago.
It was part of the titanosaur group of sauropods and had some unusual proportions* compared to its close relatives, with elongated forelimbs and a relatively short chunky neck. Since it's only known from a partial skeleton its full size is unknown – estimates have been made as large as 18m long (~60') but it was probably somewhat smaller, closer to around 11m in length (36').
(*Measurement errors in the original paper resulted in some very weird proportions, but more recent and rigorous reconstructions have made Isisaurus not quite so cursed-looking.)
Like most other titanosaurs it probably lacked the thumb claws seen in other sauropods, and it may also have had some bony osteoderm armor studding its skin.
Coprolites that may represent Isisaurus' poop show evidence of several different fungi that grow on tree leaves in humid tropical and subtropical climates, suggesting that this sauropod was a selective browser somewhat like modern giraffes.
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