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Published: 2019-03-02 14:25:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 77332; Favourites: 1631; Downloads: 0
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Sharing is caring? Some more paleo art - here I've tried to depict a Tyrannosaur feeding scene! A large female feasting upon the carcass of a dead Hadrosaur, the smell all too enticing to other Tyrannosaurs in the vicinity who have come to try their luck - perhaps sharing was an unlikely occurrence! I've gone for a scaly rex in the end as some latest theories suggest it may not have possessed feathers after all. That, along with some extra soft tissue around the teeth and bony scutes of keratin above the eyes. I've taken inspiration from Komodo Dragons and Alligators, along with Shoebill Stalks and carrion birds. I've also included some small mammals in the closer foreground based off of Didelphodon - a bit of artistic licence here as I'm not sure of their exact diet. Apparently it was most likely shellfish and other small invertebrates - plus they probably weren't that bold and brave in reality. The birds are more or less made up but based off of Confuciusornis, which in reality lived much earlier I believe - around 120 million years ago.Related content
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Dinosaur ribs, wondered what they would have tasted like? The snack humanity will never have, 😢
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when you eating a snack in class and other kids ask if they can have some
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can you make him use his arms cus i never saw them use it
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But they never used their arms back then.
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Thanks Anastasiy! Glad you like it!
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Thanks, I wanted them to look delicious haha!
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You nailed that.
Hell, i'd like to eat them myself, but i don't think i'd be welcome here.
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Didelphodon scavenging really isn't that much an artistic license as tazmanian-devil like scavenger/small-game-hunting, and perhaps durophagy due to it's insanely powerful bite (largest relative-to-body-size of any mammal), has been suggested as an alternative to otter-like-molluscivory (in fact scavenger is actually what Saurian went with).
Although I personally don't think the two niches are mutually-exclusive, many living animals can easily flip-flop between two niches (e.g leopard seals switch between filter-feeder and active predator of larger vertebrates, giant petrels and skuas switch between fish eater and active predators/carrion eaters and etc., even living otters will hunt surprisingly large prey as well as eating fish).
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Thanks for the insight. Yes it could certainly have been a possibility of Didelphodon, now that you mention examples of a diverse diet among modern day animals.
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*Puts on her smarty pants glasses*
According to scientists, The T-rex love ribs. They were known to build giant BBQ pits so they could soften the meat. They guarded their prize with extreme vigilance. Velociraptors would often try to steal them ribs, so fossils were found around camping sites.
These are all known facts in the scientific community. If you disagree, you're objectively wrong! And I should get a medal. UwU
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According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.
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According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
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According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
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Nice. I know i'll be a conservative on lots of stuff, but I keep my beliefs on how dinosaurs were how I imagine back in the day. Honestly, I enjoy your drawing of the King of the Dinosaurs.
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It looks Excellent
By the way T. Rex must have had little plumage like the hair of the elephants (and before someone tells me, yes I know that it would be a pain in the ass to draw it).
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Thanks very much! Yeah I was very seriously considering adding some fine hairs along the back catching the sunlight but I went with the full scales in the end. But now that you say, I may possibly do an alternate version with the "hairs" added and will certainly consider it an option on future depictions. Cheers!
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Cheers! Thank you very much. Planning to do more at some point!
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Very nice! I'm honestly surprised that I've never come across your stuff before, it's very nice! As a fellow paleoartist, I advise that instead of using generic Confuciusornis-like birds, instead use the contemporaneous Avisaurus, a hawk-sized enantiornithine from the same formation. This is a good start nonetheless, and I anticipate whatever else you have in the works!
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