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This is magnificent and scary.
Just reading Robert Bakker and he says Deinonychus and Archaeopteryx were so close that they could almost be considered a flying and flightless version of the same animal.
Your work is amazing, man!
Your work is amazing, man!
No particular reason, I think it looks good and very bird-ish.
Never heard that about Troodon. Source?
Never heard that about Troodon. Source?
"I think it looks good and very bird-ish."
Ditto.
"Never heard that about Troodon. Source?"
Quoting Gardom & Milner ( [link] ): "Bold countershading is the disguise used by the mainly nocturnal okapi browsing in areas of dense undergrowth. The dark back, and its striped and light rump and upper/lower legs, serve to break up the body shape when seen from a distance, providing protection against predators like leopards that hunt by sight. Perhaps the fast moving hunter Troodon had similar colouring in order to conceal itself."
Ditto.
"Never heard that about Troodon. Source?"
Quoting Gardom & Milner ( [link] ): "Bold countershading is the disguise used by the mainly nocturnal okapi browsing in areas of dense undergrowth. The dark back, and its striped and light rump and upper/lower legs, serve to break up the body shape when seen from a distance, providing protection against predators like leopards that hunt by sight. Perhaps the fast moving hunter Troodon had similar colouring in order to conceal itself."
Oh, makes sense. Since I don´t have deinonychosaurs with striped patterns this sounds like an interesting concept to draw...
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Agh, the devil-Troodon. Still haunts my nightmares.
Reminds me a little of the AMNH mount
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Now thats an awsome Deinonychus, he looks indeed very scary !!
Thanks!
That thing looks scarier than most scaly "raptors".
I think, sadly, the mass public likes that strange blend of scales and high-activity levels, is so weird, it will forever be more popular. I personally adore this weird snake-eagle/griffony monster from reality, and prefer it over fictional, JP raptors.
Thanks. Its meant to be very eagle-like, and eagles or other modern raptors can be very scary!
Especially since Golden Eagles can chase off grizzly bears and be trained to hunt wolves. It is not what is covering a creature's skin that matters, its what it can do.
Indeed. I wish this kind of dromaeosaurs someday replace the 90´s scaly ones from JP in the pop culture.
Though we should give credit to the fact that JP pretty much killed off the whole "dinosaurs were slow, sluggish dim wits that went extinct due to their inferiority of mammals" idea that was common back in the day. It will probably take decades to top that.
Fair enough. I think the concept was already around some time before JP but yes, it helped to change he mainstream view of dinosaurs, and as monster like and innacurate as the theropods were in the movie it also emphasized quite a bit the dinosaur-bird relationship. However, after 20 years and a decade since we know how this animals integument really were like, I think is time to move on .
(Hopefully incoming documentaries like Planet Dinosaur featuring some amazing feahered deinonychosaurs will help as well!)
(Hopefully incoming documentaries like Planet Dinosaur featuring some amazing feahered deinonychosaurs will help as well!)
This I like very good! Please see my drawings!
Thanks!
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