#mine is sinosauropteryx

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Ok y’know what I haven’t made a reblog game before and I wanna know so,,

Reblog and put in the tags what your favourite prehistoric animal is and why!

#dinosaurs #paleontology #palaeoblr #reblog game #mine is sinosauropteryx #because of how significant it is to the history of palaeontology #not only the first non-avian dinosaur described with feathers #but also one of the first and best fossils that preserves colour!! #they looked like little birdy red pandas and I love them so much #they even have a bandit mask like a raccoon!! #blessed creature

[armadillorollup]

sinosauropteryx

#paleoart #paleoblr #dinosaur #sinosauropteryx #my art #mine #dinos

[vickysaurus-art]

One paleoart for each period since the Cryogenian

Thanks to the timeline on my walls that I've been trying to fill in with my art, I have now reached the point where I've done paleoart for every single period of the Phanerozoic, plus the Ediacaran and Cryogenian! That is to say, every period of the last 700 million years. So with that milestone, I thought it'd be fun to go through those periods in order and show off one paleoart of mine for each!

Cryogenian

In the Cryogenian, the Earth completely froze over. Twice! Life wasn't much to look at yet, but I enjoyed drawing what our planet might have looked like at the time. The girdle of lakes at the left is the equator, which may have had ice-free patches.

Ediacaran

When the ice retreated, animals first began to blossom into their endless forms most beautiful. Ediacaran life was strange and quite unlike the creatures that would come later, but it was nonetheless an incredibly important chapter in life's history. Here we see the Ediacaran weirdos washing up on shore after a storm.

Cambrian

The Cambrian explosion brought much more recognisable creatures. But one thing that's easy to miss is that they were all tiny! All of them? No, Anomalocaris was, with a length of about 40 cm, the dragon of the Cambrian.

Ordovician

Life continued to diversify in the Ordovician, and among this diversity were the cephalopods. They produced the largest animals yet to exist, the orthocones, who hung vertically in the water column and decended upon their prey like a claw game.

Silurian

Although fungi and bacteria had already made forays onto the land deep in the past, things began to get busier there in the Silurian. But these horseshoe crabs, and their larger cousins the sea scorpions, have not come to the shore to stay, but to mate and lay eggs. Unfortunately for the horseshoe crabs, they have come to the very same shore.

Devonian

Our own vertebrate ancestors, like Tiktaalik, were pretty late to the party, only taking their first steps on land in the late Devonian. That's no knock against them - there was plenty to do underwater! This Tiktaalik is busy guarding his eggs while his mate is busy hunting, for example. Who has time to step on land?

Carboniferous

The end of the Carboniferous saw some quite large bugs, like these two Mazothairos chasing off an interloping Meganeura. They're representatives of a pretty interesting group of basal insects called the Palaeodictyoptera, who have a set of weird little extra wings on their thorax.

Permian

Among the many fantastic creatures of the Permian were our own cousins, the synapsids, like these lovey-dovey Moschops. As you can see, this picture and the previous one are done in coloured pencils instead of watercolour, because they're the oldest images I'm including in this post. I only very rarely used watercolours before this year. I think it means I should do some more Permian art, it's such a cool and underexposed period.

Triassic

One mass extinction later, the archosaurs are diversifying all over Triassic Pangaea. Here we have the three main groups of them: Paratypothorax, a pseudosuchian in the background; Peteinosaurus, a pterosaur on top of the cliff; and Procompsognathus, a dinosaur climbing the cliff.

Jurassic

I had three different option for Jurassic paleoart to showcase, so I picked the most experimental one. These backlit insects are not butterflies, but kalligrammatids, a group of large-winged neuroptera, some of which even mimicked maniraptoran dinosaurs like this iridescent Caihong with their patterns.

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous featured some of life's most gorgeous crescendos of diversity, like the Yixian formation, where a Psitaccosaurus wants to visit the favourite tree of a group of Sinosauropteryxes, who are having none of it. This is still one of my favourite pieces I've ever drawn.

Paleogene

The Paleogene featured some of the highest global temperatures of all time, leading to tropical climates all over the planet, including at this lake in what will one day be Messel, Germany. Darwinius, a close cousin to our own ancestors, is having a staredown with the lizard Geiseltaliellus.

Neogene

The world turned colder and dryer in the Neogene, leading to the spread of large grasslands, like these South American ones. Phorusracos, a large terror bird, has caught a Thoatherium on the edge of the forest they both live in. South America was an isolated continent for the duration of the Neogene, leading to a quite unique fauna.

Quaternary

The Quaternary, our current period, is marked by the cycle of ice ages regularly freezing the northern hemisphere. But even during the ice ages, spring would come to the mammoth steppes, and these steppe mammoths are happy to celebrate its coming with a bath in the river.

#paleoart #my art #palaeoblr #timeline #no i am not gonna tag everything in it #the pictures should all work as links to the individual posts of these pieces #cw: animal death #cw: bugs #cw: parasites #cw: blood

[trisarahtops-sketches]

Hi!! Long time fan here. If you can't pick a triceratops, what is your favorite dinosaur? Mine is the therizinosaurus! Also have you ever drawn an opossum? Their silly :>

Oh yeah Therizinosaurus is cool. I like Sinosauropteryx and Microraptor, because of the fact that we actually know pretty well what they would have looked like (aka really cute). I also think Yi qi and Ambopteryx are cool, since they might have had membranous wings more like pterosaurs or bats. Basically like little fluffy wyverns!

I don't remember if I have drawn an opossum, but I agree they are silly so I made one real quick

#asks

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

What’s your favorite *fossil*? Like, mine is the holotype of Allosaurus jimmadseni because it has a radioactive skull and that’s just. Cool as all hell. (Although it’s stiff competition with the Borealopelta “mummy” and any giant millipede trackways.) I’m curious about your fav. 👀

the Sinosauropteryx that changed the world. Like, yes, that's a basic answer, but here's the thing: I remember that day. My mom read the newspaper every morning, and she always shared paleontology news with me. And she was just so excited, and she showed me the fluffy dinosaur fossil picture in the newspaper, and *I* was so excited. I was four, but I knew what this fossil meant. See, at that point, all the skeletal evidence pointed to birds being dinos, but we didn't have other evidence beyond that, leading to a lot of skepticism (what we now call BANDits, but it was more common then). You can see that in PBS' The Dinosaurs!, A&E Dinosaur, and others. Birds are called dinosaurs, but with an asterisk of doubt. But this feathered dinosaur confirmed it. It sealed the deal. And in 1996, that was the coolest thing in the world. Cool enough for me, a four year old, and my mom, a social scientist & stay at home mom, to understand how important it was, and for the memory of the first time I saw it - in a grainy newspaper photograph - to be burned into my brain.

#sinosauropteryx #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleontologist ama #feathered dinosaurs #history #about me

[asklightbrush]

This is very important!!! What's your favorite dinosaur (Mine are baryonyx and sinosauropteryx :3 )

“Like.. where do I even start?? I’ve personally always been drawn to dinosaurs with armour or weaponry, like the Pachycephalosaurus with it’s solid, helmet-like head or the Euoplocephalus which is very similar to the Ankylosaurus, both having clubs on the ends of their tails, or the Triceratops, with it’s name meaning ‘three-horned face’ in Greek! Spinosaurus is also up in the favourites, it’s named one of the scariest dinosaurs out there. Also, Velociraptors are awesome. They just are.”

“Dang, anon. They don’t usually go on infodumps like this!”

#asklightbrush #inanimate insanity #ii lightbulb #ii paintbrush #anon #-💫 #[ DINOSAURS ARE ONE OF MY SPECIAL INTERESTS ANON ILY I WENT INSANE SEEING THIS ASK ] #[ and also bc pb is my TOP kin they automatically are also insane about dinosaurs argue with the WALL ] #[ i projected like a mf with these choices sorry lololol ] #lightbrush #[ forgot to tag </3 ]

[roadsidedeer]

paleontuals now 🤝 hi

YIPPIE !!! hi hello hey ... do u have a favorite dinosaur (mine is sinosauropteryx ❤️)

#im more of a stem mammal kind of guy but who doesnt love dinosaurs

[isa-ah]

Sinosauropteryx is my favorite dinosaur!! How much would you charge to make an extra one for me? Only if you're interested in selling them if course

it's like a dream to sell OOAK plushies but bc I hand make everything from the pattern to the stitching, it would be so expensive to sell for hourly + material cost that idk if anyone would actually buy one 😭😂 I can keep track of how long it takes me to make mine and make a ballpark price estimate for u ?? it probably won't be for a few months tho im too busy and broke to work on it lol

[kangakatt]

Hello everyone, and welcome to an educational post about dinosaur bones!

I’ve mentioned in a post before how sometimes structures like feathers can fossilise under the right conditions. This is how we know many dinosaurs had feathers, including microraptor, archaeopteryx, and sinosauropteryx. But there are actually a few other ways to tell a dinosaur had feathers, which I hope to explain in some of my posts- one of which we will be going over today.

First of all, we’ll have to look at the skeleton of a modern bird.

Not sure how readable the text is, but I’ve marked out a bone there called the ulna for you. Let’s get a closer look.

Ignore the red circle, that’s not mine. The blue circle is what you’ll gotta look at- you’ll see small bumps coming off the ulna. These bumps are called quill knobs, and they’re actually where the feathers attach to the bone- signs of the existence of feathers without a shred of actual feather.

And, as you might have guessed, the ulna of modern birds are not the only ulna you can find quill knobs on.

They’re a little harder to see- sorry, I’m trying my best to find good images, but finding good pictures is literally the hardest part of running this blog- but these are quill knobs on the ulna of a dinosaur called dakotaraptor. Dakotaraptor was a beautiful and formidable relative of velociraptor. We can infer from the quill knobs and from related fossils that it had a winglike structure on its arm, that may have functioned to keep it balanced while pounced on prey or to help it run up steep slopes by giving it some lift.

Here’s a visual. Credit to the Saurian team for this beautiful image.

The ulna isn’t the only place we can find quill knobs, though. We can and have found them on the tail of many dinosaurs. I wish I’d have found an image, but all I found was that amber study I need to look into. Instead, here’s an image of the structure the quill knobs were there to support- the tail fan. Image credit to Ripley Cook.

We have found quill knobs on many dinosaurs, especially raptors like dakotaraptor. We know from a combination of quill knobs, fossilised feathers, and phylogenetic bracketing (a methodology I will go over another day) that dromaeosaurs (raptors), oviraptors, therizinosaurs, troodontids, and ornithomimosaurids (dinosaurs like gallimimus) all had birdlike feathers. Compsognathids and many tyrannosaurs also had feathers, but not the birdlike kind- they had proto-feathers that more resembled fur.

I will also note that there is a debate over whether a dinosaur called concaventor has quill knobs. I will not go into that here because I don’t want to post about something so contentious that I haven’t looked into at all, but it is worth noting that the discussion exists. Go look into that if sifting through niche studies is your idea of a fun afternoon.

To close, I’d like to ask everyone who’s read any of my posts to give me feedback. Do I dumb everything down too much or is it too complex? Is my formatting no good? Please give me your thoughts, I love teaching people new things but I’m not sure if I’m any good at it.

And once again, I hope you all enjoyed being educated, and have a great afternoon!

#dinosaur #prehistoric life #palaeontology

[theropoda]

top 5 dinosaurs and/or top 5 birds!

WHEW.... this is a hard one.... there r many dinosaurs to be loved and i can't choose em all but i'll try!!!

1) shuvuuia :) became an instant fav of mine once That One Paper came out... y'know, the one that found it had incredible eyesight and hearing on par with owls!!! also alvarezsaurids in general are fucking adorable

(by viktor radermaker)

2) therizinosaurus..... who could forget ole Fuckhands McMike!!!!! genuinely such an iconic and bizarre dinosaur, it's a shame it's not more well known to the public. fucking LOOK at this thing

3) compsognathids in general but esp sinosauropteryx bc iconic dinosaur whose colors we know :) id love one as a pet ehehe... it's the dinosaur on my desktop blog's sidebar :3

4) OH MY GOD YI QI HOW COULD I FORGET YI QI.... WHAT AN INCREDIBLE DINOSAUR I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT'S REAL SOMETIMES.... literally i mean quite literally a fucking real life wyvern it's crazy....

(by emily wiloughby)

5) caihong juji the GAY dinosaur. also early birds in general like confuciusornis, anchiornis, enantiornithines, archaeoptertyx, microraptorians etc

(by lucas attwell)

im v biased towards theropods as you can tell ehe.... i am trying to learn more abt non-theropod dinosaurs though!

#asks #jarisleif #ty vi!!!!! :D #dinos

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

do you have a favorite herbi and carni dinosaur? (specific genus or family group)

Favourite carnivorous dinosaur is easy, Sinosauropteryx prima!

It's been my favourite dinosaur of all time for ages, because it represents such an incredible leap forward in our scientific understanding of dinosaurs! It was the first dinosaur described with fossilised feathers (that wasn't considered basically a bird already)!

If that wasn't enough, years later it's one of the only extinct dinosaurs whose colours are almost entirely known! It was an earthy red-brown, with white stripes on its tail and a black "bandit mask" on its face. So, basically an Early Cretaceous red panda.

(art by Gabriel Ugueto)

As for herbivorous dinosaurs, I don't really have a definitive favourite. There's such a huge variety of them, but personally I am always very fond of ceratopsians and sauropods, which I think are just absolutely beautiful creatures.

Out of the ceratopsians I love the chasmosaurini, with their enormous frills and horns and such, and am specifically very fond of Anchiceratops for its apparently weirdly long neck.

But there's a bunch of ceratopsians that I really love, like Pentaceratops, Einiosaurus, Zuniceratops, Udanoceratops, and Styracosaurus.

As for sauropods, the ones I love to see the most are titanosaurs because I find their long upward-sloping backs and necks especially graceful, and it amazes me that The Largest Animals ever walk on land also held themselves with such poise and elegance.

(Dreadnoughtus by Mark Witton)

One thing I notice going through my list of favourite dinosaurs, is how few of them I've actually drawn! Aside from Anchiceratops the art here isn't mine, and it's weird that I haven't drawn much of these guys who I find so beautiful to look at!

Also, feel free to add on to this with your own favourite dinosaurs! Can be carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, whatever!

#paleontology #paleoart #dinosaurs #palaeoblr #sinosauropteryx #anchiceratops #dreadnoughtus

[emordnilap-fr]

sinosauropteryx vivosaur post canceled, somehow i didn't know sino already existed in canon as sopteryx >:(

well that just means i'm gonna have to change a few things! first up: im replacing canon sopteryx with something different and putting mine in there bc i like mine more

#emord rambles #not fr #fossil fighters #my canon now. i do what i want

[artistic-daspletosaurus]

State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe, Germany - Part 1

I was so glad, that friends of mine invited me to visit with them the museum in Karlsruhe, which I had not seen before. Here, we are in the Atrium where some models of feathered, non-avian dinosaurs are housed alongside with a large Quetzalcoatlus model flying ahead of you.

#photo #trip #exhibition #museum #natural history #karlsruhe #germany #feathered dinosaurs #caudipteryx #confucisornis #sinsauropteryx #pterosaurs #quetzalcoatlus