#owl troodon

[talonartworks]

Here’s the other thing from Instagram I thought I’d post here. This is a sketch of an Arctic troodon, an unnamed species found in Prince Creek Formation in Northern Alaska. I THINK. I’m not an expert in the field by ANY stretch of the imagination.

Also, I feel I should mention that Troodon as a genus is dubious at best, and I think Stenonychosaurus is the accepted group now, but I’ve never been able to make sense of it lol

#troodon #stenonychosaurus #paleoart #talon’s art #sketch #fluffy boi #kinda went for a snowy owl look #although the face plumage is more like a barn owl #also i did this without reference i think #so the proportions are probably off #so yeah

[kristipetersenschoonover]

Most recent escape to the Bronx Zoo!

Most recent escape to the Bronx Zoo!

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#Bronx Zoo #Bronx Zoo Dinosaur Safari review #Bronx Zoo tickets #burrowing owls #Dancing Crane Café #Dinosaur Safari #how to recharge from writing burnout #kosmoceratops #Maiasaura #Modelo beer #parasaurolophus #peacocks #quetzalcoatlus #short day trips in the New York City area #spinosaur #The Zoo TV series #things to do at the Bronx Zoo #troodon #TV show on Discovery+ called The Zoo #Utahraptor #velociraptor #what kinds of dinosaurs are in the Bronx Zoo’s dinosaur safari #Wildlife Conservation Society

[irradiatedsnakes]

the Big TMA Furry List

this list with commentary/choice rationale below the cut :] i wrote a lot of thoughts down do please check it out.

jon: common raven

martin: tan jumping spider

sasha: southern flannel moth

not!sasha: red postman

tim: jackson's chameleon

melanie: eastern copperhead

georgie: triceratops horridus

basira: domestic cat (calico shorthair)

daisy: domestic dog (german shepherd)

elias: barn owl. jonah: eurasian eagle owl.

gerry: domestic dog (black doberman)

annabelle: white-booted racket-tail

jane: cabbage white

michael: spiny softshell turtle

helen: common hermit crab

oliver: black vulture

peter: risso's dolphin

mike: caelestiventus hanseni

jude: black kite

agnes: ???

nikola: stealing major's carousel horse

jared: american dog tick

breekon&hope: Hog and/or Bear. you get no more information

dekker: mouflon

gertrude: great tit

leitner: domestic cat (persian)

manuela: gray long-eared bat

rayner: olm

salesa: sea otter

simon: dodo

elaboration below !

jon: common raven

this was a choice i made before i even finished listening to the podcast back in 2020. jon's 1000% a bird to me, and the curious nature of corvids works well here. plus, i think a bird so universally ominous as a raven works perfectly as a horror protag :P i used to draw raven!jon with a couple troodon traits, mostly just cus it was fun, but i wanted to make my designs more grounded for this iteration. made them plantigrade, didn't get silly with body styles like i have with mp100 designs.

martin: tan jumping spider

if you've been here for a while you'll know that my furry martin has gone through about two million iterations. he started off as a european pine marten, to bold jumping spider, to chinese pangolin, to nine-banded armadillo, finally to nurse shark.

out of all of these the spider and the shark are my favorites. i wanted to go back to the jumping spider though- the design is really fun and i wasn't able to get the expressions right, but i'm more confident in my skills now and i'm having fun with the design. i may revisit nurse shark at some point. i switched from bold to tan jumper- i originally chose bold just cus they're my favorite jumper, but their stark black/white and iridescent aqua coloration just doens't work for martin. so, the tan jumper!

sasha: southern flannel moth

another old choice. species chosen because of a friend's fic, pharos by right (another i'm planning to reread now that i'm dipping my toes back into tma..)! southern flannel moths are poofy and orange, and their caterpillars are those super painful teddybear ones. i really like the design.

not!sasha: red postman

wanted to have her be another lepidopteran, and with all the many examples of mimicry among the group i thought red postman was a fun choice. doesn't look anything like a southern flannel moth, but that's sort of the point.

tim: jackson's chameleon

yet another choice from the oldtimes- most of the main characters are, i've mostly switched around the more secondary chars. first suggested, i believe, by @/ofdreamsanddoodles. i think there's something very fun about chameleons being basically a living mood ring & tim's Descent s1-3 showing physcially not just through the worm scars but through like, constant stress coloration during s3.

melanie: eastern copperhead

one of my favorite choices. i have a young copperhead specimen named after her. this one is quite vibes-based, but i do really like the copperhead as a viper that is not deadly. and i'm always a sucker for the "animal perceived as scary and violent that in actuality only strikes when under extreme stress" thing in furry assignments.

georgie: triceratops horridus

another favorite choice. visually, i really like how this works out, and trikes as a social and protective animal works well. she's literally got a shield on her face. horridus was chosen because i like the shape of the head and horns better than prorsus.

basira: domestic cat (calico shorthair)

got a little cat/dog thing going on for dasira. i like the inversion of the usual cat/dog dynamic with their unhealthy devotion instead, and visually it just works very well for them both.

daisy: domestic dog (german shepherd)

yeah i know this one's an exceedingly obvious choice.

elias: barn owl. jonah: eurasian eagle owl.

it's the institute logo! it's him! barn owl for elias specifically because of its very sleek look, designing him went fantastically. also, i can make the eagle owl's face disk work as a mimicry of ben meredith's muttonchops, which i think is a fun design bit to give to magnus.

gerry: domestic dog (black doberman)

certified gerryguy @/gerrydelano's choice. to quote a discord message from 3 years ago (sorry ron): "i feel like.........my INSTINCT is some kind of canine because like. the whole symbolism thing about being either an obedient or rabid dog. something something muzzled all your life. being a dangerous figure if people only see the silhouette but you just want scritches and nobody'll get close enough to you." black dog symbolism + breed which has ears cropped and tail docked, unecessarily molded for a Purpose which the dog has no say in

annabelle: white-booted racket-tail

sort of my original choice- she used to be part white-booted racket-tail, part anna's hummingbird. kept with the racket-tail cus it's fun and very cute. i've had a couple people express surprise that she wasn't a spider, but i think that's way too obvious. hummingbirds, though- they steal the webs of spiders to use as material to make their nests, but can sometimes become trapped in the webs and eaten by the spiders themselves. which is probably the metaphor-via-fursona-assignment i'm most proud of in this whole list

jane: cabbage white

the cabbage white is a butterfly whose caterpillars are routinely parasitized by the parasitoid wasp the white butterfly parasite. in case you're not familiar, parasitoid wasps lay their eggs on (usually) caterpillars, which hatch on the still-living caterpillar, devouring it from the inside before eventually emerging from the consumed husk of the host. also, i really liked the image of parasitoid wasp larvae emerging from an adult butterfly, rather than a caterpillar.

michael: spiny softshell turtle

for michael and helen, i wanted to choose animals which were, in some way, their own home. turtle is an obvious choice- and spiny softshells are a favorite of mine, and sufficiently strange-looking.

helen: common hermit crab

see previous entry. also please google "hermit crab without shell"

oliver: black vulture

bit of an obvious choice, but i adore vultures so i had to. black vulture chosen because i think the monochrome color scheme + straighter face work better than a turkey vulture for him

peter: risso's dolphin

i really like the idea of a cetacean for peter and the lukases as a whole, a famously social animal for the seemingly contradictory nature of this lonely-but-huge family, plus with so many cetaceans being endangered getting that lonely angle (risso's specifically are not, though, as peter is lonely through his own choice, not by circumstance).

mike: caelestiventus hanseni

it's a dimorphodont. he feels like a pterosaur to me, and i like the idea of a vast avatar as a usually short-flying arboreal species, for the unnaturality/contrast of it.

jude: black kite

black kites are one of the species of kites known to intentionally spread fires by picking up burning sticks to flush out prey.

agnes: ???

the only one i'm still undecided on. will update.

nikola: stealing major's carousel horse

i can't top that

jared: american dog tick

great choice from @/magnusarchivememes. Takes Your Blood And Gets So Big

breekon&hope: Hog and/or Bear. you get no more information

vaguely russian animals that are large and imposing but remain somewhat generic. which is the hog and which is the bear is not consistent.

dekker: mouflon

dekker has very much mammal vibes to me. the mouflon is a neat species of wild sheep. i think the noble, imposing but kind image of the ram works well for dekker as that sort of true-good hero figure, and mouflons in particular are very nice looking with good shapes. the statement giver in distant cousin describes dekker as "though he was slightly shorter than I was, it seemed like he towered over me." which i think this sheep works well with.

gertrude: great tit

i wanted all the main eye avatars as birds, just like how i give them all glasses. just a fun little treat for me. great tit was chosen for gertrude as a kind of classic british bird, and as tits in general are VERY fiesty despite their round and adorable appearance. i really like this image of a great tit posing with a dead mouse like it's a hunter with a trophy deer. the cheek markings also work really well to bring to mind the image of old person jowls.

leitner: domestic cat (persian)

vibes. also i like the idea of him as a spoiled domestic animal. if i remember correctly, this was also @/ofdreamsanddoodles' suggestion

manuela: gray long-eared bat

she's a bat. what's to say. WELL actually okay there's the perception of bats as blind but actually having quite good vision which i think meshes in a fun way with the dark, and the way manuela does her sciency stuff.

rayner: olm

i mean, yeah

salesa: sea otter

largely design-oriented, suitably scruffy. ocean animal with strong social bonds, it was a slam dunk soon as i thought of it.

simon: dodo

how couldn't i, come on.

#tma #furry tma #save

[alphynix]

It Came From The Wastebasket #05: The Trouble With Troodon

Troodontids were small bird-like theropod dinosaurs, lightly built with slender legs and sickle-shaped "raptor" claws on the second toes of their feet. They had fairly big brains proportional to their body size, rather like modern birds, and their large forward-facing eyes had good depth perception. Owl-like asymmetrical ears in some species gave them a very keen sense of hearing, suggesting they may have been nocturnal hunters using sound to pinpoint the location of small prey.

The original specimen of the namesake of the group, Troodon formosus, was a serrated tooth discovered in the 1850s, about 77 million years old and originating from the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation fossil beds in Montana, USA. It was so little to work with that it was initially mistaken for a lizard tooth, then during the 20th century it was recognized as belonging to a dinosaur and spent time classified as a megalosaurid, then a pachycephalosaur, then finally as a small theropod similar to the Mongolian Saurornithoides.

In the late 1980s it was merged together with multiple other troodontids (including Stenonychosaurus of speculative "dinosauroid" fame), and since Troodon had been the first of all of them to be named it took priority as the genus name.

And then for a while every single Late Cretaceous troodontid specimen from North America was also lumped into Troodon, turning it into a wastebasket taxon.

The problem was that all these troodontids came from locations separated by thousands of kilometers and millions of years of time, and it's unlikely that they all actually represented just one single species. But they were only known from rare fragmentary remains, making distinguishing them from each other difficult, and the original Troodon tooth didn't really have any distinctive features either – it turns out most troodontid teeth all look exactly the same!

It was becmoning increasingly dubious whether Troodon was even a valid name at all, and during the 2010s several paleontologists began trying to sort the mess out. The old names Pectinodon and Stenonychosaurus were revived, and some 'Troodon' fossils were also split off and given completely new names, becoming Albertavenator and Latenivenatrix*.

* Although Latenivenatrix might not actually be distinct enough from Stenonychosaurus to justify having a separate name.

As of 2022, Troodon itself is now in a sort of taxonomic limbo, with some paleontologists abandoning it as a dubious name while others are still arguing in favor of continuing to use it. The name could potentially be properly rescued if the original tooth can be clearly linked to better fossil material, letting Troodon take over priority again from one of the other better-established troodontids, or by defining a new type species similar to what happened with Iguanodon.

…But with how incredibly generic that tooth is, both of those options would be very difficult.

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#it came from the wastebasket #wastebasket taxon #taxonomy #troodon #stenonychosaurus #pectinodon #albertavenator #latenivenatrix #troodontid #maniraptora #theropod #dinosaur #paleontology #art #science illustration #paleoart #palaeoblr

[kosmonauttihai]

Feathered redesign of Jurassic World Evolution’s Troodon (rainforest skin).

[Image description: First one of two pictures is a drawing of a fully feathered troodontid, or "raptor", dinosaur against a solid, dark blue background. The dinosaur is sitting down with its back mostly to the viewer, but its head is turned to look directly at the viewer with its mouth open, and its wings are slightly raised. Its plumage is shades of grey and brown, with a light yellow underbelly and face. Its tail and back have stripe patterns, and there are lighter spots on the wings. The face feathers grow in a round disc shape like an owl's, with a dark fringe along the bottom and sides of the disc. The dinosaur's unfeathered snout, fingers, and toes are yellow-brown, and its eyes are large and orange-red with round pupils.

Second picture is a drawing of the same dinosaur in the same pose, sitting in a dark field of tall grass and blue flowers, and illuminated only by a spotlight aimed at the ground slightly to the left of it. A small amount of night sky with stars is visible at the top of the picture, mostly blocked by silhouettes of trees and a tall fence. Most of the dinosaur's face is in shadow, and all that's visible of its eyes is the bright, red shine of its enlargened pupils reflecting the light. In the darkness behind the dinosaur, ten more pairs of shiny, red eyes stare at the viewer from just beyond the reach of the light. The drawings are signed with "Kosmonauttihai / iperyys.net, please don't repost". End description]

#Jurassic Park #Jurassic World #Jurassic World Evolution #dinosaurs #Jurassic series #fanart #the problematic fave #scopophobia tw

[shadythetortie]

how is that dinosaur documentary going so far any favourite moments that are really standing out for you (aside from the chubby adorable ultra huggable carnivores) that you'd like to share?

Well considering I'm biding my time for another hour before the last episode comes out, its definitely got my interest. And by that I mean my brain won't shut up about it. Today was really hard for me and its nice to get a distraction.

Moments that come to mind that I love in no particular order:

- Baby trex on turtle

- Mosasaur spa day

- Ammonite lights and the cave bug lights

- Troodon said arson was good

- Barn owl go brrrrrrr

- Heavy metal music in the sauropod fight

- sometimes you just gotta take a break from fighting because a literal blizzard starts up

- fully feathered raptors launching off of things

- hadrosaurs being good moms in every ep

- the baby that made it from the mosquitoes

- ornithomimus said shoplifting was good

- bisexual pterasaurs

- all of the big tyrannosaurs have little tiny feather coverings even as adults

- holy fuck this looks so real

- 'i dont wanna fight can we fuck instead' 'yea sure'

- modesty leaf for t rexes

#prehistoric planet

[extinction-illustrated]

#owl troodon #troodon #theropod #dinosaur #prince creek formation #cretaceous #alaska #mesozoic #extinct #doodle

[goldenchocobo]

I decided to redraw my ‘trowldon’ since I realised that I updated my Birdilophosaurus but hadn’t touched my trowldon. 

Of course this is in the mindset of Jurassic Park lore, and if they cared about the welfare of their animals and, of course used bird DNA instead of stupid toad DNA.

There’s more of a dramatic difference between the two more so than the two versions of Birdilophosaurus.

Obviously the more likely upright posture and larger tail fan, ending much more naturally. The size of the eyes and actually having a facial disk instead of something that looked like one from the side on. And larger wings for that great RPR and WAIR. 

Now for my favorite bit because it allows my creativity to flow more;

LORE (If this is what INgen had done)

Another nocturnal creature that is mostly solitary and hunts small game using its large and powerful eyes to see in almost pitch darkness. While mostly silent, they will screech horrifically if frightened, giving them the nickname of ‘Banshee dinosaurs’ as their wails are startling and can be heard for miles. While mostly ground dwelling, they will sometimes climb trees in order to escape predators or pursuit prey, or even to survey the landscape.

DNA included in the Trowldon -Troodon -various genus of Tyto owls

#Dinosaur #Jurassic Park #Troodon #Owl #Goldenchocobo's art

[saritawolff]

Archovember Day 27: Stenonychosaurus inequalis

Stenonychosaurus inequalis has had quite a journey. It was named in 1932, but then in 1987 was reassigned to the genus Troodon and, for a while, it was known as /the/ Troodon: if you grew up a dinosaur fan in the 80s and 90s, this was the Troodon you grew up with (weird speculative evolution theories and all.) However, in 2017 Stenonychosaurus was restored, as the genus Troodon is considered potentially dubious (Troodon formosus is based on a single tooth; though the family are still called Troodontids.)

Stenonychosaurus inequalis was a large troodontid from Late Cretaceous Canada. It stood about 3 feet high and was around 8 feet long. It had large eyes and good vision, suggestive of a nocturnal, or at least partially nocturnal lifestyle. Stenonychus is most famous for having a very large brain in comparison to its body size. This would have made it much more intelligent than many of the other dinosaurs that shared its environment, but still about as intelligent as your average bird. (So, not as smart as a raven or parrot, but probably smarter than an owl.)

Since Stenonychosaurus had a sickle claw on each foot like dromeosaurs and some early avialans, it is assumed that they were predators. However, their teeth are different from most other carnivorous theropods, and the shape of their jaws, grasping hands, large brain, and stereoscopic vision seem to indicate an omnivorous diet, similar to a raccoon.

Stenonychosaurus lived alongside the hadrosaurs like Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Prosaurolophus, ceratopsians like Styracosaurus, Centrosaurus, and Chasmosaurus, ankylosaurs like Scolosaurus, Euoplocephalus, and Edmontonia, and pachycephalosaurs like Stegoceras and Foraminacephale. It would have been hunted by apex tyrannosaurs Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus and perhaps the azhdarchid pterosaur Cryodrakon.

#my art #Stenonychosaurus inequalis #Stenonychosaurus #Troodontids #theropods #saurischians #dinosaurs #archosaurs #archosauromorphs #Archovember #Archovember 2021 #Draw Dinovember #Draw Dinovember 2021 #Dinovember #Dinovember 2021 #SaritaDrawsPalaeo

[otussketching]

Here are some more characters for the dino AU by @albertonykus ! I just wanted to draw some more designs for characters I missed from the first batch.

Here's Stevonnie and Bismuth! Stevonnie was a blast to design, amd honestly, the most "fusion" of the gem-fusions I made previously, because here I actually combined the attributes of the two characters into one. I also love Stevonnie as a character! As species go, they are a rather lanky dromaeosaur. Bismuth was a blast as well, because I had to make her muscular in a non-humanoid way. I think she turned out nice. I imagine her doing mannerisms similar to a large kind Brahma rooster. She is, of course, a Utahraptor.

Here are the rest of the pearls, which are Troodons as well! And of course, they still have their personalities. Actually, yellow and blue pearl were really fun to draw, their faces are priceless! As for pink pearl ( or Volleyball), it was fun to draw the underdrawings, but making pinks and reds in watercolour sucks. As for their intended role; you know how some rich folks keep exotic waterfowl, like geese or flamingoes, in their gardens? That's them.

And here's Spinel, who is a parrot. I had many ideas for a rather strechy bird for Spinel, like owls or herons, but I went with a parrot. It actually makes a lot of sense for the following reasons: firstly, parrots are quite amusing birds. Secondly, they are often kept as pets. And thirdly, they often experience neglegt and abuse from their owners, and can often develop traits that are associated with multiple mental disorders in humans. So yeah.

#fanart fart #palaeoblr #steven universe #su au #dinosaur au #steven dromaeverse #SU #stevonnie #bismuth #yellow pearl #blue pearl #pink pearl #volleyball #spinel

[thecoffeeisblack]

Getting the basic color and patterning set up on the work in progress for my Cretaceous Traffic Jam illustration featuring Troodon formosus and Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis. Color is pulling from a Great Horned Owl on and a bit of a Greater Short-Horned Lizard. Troodon will be drawn from an Eastern Downy Woodpecker.

#workinprogress #illustration #wip #troodon #pachyrhinosaurus #cretaceous #dinosaur #dinosaurart #dino #dinoart #paleonotology #paleo #paleoart #sciart #science #educational #naturalhistory #ceratopsian #troodontid #digitalart #digitalillustration #illustrationart #art #artist #maine #maineart #newengland #newenglandart #artistsontumblr

[catkoicalico]

Fuck it im lonely and tired and wanna gush about ark so im gonna do that ark ask meme today. I know no one sent me asks but i feel like doing it. Also ark genesis comes out soon so i wanna do this before any opinions are changed, so i can look back at this preservation and see if i have made any opinion changes.

PARASAUR: What was your first tame ever?

My first tame was a dire wolf, named Applejuice!! I still have her, actually.

My first actual dino was an argentavis who I also still own. I first played ark on a server, with a tribe, and the first thing they did was make me hatch and imprint on an Argie. I hatched Twins, whom I called Hip and Hop. Hip was the first out of the two I imprinted on and he is. A good boy.

RAPTOR: What tame are you most attached to?

Its a 3-Way-Tie. Applejuice (First Tame Direwolf), Amber (My beloved raptor whom i adore with all my heart), and Furby. Furby i. Really should not be attached to. Furby is a jerboa. Furby will die if someone sneezes too hard at him.

PTERANODON: Was there a dino death that really hurt?

S’more the basalisk. I spent so fucking long taming him, because he just would not agro. He was so calm and mellow, which was what got him his name. In the end, it was his mellowness that got him killed. Someone had whistled all dinos to passive, including S’more, who was chilling beside my house. A ravager spawned in base while I was afk and killed him with bleed damage. It might have been my own stupidity but I’m still heartbroken about it. (Also, its not really my fault? I had him set to neutral, precisely in case something like this happened, but someone swapped him to passive).

REX: What’s your favourite species overall?

Hnkkkkk thats a hard one. Snow Owls, if you pressured me. They’re just. So fucking good holy shit?? Gorgeously designed. I dig the mask and i’m big on owls.

IGUANADON: What dinosaur species would you like to see added to the game?

Minmis. Please. That ankylosaur is a comfort species for me. To the point where i have a very old and worn plush one who lives on my bed. I can’t think of what their use would be, but I want them added so badly.

PEGOSTOMAX: What’s your favourite tame to keep on your shoulder?

Jerboas. Easily. I love those fuzzy lil shits with their soft little faces and round bodies and hoppy hoppy legs.

KENTROSAURUS: Favourite unrideable dino?

Once again, I am answering Jerboa to an ark question.

THYLACOLEO: Favourite ability in the game?

Snow Owl Freeze Heal. Useful, cool, and infinitely useful to fuck over your friends.

BROODMOTHER: What’s the first boss you ever fought?

Well. The broodmother.

ARGENTAVIS: Do you have a go-to mount?

Nyra (Snow Owl) and Lena (Griffon) are my two go-tos! As you can clearly tell, I like dive abilities.

TRICERATOPS: Where did you build your first base?

The first base I got to participate in the building of was next to the Ruins of Nosti on Scorched Earth, in what I call the Theropod Teeth but the Wiki apparently calls Southern East High Desert (boring name imo)

DILOPHOSAUR: What’s your favourite base location on each map you’ve played?

The Island - that little divet in land with a lake in the middle of it, surrounded by rocky cliffs and leading into forests along a river. Its nice, i dont know the names for most of the areas and i cant be bothered looking them up.

Valguero - A little cave under one of the mountains, doesn’t have a good area for water dinos but I do not mind.

Scorched Earth - The Theropod Teeth. There’s just. So much you can do with that area, there’s a decent sized lake, and its cozy.

Abberation - There’s a ravine on the border of where green hits blue, really fun to build on the little cliffs along it and use ravagers and rock drakes to go from house to house. There’s easy access to the river and the blue zone from it, and its just. A good time.

Extinction - We live in a rats hole in the mesh. Its great.

BRONTOSAURUS: Favourite Map?

Every map has its own app- its scorched. Its easily scorched. Like. Easily. Everyone has a home map. Scorched is mine.

DIREWOLF: Are there any species you find yourself “collecting”?

Changes map to map. On the island it was easter event dire wolves, on scorched it was jerboas, on abberation it was shinehorns, and on extinction at the moment its compies.

EQUUS: If you were allowed to play with only three items, ever, (not including structures and food) what would they be?

Longneck rifle, tranq darts, canteen for water. My dinos can compensate for everything else.

GALLIMIMUS: Favourite saddle design?

See this question is difficult because I play with the Eco’s Saddles mod so I am used to weird lookin saddles. I think the argie saddle wins me over for default, something about how it fits over their beak and back is great.

QUETZAL: What was your first ever “big” tame?

A tek rex! We needed one to prep for taking on bosses, and we found one close to max level on the Carnivore Island. We all bundled up our best taming rifles and flew out immediately.

MEGALODON: Top 5 favourite mods?

Eco’s Primordial Saddles, Roleplay Decoration, Structures Plus, Domination Rexes (not useful but very fun) and Classic Fliers. Excluding Structures Plus since thats kind of a necessary one I’d say King Jerboa takes sixth entirely because its a giant jerboa you can ride and i fucking love jerboas.

TERROR BIRD: Favourite mutation you’ve ever bred?

In preparation for King Titan, we were trying to get the perfect gigas going to set on his smaller forms. I bred the first one and lucked out on a melee mutation first try!! Punchy boi fathered all 70 of the gigas we launched at the king titan.

TITANOSAUR: PVP or PVE?

PvE every time. Ark is stressful enough.

LEEDSICHTHYS: Are there any species you dont plan on taming?

Troodons. Which is sad, I fucking love troodons, but it’s not worth it. Its not worth sacrificing my tames. I’m also not that interested in taming Megalodons.

SPINOSAUR: What’s your favourite biome to explore?

Swamps. I fucking love swamps and redwoods. I also like deserts, but is it really exploring if you can see everything for miles around?

DOEDICURUS: Have you built a structure that you’re especially proud of?

Well, my personal house on extinction is an evil office tower. But I loved my house on Abberation. I was so proud of it. It had a veranda and an attic and storage spaces, a massive bedroom for me, a perch for my bulbdog (Mary) beside my bed. It was rlly cool. And it was covered by vines and shit and tucked away on a sneaky little cliff easy to miss.

[irradiatedsnakes]

🐯 more tma furries please please i love your designs!!!

REALIZED I HAVE A BUNCH IN THE STORE THAT NEVER GOT POSTED? HERES SOME MIKE CREW AND MANUELA DOMINGUEZ, PLUS JON BASIRA AND MANUELA FROM HEART OF DARKNESS AND JON ALL BUNDLED UP FOR NY ALESUND

thaaaats grey long eared bat manuela, swift & dimorphodon mike, little owl basira, & as usual raven/troodon jon

#tma #manuela dominguez #mike crew #jonathan sims #basira hussain #art #furRay #furry tma

[ask-palaeoblr]

Would it be reasonable to speculate that dinosaurs like artic troodon and leaellynasaura would have a circular face disk made out of feathers like what owls have due to the environment they lived in?

#ask-palaeoblr #palaeoblr #ask #dinosaurs #prehistoric life #the-lagster

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Is there a list of previous years' DMM contestants somewhere, so we can see which dinosaurs can't be campaigned for?

Imma just. Write it up here. 

Note: All species of a particular genus are ineligible unless the entry is listed by the specific species that was in the competition. Common names are listed where applicable. 

INELIGIBLE DINOSAURS, BY CATEGORY FOR #DMM2018, LISTED UNDER THEIR GENUS

DROMAEOSAURS

DeinonychusUtahraptorMicroraptorVelociraptorDakotaraptor

ENANTIORNITHES

Avisaurus

MISC. TETANURANS

Cryolophosaurus

BASAL THEROPODS

DilophosaurusCoelophysis

ALVAREZSAURS & THERIZINOSAURS

TherizinosaurusShuvuuiaMononykusNothronychus 

ORNITHOMIMOSAURS

DeinocheirusGallimimus

TYRANNOSAUROIDS

TyrannosaurusYutyrannus

BASAL CERATOSAURS

N O N E

CARNOSAURS

AllosaurusCarcharodontosaurus

BASAL COELUROSAURS

SinosauropteryxCompsognathus

BASAL AVIALAE

ArchaeopteryxBalaurConfuciusornis

ABELISAURIDS

CarnotaurusMajungasaurus

OVIRAPTOROSAURS

CitipatiAnzu

MEGALOSAURS

BaryonyxSpinosaurus

EUORNITHES

Hesperornis 

BASAL PARAVIANS

TroodonYi

FLAGELLICAUDATANS

AmargasaurusBrontosaurusDiplodocusBrachytrachelopanApatosaurus

BASAL SOMPHOSPONDYLIANS

Sauroposeidon

BASAL DINOSAURS

EoraptorHerrerasaurus

BASAL SAUROPODOMORPHS/PROSAUROPODS

PantydracoThecodontosaurusBuriolestes

BASAL TITANOSAURIFORMES

GiraffatitanBrachiosaurus

BASAL PLATEOSAURS

MassospondylusPlateosaurus

MAMENCHISAURS & TURIASAURS 

MamenchisaurusOmeisaurusZby

BASAL MACRONARIANS

CamarasaurusBellusaurus

AMERICAN TITANOSAURS

SaltasaurusArgentinosaurusPuertasaurusDreadnoughtusAlamosaurus

BASAL SAUROPODIFORMES

JingshanosaurusAardonyx

MISCELLANEOUS TITANOSAURS

N O N E

BASAL GRAVISAURS

ShunosaurusVulcanodon

BASAL DIPLODOCOIDS 

NigersaurusRebbachisaurus

ASIAN TITANOSAURS

N O N E

BASAL SAUROPODS

N O N E

BASAL DINOSAUROMORPHS

N O N E

CHASMOSAURINES

TriceratopsChasmosaurus

BASAL HADROSAURIFORMES

IguanodonOuranosaurus

BASAL NEORNITHISCHIANS

HypsilophodonKulindadromeusLeaellynasauraOthnielia

SAUROLOPHINES

EdmontosaurusMaiasaura

LEPTOCERATOPSIDS & BASAL CORNOSAURIANS

Protoceratops

LAMBEOSAURINES

ParasaurolophusLambeosaurusCorythosaurus

BASAL IGUANODONTIANS

MuttaburrasaurusDryosaurus

BASAL ORNITHISCHIANS

HeterodontosaurusScutellosaurusTianyulong

DERIVED NODOSAURS

EdmontoniaSauropelta

CENTROSAURINES

StyracosaurusPachyrhinosaurus

BASAL NODOSAURS

N O N E

ANKYLOSAURIDS

AnkylosaurusMinmi

BASAL CERATOPSIANS

PsittacosaurusYinlong

PACHYCEPHALOSAURS

PachycephalosaurusStegoceras

BASAL ANKYLOPOLLEXIANS

Draconyx

STEGOSAURS

KentrosaurusStegosaurus

ACCIPITROMORPHS & OPISTHOCOMIFORMES

Gypaetus (Bearded Vulture) Sagittarius (Secretary Bird) Opisthocomus (Hoatzin) Harpia (Harpy Eagle) 

PASSERIDANS

Parus (Great Tit & other members of Parus) 

NON-PICIFORM CORACIIMORPHS

Dacelo (Blue-Winged Kookaburra & other members of Dacelo) Pharomachrus (Resplendent Quetzal & other members of Pharomachrus) Upupa (Hoopoes) 

STRISORES

Nyctibius (Common Potoo & other members of Nyctibius) Mellisuga (Bee Hummingbird & other members of Mellisuga) Podargus (Tawny Frogmouth & other members of Podargus) 

GALLOANSERANS

Gallus (Chicken & other members of Gallus) Pavo (Indian Peafowl & other members of Pavo) Gastornis

ARDEAENS

Balaeniceps (Shoebill) Eudyptula (Little Blue Penguin & other members of Eudyptula) 

SUBOSCIENS

N O N E

PALAEOGNATHS

Struthio (Ostriches) Casuarius (Cassowaries) Apteryx (Kiwi)

MIRANDORNITHES & CHARADRIIFORMES

Pinguinus (Great Auk)

CORVIDANS

Corvus (Common Raven & other members of Corvus) Cyanocitta (Blue Jay & other members of Cyanocitta) 

PICIFORMES

N O N E

OWLS

Tyto (Barn Owl & other members of Tyto) Athene (Burrowing Owl & other members of Athene) 

COLUMBAVES

Columba (Rock Dove/Pigeon & other members of Columba) Raphus (Dodo) 

PARROTS

Strigops (Kakapo)Psittacus (African Grey Parrot & other members of Psittacus) 

GRUIFORMES

Grus (Whooping Crane & other members of Grus) 

CARIAMIFORMES & FALCONS

Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon)TitanisPhorusrhacos

#dmm2018 #dinosaur march madness #palaeoblr #dinosaurs #birds #birblr #dmm #therechercherambler

[drkineildwicks]

More dino art~

TFW most cryptid sightings are assigned to city people encountering owls and panicking.  BUT...what if they were dinosaurs???

Please reblog and not repost, thank you! :D

So!  More dinosaur art—that has been in the queue for ages I’m sorry but for a while it was I’ll get around to it and then it was I hate interacting with DA Eclipse the UI sucks wastewater. X\

But behold!  Have a Troodon—or rather, a Troodontid; apparently they’re considered a “wastebasket taxon” mostly comprised of small bird-like dinosaurs.  Personally, those toes of theirs makes me think raptor instead, but what the hey.

Once again looked up the skeleton for this as a starting point, and then worked with the concept I was going for—that is, the idea that cryptids such as the Flatwoods Monster are often mistaken for large owls.  With that in mind, started with barn owls, which are often considered spooky-looking because of the white faces.  Did, however, add the red fluff in imitation of descriptions of the Flatwoods Monster though (not sure why I got on that a few years ago, maybe there was a special on TV).

Next I sampled long-eared and great horned owls for the face and ear tufts, then added the head ridge of fluff for the funzies, if I recall.  Might have sampled burrowing owls too, can’t recall now.  Do know that I had fun making this guy extra fluffy because…seriously look at owl skeletons or even naked owls and then look at the final product—it’s weird.

Did this in my sketchy painterly style which I love—and then there’s the dino-only version which I did because trying to put it on Ko-Fi had me realizing that the original file is HUGE.  Kinda glad I have it too, really shows off the dino. :D

Don’t have much else to say about it after this because I already said it for the full illustration, but uh…I love how stumpy all the fluff makes him look because all the fluff on his butt makes his tail look shorter and all the meat on his legs makes them look odd, even though that’s how the bone structure is. XD  Anywho, enjoy! :D

See the DA version here and here, and enjoy cryptid dino-birbs that may or may not be haunting West Virginia….

 Done in Adobe Photoshop (with a Wacom Tablet!)

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#dinosaur #dinosaur art #paleontology #paleo art #troodon #troodontid #adobe photoshop #I love the idea that dinos were all big fluffbutts like I needed more reason to love them #bird dinos #birb dinos #birbs with teeth and claws #give me a JP remake with THAT forget whatever JW was