Halszkaraptorines were a group of small dromaeosaurids known only from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. They were odd little raptors with flattened snouts, long necks, and flipper-like arms – features that suggest they were specialized for swimming, making them the second known lineage of semi-aquatic non-avian dinosaurs after the spinosaurids.
This "duck-raptor" interpretation has been a little controversial since it was first proposed in 2017, but we've just gotten some more evidence for it in the form of an entirely new halszkaraptorine.
Natovenator polydontus lived in what is now the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia, around 72 million years ago. The size of a small duck, about 45cm long (18"), it had jaws full of many needle-like teeth, a long flexible goose-like neck, and a streamlined body with a wide flattened ribcage convergently shaped like those of modern diving birds.
Although it had long strong legs, these don't show much in the way of aquatic specializations and would have been used more for walking and running on land. Instead it may have used its flipper-like arms to propel itself through the water, like modern penguins or auks.
It probably had a lifestyle similar to modern mergansers, swimming and diving in lakes and rivers, and preying on fish, amphibians, and aquatic invertebrates.
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a lone Velociraptor watches the rains come to the desert. 12x12 linocut
editions coming soonish, i couldn’t work on it this weekend bc i was too sick to go to the studio—but give me a follow over here or hmu to be added to my mailing list if you’d like to be notified when prints of this go on sale!
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Dino soar? :0
We do a little soaring
(Ambopteryx longibrachium, a smol scansoriopterygid)
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Grabs you (politely)
Perhaps can you (any of you guys ;0 )draw a yi qi ? beloved little dudes
Absolutely !!
Here is your Yi Qi content
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Cody Christian photographed by Arthur Galvao for Bello Magazine, September 2017. Cody wears jacket and pants Paraval, necklace IceLink
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ummmm happy valentine's day
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midnight stars n you ft. saint alessia the paravant .......
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I'm really forcing myself to draw hands bc of these guys (I need Stanley to sign I physically need it) and I can't decide if it's nice or just painful
I sketched this on the corner of my page we will see if I actually go down this road to finish their design lol
He remembered to smell the roses for them.
I think the implications here are clear but I will say... "I can smell them" is a funny way to put it and I still laugh even when it's supposed to be sad
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Day 3: Stenonychosaurus
The duo troodontid are on the prowl and scrolling through areas.
Plus here’s the interesting part about this species. In 2021, a largest troodontid Latenivenatrix is lumped into the same species of Stenonychosaurus after they reported revealing the paper, which that makes well, Stenonychosaurus the largest known species that ever existed.
Also it safe to say, the new studies during this year are revealed that Troodontid are possibly ether omnivory diets or just full time herbivores.
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Folding-screen panels which survived from the Corner Reception-Room of Her Majesty at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo
Here you have all of the tapestry panels from the folding/privacy screens which were used to decorate the Corner Reception-Room of Her Majesty. Originally, this room was decorated with three folding-screens, each of them were gilded, and were most likely executed by either the firms of N. Svirsky or F.F. Meltser & Co. (R.F. Meltser was the Court Decorator to Their Majesties). These tapestries which were fitted to various folding-screens (paravents) can be identified in the autochrome plate made during the late Summer of 1917 by war-time photographer Andrei Zeest. One tapestry panel depicts the double-headed eagle surrounded by scrollwork, filigree and ribbons. The other tapestry panels are said to be from the reign of King Louis XV of France by way of the monogram which is depicted in the center of each of the panels. All of the tapestry panels reside at GMZ Pavlovsk.
Please enjoy! Also, if you re-share and/or post these photographs elsewhere PLEASE credit Gosfond and GMZ Pavlovsk accordingly! Thank-you!
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Source:
Gosfond (State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia)
Link of courtesy:
www.goskatalog.ru
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