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Jurassic World and other media things: Have their raptors have ridiculously wiggly tails
Actual raptor tails:
the tail is so stiff the tendons became bones
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Another commission done, for Zapsalight on Twitter! My commissions are open.
#prehistory#paleoart#palaeoart#dinosaur#dinosaurs#velociraptor#dromaeosaur#dromaeosaurs#dromaeosaurid#feathered raptor#feathered dinosaurs#dinosaur art#dinosaur commissions open#dinosaur commissions#raptor oc#raptor character#dinosaur oc#dinosaur character#dinosaur illustration#paleobr#paleofur#dino oc#commissions open
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Pencil impression of Sauronitholestes langstoni, a 2-meter-long Late Campanian-Early Maastichtian dromaeosaur from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta that is also essentially Canada’s answer to Velociraptor
#paleoart#paleontology#dinosaurs#dinosaur#sauronitholestes#dromaeosaurs#dromaeosaurid#dromaeosaur#late cretaceous#paleoartist#palaeontology#paleoblr#palaeoblr#palaeoart#dinosaur artwork#dinosaur art#pencil artwork#pencildrawing#pencil sketch#pencil art#pencil
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Would any dromaeosaurs have likely had bald heads like turkey vultures?
It's certainly possible, and I'd go so far as to say quite likely!
We do have some fossil evidence for dromaeosaurs with feathered heads:
Image sources: Tianyuraptor, Sinornithosaurus, Daurlong, Microraptor.
As for the rest though, we don't have a clear fossil of a bald-headed dromaeosaur! To be certain, we'd probably need to find specific impressions of naked skin around the head, which to my knowledge has not been found yet.
The feathered fossils above belong to either small (right side) or medium-sized (left side) dromaeosaurs, so it indicates that any dromaeosaurs up to a Velociraptor-type size certainly could have had feathered heads.
That being said, the level of head feathering is very variable in modern birds even within the same group. Some vultures have bald heads which may help with cleaning their faces and heat regulation, but there's much wider variation than you might expect! Even just within the clade Aegypiinae, we've got:
Image sources: hooded, griffon, red-headed, lappet-faced, white-headed, cinereous.
There's a whole range from nearly full plumage to fully naked skin folds to Justin Timberlake Ramen Hair, and I'd say there's no reason to think that dromaeosaurs and other feathered dinosaurs couldn't have had the same level of variation between species!
It's the kinda situation where in the absence of direct evidence, I'd consider varying levels of head baldness in dromaeosaurs as pretty reasonable speculation! So here's a Deinonychus decked out with a variety of different styles that are within the realms of possibility:
And that's not even taking into account that in a lot of bald-headed birds that skin space is prime real estate for all sorts of flippy flappy dangly bits and colours and lumps and bumps.
So basically, it's not like we can point at any particular dromaeosaurs and be like "that one probably had a bald head", but unless there's contrary evidence I feel it's very likely there was a lot of variation in how feathery the head was!
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I work at a dinosaur museum and this is our desktop background. Thought you all should know
#museum#museumblr#dinosaur#utahraptor#walking with dinosaurs#dromaeosaurs#paleoblr#paleontology#paleo#paleo meme#dinosaurs#museum aesthetic
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✨ dinosaurifies ur kawoshin ✨
Shinji as Dromaeosaurs
Kaworu as Saurornithoides
#nge x paleoart strikes again#my art#neon genesis evangelion#nge#shinji ikari#kaworu nagisa#kawoshin#dinosaur#dromaeosaur#dromaeosaurs#troodontid#saurornithoides#paleoart#paleoblr#fanart#digital art#artists on tumblr
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A little velociraptor skull doodle- still not particularly experienced with drawing bones but hey I did my best, that's what really matters. (also wikipedia has so many good photos of bones which is nice yay)
Also an entry for my sideblog @artist-quests
#art#my art#digital art#paleoart#paleontology#palaeoblr#archosaurs#dinosaurs#theropods#coelurosaurs#maniraptorans#paravians#dromaeosaurs#velociraptor#cretaceous#queue
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Lokiceratops fighting off a flock of Dromaeosaurs
really happy with how this one turned out
#paleoart#lokiceratops#dromaeosaurs#ceratopsian#theropod#dinosaur#dragon draws creatures#i was really proud of the lineart which lead me to want to make this drawing really good so i spent way more time rendering than normal#theres minimal use of brushes for cheezing scales a lot are hand drawn#all this for a dinosaur that is debatable if its even a seperate species from medusaceratops#fun fact while everyone else is drawing their lokiceratops green mine has purple and gold patterns#yes that is a refrence to loki fire emblem because im not like other girls and i thought it would look cool#also i finished this like a week ago and been forgetting to post it but it felt too good to label as “today in art i forgor to post”
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you’re home!
#thinkin about dromaeosaurs (again)#velociraptor#velociraptor mongoliensis#dromaeosaur#dromaeosaurs#dromaeosaurid#dromaeosaurids#dromaeosauridae#velociraptorinae#mesozoic#cretaceous period#late cretaceous#late cretaceous period#paleoart#paleontology#dinosaur#dinosaurs#theropod#theropods#theropoda#my art
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Microraptor, one of the smallest dromaeosaurs
#dinosaur#dinosaurs#paleontology#microraptor#raptor#dromaeosaur#dromaeosaurs#feathered#feathered dinosaurs#paleoart#dinosaur art#prehistoric
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So it turns out Terror Birds/Cariamiformes are, in every possible sense, "Dromaeosaurs 2: The Quickening"
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Austroraptor while mainly subsisting on aquatic prey like fish, was still a massive and likely territorial apex predator. Without much need to be social either aside from perhaps a mate bond.
Prehistoric Planet does an exceptional job portraying that here, among many other things.
#prehistoric planet#prehistoric planet season 2#dinosaurs#austroraptor#maniraptora#birds#nature#animals#paleoblr#paleobiology#paleontology#feathered dinosaurs#dromaeosaurs#velociraptor#jurassic park#jurassic world
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Utahraptors drinking by the steam, 136 million years ago - a scene from the Cedar Mountain Formation featuring many of the creatures form that formation
#paleoart#dinosaur#dinosaurs#paleontology#utahraptor#cedar mountain formation#cedarosaurus#palaeontology#palaeoblr#falcarius#iguanacolossus#dromeosaur#dromaeosaurs#dromaeosaurid#palaeoart#early cretaceous#paleoartist#paleobiology#paleoblr#paleoartists on tumblr#dinosaur artwork#dinosaur art
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it's so funny how people went "oh velociraptors aren't as big as in jurassic park so clearly they're just tiny little chickens any person or modern animal could defeat with ease"
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Who is Hunted Now??
#jurassic park#dinosaurs#dinosaur toys#robert muldoon#jurassic world#beast wars#maximal#predacon#velociraptor#dinobot#mattel#dromaeosaurs#deinobot#jurassic world mattel#jurassic park mattel#hasbro#action figures#universal studios#hammond collection#transformers#toy photography#crossover
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The recently named unenlagiine Diuqin from Argentina surveying it's surroundings on an overcast evening.
Also doubles as an entry for my sideblog @artist-quests (shaded this with red)
#art#my art#digital art#paleoart#paleontology#palaeoblr#archosaurs#dinosaurs#theropods#coelurosaurs#maniraptorans#paravians#dromaeosaurs#unenlagiines#diuqin#queue
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