#the-megalosaurus

[fishsfailureson]

"What is to come"

(image id is both in the alt text and below the read more- I put it under one because it's incredibly long)

And so there we have it, the 200+ followers artpiece that I have been working on for several days, if I had to guess I'd say it took 25 or so hours over eleven days. Honestly it's so surreal to me that I'm here with over 200 followers (260 as of typing this- yes, I procrastinated on this), especially when I only hit 100 followers in February. It's genuinely really nice to know that people are actually interested in my art (before anyone brings up spam bots- I know there are a few of them amongst my followers but I've checked most of them and I am 100% confident that over 200 of them are real). I don't really have much else to say really- I'm just grateful to have the support. Thanks y'all :).

[Image id: a large, lineless digital drawing of several dinosaurs. It is nighttime. At the bottom of the piece, a lone Eoraptor lunensis is walking across the floodplains- both the ground and the Eoraptor are just silhouettes, the early dinosaur has been given protofeathers. The full moon is shining, it's size is exaggerated for artistic affect. Behind the moon, the heads of sixteen different dinosaurs can be seen (listed left to right, bottom to top) Row 1- Thecodontosaurus antiquus (small sauropodomorph with light brown protofeathers, near-white undersides, straight stripes that are moderately darker than the base colour and vibrant green eyes), Coelophysis bauri (small early theropod with a long and narrow skull, its protofeathers are golden and black. A soft orange stripe runs across the back of its head, it has warm brown eyes. Row 2- Plateosaurus trossingensis (long-necked sauropodomorph, it has reddish-brown scales, light undersides, triangular stripes running down it's spine that get bigger the further down they get and pale yellow eyes), Heterodontosaurus tuckii (small ornithopod with a hooked grey beak. It has spiky green feathers, a lighter chest and a darker stripe running along its head and back, there are three small spots on its face, two behind the eye and one infront of it, it's eyes are bright yellow). Row 3- Megalosaurus bucklandii (medium-sized theropod with warm brown feathers, lighter undersides, dark spots and bright yellow eyes, there are several scars on its face), Brachiosaurus altithorax (greenish-grey true sauropod with lighter undersides, a dark pink patch on its throat, dark desaturated brown eyes and a few small scars on its neck), Archaeopteryx (early toothed bird with a black head, white neck and bright yellow eyes). Row 4- Hylaeosaurus armatus (pale brown ankylosaur with lighter undersides and vibrant green eyes), Velociraptor mongoliensis (dromaeosaur with light brown feathers, a lighter chest, a black stripe near its eye and light green eyes), Sinosauropteryx prima (small compsognathid theropod with ginger protofeathers, an off white mask and undersides and pale yellow eyes), Iguanodon bernissartensis (large greenish-grey ornithopod with a slightly darker back, pale undersides, a grey beak, and yellow eyes). Row 5- Matuku otagoense (heron with medium grey feathers and a small crest. A red stripe runs from just behind its nostrils to about a third of the way down its neck. Its undersides are white, its beak is grey and its eyes are brown), Triceratops prorsus (three-horned ceratopsian with grey-brown scales, lighter undersides, two triangular stripes between it's brow and nasal horns, reddish-orange diamond-like stripes on its frill, a hooked grey beak and golden eyes. Its brow horns curve forward at the base. Row 6- North Island brown kiwi (plump brown bird with a long pale beak, whiskers and black eyes, its nostrils are at the tip of its bill, and unlike the other dinosaurs in the sky part of its body below the neck is visible), male house sparrow (small redish-brown and grey bird with a black bib below it's bill), it has brown eyes and a dark grey bill. Row 7- rock dove (grey bird with iridescent green feathers scattered across its neck, a dark grey beak, and warm brown eyes). end id]

[cypressure]

Megalosaurus bucklandii portraits

[barghest-land]

11: megalosaurus enjoying her snack under some dead trees:) process under the cut! (it took 5 hours and i died)

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Happy 200th birthday to Megalosaurus bucklandii!!!

On the 20th of February, 1824, English palaeontologist William Buckland announced a discovery at a meeting of the Geological Society of London. The fossil jawbone, several vertebrae, pelvis and limb elements he presented that day belonged to a creature unlike anything seen before: a gigantic, land-living carnivore to which he gave the name Megalosaurus, the "Great Reptile".

This announcement, including an official published description of the fossil remains, was the first of three named species that in 1842 would be collected together by Richard Owen into the group Dinosauria. This makes Megalosaurus, revealed to the world on this day 200 years ago, the first Mesozoic dinosaur to be scientifically named!

Over the years Megalosaurus has been through some ups and downs, from being the most famous dinosaurian predator to being a wastebasket taxon that basically every scrappy theropod fossil was assigned to, to slightly fading into obscurity as more spectacular finds take the spotlight. But through it all the legacy it holds as the dinosaur that kicked off this whole wild 200 year train will always be unique.

So congrats to Megalosaurus on 200 years of being a truly Great Reptile!

[stavrosskundromichalis]

Happy anniversary Megalosaurus bucklandii! Two hundred years ago it became the first dinosaur to be named 🥳🦖🎉🍾

[chameleocoonj]

birthday baby and his friends :)

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2012 I built an immersive Jurassic exhibition for Scarborough's Rotunda Museum. My centrepiece was a life-size juvenile Megalosaurus; here's how I built it (Part 2 of 8 ).

[rootsinthefuture]

Early 20th century photo of a huge megalodon caught by fishermen in the South Pacific

[kakapojay]

His name is Big Gunch

[neyonic]

Amber isle really have so many cute characters and it makes me want to draw them! So here is a colored sketch of Adi the Megalosaurus! :)

[proflambeovt]

Patreon Rewards for November 2024!

[fishsfailureson]

yeah

[nazrigar]

Women's History Month 2024 - Mary Buckland and Megalosaurus

It's International Women's Day! Featuring Mary Buckland, the OG Paleoartist, AKA the lady who drew the iconic Megalosaurus jaw described by her husband William in 1824!

Coincidentally, Megalosaurus' first scientific description turned 200 years old earlier this year!

[dinolegend-paleoart]

The first 3 dinosaurs

[alex-fictus]

My Mesozoic is Blue 💙💙💙

Nyasasaurus - Hatzegopteryx - Maiasaurus

Liopleurodon - Unenlagia - Qianzhousaurus

Sarcosuchus - Sinomacrops - Vallibonavenatrix

Majungasaurus - Maip macrothorax - Arkansaurus

Gastonia - Styracosaurus - Ankylosaurus

Troodon (?) - Megalosaurus** - Brachiosaurus

Stickers || Phone Wallpapers Masterlist

**Megalosaurus is in my updates list. Gotta take care of those broken wrists by the time their discovery day comes around next year!

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Megalosaurus 200th Birthday

happy 200th birthday to Megalosaurus!!! here's to 200 years of having the first properly described dinosaur genus!