#this is technically dinosaurs!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

how did your spouse propose :o

we went to the Field Museum, like we always did when we lived in Chicago, and he asked me in front of the Maiasaura (my favorite dinosaur), on my birthday <3 it was perfect

[sombertide-0]

day 4, argentavis!

[omg-snakes]

With my ongoing promise to share other pet photos rarely and randomly, here's my little-big finch, David. He is a diamond firetail, Stagonopleura guttata. David likes things that are light-colored (cotton, white feathers) and also things that are long (grass, my hair) so a paper towel cut into thin strips was the best of both worlds. He is very, very smart. He understands some human words (you're okay, water, seeds) and he will play with my hair if I stay very still. He has a flock call that sounds so sad and plaintive but he only uses it on me because I am his food-giver. His song is a rattling raspy buzz and is accompanied by a bobbing dance while holding something long. He has an arranged marriage to Alice, another of his species. They have different interests but they mostly get along okay. They cooperate on foraging enrichment and they share a nest for sleeping. I think David might be a human imprint.

Birds aren't snakes but they are dinosaurs so, like, close enough.

[albino-parakeet]

"The Towering Guard"

I know it’s not possible because the Spinoceratops hybrid is made for colder climates. But the idea of Sammy and Yaz keeping Angel and Rebel similar to farmers using donkeys to protect livestock, wouldn’t leave my mind until I drew something for it.

(little practice sketches)

Yes I gave them a more accurate sail and kind of a paddle tail. lol

[viviraptor-art]

wanted to post the ending of this vid by itself too 💕

[qwantzfeed]

"No, Angola," said Ms. Antsalova, "my name is not a sex thing.  Please get your mind out of the gutter, and into the small Madagascarian town and commune I am named after."

[mammoth-clangen]

Do you have any source websites about mesozoic wildlife/ecosystems? I want to make a clangen or just comic thing about some form of dinosaur (either the microraptor, velociraptor, or kulindadromeus) and I'd like to figure out what other species were a part of their life

Nope sorry, research is rarely that easy buuuuut...

*cracks knuckles*

H'okay I have some advice but it'll probably be long and rambly.

Disclaimer:

I am a professional Nothing and am not an authority on anything. There is no right or wrong, this is just how I Personally do research.

Short answer:

Work out what geological formation(s) your chosen main-character-species is found in and Wikipedia it. (E.g. Kulindadromeus is fron the Russian Ukureyskaya Formation). Then go to Wikipedia's sources and skim at least the abstracts of scientific papers to get an idea if things.

If the Formation is lacking info, try searching the Epoch they're from. By that I mean "middle Jurassic" not just "Jurassic" 'cause each of these is already Huge, you want a decent idea of the overallworld they lived in! (Better yet, get it to stage, like Callovian or Maastrichian)

Also learn to draw ferns, lots of ferns, there's no grass in the Mesozoic so the groundcover is Weird cx

Long answer

(to be considered before even getting to the above step):

When choosing a setting for a story, particularly a paleo one, I find it useful to decide on what kind of story I want to tell first, then pick a species that compliments that.

A clangen, for example, relies heavily on the species being very social (such as herding hadrosaurs or sauropods). Telling a story about a lone traveller might be better with a large pterosaur or wandering ceratopsian. A story about warring factions would be better set a high competition environment like the Kem Kem or Morison, with several fighting predator guilds. Conversely a story about working through personal differences may be better with different species of herbivores living in symbiosis; hadrosaurs and ornithomimids acting like modern gazelles and zebras.

Etc etc

Choosing a species first is fine, but you'll likely have to work the story around what makes sense within that! Otherwise you end up with the aforementioned social tigers and patriarchal hyenas.

Also don't shrink-wrap your dinosaurs im begging on my hands and knees

tl;dr: research everything, choosing a species before a story is climbing ass-first up a tree, Wikipedia is your friend because they compile and summarise primary sources

[blorbohoarder]

wait guys look at this headcanon of mine

he gets too excited at times and then speaks too fast and stutters on every word

[prismatixxkhaos]

Lineart of that pterodactylus sketch I posted a few days ago!! He’s flying with his buddies!

(Finished drawing will be soon, just making sure I got all the finishing touches n stuff)

[caterpillarinacave]

I firmly believe that a bunch of the British Museum exhibits ended up back in NYC solely because Tilly decided she’s not giving up her middle Paleolithic man candy

[friedtiiger]

DINO TRIO series of icon commissions for a client with the cutest dino OCs :3

[fabrizio-art]

Mawkin Suit Samus- Metroid Dread Fanart (Timelapse)

What if?

https://youtube.com/shorts/-iLdr3sz98o?feature=share

I loved Dread and everything related to Mawkin lore so I started wondering how'd it be like if Samus went somewhat the opposite direction of the Metroid suit in exploring her hidden powers.

Not necessarily an evil Samus, but that's an interesting angle too.

[tincanneddrawings]

I got a drawing tablet as a birthday present a while ago and I just now decided to doodle some boombox with it.

[titaniumshortcake]

You've strayed far from safety, following the whims of your curiosity. This cave is taken, and its occupant does not welcome the company of strangers. She heard you long before you spotted her; now she stands coiled to strike, should she dislike your next move.

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Imagine forever drawing your old cringe edgelord OCs, couldn't be me dhfjsf

Throwback to the days when Steeltalon lived alone and her home was a literal hole in the ground; a cave system well away from the reach of Isla Sorna's larger predators. She was one of my first OCs, had her since I was a wee bean of eleven years old. Being a violent cave hermit was not the edgiest I wrote her as, nor the stupidest thing I ever wrote her doing. Ah, the good old days of RP forums.

Anyway long story short I saw one of these Goretober prompts was "hooks", and how could I NOT immediately think of raptor claws

Lighting and pose ref'd from this wonderfully scary video.

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Im feeling generous, so here’s

All of this weeks homeworm art

Yellow tailed melanids

Melanornis xanthocaudis

Southern megabird

Titanornis gigantis

Struthiopsittacidae indet.

Passeripsittacidae indet.

Dome headed flower eater

Pachycephalogekko ferrucephalis

Ocean grydle

Xenopelagis ichthyomorphis

Striped Redneck

Erythrocephalis migratorius

Spotted sea dragon

Pelagodraco septentris

Western Pilotpole

Ductogirinus naucrates

Black tailed albarrots

Ardeapsittacis diomedus

Tiger sharkpole

Squalogyrinus tigrinus

Eastern Pilotpole

Ductogyrinus striatus

Digging finpole

Fossopterygius paternis

[viviraptor-art]

other boys are boring and you're a burning house i want to live in