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fundinofactoftheday · 2 years

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Dinofact #43

Dilong paradoxus is a basal tyrannosauroid from China. Fossilised skin impressions from the animal near the jaw and tail show that it was likely covered of simple feathers. The simple structure of the feathers could not have allowed for flight, so it is likely that they were used for insulation. Adult tyrannosaurs found in Alberta and Mongolia showed skin impressions of the typical pebbly scales, leading paleontologist Xu Xing and colleagues (who also discovered Dilong in 2004) to believe that the dinosaur may have had feathered in some spots but not others. Additional speculation is that juvenile Dilong had a coat of insulating feathers, but these were lost in adulthood because the adult dinosaur no longer needed the additional insulation.

Source: wikipedia

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dinodanicus · 5 months

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A lone scutellosaurus forages for food on the forest floor as a light rain begins to fall.

#my art #dinosaur #scutellosaurus #prehistoric #forest #ferns #rains #scales #scutes #paleontology #paleoart #paleoillustration #illustration #jurassic #small #herbivore #wildlife art #wildlife #cute

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 8 months

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Dino Feet Friday

#dinosaurs #birds #feet #claws #scales #feathers #photos

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cypressure · 3 months

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Austroposeidon on a treacherous path above the waves

#austroposeidon #sauropod #paleoart #paleoblr #dinosaurs #procreate #digital art #man it really is tricky to get the scale looking good with the big guys #might use this concept for another drawing though i like it..

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the-dragon-girl-27 · 24 days

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flocking drawings!!

Young Altispinax preparing to do a mating display

Thyreosaurus slaying a Theropod

Ornithoprion just swimming round

Mama Mapusaurus bringin home a Chakisaurus carcass for her daughter

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pharawee · 9 months

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vickysaurus · 11 months

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Obsessed with the absolute mollycoddle of a good time Tarbosaurus has of it in Prehistoric Planet. Their adventures include finding a free sauropod carcass, taking naps in the Sun, everyone kindly parting for them when they go for a drink, and another delicious sauropod just fucking tripping and dying by their mere presence alone. They expend by far the least amount of effort of anyone involved in the canyon scene and the closest thing to hardship they ever experience is being woken from a nap by a Velociraptor getting a little too bold, and even that almost nets them a snack.

#tarbosaurus #tyrannosaur #theropod #dinosaur #cretaceous #prehistoric planet #on a scale of masiakasaurus to tarbosaurus how has your day been?

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stagbeetleboy · 10 months

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I’m on a roll with the late cretaceous period. Say hi to the Gorgosaurus!

#paleoart #dino art #dinosaur #gorgosaurus #late cretaceous #campanian #tried to be accurate with the hexagonal scale pattern on the tale but idk how exactly that looked #stagart

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cinnabarts · 1 year

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weird horse + italian

redraw of that one araki sketch vvv

#using jojo as an excuse to draw dinosaur or using dinosaur as an excuse to draw jojo? you decide #dont worry if the anatomy/scale is off i have. an embarrassing amount of deego drawings in my sketchbook that i use to practice dino anatom #jjba #diego brando #gyro zeppeli #don does art

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cauldron-burn-and-fire-bubble · 2 months

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dinosaur au. what else do you want me to say

for anyone who's interested the bachelor is Deinonychus antirrhopus, haruspex is Parasaurolophus walkeri, and changeling is Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis

#pathologic #art #digital #clara pathologic #artemy burakh #daniil dankovsky #everyone please be nice these were so much fun also ive been working on them for like a month #if anyone wants to talk dinosaur au my asks/dms are open lol i have ideas for a few other characters but definitely not all #also i do have regular patho art on the way probably. but not before more dinosaurs #ALSO also if anyone @s me about the scale I KNOW. I KNOW. you try fitting these three on the page with realistic proportions #my own fault tbh. but i wasnt in control when the idea came to me... one moment just walking to class next moment bam. dinos #and the rest is history!!#whatever. im setting this to post sometime monday so i wont have to take the plunge myself. cya

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dinoserious · 1 year

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beast wars fanart

#beast wars #dinobot #megatron #dinosaur #transformers #code of hero #blood cw #um. idk what is a good content warning here so lmk if i should tag smthn here #bg skull is an autralopith btw. which is what i assume the hominins are supposed to be #*australopith #did u kno theyre called neanderthals in the script. which i find really funny #over a million yrs to early for those suckers! scale it back!

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artfromsaturn · 1 year

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Like dinosaurs, dragons, and other scaly beast but get tired of drawing scales? Check out the DInosaur & Dragon Brushpack for Clip Studio Paint! Has a variety of 73 different brush types to suit your scaly needs from different dinosaurs (but you can use them for any creature you’d like).

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Bonus Sketch of the dino squad:

#paleoart #dinosaur art #dinosaurs #paleontology #animal scales #digital #clip studio paint brushes #clip studio paint #clip studio #csp #brushes

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dinodanicus · 3 months

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My female carnotaurus character Calliope heading down to the beach for a swim. My old computer finally gave up the ghost after 10 years of okay service so this is the first painting of my new computer.

#my art #illustration #dinosaur #paleontology #paleoart #paleoillustration #prehistoric #character design #scales #creature design #carnotaurus #monster girl #spiky eyelashes #beach #ocean #sand #clouds

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 10 months

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Tell us more about dinosaur scales? 👀 Saw the misconceptions post mentioning how dino scales were super weird actually and now I'm curious what kinds of things were up with them!

so the important thing to remember here is that the evidence indicates the ancestral dinosaur was a fluffball. it seems as though, based on this evidence, that different groups of large dinosaurs evolved scaly body covering separately to deal with the problem of being bigger and thus overheated by protofeathers (or regular feathers. I don't want to get into that atm). so that means that different forms of scaly covering evolved in dinosaurs many, many times (it's unclear how many times)

so the weird thing about dinosaur "scales" (technically they're scutes, not scales, but I'll just say scales for sanity reasons) is just how not uniform they are. yes, lizard scales vary a lot, but they generally follow similar rules. dinosaur scales have no rules.

these are the scales on the back of the head of edmontosaurus, a hadrosaur. they're small, usually. they don't overlap. they are vaguely octagon shaped. sometimes there are bigger scales instead.

these are the scales of a sauropod. notice how they are way more variable in size and shape, with some having five ish sides and some having six ish sides. they still don't overlap. they don't tesselate quite as well as hadrosaur scales, and just seem to fill in as much space as possible. they're also bumpier.

here. have the sheer variety of scale designs in different Saurischians, the group that just kept evolving newly-megafaunal clades over and over again.

and they weren't all small! here are the scales (and SPIKES) of triceratops. notice their much larger size.

stegosaurs/ankylosaurs, ceratopsians, large ornithopods, sauropods, ceratosaurs, megalosaurs, allosauroids, and tyrannosaurs all evolved to be big from small fluffy ancestors independently, and they all did it in a different way. and sometimes they just messed around with that way for fun.

the diversity of dinosaur feathers is equally matched by the diversity of dinosaur scutes (scales).

(this post was compiled from many different sources)

#dinosaurs #dinosaur integument #scales #feathers #palaeoblr #scutes

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fruitcaketm · 2 days

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Some of my recent Dinosaur planet art (Except the second prototype brithday piece from early 2023) 🦕

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velt0n · 1 year

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Deinonychus trying to introduce photobashing into the process

#deinonychus #raptor #dinosaur art #dinosaur #dromaeosaur #paleoart #scale #velociraptor #concept #creature design #velt0n

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