A full animation using toon shaders! I'm really liking this style!

You know what messes me up?

This dinosaur skeleton is incomplete. But, it doesn't look that way to us, because the parts it's missing are parts we don't have.

See how there are ribs on the bottom? Those are called gastralia. That's right, dinosaurs had ribs on their stomachs as well, and modern crocodiles and alligators still have them! (Also, notice that the ribs keep going to the hips instead of stopping above the waist. This is also true of modern birds, and why a bird can't have a concave stomach!)

Next, notice that ring floating in the center of the eye socket? That's called a sclerotic ring! Fish, reptiles, birds--with the exception of mammals (and, oddly enough, crocodilians), pretty much all modern vertebrates still have them! It's literally an eyeball bone. Afaik we haven't found a T-rex specimen with any intact, but since we've found them in other dinosaurs, it's very likely they had them too.

So, keep that in mind next time you see a dinosaur skeleton.

Is your neighbour’s fancy breed Velociraptor the talk of the town?

Do you wish for the kind of social media clout only a tyrannosaur can bring, but are your house and food budget way too small for them?

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Nanotyrannus is that unique pet for your home and children. They don't bark, they don't cause allergies, they're real actual miniature tyrannosaurs that will always look up to you because they don't grow big.

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Yutyrannus huali eating babies

Another sketch brought to you by #Paleostream

Zhuchengtyrannus, swimming with some rays. Note that this piece was done months before the first Prehistoric Planet trailers came out.

Progress is being made on the tyrannosaur block! Steve is removing pounds of matrix to expose the neck of Tantalus/Denver's Tyranno/Little Denver (nickname debate ongoing) with the ZPT-BR (ZOIC Bronto). This dinosaur was found in the "death pose", meaning its neck is bent over its back. The top of the head should be near the hip region.

Yutyrannus by Reiimon.

Paleovember 2023, Tarbosaurus!

Famous for being the sister species to Tyrannosaurus rex, Tarbosaurus bataar is often easily written off as being the Mongolian T-rex. The reality is that Tarbosaurus was quite different; besides being slightly smaller, it was also slimmer, with a narrower back portion of the skull, meaning it's vision was less directly binocular. This is due to the animals it hunted being different from those found in North America; whereas Tyrannosaurus went after hadrosaurs and ceratopsians, Tarbosaurus went after hadrosaurs and SAUROPODS, the latter apparently not needing as much binocular vision.

Quick sketch based on the new paper on a juvenile Gorgosaurus specimen with the remains of 2 Citipes babies in it's stomach. It's a beautiful specimen of one of my favorite dinosaurs and an important look into the diets of young Tyrannosaurids.

It’s Fossil Friday! This archival film negative, snapped in 1966, depicts Museum visitors gazing up at the mounted remains of Gorgosaurus. This slender tyrannosaur was smaller than its gigantic cousin T. rex, reaching lengths of up to 30 ft (9 m) and weights of 2,200 lbs (1,000 kg). Compare that to an adult T. rex, which could reach lengths of 40 ft (12 m) and weigh as much as 15,500 lbs (7,030 kg)! Gorgosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous in parts of North America. The reconstruction pictured has a standing posture in which its tail drags along the ground behind it—a pose we now know is scientifically inaccurate. 

See Gorgosaurus and other dinosaurs in the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs! Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/44GaWHD

Photo: Image no. 332025  / © AMNH Library

Give him space

The recently described mosasaur Jormungandr walhallaensis (what a name!) surfaces to observe an unfortunate young tyrannosaur adrift on a vegetation raft

ummm hello. trex

just started using procreate dreams and playing around with it has been fun so far. this animation is based a very soft-looking tyrannosaur from my sketchbook

i initially wanted to do something a smidge more ambitious, with ash fluttering around him and his breath being visible, but i couldn't figure how to make either of those things work so i have settled for the basics. still pretty proud of it though

and here are the (intended) background and ref

Hank and his goofy kids

That one hue meme, but with the FFXIV mounts I like

Sisyphus, holotype of Daspletosaurus wilsoni is now on display at Badlands Dinosaur Museum! The cranial elements will be added after they undergo CT scanning.