Fluffy Dinos are Best Dinos

If you're having trouble telling what the difference is between the two dinos, the joke is that there is virtually no difference, save for a feature we have no actual physical evidence for (unless there's been a big update I missed, we don't have any conclusive evidence of what large therapods were colored like).

This does not stop every paleoart subreddit or twitter/bsky artist following from being full of the most utterly miserable bickering pedants having wildly disproportionate reactions to minor and purely theoretical... I can't even call them arguments. Just different ideas.

Utahraptor day!! I had a lot of fun with this one <3

This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??

The fossil is a stunningly preserved skeleton from China that includes evidence of hard armour scales on the tail (like in the much smaller Kulindadromeus), and a coat of spines along its neck and back! The name appropriately means "spiky dragon".

Not only is a spiny iguanodont wild on its own (this individual is over 2 metres long and is a juvenile, other ornithopods with quill-like structures are much smaller), these spines also appear to be an entirely new skin structure? They're apparently not feathers or scales, but a secret third thing.

New Dino shirt and sticker sheet! I will be adding this to a secret shop for my Patreon subscribers who missed out this month!

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Prehistoric buddies!

Except I clicked on the article and was proven wrong!! Google DID use the right picture! The full image is somehow even better

Saw some pictures of hooded crows playing in the snow and wanted to redraw them as silly little dromaeosaurs.

The pictures are under the cut!

Dinovember day 5 - pyroraptor olympius pint sized dromaeosaur (and winner of coolest the name award) up to some Promethean shenanigans🔥

Yutyrannus huali, the "feathered tyrant" of the tyrannosauridae family that lived during the Early Cretaceous. The three of their fossils, all found in China, are currently the largest known fossils preserving direct evidence of feathers.

Lemur chicken Sinosauropteryx prima, the first non-avian dinosaur whose approximate colouration we figured. Scientists do that by examining levels of melanosomes, organelles in which melanin is synthesized, in the fossilized feathers. Different levels of melanin determine black and brown-orange colours.

What a cute couple! A lot of species have a wide range of colorations, so I thought it would be interesting if Sinosauropteryx had different patterns and hues too (inspired by The plausible colour morph in Sinosauropteryx chart by Mette Aumala). Also, I tried drawing with no lineart and I think it looks a lot better that way. And for the love of God, I cannot draw backgrounds.

Also here's an old drawing of Sinosauropteryx I made and didn't post..