This is a Majungasaurus. It also happens to resemble a sausage on legs. Given that part of the brief for the latest design challenge included surrealism and food with faces, I wanted to take this description to the next level by putting one in a costume based on a sausage. Why is he wearing the sausage costume? I don't know, but he is wearing it and he doesn't like it.

The Majungasaurus itself had its colours based on a day gecko, like this one -:

Not very good for stealth if you're a large theropod dinosaur... I'm assuming this particular abelisaurid is a he, and that he's currently in breeding colouration. Although it's unclear whether or not they'd have been able to go through different colours depending on the time of year, this is not exactly the most realistic piece anyway, so there's more room for speculation.

I based the costume on a standard cartoon sausage with one end burst open because I couldn't get it to fit any other way. It's also based on cat costumes... And how disgruntled the cats look while wearing them: It's undignified! I hope I've captured that look well on this particular dinosaur.

Overall, I think I like this design, and it does fit the brief. However, I don't think it would work as a design challenge entry. It was a fun experiment, but it hasn't got the "it" to make it... Or does it?

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A groggy pair of the currently undescribed/named giant Kenyan abelisaurids wake up on a hot afternoon to find a more shaded spot to nap. To be honest I think it's a bit odd how this thing was found several years ago and still has not been properly described, considering it is not only a giant theropod but the largest? of its respective group. You would think they would jump all over describing the next "bigger than t. rex". Then again, I do not know how the process works, and I assume properly describing a species involves a lot of collaboration/review with different paleontologists and other bureaucratic-esque things that take forever.

An odd thing about abelisaurids is how they are found in basically every cretaceous/south american fossil bed. if there's a new dinosaur from one of these beds it is either a weirdly small sauropod, a bird thing, or an abelisaurid.

i based the reconstruction off of Rajasaurus, albeit with added bulk, as its skull is relatively similar to the Titanovenator reconstruction. The little twin snout horns are speculative and meant to be more like the bigger scales on an iguana's face than proper horns. To be honest I hope they give this thing a cool African name or name it after some kind of monster or god as Titanovenator is just a little eh. With big meat-eating dinosaurs the names can get a little too edgy sometimes (cough cough Tyrannotitan). The perfect name in my opinion is Carcharodontosaurus, as it sounds formidable without any basis in pop culture or being obviously and overly edgy.