#argentavis

Dinovember day 4: Argentavis

flocking 6/20/24 -- Argentavis (x2), Dryptosaurus, Diabloceratops

Not Pictured: Atrociraptor - American Cheetah Planned or in the works: Aquilops, Albertaceratops, Achelousaurus, Amplectobelua, Allenypterus, Ammonite, Anatosuchus, Anchiornis, Alksasaurus, Anzu, Antetonitrus, Akainacephalus, Adratiklit, Arsinoitherium.

Marchosauria day 11, Argentavis magnificens (or giant teratorn). Late entry today because I got unexpectedly busy, which not only ate up a lot of time but also made my wrist real unhappy. Managed to squeeze this one out in about 30 minutes, though.

Day 70 of DDD! the Argentavis! The heaviest FLIGHTED bird that we know of! This guy roamed the skies of argentina, ruling with piercing claws. While it is considered the heaviest, pelagornis has it beat with its own wing span. Making the two fight for the title of the biggest flighted bird!

Argentavis was the heaviest flying bird ever to exist. The greatest of the teratorns, it had a wingspan of almost twenty feet, which it could have used to effortlessly soar over the plains. Now, teratorns are popularly believed to be scavengers; for most of them, however, it's probably not the case owing to skull morphology more suited to gulping down small prey. Long, strong limbs allowed them to stalk the plains while simultaneously allowing them to spring their heavy bodies straight into the air if needed. Argentavis presumably shares a lot of these adaptations, but recent studies of its neuroanatomy imply that it had a brain more similar to a scavenger bird. I've chosen to depict it engaging in an act of kleptoparasitism, deploying a variety of bells and whistles to intimidate even the top predators of the environment, but I like to think this guy can retract her yellow tassels into her aeroshell feathers to overall reduce her obviousness when stalking prey. Babourofelis is the not-cat here, a big nimravid, rather. It convergently evolved saber teeth just like so many other predators who found it advantageous to shank prey with a pair of knives, and likely lived in family groups. While Babourofelis is a North American animal, birds are very much capable of travelling long distances in the wrong direction, and that's exactly what is happening here. Next up: Slothtime.

Lokiceratops, Argentavis, Dryptosaurus and Diabloceratops.

Was bored and I also wanted to draw the BB elite four so I drew them with Cenozoic South American Megafauna because why not.