#fabrosaurus

There’s a story as to why I’m re-using the PM20 but it’s extremely annoying and I’m tired so SIGH.

I have a nephew who have recently gotten into his dinosaur phase (I believe most kids have one), and his favorite dinosaur is the Fabrosaurus (and he knows, with absolute certainty, that it is pink and purple)! Now, Fabrosaurus sounds kind of like "Farbrorsaurus", "Unclesaurus" in swedish, so, as his uncle, I knew what to do...! . . . #art #drawing #dinosaur #fabrosaurus

fabrosaurus ♥

Friends.

What would your reaction be if I told you that there was a dinosaur family... that never existed? If you have much familiarity with the science of classifying organisms, then you shouldn't be very surprised at all. Our taxonomies are, after all, ephemeral little things, at best only convenient labels for the diversity we see in the natural world, and never a perfect reflection of reality. It often turns out, especially when considering long-extinct taxa like non-avian dinosaurs, that even important or well-known groups eventually turn out to be hopelessly poly- or paraphyletic, or else to be based on such little solid material that they end up being scientifically useless. With these prospects in mind, same as the last time we talked about murky archosaurian taxonomy, we'll be delving back into the Triassic, that most complicated of time periods. There we'll consider just one such problem - that there's something wrong with our fabrosaurs...

Shout out goes to @nwah-with-attitude!