#protofeathers

@knivesandteeth and @norafall inspired me to draw this 😍 Dinosaur protofeather body/facial feathering?? YES 🦖

Also, leave it to Garak to be in a relationship for decades and never tell his husband that he can in fact grow a beard and body feathers thanks to his Hebitian ancestry.

Ubirajara, the controversy rages on.

At the moment this pictures were happening, I couldn’t post them for obvious reasons… this is Hector “Splintersaurus” Munive working on the first-ever model of Ubirajara, the strange, protofeathered and exotically ornate Sinosauropteryx-like theropod from Brazil I had reconstructed a while ago and was commenting in the previous post. He was basing this sculpture (soon to be released) on the…

Two different ways of drawing IceWings, both taking inspiration from real-world animals. Snowflake was based off skulls of ice-age horses and polar bears, whereas Snowfox was based off a polar tyrannosaur called Nanuqsaurus. 

These were titled “I like your beard.png” and “Amazing how much your anatomy improves with one glance at a Nanuqsaurus skull.png”.

It’s not true - the only thing the paper in question said was that feathers and croc scales were made of the same kind of keratin. Hardly means crocs had the blueprint for feathers.

More research is needed of course, as no one in development has looked for feather development genes in crocs, so the jury on that is still out.

Tyrannosaurus rex, also known as T-rex is one of the most popular dinosaurs in the entire world. It was a massive predator from the Late Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago.

The power of its jaws is unbelievable: 35 000–57 000 N. The same force of an elefant’s weight against the ground.

Although in popular culture it uses to appear as a gigantic bipedal lizard the new dinosaur discoveries like Yutyrannus suggest T-rex could had protofeathers.

So, dinosaurs are more close related to modern birds than other reptiles. It is curious to think how our view of these creatures changes throw the time. Even when it is the same animal and individual, the reconstrution in different decades is distinct.

Anyway, I left you with this T-rex sketch. 

Hope you like it.

You can watch it in my deviantart account.