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A quick piece I did after Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong's update video on Dilophosaurus.

The crests are based largely on those of helmeted guineafowl. The blue around the eyes is somewhat common among living dinosaurs with head ornamentation. I kept the dewlap small because a large dewlap could interfere with hunting (since it seemed to use it head to grab at prey). The protofeathers only cover the upper regions because of size, though I'm not sure how Dilophosaurus's size would have affected its thermoregulatory and insulative needs. Just to avoid any confusion I will point out that the protofeathers are not much more than filaments and what looks like an advanced feather shape is just the clumping that happens to hair (see this, this, this and this picture).

They just released a really long episode discussing a dinosaur that science has known for almost a century but that most people didn't know about until the 90s when a very specific movie came out... cough .... Velociraptor... cough.

If you are at all interested in why we know what we know about this animal and how that applies to life reconstructions you will probably enjoy this.

This also might give you an idea of what I have to go through when researching my paleoart, often I have to parse science with other existing reproductions, it can get involved but I still love it.

Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #9