#inaccurate dinosaur

[ddragayn]

SICKLE CLAWED ATTACK

revenge! my af is ddragayn :] reblogs appreciated!

[Image ID: Digital art of an old fashioned appearing (featherless) dinosaur, utahraptor. It is in the air, mid strike, it's sickle toe claws bared and face in a snarl. It's mostly shades of yellow and white, with some small scarring on its body. /.End ID]

[yijasha-blog]

Got this guy in a bundle of cheap dino toys for my kid. She named him Feet. I've been laughing for days.

I love him.

[boilingteakettle]

Dino.

[outragedslime]

When the first Archaeopteryx fossils were found, some people thought they were angels. They were right

[geek-jpeg]

Korvus 𓄀

[extrashortshorts]

continuation of vacation business trip

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[silverthelovebug]

Waiter! Waiter! More unethical dino-human hybrid yuri please!

A compilation of my Camp Cretaceous Dinosaur-Human Hybrid Experiment AU drawings :3

+ them being happy <3

[alphynix]

April Fools 2024: The Curious Case Of The Chunky-Necked Ceratopsians

Much like the aquatic Compsognathus featured here a couple of years ago, not every novel idea that came out of the Dinosaur Renaissance was a winner.

And one of the oddest examples came from author/illustrator John C. McLoughlin.

His 1979 book Archosauria: A New Look at the Old Dinosaur featured an unusual interpretation of ceratopsian dinosaurs' characteristic bony frills, proposing that they were actually muscle attachment sites for both powerful jaw muscles and enormous back muscles to help hold up their large heavy heads. This would have completely buried the frill under soft tissue, giving the animals massive thick necks and humped shoulders, and resulted in an especially weird reconstruction of Triceratops with a grotesque sort of wrinkly sewn-together appearance.

This concept didn't entirely originate from McLoughlin – three years earlier in 1976 he'd illustrated Ronald Paul Ratkevich's book Dinosaurs of the Southwest, which seems to have been the inspiration for Archosauria's fleshy-frilled ceratopsians. A few paleontologists had also proposed jaw muscles attaching onto the frills during the 1930s and 1950s, and there's even a book from as far back as 1915 that also shows the top of a Triceratops' frill connected to its back! But McLoughlin's Archosauria image is still by far the most extreme and infamous version of the idea.

There were a lot of things in Archosauria that were actually very forward-thinking for the time period, such as putting fuzz and feathers on small theropods and depicting non-avian dinosaurs as active fast-moving animals. The unique ceratopsian reconstructions, however, never caught on for several big reasons:

Firstly, all that hefty muscle tissue would have locked ceratopsians' heads firmly in place, unable to move at all, which just doesn't make sense biomechanically. Then there was the lack of skeletal evidence – muscles that big should have left huge visible attachment scars all over the frill bones, and there was no sign of anything like that on any fossil specimens. Finally, it turns out the ceratopsian head-neck joint was actually highly mobile, suggesting their heads were free to make a wide range of motions in life.

As wrong as they were even at the time, McLoughlin's ceratopsians were still an interesting speculative idea, and notable for advocating for fleshier dinosaur reconstructions at a time when paleoart was trending towards shrinkwrapping.

Further reading under the cut:

A Very Alternative View of Horned Dinosaur Anatomy, Revisited – https://tetzoo.com/blog/2020/11/22/alternative-view-of-horned-dinosaur-anatomy

Trope of the Buffalo-Backed Dinosaur – https://tetzoo.com/blog/2020/11/27/trope-of-the-buffalo-backed-dinosaur

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Archosauria - Part 3 – https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2013/10/vintage-dinosaur-art-archosauria-part-3.html

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs of the Southwest – https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2016/11/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaurs-of.html

The Forgotten John C. McLoughlin Book – https://www.manospondylus.com/2021/03/the-forgotten-john-c-mcloughlin-book.html

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I feel like he should be in an animal neglect commercial with a sad Sarah McLachlan song

Oh Dear

Will Someone Help Him

[the-dragon-girl-27]

flocking drawings!!

Young Altispinax preparing to do a mating display

Thyreosaurus slaying a Theropod

Ornithoprion just swimming round

Mama Mapusaurus bringin home a Chakisaurus carcass for her daughter

[beckyelrro]

unfinished venture art from around their release :3 + silly doodles under the cut hehehe

[deepdreamnights]

Believe it or not, previous versions of the park did not include the bio-luminescence modifications.

While not technically paleontologically accurate, since the implementation of the Glowstick Initiative™ (pat pending) there has been a 50% safety improvement and 57% customer satisfaction increase as the dinosaurs can't hide from or sneak up on park guests.

The added bonus of being able to see the noctournal species during their active hours and the merch sales boosts certainly makes up for any inaccuracy or alleged 'unexplained psychic ability.'

The image(s) above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain. Prompt under the fold.

Prompt: Blacklight painting of two dinosaurs in the jungle. One is green and yellow with black spots on its back, walking through water that reflects the stars above. Another dinosaur with a blue body is running around a clearing surrounded by plants, with a jungle background of dark trees and glowing flora.

[mezzmerizd]

silly meme thing made me draw Tango and one of my fav. dinosaurs, an Allosaurus, sooo enjoy!! :]]

[transgender-chiroptera]

went to a zoo today and it turns out they had bats! I had no idea beforehand and it's made me so happy!!!!!! They were Egyptian Fruit Bats and when I first saw them they were eating breakfast and when I came back to nab a photo they all were sleeping in a big group :)

Not the best photo but the best I could get!

[happyia]

Woe, magical dilo upon you.🧙‍♂️

This started out as portfolio piece (concept: dilophosaurus but even less accurate than jp) but it turned out so flashy and goofy that I couldn't resist adding it to Axolotl Afterparty setting.

Bonus doodles:

[geek-jpeg]

A hadrosaur, iguanodont, carcharodontosaurid, and dromaeosaurid walk into a bar right-