#nanuqsaurus hoglundi

[bones-of-calamity]

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi

here’s a drawing i did as a quick experiment to see if i could make a drawing blend in with an image i took. turns out, yes i can! using the grain tool on a photo editing app really sells it.

i love horror in paleoart, it’s my favorite thing to draw tbh.

here’s the speedpaint (references used in there are from Dino and Dog Sculptures and Gabriel Ugueto!)

:))))

[radstarsaur]

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, of the Late Cretaceous. One of my favorite dinosaurs of all time, this Tyrannosaurid is known to us from the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska.

[starsteemer]

New reference for my lovely lady Bee! Now featuring a slightly more accurate style, Summer and winter coats, and a built in size chart! Bee is on the larger end of Nanuqsaur's size estimate, but its not really her size you gotta watch out for Wanna meet Bee in an RP set in a prehistoric earth ruled by dinosaurs? See my pinned post!

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, on a chilly autumn morning in late Cretaceous Alaska. art by @Orribec

[silicon65]

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi

[bulkhead08]

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi. Almost forgot to post this here lmao.

[skyradiant]

Life of our Prehistoric Planet: Nanuqsaurus hoglundi.

[mrultra100]

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi (Hoglund’s polar bear lizard) is a species of tyrannosaur that lived up north, close to the Arctic Circle. During the time of the dinosaurs, it’s entirely possible that these creatures lived in snowy environments, and had to adapt to such conditions. Nanuqsaurus is a very good example of this change. Not being as big as T. Rex, hunting in packs, and having a coat of feathers to keep it warm are the key traits of this polar predator.

[tyrannoninja]

It’s a balmy summer day in the Late Cretaceous of Alaska, and this Nanuqsaurus hoglundi is taking a leisurely stroll through the woods. A lot of paleoartists nowadays like to depict this dinosaur and others in its environment in winter scenes since dinosaurs in the snow seems like such a novel concept, but I wanted to do something a bit different by showing the creature in its habitat during the warmer part of the year.

[extinctworld-ua]

Nanuqsaurus

Nanuqsaurus — рід ящеротазових динозаврів родини тиранозаврові (Tyrannosauridae), що існував у кінці крейдового періоду (69 млн років тому). Він містить один вид, Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, відомий лише за частковим черепом та численними неописаними посткраніальними та зубними елементами.

Повний текст на сайті "Вимерлий світ":

https://extinctworld.in.ua/nanuqsaurus/

[unofficial-sean]

Nanuqsaurus “The Fuzzy” Hoglundi, provider of serotonin, defender of my will to continue.

[dinathalawriter]

Arctic Tyrant Nanuqsaurus hoglundi by MicrocosmicEcology

[thechekhov]

A very fun Patreon request - a slightly more Bearded-Vulture inspired look for a  Nanuqsaurus. 

[saritawolff]

A juvenile Nanuqsaurus has a run-in with the Scariest Dinosaur.

(We know waterfowl were prolific at the South Pole at this time, but I don’t know if there’s any evidence of them in the North yet. But they had to have made it up there at some point, right?)

[earthstory]

Tiny Tyrannosaur

This photo and graphic shows a really cool discovery by paleontologists from the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas –an Arctic mini-T-Rex!

The fossil was found in 70 million year old rocks in a quarry far on the northern edge of Alaska in 2006. The specimens were carefully extracted, brought back to the museum, and characterized for years before publication.

The dinosaur seems to have been about 7 meters long – just about ½ the length of a standard T-Rex, but it has many of the same body morphologies suggesting a close relationship. It’s small compared to T-Rex and even compared to some of T-Rex’s predecessors, as you see in the graphic at the bottom. One obvious point might be that “oh it’s just a baby” but the authors found features on the jaw of the animal that are only found on the bones of adult T-Rex skeletons and not on the youth, suggesting this species was a fully-formed adult.

The species has been given the name Nanuqsaurus hoglundi (Nanuq being the Inuit word for polar bear).

Other species related to T-Rex have been found in Alaska, but this is the first mini-version Although the globe was warmer during the Cretaceous, Alaska was still far to the north at that time, so large temperature swings due to changing seasons may have impacted the size of this animal. Sea levels were also higher at the time, so it’s also possible this animal’s environment could have been restricted due to a combination of high sea levels and high mountains to the South. Species have been found to “shrink” in response to evolutionary pressures under certain circumstances (even humans do this!), so this fossil could represent the expression of that same mechanism, just on a very famous dinosaur.

Also…no word on whether or not this guy had feathers.

-JBB

Image credit: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0091287 http://www.nature.com/news/diminutive-dinosaur-stalked-the-arctic-1.14859