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@Fantasticaltwts Giant azhdarchids were seriously huge - giraffe-sized animals with wingspans comparable to small aircraft. Baby sauropods were pretty small - maybe a metre long, at most?
AZHDARCHID EATS SMALL SAUROPOD became a meme thanks to our 2008 paper, but - as with all memes - its popularity was accidental. In the Before Times (2005 - 2007) I was drawing azhdarchids eating all sorts of stuff: fish, crocs, baby tyrannosaurs etc. (See archaic art below) https://t.co/ZACkIzKjsn
#Paleoart of three South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) for #FossilFriday, from 2018.
I don't know what they're looking at either. Possibly food, possibly danger, possibly someone has a nice hat.
#Paleoart of Plateosaurus for #FossilFriday. The hindlimb looks odd because it has a large Psittacosaurus-style membrane between the lower leg and body. This is speculative, but there's no reason to think Psittacosaurus had a monopoly on limb patagia among non-volant dinosaurs.
New at #Patreon: a short reflection on the time I nearly wrote a book reimagining monsters and mythological creatures with more 'realistic' anatomy. No, I'm not kidding - see how crazy this was getting for $1 a month. https://t.co/3PjmoGNBu2
For #FossilFriday, here's the entirety of my Georgiacetus #paleoart, not yet released online. Protocetids like Georgiacetus were among the last whales to have terrestrial capabilities: subsequent whale species were committed to life in the sea.
I never posted my finished Edmontosaurus portrait: here it is, as mad-looking as ever. Who says hadrosaurs were boring? #paleoart
A fun #paleoart comparison for #FossilFriday: Pterodactylus restored by Jean Hermann in 1800 vs. Pterodactylus restored by me, 220 years later. Hermann's pterosaur is the oldest known 'legit' piece of palaeoart - a fossil-based life reconstruction based on science, not mythology.
Some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This 2018 Irritator image was destined for a future book, but it's now superfluous thanks some study or other that came out this week. This is a substantial update on a scene from my 2013 pterosaur book. Tapejara and Anhanguera also feature.
@JoschuaKnuppe I thought I'd run this as well, matching the vert proportions to your gentler curve. The spines still stick out some way - they have 3-4 degrees flex before they pop away from the width of the centra.