Happy Winter Solstice!

Here is a quick study of Cryolophosaurus, a crested theropod from the early Jurassic of Antarctica, which although MUCH warmer than today it was still quite a cool place back then

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Sister Earth's giant apex predator abelisaur of Africa. Roughly the size of T. rex, but with a bite outclassing the tyrant lizard.
They, along with three other giant theropods, form a quartet of giant theropods iconic of this timeline.

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The neural spines on the tail - at least what's preserved of them - aren't remarkably different than those of a crocodile, they're just longer than expected relative to the length of the tail & other theropod dinosaurs of similar size.

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i should draw more Mongolian dinosaurs fr, hard for me to pick favorites but Mongolia has objectively the best megatheropod

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Got commissioned to an interesting fantastical psuedo-theropod for a regular client on instagram, still as of yet unnamed.

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Due to the blood element, this entity's attacks cause virtually incurable bleeding, being cured only by a certain type of mushroom entity, part of its reputation comes from its habit of impaling its prey like butcher birds, also being the most cursorial of all theropods.
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I was looking at the skulls on one of these bone-huts and was thinking "huh cool, there used to be horned theropods in Vana'diel" and then I *remembered* and was like "oh right..."

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Disappointing, when one searches for "paleontologist" in stock images, you largely get pictures of men in cowboy hats or colonial pith helmets, searching for theropods, in a desert.

(disclaimer, very small portion of palaeontologists actually do that)

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Most advanced theropods belonged to a group called Tetanurae (meaning "stiff tails"). This clade contains all animals closer to birds than ceratosaurs back to their most recent common ancestor. Tetanurans share a number of defining traits like having 3 or fewer functional fingers

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Dino Fact!

Alectrosaurus (Alone Lizard) is a tyrannosauroid from Late Cretaceous Asia! Also occasionally translated to "Mateless Lizard" or "Unmarried Lizard," its name refers to how it was very different from any other Asian theropod known - (1/2)

Art by Creative Beast Studio!

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My memory theropods aren't that far off. This means I should draw some more ornithischians from memory and see how wrong I can truly be.

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This redesign by Owen Kellen works great for me. Love how his chest, necks and wings light up like stars. The legs are weirder-looking, less blatantly theropod. The wings are really alien too it’s a cool reimagining of the classic fan wings instead of the generic bat ones we got

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There are more appealing inaccurate theropods anyways.

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Something kinda funny about having grown up at the height of “this giant theropod is bigger than T.rex,” only to have the majority of studies/estimates sink that idea and now T.rex is as large as, if not more massive than, it’s fellow megatheropods later in life.

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Day 13: Compsognathus

Mistaken though this is a chicken-sized theropod, now believe it’s a Turkey-sized adult, since the original latter is a juvenile.

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Meet the common wyvern, an omnivorous dog sized flying non-tetanuran theropod, all Wyverns are venomous which is often uses to kill prey in a more monitor lizard way, they have keratin supports that help make the wings become more rigid and a long tail that tells their status.

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bicentisimus, the forgotten theropod of the Morrison Formation! The Morrison has multiple large theropods, but we also have a more slender, mid-size predator in there that doesn't get a lot of love!

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Sue step-by-step restoration.🦖💻
ℹ️Note: we found that at the rear end of the jaws there is not enough space to contain the outer skin folding in. So, the cheek extending down from the jugal is similar to what is found in living theropods.
https://t.co/x6xMFd8bQ9

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Made up mega theropod

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