Showcasing saurian speculation, weird old theories, fun stylization other creative takes on prehistoric biology. Icon by @carn3morta. Run by @BrochJamm
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Howdy, folks. I just wanted to thank everyone who's still here for following along with me all these years. I'm glad the first and most successful "gimmick" account I decided to make ultimately offered some semblance of education and fostered mostly positive interactions.
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Various illustrations of sauropods walking with a splayed, alligator-like stance. This theory was put forward by Oliver P. Hay around 1910 but was later dismissed around 1938 after the discovery of preserved sauropod tracks.
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While it is common knowledge nowadays that birds are a type of reptile, Victorian scientists originally thought that birds were more closely related to mammals.
Which lead to abominations such as this: a hypothetical bird-mammal common ancestor
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The guesses were good but too rational! This is an 1841 reconstruction of Albert Koch's 'Missourium'/'Leviathan' (actually a mastodon) by James Pedder, who thought it was a giant tusked tortoise!
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NYC subway stations are full of vacant spaces, so they’re started letting artists use them. Now we have Dinosaur Bodega
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I was looking up whether anyone ever made a sequel of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (since it is public domain) and this one from 1998 titled "Dinosaur Summer" made me realize there is really nothing new under the sun, isn't there?
Elasmosaurus and some unusually snake-like mosasaurs, from Extinct Monsters by H. N. Hutchinson, 1896
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Had a crack at reconstructing the walking gait of meilifeilong ,the overall pattern doesn’t seem to differ much within pterosaurs so it may apply to most of them
#paleoart
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Named in 1998, Megaraptor was originally thought to be a giant dromaeosaur, estimated to be 8 metres long. However, as of 2014, it has been suggested that Megaraptor is more likely an allosauroid.
Some art made when Megaraptor was still considered a dromaeosaur:
(credit below)
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What are some things you wish were still paleontologically or zoologically true?
For me, it is turtles being the last parareptiles/anapsids
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My reptilian monsters inspired by the Permian period – at Lages, Brasil
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It appears to be identical to the famous Jurassic Park T. rex that used to reside in the Times Square Toys R Us. A source quoted in the Wall Street Journal claims it was "shredded and burned" after the store closed in 2016. But here it is, currently in a Creatonist Museum? (2/3)
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So I was watching @FoldableHuman's excellent "Mantracks" video and was struck by something. There is a shot of a T. rex animatronic at the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History, a Creatonist Museum. I Googled it, as it struck me as looking remarkably familiar...(1/3)
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Some (ancient) Superb Owls - Tyto pollens, Tyto gigantea, and Tyto robusta, extinct members of the Barn Owl family. All were substantially larger than their modern day cousins. #superbowl
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#paleoart #art #owl
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Dinosaur illustrations by Wayne Barlowe
From "An Alphabet of Dinosaurs", 1995
Source: chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/201…
