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My submission for Day 6 of Dinovember. I’m sorry that this post is so late. I was kind of tied up with working on a paper for school, as well as with going through voting, so I wasn’t able to post this earlier.
Anyway, here we have a female Allosaurus fragilis with a nest, watching over a newly laid clutch of eggs. With her brood safely buried beneath heaps of dead ferns and dried mud, she keeps a careful vigil.
The coloration of the Allosaurus here was partially inspired by one of the Carnotaurus figures from the toy line for the first Jurassic Park film.The overall design of the animal was based on the work of Fred Wierum.
Been sort of busy the past two weeks or so and haven’t been able to post unfortunately. But, it’s Dinovember and it would be a shame if I let this pass me by. While I kinda missed the ball on doing a drawing everyday this month, I figured I would take this opportunity to post throughout the month when I can and do some anatomy practice with stuff I’m not great at/familiar with.
Here are the left arms of some theropods I reconstructed off of pictures of skeletal mounts and arm bones that I found online. I referenced some basic theropod musculature pictures online to get the build and major muscles in, and looked at bare chicken wings, eagle talons, and crocodile feet for texture. The VelociraptorandT. rex are missing any possible heavy feather coatings as these are meant to emphasize form and musculature.
Doing all the tiny scales on Allo and Majunga were super fun and not tedious or painstaking at all. They reminded me of why I don’t like to texture my drawings very often. But I guess I should still get in some practice doing texture anyway.
Woohoo, it’s our birthday! FossilEra turns six today.
t’s hard to believe it’s been six years already. We have a gift for you to celebrate. Every order placed today at FossilEra.com will include a free, limited edition, FossilEra Allosaurus vinyl decal. They look great on car windows, laptops and any other flat surface.
This specimen - a new species of Allosaurus according to our palaeontologists - was excavated in 2014 in central Wyoming. It’s 155 million years old (Jurassic), 8.7 metre long and 70% complete.
We’ve made a three-part series (+ bonus episode) on this incredible specimen: who is he or she? Why do our paleontologists think it is a new allosaur species? How old was Arkhane when it died? How fast did it grow compared to other dinosaurs? And what about its late-night snack: the nanosaurus?
Jurassic top predator Arkhane is the special guest at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Nanosaurus probably was its late-night snack. Fossils of this small herbivorous dinosaur are rare, especially skulls. Watch how we reconstructed a squashed Nanosaurus skull!
This <TINY> scene from Jurassic Park stayed with me for a long time. In 1993 I was 9 years old. I knew about most “mainstream” dinosaurs, but things like “Metriacanthosaurus” were at a different, completely esoteric level of palaeontology. Its name sounded like a Mephistophelean demon. Internet was non-existent, and books were hard to reach. So I spent weeks, months, dreaming what sort of arcane, Delphic beast “Metriacanthosaurus” could have been - and dreamt that perhaps in five, ten years, Spielberg would film a JP sequel in which it would actually APPEAR.
The sub-adult Allosaurus jimmadseni specimen MOR 693, better known as Big Al, is probably one of the most well-known fossils, especially during it’s feature in BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs special “The Ballad of Big Al”.
Loss and Rage, one of Almonihah’s lost spirits. Formerly the Guardian Spirit of Theropods, they’ve become twisted by pain and anger into a spirit of rage and jealousy. Here they’ve taken the form of an allosaurus with some bird-like characteristics.
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Some days, it’s just too hot to act out Predator-Prey dynamics.
Day 1 of Dinovember, who’s surprised I’m doing this. An Allosaurus takes shade in the shadow of a resting Brachiosaurus during the height of the Morrison Summer.
