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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,652 Views)
Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

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Troodon: Hey! Where are you go'in mate?
Nanuqsaurus: ...........
Troodon: Wow... Rude...
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CyborgIguana
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Nanuqsaurus are such censored, amirite?
Edited by Furka, Feb 12 2015, 05:57 PM.
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Paleop
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I love this artists rendition of these theropods
t rex could use more fedders...... but still I like this picture
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CyborgIguana
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All 3 are also quite shrink-wrapped.
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Paleop
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I figured, after all I can see the back of rex's skull from here
I mainly just like to see the three together not killing each other for a change :)


however that gives me a question for the extinct animal questions topic (insert maniacal laughter here xD )
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Ignacio
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CyborgIguana
Feb 13 2015, 03:48 PM
All 3 are also quite shrink-wrapped.
What i'm going to say should probably be posted in the "What annoys you about Paleo" topic but since this comment is here...

I found this to be really subjective to be honest. To me they look perfectly fit and healthy. They were hunters and probably muscular animals... they don't need to look fat.

I just found this critic really annoying in general, is nothing personal against you Cyborg.
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Jules
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Well basically, any animal that looks like this looks like it's anorexic :P Compare to today's animal skeletons and you'll see what shrink-wrapping means xD
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Ignacio
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But many living animals today look like that. Lions for example (minus the male mane of course).
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CyborgIguana
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Apologies for not being clearer, it's mainly just the heads that bother me. I can see the ridges of their skulls quite clearly, which to me is an example of shrink-wrapping.

Not saying I dislike like the picture though, it's still quite a lovely restoration.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Feb 13 2015, 08:53 PM.
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Ulquiorra
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Another favourite of mine,

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The reason, my first attempt at paleoart. Where better to set this little fledgeling free XD
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CyborgIguana
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Pretty damn good for a first attempt. :)
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Brach™
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hi

My problem is more about the quadrupedal Spinosaurus. We don't know if it's actually quadrupedal. Just it had very short legs. We have no material from Spino's arms and what we do know is from it's relatives, which don't show any adaptation for bearing any weight on the front arms.
Edited by Brach™, Feb 14 2015, 06:50 PM.
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Yi Qi
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Ignacio
Feb 13 2015, 08:22 PM
But many living animals today look like that. Lions for example (minus the male mane of course).
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Of course....

(I know thats a house cat, but structurally wise, a cat and a lion are pretty much the same thing, if not bulkier/smaller versions of eachother).

No animal looks like its skeleton, most people would have a heart attack just by looking at them if they did.

if we drew modern day animals the way we draw dinosaurs they'd be horrors fit for any Lovecraftian story.

as a little exercise, imagine this:
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Shrink wrapped and then realize its a hippo.

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My problem is more about the quadrupedal Spinosaurus. We don't know if it's actually quadrupedal. Just it had very short legs. We have no material from Spino's arms and what we do know is from it's relatives, which don't show any adaptation for bearing any weight on the front arms.


The quadrupedal gait is still the most likely reconstruction considering the animal's gait and center of gravity, plus the fact that scott hartmans re measurements were quickly proven wrong and new data supports Sereno and Ibrahim's paper on the animal's proportions.

About the arms, true, we have nothing on them , and this debate won't truly be settled untill we do, but using its relatives is a poor argument as none of its relatives look anything like it proportion wise, if anything spino was most definately an oddity, and there is no reason in so far to assume this abomination's arms were anything at all like its relatives, we have in our hands a theropod thats unlike anything else we have ever seen, assuming it was like its ancestors would work if we were dealing with a typical member of its family, but in every single case thats not what spinosaurus is, Spinosaurus does not follow the rule, it is the exception.

The quadrupedal hypothesis contradicts our previous knowledge of Theropod locomotion, but so far it is the most likely of all of the hypothesis to be right judging by our knowledge of the animal's remains.
Edited by Yi Qi, Feb 14 2015, 08:24 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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There are actually a few present-day animals that look KIND OF like their skeletons IMO...crocodilians for instance.

But yes, no animal looks as much like its skeleton as dinosaurs used to be (and sometimes still are) depicted.
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Yi Qi
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CyborgIguana
Feb 14 2015, 08:12 PM
But yes, no animal looks as much like its skeleton as dinosaurs used to be (and sometimes still are) depicted.
plus if we look at dinosaurs today.

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yeah nope. Dinosaurs don't look like their skeletons at all.
Edited by Yi Qi, Feb 14 2015, 08:21 PM.
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