Ayy, nice! Here's my full-body of a Tsaagan mangas.
(The art was done without a skeletal reference. Forgive the botched head shape.)
At about this time some of you are probably saying “what is that? It looks like a bird!” You’re not entirely wrong. Those of you who are saying “oh cool, a Velociraptor” are actually more wrong than those other people.
This is Tsaagan mangas. It is almost identical to Velociraptor, lived in the same area as Velociraptor, during the same time period as Velociraptor, but it is not a Velociraptor. For all intents and purposes, though, they are practically identical.
Drawn for a-dinosaur-a-day, because it seems that no one has drawn a half-decent full-body picture of a mid-sized Mongolian dromaeosaurid that is almost identical to Velociraptor and called it a Tsaagan before. I think Tsaagan is going to be my new second-favorite dromaeosaurid (behind Deinonychus) because it’s basically Velociraptor but it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as Velociraptor and definitely deserves more love than it gets, even if only because, for all intents and purposes, it is the same as Velociraptor.
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There. Now I’ve said “Tsaagan mangas” in this post more times than I’ve said “Velociraptor.”
Tsaagan mangas.
The Observer: Well, at least I didn't reveal my true form to them!
The Guardian: Oh yeah? Maybe because your true form is just the FONT!
Anne and Seeker: Uhm...
thinking abt amphibia's guardian and serina's observer again. i think they should be rivals
TOMORROW, July 24th, is the tenth anniversary of the description of Kulindadromeus! And we want YOU to be there for the tenth annual Kulinday livestream! As always, the ADAD crew and a bunch of other paleontologists and paleoartists banter about dinosaurs, paleontology, and whatever else comes to mind. We'll be using Henry's Twitch channel this time - fittingly enough, https://www.twitch.tv/kulindadromeus. We start at 4 PM UTC / 10 AM MOUNTAIN TIME and will go forth for as long as we can. It's gonna be fun! Join us!
TOMORROW, July 24th, is the tenth anniversary of the description of Kulindadromeus! And we want YOU to be there for the tenth annual Kulinday livestream! As always, the ADAD crew and a bunch of other paleontologists and paleoartists banter about dinosaurs, paleontology, and whatever else comes to mind. We'll be using Henry's Twitch channel this time - fittingly enough, https://www.twitch.tv/kulindadromeus. We start at 4 PM UTC / 10 AM MOUNTAIN TIME and will go forth for as long as we can. It's gonna be fun! Join us!
Not being immune to the propaganda is not the moral failing some of y'all make it out to be. The moral failure begins when someone is informed of the lack of veracity of what they've been told and refuses to let go.
Of course it's not over.
"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
Drew a rhizodus, an absolute monster of an animal that lived during the carboniferous period, roughly 5-7m in length (making it the largest freshwater fish that we know of) and a tetrapodomorph meaning it breathed air and is more closely related to us than to true blue and gilled fish!
We’ve even found land track marks from another genus of rhizodontid, they certainly got around!
I’d love to make some big stickers (and prints) of this fella if anyone was interested :-)
I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck
Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like
EEEE It's an adorable little birb! This is awesome!
One of the few dinosaurs we actually know the approximate colors of, Anchiornis huxleyi. By studying the melanosomes, color-determining pigments within fosilized feathers or skin, scientists can infer that Anchiornis had black, grey and white featheres across it's body with a reddish crest on it's head.
I, of course, stylized the colors, but I think it turned out pretty good. I tried to make it look like a chill little bird with the poses being mostly neutral and not so dynamic.