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Published: 2015-04-20 23:19:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 4795; Favourites: 197; Downloads: 0
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"Taur-e-Ndaedelos"Triceratops horridus, Quetzalcoatlus northropi. An acrylic painting I did of a young Triceratops who got separated from his heard and is being stalked by a Quetzalcoatlus in a dark, foreboding forest.
Got the idea while on a hike through Muir Woods with a good friend of mine.Β
Tolkein fans might get the title.
Completed on 15th of April 2015.
Done using acrylics and watercolor pencils.Β
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Comments: 44
Great art. Really sends shivers down your spine.
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This is what dinosaur movies should be like.
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As long as Disney don't get their hands on it.
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I agree. This seems like a great concept.
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This is beautiful! I love the looming figure of the Quetzalcoatlus as it stalks its prey.
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Quetzalcoatlus was like the Slender Man of prehistoric animals.
Tall, thin, stalked its prey relentlessly and mostly ate babies/children.
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Ehh, You just made me scared of Quetzalcoatlus...
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Very ghostly and creepy picture but a very well done one!
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This is fantastic! Β Love the atmosphere of the piece, which is especially helped by the light and colour. Β
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You know, I like to think of giant azdarchids like quetzalcoatlus as a bit frightening for even large theropods such as t-rex. In the wild today, smaller animals can and will intimidate off bigger ones if they are bold enough. I once saw a video of an antelope holding off a similar-sized tiger for a while simply by standing up for itself.
So I don't think it would be that farfetchedΒ seeing a quetzalcoatlus deter an attack from a tyrannosaur simply because it looks so freaky.Β Β Β Β Β Β
But enough about me. Nice picture! I like how the size of the pterosaur is emphasized here.
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I would imagine so, but as a inbuilt fear from hatchling-hood for most dinosaurs as large pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus probably preyed on juvenile dinosaurs.Β
They're probably still have that fear of pterosaurs as a hangover from their formative years.Β
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Right, maybe remembering the loss of siblings to quetzalcoatlus did instill fear in young tyrannosaurs. And, if a predator doesn't sense fear in an animal it is trying to catch, they have to be wary. I can imagine that even with a lion chasing an impala, if the impala stops suddenly, the lion will probably hesitate to assess the risk. Does the impala have friends with him? Is there a potentially dangerous obstacle nearby?
If this young triceratops here makes it back to his herd, he might grow up avoiding these pterosaurs.
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The atmosphere of this work is perfectly illustrated, that poor Triceratops must be really scared!
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"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
- Awesome art!
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The Quetzalcoatlus goes in the forest ! Strange, how can it leave if a big predator arrived ?
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I imagine that's where an injured pterosaur might go if it can't fly. Less likely to encounter a large predator in a dense forest than out in the open.Β
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Yes, you're right for the large predator in the forest.
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Wow! I love how spooky and foreboding this is!Β
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this is creepy it reminds me of the bird cage in Jurassic park 3
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that must be really scary fo' da lil' trike.
i had a similar experience a couple of years ago, where i was going on a hike with my local scout group to pindar caves, for 2 nights. we were walking back to camp from the caves, (4 hour walk total) and myself and a friend were out the front by about a kilometre on the track, and no signs of the rest of the group over the hills and we heard an unseen rustling to our left. the same sound was heard several times over the next hour, and at that time we were scared shitless(always on the left), until we heard it for the last time, closer than usual and we looked and saw a tall blue-black figure running away through the bush.
that may seem like a lie to scare kids or sum'n', but we were scared shitless. really shitless
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"tall blue-black figure" in Australia?
Sounds like a cassowary to me. You guys were right to run.
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This was in NSW, about 2hrs drive north of Newcastle (my home), and we don't get cassowaries down here, they're all confined in the daintree for good reason. And if I remember correctly, it didn't seem like a cassowary, but it was ages ago, so my memory's a little foggy
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Well, if it was a cassowary then I'd still say you were smart to run.
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Probably a Black Bear.
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no bears in australia
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It was in Australia? Oh...
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there are drop-bears though.
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and we ride kangaroos
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Jolly good, mate.
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Funnily enough, I can totally imagine dinosaurs wandering around in Mirkwood.Β
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