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Published: 2019-05-25 10:41:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 31514; Favourites: 1149; Downloads: 0
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"Threat Display"
Tyrannosaurus rex. An acrylic painting of a male Tyrannosaurus displaying its formidable mouth towards an unseen opponent.
This is a follow up to an unposted full-body Tyrannosaurus reconstruction I did earlier this year that I never posted. Upon completing that one, I was unhappy with the overall pose and my depiction of the skin folds of the animal. It looked pale in comparison with some of the superb Tyrannosaurus reconstructions floating around recently, like Beth Zaiken’s and Fred Wierum's recent work. So, I started this one. I happier with the overall anatomy and pose here.
I may start a new Tyrannosaurus growth series with this one over the summer.
Completed in late May 2019.
Done using acrylics, color pencils and Photoshop CC.
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Comments: 42
Reminds me of the Walking with Dinosaurs T.rex...look at the design on the tail...
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Surely the WWD t-rex design has not been featured in any fan art lately...
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Beats me. I've been using the WWD color design since high school (which was in the aughts).
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Oh ok. I saw WWD in the computer when I was 5 years old in 2006! And it changed my mind about dinosaurs greatly.
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It's a ****ing T-Rex. If it needs to do a whole display for you to realize the threat, you're probably too dumb to exist. Definitely too dumb to continue existing for the next ten minutes or so...
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Unless you're an interloping tyrannosaur of similar size to this one.
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Yeah, and quite frankly derpasaurus rex is overhyped, but an unarmed human wouldn't stand a chance.
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Love the tyrant, not the hype.
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WOW my favorite dinosaur of all. it looks quite accurate
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So, do T. rex have feathers or not? Or can scientists not make up their minds yet?
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The whole thing in a nutshell is:
The Bell paper from 2017 shows tyrannosaurids were predominantly scaly. Whether that they were exclusively scaly is another matter.
People skeptical about the claim that tyrannosaurids were completely scaly, as some proponents of the Bell paper indicate, point out to a few things:
1. Their sample size in terms of skin impressions and animals who we have skin impressions for are too small. Basically, they only have a handful of impressions from a handful of tyrannosaurid genera.
2. The animals in question lived in environments where the preservation of filamentous integuments like feathers are next to impossible. So even if they did have feathers, they would not preserve. This proves to be a problem since scales/scutes and feathers can exist together on the same areas of the body, as seen with a number of birds today; live.staticflickr.com/2277/187…
Experts keep going back and forth because the evidence we have is severely lacking in its ability to provide a definitive answer. With new research coming up every few months and years, it will continue to keep changing.
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Also should add that a more recent study found more (larger) skin grafts that contained no feathers in places where (if the T rex did have feathers) it was "supposed" to have them.
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What's the name of the study?
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sauriangame.squarespace.com/bl…
Saurian developers provide a pretty good explanation, but if you're looking for the actual article itself, I have it listed below.
Bell, P., et al. 2017. Tyrannosauroid integument reveals conflicting patterns of gigantism and feather evolution
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yeah, the Bell paper. That was the one I was refering to.
It's got sampling size issues and I don't think it takes into account preservation biases against feathers in the localities these skin patches were recovered from.
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Fair enough. I think the patches are in places that feathers were likely to be, so the lack of them there is enough for me, but to each their own.
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The amount of feathers is debated. It however evolved from feathered ancestors and seemed to be mostly covered in scutes.
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Heavily debated if it had any, but we know for sure it's more scaly than it progenitors
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It's currently believed that T. rex did not have feathers, but the way they go back and forth so many times is enough to give me whiplash.
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This is amazing! I especially love the markings!
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