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Published: 2019-11-18 09:34:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 3427; Favourites: 237; Downloads: 0
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"Three Year Terror"
Tyrannosaurus rex. An acrylic painting of a 3-year old Tyrannosaurus.
Anatomically, this is based on the Jordan theropod specimen displayed at the LA County Natural History Museum.
This will be the second stage of my planned Tyrannosaurus ontogeny series. So far, the 25-year-old and the 11-year-old stages are done. There will be an 18-year-old stage and a 1-year old stage coming up as well.
Completed on in mid-November 2019.
Done using acrylics, color pencils and inks.
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Still very skeptical of fluffy tyrant babies, considering there exists no animal, alive or extinct, where previously feathered areas become scaly as the animal grows. But he's still a pretty boy regardless
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I'm working under the idea which Thomas Holtz purposes that the assumption that “the presence of scales = no fuzz in the same animal” is false. A number of birds have both feathers and scales on the same segments on their feet (like a number of owl species), with the filaments growing between the scales/scutes. Varieties of ptarmigans grow a set of filaments on their scaly feet on a seasonal basis as snowshoes to cope with the snow in their habitat, so switching between a scaly exterior and a feathery one is not unheard of in modern birds.
Here is a concise comment of his on the topic; www.facebook.com/ZDuttaArt/pho…
So basically, my Tyrannosaurus is scaled from head to toe, but also has filamentous structures here and there too. It sheds its juvenile fluff as it gets older/bigger, grows different kinds of filaments for display purposes during sexual maturity (at least for my hypothetical reconstruction of a male Tyrannosaurus), while having a constant body of scales.
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Splendid work. The coloration is quite nice.
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Man this is why I love ontogeny, Just look how completely this thing looks now to how it will look in the distant future if it's still alive.
And how it will look as it grows in-between.
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