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Published: 2019-06-11 19:22:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 9560; Favourites: 377; Downloads: 0
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"Tyrannophagist"
Speculative tyrannosaurid. A digital painting of my speculative Kundur tyrannosaurid, Baba Yaga, feasting on a juvenile member of her species.
This is probably the first time I managed to get some detail into the feathers on her mane, showing some of the branching filaments. I went with some horror themed lighting with this piece to try to get that sense of eeriness. The rain was a late addition to the composition, which I think added more atmosphere to the piece. I do have a couple more ideas for Baba Yaga paintings this year, one being in the same vein as this one’s horror theme.
I’m currently moving on to another project, a commission, of another set of central Asian Cretaceous paleofauna. I will post a preview of it later on Deviantart.
Completed on the 11th of June 2019.
Done using Photoshop CC and pencils.
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Comments: 37
I remember reading about a Primeval novel of something with a T-rex in Russia called Hanna Yaga.
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Super creepy. And the description fits so well with her name.
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why is this tyrannosaur eating on a juvenile member of it's own kind?
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If you're a carnivore, cannibalizing will never be outta the question.
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but did they find fossil evidence of adult tyrannosaurs eating their young?
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You don't need any.
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but that would be jumping to a conclusion, and science does not jump to conclusions
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It wouldn't be jumping to conclusions since it is crystal clear that any sort of animal that can eat meat, does indeed cannibalize.
For example us humans. We're omnivores, which means we are part carnivores. And it is true that cannibalization exists in humans too.
So thing is, if you eat meat, you can cannibalize. The degree is all that matters. Some species do it more than others. Portraying a cannibalistic rex is nothing wrong and no evidence is needed for it knowing full well that all meat eaters can cannibalize.
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i hope you understand my honesty
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oh well never mind if my honesty is not well enough
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I didn't understand what you meant
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There’s quite a bit of evidence of cannibalism is a few different species of tyrannosaurids, namely T.rex and Daspletosaurus.
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but did they find fossil evidence of adults eating their young?
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I don't know, but she isn't her own young. It's just some juvenile of the same species. Could be anyone's juvenile.
Plus younger animals are easier to kill.
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i meant they didn't, sorry for the typo. And thinking about idea is like jumping to a conclusion unless there is evidence for that and science doesn't jump to conclusions
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Many animals do it for one reason or another, but its not stated that this is Baba Yaga's own offspring.
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without evidence, there is no way of knowing whether that was totally true or not
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The way you keep repeating that line is kinda bugging me
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sorry dude i really am
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She's either hungry or getting rid of competition.
Y'know the usual.
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but is there fossil evidence of that?
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Of in-fighting, killing and cannibalism between adults yeah.
But chicks or juveniles eaten by adults are probably too small or broken for fossilization as if they get eaten they would be digested and destroyed.
Oh and its impossible identify motives or familial connections between fossils.
So even if we find the mostly whole remains of a juvenile killed by another Rex we wouldn't know the motive, if it was just a stranger or it was a parent. Its gonna be a dead end.
Another thing is also in all its time before becoming fossilized the two subjects (the adult killer and the juvenile) could have moved and traveled far from the initial spot and basically all the signs would go cold, the then still living killer would have not stuck around and continued to live its life afterwards.
And then Fossilization is a very complex and specific process that needs to occur the right way for it to be successful, so the chances of finding the exact moment captured would be next to impossible until we find it.
With studies in present day Animal behavior we can piece together these possible motives very clearly. So no its not jumping to conclusions it is narrowing the closest thing possible to the truth, through evidence that can be validated until something comes up that can counter it.
THAT is how this science operates.
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i hope you understand my honesty
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And you my dear friend (AntonellisofbBender ) are the evidnece that some people are very repetitive with the same damn question... GOOD LORD MAN!!!
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SORRY man. i guess my honesty is not good enough
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Alright then. and besides, Tyrannophagist was speculative to begin with. Which meant it might've behaved in certain ways differently then her cousins from Asia and North America (but that's just my opninion).
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i consider that as your honesty
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that i can definitely assure you off
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This is amazing, a feathery dinosaur that looks scary! 👍
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Oh goodness the intensity and atmosphere of this image is simply amazing! Words can't describe how much you have captured!!
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