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Edasich — Proborhyaena

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Published: 2018-10-04 11:38:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 2665; Favourites: 104; Downloads: 0
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Description What time is it? It's time to upload more crappy paleoart!

Wanted to mess around with colouring so I did a quick small sketch of Proborhyaena, a bear-sized carnivorous sparassodont. I think I failed a bit in that the teeth and jaw aren't robust/large enough, but I plan to do more accurate art eventually. Well, as accurate as an amateur paleoartist can be
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Comments: 9

Libra1010 [2018-10-06 12:32:35 +0000 UTC]

 What time is it? It's time to upload more crappy paleoart! Well then you've clearly missed your deadline because this art very clearly DOES NOT live down to those specifications; this is Good!  

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Edasich In reply to Libra1010 [2018-10-08 13:33:18 +0000 UTC]

Alas, it's the artist's curse that we're never really happy with our own work!

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Libra1010 In reply to Edasich [2018-10-09 20:10:31 +0000 UTC]

 So long as this spurs you to even Greater efforts, so far so good! 

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Zimices [2018-10-06 03:25:05 +0000 UTC]

I like it! Certainly the canines could be longer, but is nice to see more of this animal. Hmm, bear-sized... more or less like a black bear, over 150-200 kg.

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Edasich In reply to Zimices [2018-10-06 09:54:25 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I don't really like using vague descriptions like 'bear-sized', but it seems the popular way to describe it. I'll write a more complete profile on the next Proborhyaena I upload, when I've found where I've put my sparassodont papers.

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acepredator In reply to Edasich [2018-11-09 15:09:20 +0000 UTC]

“Bear-sized” is a description from the days when they wrongly assumed it was the size of a large brown bear.

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Edasich In reply to acepredator [2018-11-10 11:01:41 +0000 UTC]

If it's the size of a black bear, isn't it still technically 'bear-sized'?  

My only issue is that the term isn't really specific enough because ursids are pretty variable in size. Compare something small like a sun bear with a polar bear or an extinct tremarctine... But I think it's fine for popular usage, and it does (correctly) evoke the image of Proborhyaena being a relatively large and very robust predator.

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acepredator In reply to Edasich [2018-11-10 15:59:40 +0000 UTC]

True, but most people think of brown bears when they hear “bear-sized”.

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Zimices In reply to Edasich [2018-10-08 02:41:59 +0000 UTC]

I see. If you need it, I have some sparassodont papers too.

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