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nemo-ramjet β Majungasaurus Mating Display
Published: 2011-09-23 13:49:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 12540; Favourites: 180; Downloads: 98
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So, those wibbly little arms do serve a purpose, after all...This was a "glorified sketch" I'd prepared with John Conway for his "All Yesterdays" presentation, about new insights on how dinosaurs might have looked. Too bad my real-life affairs kept me from participating further into this project.
Here, I'm speculating on possible wattles, scales and fleshy bits that might adorn the face of Majungasaurus, a majorly weird abelisaur. Majungasaurus also possessed a bony dome on top of its skull, here I imagined this structure as the base of a big, keratinous helmet-horn.
Another speculation I entertained was the possible use of abelisaurs' tiny arms for intra-spesific displays.
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TELL ME WHAT SHA DO WITH THAT SMALL FAT HANDS
WIGLEWIGGLEWIGG
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My god was I cringey
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We have all been there at some point, buddy.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH.
MY GOD THAT LOOKS HILARIOUS.
"Look at me Steve, LOOK AT ME."
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Those arms are just lol-worthy. Still, this was one of my favorite reconstruction in All Yesterdays.
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The legs on this thing are lol-worthy as well.
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This was one of my favorite reconstructions in the book. I love the way it highlights how bizarre this dinosaur might have looked. I also like the lines you create to simulate texture.
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wow a theropod with even tinier arms than Carnotaurus. Wonder if they can lift 200+ lbs like T-rex.
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I love this picture, he's so adorable looking. I do wonder though, would he actually be able to rear back to such an extent? Not a criticism, just a question.
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I had the same self-criticism after finishing this picture - it has to break its hip sockets to be able to rear this high...
However, kangaroo-balancing on the tail might also be possible.
Or perhaps we can assume this is a longer legged variety of abelisaur?
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Heh. Aye, it seems to fall into that area of "nothing says it could, but nothing says it couldn't" btw, love the wattles. I never see those on dinosaur reconstructions, with the exception of the occasional spinosaurid for some reason.
I've recently been thinking of bioluminescant patches on ceratopsian frills. It's pretty out there I know, but I don't think the fossil evidence says it's impossible, and it'd just be a total trip, seeing frills light up like lightning bugs. lol.
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"I love you this much...ok, maybe a little more than that..."
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Actually, now I think that the extremely rugose surfaces of abelisaur skulls may have sported big, hard beaks or similar weird structures....
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It's an interesting possibly - but looking at a crocodile's skull, you might think the same thing and yet, NOTHING! Only warty scales.
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Very, very true... which might mean that the entire "look very hard and you can see the integument" game might be hopeless.
It'd still be cool to see abelisaurs as huge diatryma-crocs on thalidomide, however
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Very true, anatomicaly correct, also very dinosaurish. I like it!
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He looks somehow strangely adorable. Hugs!
I like the large horn, that's a detail of the skull that has always subtly bothered me.
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I'm also curious about the integument of the snout - the weird, pitted bone there suggests something might be anchored to the it,
I wonder if it was covered in beak-like slabs of keratin, intense, acne-like scutes, or fleshy folds of skin, like a turkey. Of course it might always be "blank" and pretty regular.
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I know he's meant to be looking for a mate, but all I can see is a massive need for hugs.
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They probably play Marco Polo with the hens.
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Nice job, nemo. 
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Thanks!
There was a sauropod rolling in the mud, ouranosaurus with a hump instead of a sail, a centipede munching on an anurognathid - among other weird wonders
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Ah, I see. I've always been able to imagine species of arthropods (like Nephila jurassica) eating small dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
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I quite do think of agreeing with you on this one.....no reason that the measly, babyish horn of Majungasaurus couldn't have had a bigger and tougher, rougher structure atop it.
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You're welcome! Nice to see dinosaurs in various perspectives!
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Can't pass this up.
I have a big head and little arms.
Awesome picture by the way.
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All I can say is bring on the brightly coloured armpits!
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Oh you're good.
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seconded!
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Majungasaurus was one supremely goofy-looking abelisaurid, from all the various reconstructions I've seen. I think this might actually be one of the more restrained.
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It's all, "c'mon, gimmie a hug." And given it's a mating display that hug will swiftly evolve into something not meant for the eyes of man.
Possibly involving that suggestive-looking bumphorn.
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As Denver the Last Dinosaur's theme song goes: "...My best friend and a whole lot more..."
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Shows me a world I never saaaaaw befoh my God why do I remember this
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