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This is a picture-in-a-picture concept. In this scene, a parent is alerted by brachiosaurs grazing on nearby trees. I placed a brachiosaur in this picture. See if you can find it. Hint: You may have to download the bigger picture.

The small raptor is a hypothetical dinosaur. From the diversity of organisms and niches we see today, it can be assumed that dinosaur biodiversity far exceeds that evidenced by the fossil record today. Many dinos are portrayed as lumbering hulks or sprinting predators. Some are known to have attained flight. However, arboreal dinos were very common also. Their niches are now taken by sloths, lemurs, and monkeys. These flightless raptors would spend their entire lives in the canopies of dense mountain forests. Their EQ’s would have been the highest of all dromaeosaurs or troodontids. Their larger brains would be necessary to process the greater input of visual and auditory information from their 3-D environment. Some species, such as this little eumaniraptor, had opposable digits and could have in fact picked up twigs for nest material, but also for using simple tools to extricate grubs from their galleries. If it weren’t for the KT extinction, these little dinos may have become the most intelligent creatures on Earth.

Thanks for looking,

Blair

Description
This is a picture-in-a-picture concept. In this scene, a parent is alerted by brachiosaurs grazing on nearby trees. I placed a brachiosaur in this picture. See if you can find it. Hint: You may have to download the bigger picture.

The small raptor is a hypothetical dinosaur. From the diversity of organisms and niches we see today, it can be assumed that dinosaur biodiversity far exceeds that evidenced by the fossil record today. Many dinos are portrayed as lumbering hulks or sprinting predators. Some are known to have attained flight. However, arboreal dinos were very common also. Their niches are now taken by sloths, lemurs, and monkeys. These flightless raptors would spend their entire lives in the canopies of dense mountain forests. Their EQ’s would have been the highest of all dromaeosaurs or troodontids. Their larger brains would be necessary to process the greater input of visual and auditory information from their 3-D environment. Some species, such as this little eumaniraptor, had opposable digits and could have in fact picked up twigs for nest material, but also for using simple tools to extricate grubs from their galleries. If it weren’t for the KT extinction, these little dinos may have become the most intelligent creatures on Earth.

Thanks for looking,

Blair