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The second piece I did for the Saurian field guide back in 2016 featuring the now outdated T.rex design.Related content
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OH MY GOSH. fanboy scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love feathered rex so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maybe not the best place to be fighting XD
Really love everything about it.
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outstanding work like always! Love your representation of the trex ^_^
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"Darling, I've caught you dinner!" "You're so very thoughtful, how I do do Love you!"
Well, probably not, but that lovely lightning seemed more suited to romance than to a Death Duel!
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That sounds terrific man. I pledged 15 bucks to get the game and for additional support of course. But I forgot about the field guide for quite some time. I'm happy to know it's already out.
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Maybe T-rex had a "mane" of feathers on it's neck like a lion and a line of feathers that ran down it's spine like an Acrocanthosaurus?
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i actually drew a tyrannosaurus like that
mane ain't EXACTLY lion like but i drew a short mane of feathers covering its neck
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Bell et al. (2017) propose that fuzz was present in regions not yet represented by skin remains or osteological correlates. This would mostly imply the top of the torso but may also be parts of the back of the head, some aspects of the neck (depending on where the neck skin impression came from) and maybe the end of the tail. Authors like Witton (2017) however find this interpretation quite amusing, sort of like T. rex has put on a shawl to visit the opera.
Anyway, possibilities are many, and the Tyrannosaurus from Dinosaurs in the Wild sports in fact a speculative mane of fuzz, not dissimilar to a lion’s.
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Can I have a link to read the article?
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Sure!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…
markwitton-com.blogspot.com/20…
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*reads both articles*
I guess we can assume that the Tyrannosaurid family had feathers but certain species of Tyrannosaurs(like T-Rex) likely lost or didn't possess feathers.
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That's what it seems!
Of course there are many possibilities, T. rex and other tyrannosaurids could have retained some filaments, even its scales could actually have been modified feathers. We just don't really know at the moment.
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It could be, but according to a recent article by Mark Witton giant animals are surprisingly cold tolerant, thus dense coat of feathers would probably have overheated them more than anything markwitton-com.blogspot.com/20… .
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Citing Paul (2012) "It is often said that we can never really know the thermoenergetics of dinosaurs, but this is not more or less true than whether we can tell whether or not evolution occurred. Many details will always be hazy, but broader patterns can be discerned".
Although we don't know the details, it's safe to say that dinosaurs were subjected to the same thermoregulatory laws which affect modern organisms.
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Integument is extremely plastic and variable even among closely related species, so...
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I love the poses of the rexes and the colors! This looked familiar so I had to check, both of your pieces are in the book!
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Outdated what do you mean, the look, colors? I'm out of the loop.
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Tyrannosaurus likely was less feathery than this. Seems like Tyrannosaurids like Tyrannosaurus lost most of the feathers compared to other Tyrannosauroids like Yutyrannus. To which amount is however still unknown. Might be mostly bald, might be completely bald.
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Wooly Mammoths existed, but that didn't stop the Columbian Mammoth In North America and the Elephants in Africa and Asia from having almost no hair at all. I don't think it's THAT unreasonable to believe there were at least a few species of tyrannosaurs without feathers. Or feathers that only existed in as much as a capacity as hair on modern elephants.
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Well, we got scaly impressions from several Tyrannosaurid species. Of course variation is likely to exist between them.
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You know it's funny that this info pops up as soon as almost everyone started accepting a feathery Tyrant king. However in terms of Tyrannosaurids I can't picture scaley is the yutyrannus it's hard for me to picture that theropod looking any different.
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Well, Yutyrannus is still covered in feathers. As are most Tyrannosauroids, like Dilong. It's the Tyrannosaurids ( notice the one letter difference ) like Tyrannosaurus and Gorgosaurus who have reduced the amount of feathers.
And not everyone was accepting of feathers. You should have seen some of the reactions to that...
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I know... yikes, I'm saying if info came out saying Yutyrannus or any other family members besides the king himself said he was scaley that would take some adjusting. I don't know why people get upset about the scale or feather debate? Dinosaurs are dinosaurs they're fucking badass either way, guess media like old 80s cartoons and Jurassic Park have gotten people accustomed to thier nostalgia goggles, I mean shit I got into an argument with one of my friends because she refused to believe Dimorphodon existed because she didn't see it in her childhood! I quote "it didn't exist when I was a kid so why does it exist now? They're making things up". Christ Almighty...
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Personally, no. I only did this one cus I got invited by arvalis for the book a couple years ago. I'll stick to my own designs while using their reconstruction as a guide though.
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Ahhh I love both of them! Your sense of composition and lighting is incredible and I've been following Saurian for a long while now!
I really hope these are in the book, I'd love to have such a nice print of them.
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