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Published: 2015-08-15 21:40:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 9356; Favourites: 169; Downloads: 114
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Lythronax, the king fo gore, probably the most awesome name ever for a tyrannosaur. I decided to draw it again for the tyranosaur project, as the old one teratophoneus.deviantart.com/a… really wasnt that good, it was a bit too shrink wrapped, and the proportions were a little bit off. Also the old one wasnt jsut badass enough, this dinosaur just has to be drawn invlólving it ripping sth apart, with that name it bascially asks to be depicted with blood and gore all over it, so thats what I did, well not that extreme, but it does the king of gore justice!Related content
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Dewd, that must be the smallest tyrannosaurid I've ever seen!
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nantoyrannus is even smaller(at least the fossils that we have of him). And then there is Nanuqsaurus which is only 5-6 metres long
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Nanotyrannus is only about 5 meters, right?
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yep but the reamins froma subadult
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Lythronax you are SUCH a messy eater! Didn't your mother teach you better?!
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Awesome i though there shoudve been chunks of dino on the floor to add to the gore effect otherwise great drawing
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One of the best representations of Lythronax I've ever seen!
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The name is even funnier if you compare to "litronas" in spanish that sound almost equal and means "bottles of a litre of wine" that use young people in order to get drunk...
amazing image btw
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The 8m Lythronax (and the even worse but commonly alledged 2.5t weight figure) seems to be yet another incorrect idea propagated by the media. The skeletal in the description paper measures ~6.8m along the axial skeleton and ~6.6m in a straight line from snout to tail end.
Anyway, awesome composition!
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thats true but the holotype was not fully grown when it died. There are size estimatations that put the adult animal between 7.3 and 8 metres.
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Most dinosaurs aren't, it's in the nature of growing during adulthood and usually dying before reaching senescence.
In case you mean it is subadult, I've been trying to get to the basis of those claims too, but to no avail-it is not indicated anywhere by its describers. Have I missed something?
Also adult sizes for immature specimens are typically guesses, it's unlikely that there would be any scientific estimate, even if the specimen was a subadult (there are none for other dinosaurs were that's the case, e.g. Siats, Apatosaurus sp., Baryonyx, Eustreptospondylus, Dilophosaurus, Cryolophosaurus...).
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If you'd like, I work at a museum (the Museum of Ancient Life) that commonly works with the museum where Lythronax is on display. So I feel pretty adept at it if you have any questions.
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wow thats cool, could you maybe find out if the lythronax holotype comes from an adult or subadult animal? Thatt would help a lot
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It is from a sub adult. It was at the time of its death about 6 meters long.
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so an 8 metres size estimate for an adult seems reasonable?
anyways, thanks for the help
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Somewhere around there, yeah. 
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He is the king of gore and you captured that perfectly.
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Great job! You really did it justice! I love all the details in the skin and feathers, especially around the neck; it looks very powerful. Nice work on the shading too and the massive hunk of meat is a funny and cool addition. One of your best works so far.
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thanks a lot, really appreciated, the head really did a long time to make, because it has that very special shape to it. I am not a 100 % satisfied with it, but its a lot better than the old one.
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Cool. It looks great to me but I know that feeling from my own work! I often find I change the head shape a lot on theropods when I add soft tissue, and it can be really hard to distinguish the different tyrannosaurids from the reconstructions rather than the skulls. I guess it's one of those situations where we can't be completely sure what they really looked like anyway!
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