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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

WELP...this is a strange place to be in. I've been off of dA for a VERY long time now, mostly because I've been trying (and mostly failing) to come up with new stuff to draw. Again, posting to Reddit, where I've found a lot of success. Until recently!

A lot of it was Speculative Evolution, but I couldn't come up with anything myself. That and I've been wanting to draw prehistoric animals for a while now! Albeit this particular idea...I did try posting it to reddit.

But it really didn't feel like it fit any particular sub very well. I did attempt to post it to r/PrehistoricLife, and the result? Predictably, radio silence.
So heh...time to try dA once again! I dunno how it'll go, but might as well try it! XD

Albeit perhaps bringing something new-ish for once! The next time you see Tara Watts in my gallery, it may be as a zookeeper or sumshit. Prolly showing some weird looking reptile to a bunch of kids, who take turns touching it.

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This exhibit features the Hammerhead Monitee (Atopodentatus unicus). This establishment had a somewhat unorthodox order of the animals that they revived for their exhibits. First it was animals of the Cenozoic that went extinct by human hands. After that? The many oddities of the Triassic Era, including these creatures.

As it would stand, there was a method to their madness. The technology behind it was not in its infancy by any means--albeit the idea of a "prehistoric park" so to speak was still widely approached with caution, simply because the welfare of the animals themselves was considered.

Bringing back huge dinosaurs immediately WOULD be profitable. But also expensive, and incredibly high maintenance. This zoo needed to prove that it COULD handle the rigors of caring for prehistoric life. What's the point of having a Tyrannosaurus rex if they couldn't afford to house it or feed it as it needed? So they needed animals that weren't so high maintenance, but still unique enough to be able to garner public interest. Something obviously lost to the present day.
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The answer? Triassic reptiles. Obviously not as exciting as a big, meat-eating dinosaur, or a long-necked sauropod, but nonetheless something that people have likely never seen before. Doubly so because this was such an obscure species to the public eye.

This also worked in their favor, as the zoo could establish immediately that their interest was in education--they were not here to shill their creatures as the movie monsters of their dreams, but as real animals. Feathered dinosaurs, strange Triassic reptiles, armor-plated fish and more would all be part of this growing family.

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The humble Monitee was a perfect example of this. A creature that looked like an odd, hammer-headed lizard, yet dove to shallow seas to feed on aquatic vegetation like a dugong. As far as prehistoric reptiles go, they are relatively placid--some might even call them boring, as they spend much of their time idly basking on rocks, until they need to dive back out to sea.

Of course, them loafing about so often makes them prime material for a selfie. There's been a new trend among young adults visiting the exhibit, where they purse their lips together to make what's known as a "Duck Face"--this time, doing so as if to imitate the Monitee sitting on the rocks nearby.

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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

WELP...this is a strange place to be in. I've been off of dA for a VERY long time now, mostly because I've been trying (and mostly failing) to come up with new stuff to draw. Again, posting to Reddit, where I've found a lot of success. Until recently!

A lot of it was Speculative Evolution, but I couldn't come up with anything myself. That and I've been wanting to draw prehistoric animals for a while now! Albeit this particular idea...I did try posting it to reddit.

But it really didn't feel like it fit any particular sub very well. I did attempt to post it to r/PrehistoricLife, and the result? Predictably, radio silence.
So heh...time to try dA once again! I dunno how it'll go, but might as well try it! XD

Albeit perhaps bringing something new-ish for once! The next time you see Tara Watts in my gallery, it may be as a zookeeper or sumshit. Prolly showing some weird looking reptile to a bunch of kids, who take turns touching it.

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This exhibit features the Hammerhead Monitee (Atopodentatus unicus). This establishment had a somewhat unorthodox order of the animals that they revived for their exhibits. First it was animals of the Cenozoic that went extinct by human hands. After that? The many oddities of the Triassic Era, including these creatures.

As it would stand, there was a method to their madness. The technology behind it was not in its infancy by any means--albeit the idea of a "prehistoric park" so to speak was still widely approached with caution, simply because the welfare of the animals themselves was considered.

Bringing back huge dinosaurs immediately WOULD be profitable. But also expensive, and incredibly high maintenance. This zoo needed to prove that it COULD handle the rigors of caring for prehistoric life. What's the point of having a Tyrannosaurus rex if they couldn't afford to house it or feed it as it needed? So they needed animals that weren't so high maintenance, but still unique enough to be able to garner public interest. Something obviously lost to the present day.
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The answer? Triassic reptiles. Obviously not as exciting as a big, meat-eating dinosaur, or a long-necked sauropod, but nonetheless something that people have likely never seen before. Doubly so because this was such an obscure species to the public eye.

This also worked in their favor, as the zoo could establish immediately that their interest was in education--they were not here to shill their creatures as the movie monsters of their dreams, but as real animals. Feathered dinosaurs, strange Triassic reptiles, armor-plated fish and more would all be part of this growing family.

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The humble Monitee was a perfect example of this. A creature that looked like an odd, hammer-headed lizard, yet dove to shallow seas to feed on aquatic vegetation like a dugong. As far as prehistoric reptiles go, they are relatively placid--some might even call them boring, as they spend much of their time idly basking on rocks, until they need to dive back out to sea.

Of course, them loafing about so often makes them prime material for a selfie. There's been a new trend among young adults visiting the exhibit, where they purse their lips together to make what's known as a "Duck Face"--this time, doing so as if to imitate the Monitee sitting on the rocks nearby.