r/Dinosaurs

After the initial wave in the early 20th century, their came an era after WW2 to the ate 60s of dinosaurs not being take all that seriously by science and viewed as evolutionary failures and began being phased out of pop cultures interests in favour of the future and scifi and all that, before the Dinosaur Renaiscance happened. So far it seems that it hasn

Do you think their will come a time when the Dinosaur Renaiscance will end and people will regard dinosaurs as monsters? Nothing does last forever....

So we know that Sinosauropteryx had orange and white coloration right? Tigers irl have a similar pattern as their prey see them as green providing camoflauge. Could Sinosauropteryx be similar?

The holotype of Suchomimus was a subadult – could it have been bigger than we thought? It still strikes me as a massive beast. This is such a cool image of Suchomimus with Paul Sereno for scale.

The model is decent but the texture is bad. What should I do?

The texture looks plain and boring! I heavily relied on patterns to make it good.

I also did not add teeth because I used monitor lizards as reference for the lips

It looks so bad compared to my other models ngl

There's also a version of herself turned into a Pokémon character inside the exhibit

​Something quite curious about Late Cretaceous ecosystems is how large carnivorous dinosaurs shifted roles throughout their lives. A clear example of this was discovered in the Dinosaur Park Formation, where the fossil of a juvenile Gorgosaurus libratus, around 5 to 7 years old, preserved the remains of two small oviraptorosaurs (Citipes elegans) in its stomach. The interesting part here is the contrast: while adult Gorgosaurus hunted massive prey like hadrosaurids and ceratopsids, the young preferred much smaller prey.

​This shows a clear ecological niche partitioning based on age. Basically, adolescent tyrannosaurids functioned as mesopredators while the adults acted as apex predators. In fact, this helps solve a major paleontological mystery: why did ecosystems with these megatheropods almost completely lack medium-sized carnivores? If we look at today's African savanna, we see a huge variety of medium predators like hyenas or cheetahs coexisting with lions. In the Cretaceous, this didn't happen because young tyrannosaurids were so competitive that they monopolized that entire ecological space, crowding out other species as they grew.

​do you think juvenile tyrannosaurids prevented the evolution of other medium-sized carnivores, or did they simply fill an already existing ecological vacuum?

Hey guys!
It has been a dream of mine to model my own dinos for quite some time now.
Earlier there were no good ways to do it but nowadays there is (or maybe I wasnt able to find it)(shoutout to the goat OPALESSENCE3D on yt!)

I had tried blender before but honestly after 2 weeks I am sort of proud of myself!

Sharing the progress as for now, and would love your thoughts and ideas to better shape dinos in the future!

My goal for now is to recreate the scene from the doc Dinosaur Revolution!

Thanks for reading and checking out!

1 is what a lot of people think

2 is what it's actually like

Both ‘shot’ and ‘hands’ used metaphorically. Right outside my door I get to see families of common gallinules (Gallinula galeata). Their chicks are known for having one (or two?) wing claws and giant feet fit for marshes. I was finally able to get a clear shot at a chick with 1600mm. It took some brightening, but I got a front claw.

For me, my hot take is that scaly dinosaurs are better than feathererd dinosaurs. Before you get the pitchforks out, I’m not saying that feathered dinosaurs aren’t scary. I do agree that feathers dinosaurs can be scary, I mean just look at primitive war as an example. It’s just that aesthetically in my opinion, they look better. For example, i really like the croc like armor on the primal carnage T. rex and much prefer it over the primitive war T. rex from the comics. The croc like armor gives it a much more reptilian feel that I really like. The primal carnage T. rex is honestly the closest a depiction of T. rex has come to what I think of when I hear the word “T. rex“. Whenever i picture T. rex I imagine a mostly reptilian animal with black stripes and red coloration on the rest of its body with mostly small scales like that of a monitor lizard with feature scales or in layman term, larger scales (that aren’t osteoderms) like that of Carnotaurus on a few parts of its body. I also imagine T. rex to have lips and haver very few feathers.

Anyways getting back on topic, another scaly dinosaur design I like is todd Marshalls Spinosaurus. I really like all the dewlap and all the spikes the Todd Marshalls spinosaurus has. It really gives it this iguana look to it. In fact, I like depictions of dinosaurs that give them things like spikes or dewlaps in general.