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DINOSAUR AU? idk im in a dinosaur mood
I employed a lot of artistic freedom with anatomy lol.. (and mistakes, night should have 3 toes not 4). especially for xuanhanosaurus it has like 2 images that were actually useful. But I wanted night to be that size + look like a bigger theropod (both of them are roughly the same height as a human I think itโs cute)
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This was a little experiment with background
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(late post moment lmao) HERE SHE ISSSSSSSSSSSSSS, SO HAPPY WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT
This is stargazerkittycat's dinosaur sona, Stargazer!! I absolutely love her design, and her colors gave me the opportunity to do something fun and make one side of her light and the other side dark, and I'm SO PROUD OF ITTT WEEEEEEEEEEEE I haven't drawn a dinosaur since I was like 8 years old so I was going completely off the dome for the posing. I tried to reference a 3D model of Blue from Jurassic World but it didn't help very much.
So, we know modern domesticated, (and even some wild!) animals enjoy being petted.
The question is. How far back in the history of evolution does this trait go?
What dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals would have loved a good head rub?? Which ones would have flopped over for some under-the-chin scritches??? Would some of them have headbutted you to ask for more affection like a cat??? Did some make happy sounds, like purring???
This is information I need. I need to know. Animals today exhibit these behaviors so it's pretty likely they could have done so in the past too!!
The idea of them being affectionate towards each other as well (as opposed to how they're often portrayed hunting/fighting/being scary) makes me happy too. I desperately wish we could see how they behaved.
I wonder how many eras of Earth's natural history have been completely lost just because they didn't make a visible mark on the planet.
I wonder how many species have been forever lost to time only because they never fossilized or left behind and traces of their existence.
Who knows what incredible, terrifying, or seemingly alien forms of life once called this planet home, that we'll never know once existed?
Ancient life is incredible. It makes me sad to know that so many species of flora and fauna and everything in between will never be known. Things so odd they seem straight out of movies.
Life and evolution are just so incredible, and deserve so much more appreciation than they get.
It is once again that time where I re-realize that dinosaurs aren't just cool creatures in the media, they're literally animals that used to exist in the past, and they weren't monsters or anything, they were just animals.
Not fantasy or anything. Nothing special. Cause they actually existed at some point in time. Just animals.
They seem so foreign and alien to think about, but really this earth belonged to them just as much as it belongs to us now. We stand on the same big rock that they did millions and millions of years ago.
We drink the same water. Breathe the same air.
Amazing.
I love them.
The thought that dinosaurs and other prehistoric life forms were at one point truly alive and roaming the earth and just behaving no different from any other living thing today just makes me so happy.
I don't even know if happy is the right word, I just couldn't possibly describe the type of amazement I get from thinking about it, I can't put words to it.
Like, these were real living creatures, they aren't from fantasy or mythology.
They breathed and ate and slept and did all sorts of normal animal things, because they were normal! Not some bloodthirsty monsters, they just did what they had to to survive, just like modern day animals.
Looking at the fossils I have in my collection and really thinking about it just amazes me. My little fish, at one point, was swimming around in the water with all the other fish, except this was millions of years ago. It's a little piece of the past, frozen in time, letting people today have even just the smallest glimpse of things that happened so long ago that we'd otherwise have no idea about.
It just, amazes me that at one point, all these creatures that, by comparison to today's life, are so strange or creepy or alien or whatever were once just the norm. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see a huge beast of a reptile looming ominously in a forest, or a flying creature far more deadly looking than today's birds of prey soaring through the air, or just, whatever the hell was going on in the Cambrian period, and it was all normal.
I know I'm just repeating myself a lot but wow I just get all sorts of feelings when I think about this stuff
Fuck man the past is so cool
You guys seemed to like my last sino, so I sketched some more :)
Low effort sino. Objectively the most important part of my French notes.
Had no references or anything, my teacher would smite me for looking something up in the middle of a lesson
Oh how I desperately want to time travel not to change the past, but to just see the dinosaurs and watch the earth change and evolve over billions of years
Created a new oc. Bee dino. I perhaps make too many ocs...
I primarily post art on my Instagram if you would like to see more :)
Died for a bit but dinos dragged me out of my grave
dino art dump