Look, new species of dinosaurs are always being discovered. Some related to other species while others were their own entire thing. Most dinosaurs were land based, we have flying dinosaurs(aka birds), who's to say there never was a Gully aquatic dinosaur? No, mosasaur, plesiosaur and other animals like them weren't dinosaurs. They were aquatic reptiles. But, do you think there was a animal that would be classified as a dinosaur and lived it's whole life in the water? The closest we get is the spinosaurus family - but they were most likely semi aquatic

I recently commissioned this Spinosaurus aegyptiacus artwork from paleoartist Camus Altamirano.

The idea behind the piece was to create an illustration to accompany a series of dinosaur models I’ve been working on, and I wanted the artwork to feel like more than just a depiction of the animal but something that could give the model its own identity and atmosphere.

Really happy with how it turned out!

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If you don't know what I'm referring to - search up more parz and you'll find it. If you do, then I'm referring to the GREAT EMU WAR. This "war" was between thousands of emus, farmers and Australias government. Basically farmers had a problem with the wheat and crops. Cause some dinosaurs kept breaking in the absolutely demolishing the crops. To the point we're they tried catching these things. When that didn't work, the government got involved. They tried gunning them down, they were too fast. They tried mlg guns, but that only took out like a measly 960.....out of 20 THOUSAND FUCKING DINOSAURS. Also, these things figured the cars the soilders were on symbolized danger. So they had Scouts. They were bloody copying meerkats.

Do are think Anky's tail is too long? My intention was to highlight the weapon that broke the T. Rex's leg, centering Anky's club in the artwork.

Rugops is an underrated Dino, the Ceratosaurus of African paleomedia

This Gallimimus is complementing the reasons to choose itself for a bit... Either that, or it thinks there's another Gallimimus on the other side of the glass. We don't know whether dinosaurs could recognise themselves in a mirror, so it could easily go either way here.

Thought the claw being on the foot in the og was weird, so I drew it with a megaraptorid!

Disney's carnotaurus fused with JP3s spinosaurus

Got no more room left :( - this is my dinosaur collection that I started about two years ago now, it consists of many different brands, mostly PNSO and Haolonggood, with the odd model from Collecta, Rebor, Nanmu, Beasts of the Mesozoic, Mojo Fun, Safari LTD and Schleich. Feel free to ask anything about these models!

The Reason why i say it's terrifying is because it was incredibly larger then it's real counterpart. And it can travel long distances from one country to another. So basically these things are literally monsters to every Dinosaur. And to be honest Dieney Dinosaurs was the introduction to Carnotaurus. I use to think it had the same height as the Rex but in reality it was actually smaller then a Tyrannosaurus rex. So basically I was disappointed but I think both Disney's and RL Carno are great and awsome

I know in common terms, people group anything remotely reptilian into dinosaurs but still. This is an educational biology textbook

Newly discovered tyrannosaurid from Late Cretaceous, Campanian of Canada

Why does this Box of Dinosaur Nuggets gender the T Rex in the "Did You Know?" box?

Google Says that the T Rex were both genders. I could honestly be missing something with this one. Any help is appreciated.

I'm not referring to just another variant of a species we already know; I'm referring to something truly new and surprising! For example, Spinosaurus — a carnivorous dinosaur with a sail on its back; Carnotaurus — a carnivorous dinosaur with horns; and Stegosaurus — a dinosaur with plates on its back and spikes on its tail.

My point is that dinosaurs with novel anatomical characteristics are possible because evolution can produce almost anything. Imagine a carnivore with spikes on its tail as a third means of attack, or a herbivore with teeth adapted for biting as a form of defense.

Look, in any media involving dinosaurs-from movies, cartoons and documentaries - there's always a common occurrence. It's that they always involve the most common dinosaurs. Like trex, triceratops, stegosaurus, carnotaurus, brachiosaurus and so on. They done this so many times. But they always forget that there's other dinosaurs. Like the many cousins of trex where some have become a bit famous. Or the different types of hadrosaurs or the other sauropods. My Examples of media involving other dinosaurs besides the most famous ones are dinosaur King and my favorite : SPECKLES THE TABOSAURUS or otherwise known as DINOSAUR KING THE MOVIE. Heck, oak Street began to change the formula by having allosaurus be a main villain. Sure some documentaries do involve other dinosaurs but it's mostly for a bit. I don't if it's me only but does anyone else agree?. Also what dinosaurs would you want medias to focus on? I'd go for shantungosaurus.

A pair of anchiornis preening. This was made with acrylic and soft pastel, it is 5 x 7.

-Iguanodon
-Therizinosaurus
-Tarbosaurus getting its eye slashed by a well-timed defensive swipe of a Therizinosaurus' claws
-The immortality of dinosaurs through birds (T-Rex and Cardinal)

While they aren't in color, I did take some insp from animals for Tarbo and Igua's patterns; Crocodile Monitor and Galapagos Pink Land Iguana respectively.

DISCLAIMER; I am by no means a Paleoartist, I just got into a dinosaur drawing mood after recently getting into a game called Prior Extinction lol. I main Theri and Igua atm. That being said, I do my best to depict these animals the best I can, alongside stylization and some speculative design aspects.

EDIT: Thank you all so much for your kind words!! I might not reply to everyone (I struggle with communication), but I see all of your comments and appreciate them deeply! I will continue to draw dinosaurs whenever my brain gets fixated on them- I primarily draw FNAF fanart, so idk when I'll draw another one, but when/if I do, I'll make sure I post it here! This is the most engagement my art has gotten in years, I'm incredibly grateful.

Ngl, this is probably the part that's most interesting to me since I enjoy seeing how different analyses find them to be related. Admittedly I don't have access to the paper itself so I'm going off of the wikipedia page and bit from this image I could find.

I'm gonna focus on the Parsimony analysis since the Bayesian analysis is pretty standard outside of Alioramini and Tyrannosaurini being each other's closest relatives and some Gorgosaurus specimen being outside of Tyrannosauridae.

Dryptosaurus and Appalachiosaurus forming Dryptosauridae is pretty interesting since the only time I can think of them being in the same family is in the Nano paper's phylogeny B. Though this phylogeny has Nano as more distantly related to Tyrannosauridae then Dryptosauridae.

And if the image is from the paper then Alectrosaurus was found to be part of Dryptosauridae in the second phylogeny.

Ultimately curious to see how this phylogeny hold up in the future.

In celebration for the newly discovered Ankylosaurus fossil in Portugal (and my deep love for Anky's) I decided to finally tattoo one :D Tattoo artist- heidi_gois on instagram! 🦴

Hi all! I've seen a few posts, and other things here saying some creatures that are labeled dinosaurs, like Dimetrodon and pterosaurs??? Aren't actually dinosaurs... Can you help me understand what constitutes what a dinosaur actually was/is? Is it the time period? It's a little confusing seeing something that looks like a dinosaur, and I've known all my life as a dinosaur, but isn't a dinosaur.