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Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period.

Last year a study was published answering some questions about what T.rex’s exterior soft tissue looked like. Traditional reconstructions have shown the Tyrant Lizard with scaly skin, the new study suggests that this is most likely the case based on numerous small examples of what appear to be scale impressions on different places on the body of a fully grown specimen. The research shows evidence of scales on the chest, stomach, neck, tail, and pelvis.

Well, it’s a t-rex/ horned theropod mashup if i’m being honest, was done for inktober x primal prompt “prey”.

Named for the enormous neural spines running along it’s back to form what most have theorized to be a large sail or possibly a hump-like structure, Spinosaurus was first uncovered by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer in 1912 while he was in Western Egypt in the Bahariya Formation. The fragmented remains looked to be from a very large and unusual theropod, possibly one bigger than the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, which had been discovered less than 10 years prior. Unfortunately the museum holding those remains was destroyed in a bombing run during World War II, but detailed drawings of the fragments did survive along with photos of the display.

Roughly 216 to 196 million years ago in Triassic New Mexico, close to a thousand dinosaurs died, their remains preserved as fossils that would later be discovered in 1947 by Edwin H. Colbert and his assistant George Whitaker on a site appropriately known as the Ghost Ranch. It’s extremely rare in paleontology that scientists are handed such a find, a buffet of death that allows them to piece together the biology of a specific species in such a complete manner.

Yutyrannus huali was a basal member of the Tyrannosauroid clade, specifically part of the Proceratosauridae family group with other small bodied crested dinosaurs like Guanlong and Sinotyrannus. Yutyrannus was large for it’s group but still much smaller than later, more advanced members of it’s clade, like Tyrannosaurus Rex. Despite this, at roughly 30 feet it is still currently the largest dinosaur yet found with direct evidence of feathers. It’s name is in fact derived from the Mandarin word for feather, yǔ (羽), and the Greek word for tyrant. The species name huali is taken from Mandarin for beautiful, making it’s overall name mean something close to “beautiful feathered tyrant.”

n what would eventually become the Gobi Desert in Southwestern Mongolia, a creature with claws 3 times the length of the average human forearm. These massive scythe-like appendages were attached to a very odd looking member of the dinosaur family, a large theropod with an unusual gait, long neck, and a large potbelly built. This animal was most likely an herbivore, despite the vicious looking nature of it’s forelimbs, but being a big animal with short legs it’s likely that it developed big claws partly as a means to defend itself against big predators like Tarbosaurus bataar, a relative of T.rex that stalked Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous (70 million years ago).

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay features a Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest known carnivorous dinosaurs. Forty feet long and sporting powerfully-built jaws lined with long serrated teeth, this Cretaceous Period beast was imposing-looking enough to earn the title “Tyrant Lizard King”.

This carnivore knows it has the coolest name of theropod dinosaurs and honestly any cretaceous period reptile. The fossil has an X in it's name. Now that's a cool extinct prehistoric animal.

This bipedal predator is for future paleontologists to dig up gravel to find this lovely extinct carnivore during prehistoric times! Dino love this to your heart!

Abel's Lizard from the late Cretaceous period is sure to get any paleontologist BITING to have this cool prehistoric design!

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay depicts the fleet-footed feathered Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaur known as Ornithomimus (“bird mimic”), one of the “ostrich mimics”.

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay features an Allosaurus, a meat-eating theropod dinosaur that prowled western North America during the Late Jurassic.

Allosaurus

T.rex was a massive animal, measuring around 40 feet in length and roughly 12 feet in height, weighing in at around 6 to 9 tons. It had teeth as big or bigger than most bananas with a bite force equal to around 8,000 lbs of force. When it bit into it’s prey it would often crush bone. Though it had relatively small arms for it’s stature, scientists have estimated that each arm was capable of 3.5 times the strength of a human arm of the same length, they were heavily muscled and had a limited range of movement, which some think may have aided the animal in holding on to prey or during mating.

Utah always wanted it's own apex predator to call it's own and it happens that a raptor from the Cretaceous age was called Utahraptor. Pretty neat, so might as well respect the saurus reptile.

First described in 1877 at the height of the “Bone Wars” by Othneil Charles Marsh, Allosaurus was one of the most successful and wide spread predators of the Late Jurassic Period (approximately 155-150 million years ago) with most of it’s remains being found the Morrison Formation in Western North America and related specimens having been found as far away as Portugal, and possibly as far off as Tanzania. Allosaurus was named from the Greek for “different lizard” because of a trait found in the central parts of it’s vertebrae which had a concave cup-like shape on the back end of it’s surface.

A missing link...

Eodromaeus was a basal theropod that lived during the Late Triassic period (231.4 to 299 million years ago). It was discovered in 1996 in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina.

Around 66 million years ago, in Late Cretaceous South Dakota, an odd bird-like creature darted it’s way through the thick overgrowth of a humid, swampy, coastal plain near the coast of an inland sea that only only exists now in the form of trace elements of chemical signatures, rock strata, and the fossil remains of the animals that lived and died on its shores and below its waves.

Final for Carnotaurus sastrei. A farely large predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (72 – 69.9 million years ago), it is mostly defined by it’s short bulldog like skull sporting 2 large horns mounted on it’s brow just above the eyes. The bull-like placement of the horns were not lost on the scientist who discovered it, José Bonaparte, deriving it’s name from the Latin words meaning “meat-eating bull.”

A Dilophosaurus wetherilli packed into a compact square design! He's comfortable in there it's fine

Coelophysis is an ancient predator and theropod carnivore in the late Triassic and early Jurassic and even cretaceous age! Paleontology and Archeology marvel at this velociraptor like creature.

Megalosaurus lived 166 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic period, its remains were first described by science in 1699 but it were misattributed as being those of a fish, it would later become the first animal to be placed under the group, Dinosauria. It was about 30 feet in length and weighed between 2,200 and 6,600 lbs.

Roughly 153 to 148 million years ago a vicious predator stalked the sun bleached grasslands and loosely populated conifer forests of Late Jurassic Colorado. As a mid-sized predator, measuring in at around 23 feet in length, with a weight estimated between 1500 and 2100 pounds, it would have been formidable hunter, most likely preying on whatever herbivorous fauna that it could sink its teeth into.

A cozy little Allosaurus companion for your day to day ventures!

Just your average hungry ceratosaurus enjoying a nice meal. Vintage comic style with distressed aging effects.

Hoping for a t-shirt that's equal parts cute and scientifically accurate? Don't be fooled by its feathers and innocent expression - this little chicken is actually a descendant of the mighty dinosaurs!

Albert was a prehistoric animal just wanting to be loved and was thrilled that paleontologists named his species Albertosaurus. Every extinct reptile was jealous of Albert and will be for millions of years.

From the Late Cretaceous, this recently discovered theropod it’s more a T.Rex cousin than a big Velocirapto

Coloration based off an Eastern turkey. Happy Thanksgiving!

Fossil collectors and prehistoric animals both like this dinosaur cause most of them are dromaeosaurids. Birds that all saurus reptiles are and most are carnivores so watch out!

Paleontologists looking for extinct reptiles love to find the Guaiba lizard cause is name is cool and is a basal dinosaur genus. A paleontology specialist's dream at any geopark!

Coloration based on an Indian green parrot

One of the biggest apex predator in the forest of the cretaceous period, due to its popularity, t.rex has been researched and studied a lot more than other species of dinosaurs. This theropod is the reason why people got into paleontology!