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Something big is coming... . . #areyouready #miniature #artistofinstagram #artistoninstagram #paleoartist #sculptor #sculpture #supersculpy #paleoart #terrorbird #art #artist #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #dinosaurart #iceage #iceageanimal #kelenken #kelenkenguillermoi #arksurvival #theropods #toymaker #prehistoricanimal #prehistoriccreature #teaser #paleoartista #paleoarte #titanis #phorusrhacos #creaturedesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B5SVjb3Hq04/?igshid=feeks9aak2lf
Here it is! Kelenken guillermoi. This apex predator ruled Argentina ca 17 million years ago. One of the largest of the known terror birds, it had the largest skull of any known bird ever! The holotype specimin sported a skull meassuring 70 centimeters, and it might not have been fully grown yet. This callback to the non-avian dinosaurs likely used it's long and well-developed legs to ambush and run down the unique megafauna of South America, dispatching them with vicious kicks, pecks reminiscent of being picked by a pickaxe, or by grabbing them and violently throwing them to the ground, like it's closestliving relatives; the seriema. . Finally! I've been working on this for a LONG time! It feels really good to have the sculpture finished. I learned a lot making this one, and you can see a clear progression from the first model i posted, and this one. This is sort of a re-take on that first model, tho the actual remake of the first one is still early on in the making, being a scantly clad armature for now. Credit to the tagged creator of the skeletal i based it on, check them out, they've got some good sketches! And a later inspiration posted by the amazing @thewoodparable that's more active on twitter #miniature #artistofinstagram #artistoninstagram #paleoartist #sculptor #sculpture #supersculpy #paleoart #terrorbird #art #artist #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #dinosaurart #iceage #iceageanimal #kelenken #kelenkenguillermoi #arksurvival #theropods #toymaker #prehistoricanimal #prehistoriccreature #paleoartista #paleoarte #titanis #phorusrhacos #creaturedesign #prehistoricbird #prehistoricbeast https://www.instagram.com/p/B5X6G6Iljf3/?igshid=o385wtz07t86
New paper supporting lipped theropods was just released!
They looked at the wear patterns on the enamel of a crocodile tooth and a daspletosaurus, as well as the skull length/tooth height relationship for multiple theropods and monitor lizards.
The crocodile tooth had more wear on its exposed side, while the daspletosaurus tooth had similar enamel thickness on both sides, indicating that they were likely covered by soft tissue, which keeps enamel moist and resistant to wear. They also found that theropods did not have a larger relative tooth size than monitor lizards do - the largest teeth belonged to the crocodile monitor, which has extensive soft tissue covering its teeth. This means that even Tyrannosaurus could plausibly have had their teeth completely covered by lips despite their size.
A dance.
The crash of behemoth legs, thick as tree trunks. Pillars to hold up flanks that could encompass all of the sea and sky and earth. Rising. Falling. Walking mountains claiming this Earth in deliberate, primordial strides led by yawning shadows.
A dance.
Furious horns and proud frills. Cracked shield-faces thrust up, out, and retracted, unyielding. Painted in striking bold pronouncements from one clan or another. Dizzying arrays of horns like an endless parade of the finest, fiercest blades. Sheathed in keratin to exaggerate, enlarge.
A dance.
Swaying, armored sides. Lashing tails clubbed and spiked, beaked mouths barking, snapping, coughing. Angry forms thrilled for a fight, eager to prove against predator malevolence. A thud shattering hungry teeth. A crack that splinters bone. A sickening slash at flesh that brings bloody rain.
A dance.
A thousand, thousand voices. Chorused, harmonized thunder. It sings out. It whispers. Valleys caressed, mountains mapped, islands charted; all by those who sing, those who speak. Entire histories dwell in those reverberating hymns, whole cataclysms preserved by undulating notes and howling requiems, chirped directions, screeched prayers.
A dance.
Great, crashing jaws crack the moon into pale macabre slivers like pitiful bone. Splintered, fragmented hopes dashed on fang numerous and terrible. They are swift and silent as death, archangels in the flesh and bear names as devastating as holy disaster. Shadows leaping, twisting. Leviathans sprawled. The dragons of old. Alive.
A dance.
Something ties them. Something conjures thoughts too abstract for the minds of mere primitives, something too vivid drives impossibly intelligent stares. In every guttural snarl are unspoken designs. Through slashing claws emerges a design. A unity.
A mind.
Utahraptor Ostrommaysorum is my second favorite dinosaur i think
i made these bc im obsessed with dinosaur horror and im still angry at jwd for not giving us shit like this