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Published: 2008-11-16 09:05:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 7129; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 2603
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A Tyrannosaurus. Tyrannosaurus was perhaps the most refined killing machine of its time. Once it was known as the biggest meat eater that ever lived on land (whales are technically carnivorous), and its the most famous dinosaur of all. For more than a hundred years since its discovery it's captivated the minds of young and old. This animal was a true monster. Never mind the mothman, or el chupacabras, or dragons. This thing was real.This is Dedicated to Osborn who named him (he died on a November 6th), and to Michael Crichton, who...well...allowed crazies like me to go around drawing dinosaurs and getting outlandish dreams of studying paleontology and what-not.
Enjoy!
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Mainly the neck, it seems a little tight-to-the-bone. I do agree that it's feathers would probably be sparser, but I'm pretty fond of a light covering, ostrichlike.
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I don't know if you still follow me, but the update I promised is going to be uploaded in the next 24 hours. It will be a lot more to your standards.
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this was done a long time ago. Maybe someday I will update it.
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I like it, but it seems a bit skinny and scaly for my tastes.
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I didn't think an animal this large would need any integument, given the weather conditions of the times. Skinny? How so? Lean is more like it.
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Nice one! impressive drawing style.
But! I wouldn't be so sure of the "killing machine" label. I don't know if your familiar with recent researches, but Rexy wasn't a hunter... morelike a huge ugly chick, and was something like the lions today: stealing the food more often than killing them. Even if killing that would have been the females. Plus, they possibly had red heads... yeah I know that is funny, but that what research says.
Keep on the good work, I really like these drawings.
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i was gunna mention that they thought he was a scavenger more or less 
but nice drawing none the less.
and still a very impressive animal
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There's no proof. That's just a theory, like the one of it being a hunter.
I say it was powerful enough to hunt and kill other animals. Any animal with such a skeletal configuration says hunter to me.
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I'm glad that you have mentioned "skeletal configuration", because that is the proof: it could possibly run only on a short distance (less than it would make him a true hunter). It possibly hunted also... I'm not saying no, but that costs much-much more energy for such a huge animal. And this is not a shame: people tend to think that this is something bad. But haven't bigger animals always steal the food if they had the possibility (even of the same species)?
I'm glad that you replied, and yes... this is also a theory, but a more modern one than the one from the '60s
Be more accepting in life: if not else, it will help you broaden your view. Peace man!
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Scales of energy seem to be different on animals. I believe most dinosaurs to have been agile, moving with much grace and power. I mean, ever seen an elephant run? Or a giraffe? They're pretty dang big. Even though Tyrannosaurus is twice as long as these two examples, still probably was a vigorous animal.
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Well... that is also a possibility, but possibly the answer (as always) is somewhere between the two. (:
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Probably. I like the idea of it being like a giant vulture. It probably waded the land for dead animals most of the time, but it was certainly capable of going after a large ornithopod.
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Yeah, that is likely. But if they really hunted (I don't have such an extensive knowledge as you do; I owe just a few books and haven't read them all) I think they selected the few older\younger or weaker animals from herds. That is the most successful way to hunt.
Keep on the good work and see you around.
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Oh, obviously. They won't give such a chase. And according to new studies, apparently ornithopods were larger than once thought due to new measurements and new things taken into consideration such as connective tissue between the vertebrae and so on....so a 13 meter long edmontosaurus would have been 16 meters long, and so on...But this is pretty new and pretty national geographic written all over it, so i wouldn't believe it. and you know how much slower and easier to hunt large animals are...so it's not hard to imagine a Tyrannosaurus going after a large specimen of Edmontosaurus/Anatotitan or a sauropod, such as Alamosaurus...Either way, I drew this because I'm not a fan of Tyrannosaurus rex, but if you look at it, it's a fucking beautiful animal.
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I feel as if the head is to skinny, to small. I think if you made the nazel ridge on the rex (from the nose to right before the eyes) a little...fatter? Larger? Oh something like that.
Anyways GREAT JOB! I like your attention to fine details and the like.
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It's intentional. But all the proportions are correct.
And it's not me being arrogant.
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Very nice, you gotta love the infamous Rex. I love the way you draw these, once again, it's expertly done. My only suggestion here would be to add in another visible arm, just as you see the leg on the otherside, even if only slightly. That just seems to stand out for me, but regardless, this is excellent.
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Heh, someone else suggested that, except they were perplexed as to why i hadn't drawn the other arm.
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Haha
Even if you don't add another arm, it matters little, they didn't have much use anyway! He'll survive without it...
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I think I can hear the Jaws music when I look at this.
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Ta-da-ta-da-ta-datadatadatatatatatatatatata...
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thats actually a pretty good way of putting it to words
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FINALLY I was wondering when you were going to do T-Rex!
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Took me a while.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Norman is a freak, as is Ozzy.
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You've got a point there.
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Thanks!
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Uh no one really cares whether I'm on or not lol and anyway I've been busy these few days. =] I stayed out with my mom in the hotel so we went out and I didn't have time to go online.
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3 days are up, remember?
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It's the 4th now. Well, it didn't go well but I didn't cry for him anyway. =] I'm ok now.
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