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Published: 2016-11-01 18:29:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 4691; Favourites: 255; Downloads: 0
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For Inktober, I also sketched some dromaeosaurids. Here's one of them with a bit of colour splashed on him: Velociraptor mongoliensis. remarked that the original secondaries I gave him were probably too small, given that Velociraptor had quill knobs on the ulna: the feathers were apparently sturdy, because they needed to be anchored so well into the bone. The animal probably actually did something with them instead of just, say, displaying. For this coloured version, I enlargened the secondaries some 30 %, but they still might be too small - depending on what exactly the animal used them for.If Velociraptor often grappled with large prey animals (as the fighting dinosaur fossil might suggest) or each other, their wing feathers might need to be firmly attached, whatever size they were. At least in modern birds, a partially detached big feather might be life-threatening, because they won't easily stop bleeding. They need to either stay where they are, or get completely pulled off.
Black ballpoint pen on a sketchbook page, and Photoshop. Based on s skeletal reconstruction.
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the snout looks weirdly mammalian. i kinda like it.
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I just realized something I meant to point out when I saw the original drawing, and now that you've already colored it I feel bad about pointing this out. However, I still feel like I should: if the wings of deinonychosaurs folded anything like those of modern birds, the primaries should end up under the secondaries.Β
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Thanks for pointing that out! It's of course obvious, now that you say it, but I apparently did not think much while drawing. 
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Well, sure. Though I'm not the most pedantic person for that.
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The fact even the larger dromaeosaurs had huge wings suggests to me they were using them for locomotion.
Obvious the adults couldn't fly, but the juveniles possibly could, and considering that even sifakas are capable of some gliding some form of aerodynamic locomotion isn't implausible.
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Assuming juveniles actually had wing feathers. "Dave" the juvenile dromaeosaur doesn't seem to have any, and the trio of feathered Ornithomimosaurus published in 2012 showed only the adults had them in that species. Probably depends on whether they needed them.
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Love the art work and color, but arn't the whole wings a bit small for a Dromaeosaurid?
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Thanks!
The arm bones are pretty much exactly the right size (I double-checked). The feathers, on the other hand, are a matter of taste at this point. They would obviously be too small for a flying/gliding species like Microraptor. Velociraptor, however, was too big to fly and had small arms that don't suggest it's wings had very much much aerodynamic function. The wing feathers could have still been large for, say, display, or they could have been small and robust like in this reconstruction.
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Fair enough, i see the logic behind that.Β
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Beautiful, I always imagined velociraptor looking a bit like a sandgrouse.
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Here we see the sand bird, more commonly know as the desert dodo, in it's natural evironment. Here the sand bird is standing absolutely still, trying to hide from it's avian predators above.Β This innocent creture has become endangered in recent years, due to the increasing amount of predators that realise that yes, it is actually just gonna stand there and do nothing while you brutally peck it to death.
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