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Hyrotrioskjan — Zhenyuanlong, the pheasant mimic
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Published: 2015-07-20 09:19:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 6573; Favourites: 174; Downloads: 32
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It was only a matter of time until the chinese strata would spit out the first middle sized dromaeosaurid which definitely possess long pennaceous feathers.Here another very quick painting on my green vacation paper
With such short arms, long feathers and robust jaws it's questionable if Zhenyuanlong used it's arms for the hunt. For me it's more likely that it used it's arms like a pheasant during the mating season, loud flapping and showing it's brightest colors to the females. Well here I try to imagine how that could look like
Here a example of a courting pheasant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLRrx…
roughly 5x15 cm, gouache and watercolors on paper
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Comments: 44
Great Artwork !
Wow... Dinosaurs look more & more like Giant terrestrial birds who cannot fly
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"Stability flapping" bei RPR wäre immer noch eine Option - gerade in Anbetracht der Länge der Hand- und Armschwingen im Vergleich zu der "harten" Anatomie drunter.
Und, wie üblich, großartiges Bild.
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Danke
Es ist in der tat interessant zu sehen wie lang die Federn im Vergleich zum Arm sind, das lässt mich
darüber nachgrübeln wie das wohl bei anderen kurzarmigen Taxa wie Austroraptor war...
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Very nice looking Zhen. I guess that dispaly could had been one of the main functions (tough maybe not the only one) of those lenghty arm feathers.
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Indeed, a one purpose use is unlikely
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Maybe it hunted small prey and used its foot talons to kill, like the modern secretarybird. In that way, it doesn't need to use its hands for prey grappling...
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What about the possibility of Zhenyuanlong using it's short arms to the extent of modern ostriches in order to aid in sharp turns during pursuit? It is possible that both of these uses were employed by Zhenyuanlong which would increase the usefulness of short arms. Wonderful reconstruction by the way.
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Of course, I just speculated here a bit more extreme to get your brains in speculation mood
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actually i dont think it did
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Okay, I looked it up and it did, just at the end of the Cretaceous.
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Also, absolutely beautiful work as always
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Thanks, yes there was already grass, at least in a few places, but there weren't large grasslands. What you see here
is supposed to be a bunch of horsetails.
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I love this concept so much! Very clever usage of the feathers
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China is the land of the feathered dinosaurs
Good job, it's amazing!
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Spit out a fossil, now that's an understatement, no...what China has is a fossiliferous diarrhea...but a good fossiliferous diarrhea
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Indeed, the best form of Diarrhea I know
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Sometimes my poetic reputation precedes me 
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Thanks ^^
That are a lot of small horsetails
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Squares can't be translated!
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