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Published: 2012-08-29 21:28:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 3456; Favourites: 74; Downloads: 51
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Short project for my sequential narrative class showing a general progression of velociraptor illustration ending with what I consider to be the most "modern". Gotta tell you, that first one was a bit hard to draw XD
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I think raptors like Osprey had the more fur in anus part .... this part probably covered with fur !
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Really like it, even if i don't know if the folding of the arm in the third restoration was actually possible... The folding in the 2nd one is possibly more realistic, according to Senter's study.
Other than that, great stuff!
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I'm remember drawing the first feathered raptor back in middle school when I was a 8th grade.
But now I've been keep drawing other feathered dinosaurs for lot. That was a good work on those.
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How is it hard to fathom? Theropod Dinosaurs ARE Birds.
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I mean no offense, but while they do share many anatomical features and even significant genetic sequences, saying a theropod dinosaur is a bird has all the accuracy of saying bats and humans are monkeys.
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They're not exactly the same. We're not exactly Apes. Birds aren't exactly the same as Theropods, but they share the lineage.
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Ahh, I still see my Raptors as a mix of the top and the middle piece. Granted, I do like my Dinosaurs with feathers, I still cannot fathom that they resemble birds as how you have it portrayed in the last section.
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Is the second one an improvement over the first? Absolutely.
Is the third one an improvement over the second? Hard to say. The fluffier neck is based on much smaller, distantly related deinonychosaurs, but many larger birds today have fairly scrawny-looking necks, so I could see this going either way. The decision to leave the feet and pubic area unfeathered as in the earlier reconstructions, on the other hand, appears to be entirely speculative. Modern birdlike wing folding may have actually not been possible in dromaeosaurs, according to a 2010 study by Sullivan et al. The pubis may not have been as strongly retroverted as restored, according to a 2012 study by Senter et al.
I *like* your modern reconstruction, but I'm cautious that the characteristic modern look is really more of a fad than an objective step forwards.
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Wasn't velociraptor a desert species? Must be hot under all those feathers!
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Tell that to the roadrunner!
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Or the ostrich, or the vulture. Also male turkeys have a better chance of dying of heat exhaustion than females simply because of the naked head that they have.
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Yep. A lot of people don't seem to realize that feathers aren't heat-traps like fur is, they're insulators both in favor and against heat (depending on conditions).
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Plus don't most birds have about the same amount of feather covering by proportion to the body regardless of climate?
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