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Description
Nothronychus is a strange looking animal. It was a north american therizinosaur, a group of herbivore theropods famous for the asian Therizinosaurus. It had the iconically big claws, and many people believe that it was a sort of cretaceous anteater\giant sloth. Being a maniraptoran, it almost surely had a very thick coverage of feathers. In this reconstruction I decided to make a naked belly (NOTE: not scaly but covered in bare skin), as a possible adaptation to the large amount of heat produced by the fermentation of vegetal matter in its intestines.

Its tail is instead a homage to Rodrigo Vega and Vlad Konstantinov, a couple of great artists who made really interesting concepts\3d models for games like "The Stomping Land" and "The Isle".

Drawing based off the Scott Hartman's skeletal reconstruction
www.deviantart.com/art/Nothron…
Length: 4,5-6 m
Zanno et al., 2009

Muscioni Marco, 2016
Graphite on paper

Special thanks to:

Please do NOT use my work, it is under copyright.

Description
Nothronychus is a strange looking animal. It was a north american therizinosaur, a group of herbivore theropods famous for the asian Therizinosaurus. It had the iconically big claws, and many people believe that it was a sort of cretaceous anteater\giant sloth. Being a maniraptoran, it almost surely had a very thick coverage of feathers. In this reconstruction I decided to make a naked belly (NOTE: not scaly but covered in bare skin), as a possible adaptation to the large amount of heat produced by the fermentation of vegetal matter in its intestines.

Its tail is instead a homage to Rodrigo Vega and Vlad Konstantinov, a couple of great artists who made really interesting concepts\3d models for games like "The Stomping Land" and "The Isle".

Drawing based off the Scott Hartman's skeletal reconstruction
www.deviantart.com/art/Nothron…
Length: 4,5-6 m
Zanno et al., 2009

Muscioni Marco, 2016
Graphite on paper

Special thanks to:

Please do NOT use my work, it is under copyright.