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"Walker's heavy claw", or Baryonyx walkeri is a early Cretaceous relative of the giant Spinosaurus.Baryonyx lived in the Europe of today and was might a primary piscivorous.
A comparison with modern piscivorous is diffucult because on his next relatives only two groups are really specialised at fish-eating. This are at the one hand the Crocodilia (espacially the Gharials) and on the other hand a couple of birds which are specialised more or less on a aquatic life (such as Penguins or Cormorants). But the first of this extant relatives is a cold-blooded (Theropoda were highly likely warm-blooded animals) and tetrapode animal and the birds are essentially smaller than the Baryonyx.
A non-relative extant "piscivorous" for comparison is the Grizzly-Bear of North-America. The livestyle of those two species could be nearly the same, might they are both opportunistic omnivorous with good facialities for a piscivorous life.
I painted the Baryonyx here with a coat of Protofeathers. A warm-blooded animal with this size wouldn't need a coat for isolation and the climate of Europe was still tropical in early Cretaceous, but some bears of today are living in comparable habitats and they didn't lost their fur. Maybe a patterned coat was for mating or as protection in interspezific fights.
Baryonyx walkeri is stalking two Lepidotes sp. On the stones are Notobranchus-like Frogs an an unidentified Dragonfly. In the background you can also see another Baryonyx and a herd of Iguanodon sp.
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I've seen dinosaurs, and that is no dinosaur.
THAT is a saber-toothed duck.
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Yeah, it's a very strange one, I know.
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The coloration of black, white and orange remind me Emperor Penguins and King Penguins.
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King Penguin? Indeed, your right but I thought about Cormorants.
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hey hey this is fab!!
i love the colouration you gave to the bary's plumage, i actually have many cormorants at the local reservoir and they remind me of baryonyx! superb piece RAWR
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Thank you very much
Oh you have cormorants? I adore those birds, I whish I would see one in nature.
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Artfully constructed and coloured. I especially liked the description of the situation in the image; it adds a sense of realism and life to the piece. Although I typically dislike feathers on dinosaurs, except for a select few, I think the use of neutral colours countered my pet peeve. (I'm just glad at not seeing another hot pink feathered dinosaur...eesh.) I'm glad to have you in my group.
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Thank you a lot.
I espacially like feathered Dinosaurs, but also not on all kinds. Pink is a very unusal colour for a Dinosaur but (with a natural look of course, like Flamingos) quite worth consideration (perhaps on Pelicanimimus).
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I'll have to look that up, lol. I know anything from Einiosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Arsinoitherium, Pollexisaurus and et cetera to Sellosaurus and Elasmosaurs but my Dinopedia can only take me so far...
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A large tetanurae covered of protofeathers? Mhm... :/
Sir, I think it's very improbable. You make mention of bears, but a bear is a mammal, and a bear doesn't weigh 2 tonnes as a Baryonyx.
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Well, feathers can occur more easily in large theropods thanks to the air sac pulmonary system cooling the system down; compare the covering the cassowary has and the coat of the similar sized mammal peccary
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Mhm... there are no evidences of air sacs in large theropods (only speculations) and I think that a cassowary or a peccary are not the size of a Baryonyx.
In my opinion theropods had no a feathers covered body over 3,5/4 meters in lenght.
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Sure the Baryonyx wasn't a bear, he also wasn't a bird.
The comparison with modern animals is always flawed.
But we also have no evidence for as well as against the feathers on large tetanurae - so it is only a reconstruction with another intention than the mainstream.
In comparison with large semi-aquatic carnivorous mammals, many of them have more or less a fur (the Ursus arctos-subspecies, sealion, fur seals and so on). Their are also species which won't need a fur for living, but for innerspecific interactions. It is in my opinion probable, that the Baryonyx could have a protofeather-mane, for similar reasons like lions or fur seals.
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I respect your view, of course.
But I think that dinosaurs were too different from mammals (and this kind
of dinosaur was different from birds too) that Baryonyx had no
phisiological need for a protofeathers cover. Maybe Baryonyx had some
feathers or protofeathers for display function.
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I respect your view too.
And you're right that Baryonyx was to different from mammals and birds. I only wanted to show an other imagination of this well known dinosaur with a touch of convergence.
There are also only feathers on the head and neck shown, the rest is let the abandon of the viewer.
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Understood. Anyway, beautiful artwork.
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Much more realistic, maybe the stones are still a bit "soft" as they don't seem to have edges on them, but clearly progressing
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Thanks.
The stones are imagined as river-stones, which are mostly round shaped, like here: [link]
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I like the colour scheme of the Baryonyx 
Nevertheless, keep up the good work!
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Thank you for comment and critique, the latter ist justified.
I painted the background very spontaneously, there were actually a other scene and much closer to the foreground.
Because the flatness of the environment I thought, most of Europe in the early Cretaceous was more or less flat.
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What I mean is that there are parts that are done with great detail (the trees in the background) and then parts that are left without details or proper texture (like the stones, they seem so soft and fluffy). Also maybe the Baryonyx's lower jaw would look better if there were shadows and dark edges like the upper jaw.
I hope you understand what I mean, and don't misunderstood my criticism. The idea is not to point at the mistakes made, simply help you out. I myself prefer critique on my works, because it's much more helpful for development than comments like "OMG! That's so cool!"...
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Okay thank you. I'll heed your advice and upload a better version later.
Constructive criticism is welcoming ever, another person has said something similar as you.
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Fantastic! Its my imagination or it have"feathers"?
His head reminds me a bird.
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Thank you.
Yes, he has a coat of Protofeathers, as you see in the caption.
The reconstruction is based on a Cormorant, a piscivorous relative of him today.
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