Unique Dinosaur Art

Showcasing saurian speculation, weird old theories, fun stylization other creative takes on prehistoric biology. Icon by @carn3morta. Run by @BrochJamm

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Howdy, folks. I just wanted to thank everyone who's still here for following along with me all these years. I'm glad the first and most successful "gimmick" account I decided to make ultimately offered some semblance of education and fostered mostly positive interactions.
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[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Various illustrations of sauropods walking with a splayed, alligator-like stance. This theory was put forward by Oliver P. Hay around 1910 but was later dismissed around 1938 after the discovery of preserved sauropod tracks.

[Broch @BrochJamm]

A humble request:

Does anybody have a screen recording of the cryptid British big cat panel from TetZooCon 2020?

I want to rewatch it to hopefully glean more firsthand sources on the subject.

[🦎Viscerasuchus🪶 (croc enjoyer🐊) @Visceral9000]

While it is common knowledge nowadays that birds are a type of reptile, Victorian scientists originally thought that birds were more closely related to mammals.

Which lead to abominations such as this: a hypothetical bird-mammal common ancestor

[Tyler Greenfield @TylerGreenfieId]

The guesses were good but too rational! This is an 1841 reconstruction of Albert Koch's 'Missourium'/'Leviathan' (actually a mastodon) by James Pedder, who thought it was a giant tusked tortoise!

[Seth Pollack @sethmpk]

NYC subway stations are full of vacant spaces, so they’re started letting artists use them. Now we have Dinosaur Bodega

[RickRaptor105 @RickRaptor105]

I was looking up whether anyone ever made a sequel of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (since it is public domain) and this one from 1998 titled "Dinosaur Summer" made me realize there is really nothing new under the sun, isn't there?

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Dinosaur skeletals from 1896 (The dinosaurs of North America, O.C. Marsh)

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Elasmosaurus and some unusually snake-like mosasaurs, from Extinct Monsters by H. N. Hutchinson, 1896

[awfulfawaffle - commissions are ALWAYS open @awfulfawaffle]

@CursedDinosaurs Have you used the upside down Tully monster?

[Gael casas @GaelCasart]

Had a crack at reconstructing the walking gait of meilifeilong ,the overall pattern doesn’t seem to differ much within pterosaurs so it may apply to most of them

#paleoart

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Named in 1998, Megaraptor was originally thought to be a giant dromaeosaur, estimated to be 8 metres long. However, as of 2014, it has been suggested that Megaraptor is more likely an allosauroid.

Some art made when Megaraptor was still considered a dromaeosaur:

(credit below)

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

@Visceral9000 Megaraptor being an Allosaurus-sized dromeaosaur
https://t.co/15MQoiUH2o

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Named in 1998, Megaraptor was originally thought to be a giant dromaeosaur, estimated to be 8 metres long. However, as of 2014, it has been suggested that Megaraptor is more likely an allosauroid.

Some art made when Megaraptor was still considered a dromaeosaur:

(credit below)

[🦎Viscerasuchus🪶 (croc enjoyer🐊) @Visceral9000]

What are some things you wish were still paleontologically or zoologically true?

For me, it is turtles being the last parareptiles/anapsids

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

@Grrtesko_15 Very cool! I can see the synapsid influence

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

A drawing of a Ganges River Dolphin where the artist pretended they had no prexsisting knowledge of what dolphins looked like and used only the skeleton as reference.
Most dinosaur reconstructions are drawn using similar limited information.

https://t.co/2cOP37JQHh
#paleoart

[GRROTESKOPEYA @Grrtesko_15]

@UniquePaleoart My reptilian monsters inspired by the Permian period

[nao70shark @nao70shark1]

とりあえず自分の復元したブラキオサウルスを見て落ちこう…

[Dr Matt Dempsey @Sketchy_raptor]

It appears to be identical to the famous Jurassic Park T. rex that used to reside in the Times Square Toys R Us. A source quoted in the Wall Street Journal claims it was "shredded and burned" after the store closed in 2016. But here it is, currently in a Creatonist Museum? (2/3)

[Dr Matt Dempsey @Sketchy_raptor]

So I was watching @FoldableHuman's excellent "Mantracks" video and was struck by something. There is a shot of a T. rex animatronic at the ICR Discovery Center for Science and Earth History, a Creatonist Museum. I Googled it, as it struck me as looking remarkably familiar...(1/3)

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Some (ancient) Superb Owls - Tyto pollens, Tyto gigantea, and Tyto robusta, extinct members of the Barn Owl family. All were substantially larger than their modern day cousins. #superbowl

https://t.co/UGqoRj8CaD
#paleoart #art #owl

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

@The_Fosha_Man2 I don't know, he must have deactivated. I know a lot of people left DA after they started accepting AI art. Maybe he's going by the different username now.

You can *kind of* view his profile on the Wayback Machine https://t.co/dLeRM5dK8I

[Unique Dinosaur Art @UniquePaleoart]

Some (ancient) Superb Owls - Tyto pollens, Tyto gigantea, and Tyto robusta, extinct members of the Barn Owl family. All were substantially larger than their modern day cousins. #superbowl

https://t.co/UGqoRj8CaD
#paleoart #art #owl