Bird dinosaur

These illustrations will redefine the way you think about your favorite dinosaurs.

I had fun imagining what raptors might look like if they lived in the savanna. They would probably have the characteristics of the animals currently living in the actual savanna.

The Lone Pine Mountain Devil is a winged carnivore of North American folklore. Some believe it to be a West Coast relative of the New Jersey Devil. One early account by a priest described them as “winged demons” sent from the “depths of hell.” Also referred to as the California Mountain Devil, the animal is said to be a bat-like legendary creature or cryptid believed to inhabit the wilderness and mountainous regions of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. The Lone Pine Mountain Devil…

This preening _Velociraptor_ liked to keep its feathers straight.

Description Here's an illustration I did of the giant phorusrhacid Kelenken guillermoi. I limited myself to a day for this piece, which I find helps me to improve my workflow as I can't get bogged down on little details. Hope youse all enjoy!

Or Velociraptor gypaetus, because it's made with a Gypaetus barbatus photograph. Really funny to do! Velociraptor

Flying muppets. Studies of Cascocauda, a Middle-Late Jurassic anurognathid pterosaur from Asia. Anurognathids are just simply amazing

#LateCretacious #DinoBirds were decendants of #archaeopterix. But, they were not birds, and most did not become birds. Only the smallest got better at flying. The big ones, like this example, were #tooBigToFly. Only hatchlings flapped around. The adults lived as mid-size hunting dinosaurs. A few, the #therinzosaurs, grew quite large, and adspted an herbal diet.