fuckyeahdinoart:

microraptor gui by ~Onikaizer

gingerhaze:

defeat the dinosaurs with the power of LOVE

thegildedcentury:

Thrilling Wonder Stories, March, 1941

The idea of forensic archeology suddenly makes much more sense.

bonferroni:

Charley Harper from The Golden Book of Biology (1961).

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amnhnyc:

Dinosaurs…on Venus? In this letter to the Hayden Planetarium from the 1950s, one cosmic hopeful suggested surveying Venus for ancient life. See the full collection of letters here: http://bit.ly/tQz4ZJ

grohac:

swegener:

Let the FCBD 2012 madness begin!

A final sketch and quick colors for the three new characters I’ll be wrangling in this story.

OH SHIT WHO IS THAT HANDSOME DEVIL? WHAT? NO NOT ANANTH PANAGARIYA. 

NO NOT THE DINOSAUR. 

YOU ARE REALLY BAD AT NOTICING WHO IS THE HANDSOMEST. 

meadowfoam:

An ideal scene of the Lias period with two sauropods in the sea. Wood engraving by Riou.

The Lost World book cover - Janusz Stanny 

It should be noted that everything at the source site is amazing.

tarynosaurus:

Lonely Tyrannosaurus by Anatotitan on Flickr.

Terribly Lonely

fuckyeahtattoos:

This set of tattoos was my first (of many). 3 sittings. 3 hours for the Parasauralophus and 4 hours for the Plesiosaur. There was a plethora of reasons for getting this done and waiting till the ripe age of 28 to do so.

Long story short, it was a declaration to myself that I had achieved the goal of supporting myself through playing music in NYC. This city is brutal and thankless. But I wouldn’t want it any differently. Tattoos and piercings were always forbidden in my strict Christian upbringing. So this was a major cut to the umbilical cord. My father, who has never seemed proud of my music accomplishments was the only reason I waited as long as I did. He always loved me but never really believed in me as a musician or a man. I’ll be shunned for awhile because of this but that’s not something I can control. I have a bit of optimism that he will surprise me and be cool with my life choices, even if they aren’t what he had in mind for me. We’ll see…

Oh I also got them because dinosaurs kick ass. Wanna fight about it?

Designed and Tattooed by the AMAZING Alice White at No Ka Oi Tiki Tattoo in Philadelphia, PA. She’s well worth the commute. 

theropod:

Relative proportions of forelimb and hind limb in various theropods. Note the extremely reduced forelimbs of Carnotaurus and Tyrannosaurus, in which forelimb length is less than 20% of the hind limb length. Forelimb/hind limb ratio is 46% in Struthiomimus, 61% in Deinonychus, and 96% in Archaeopteryx. This pattern is even more pronounced when phalanges and unguals are included. Carnotaurus modified from Bonaparte, Novas & Coria (1990); Tyrannosaurus modified from Heilmann (1927); Allosaurus after Paul (1987); Sinornithoides modified from Russell & Dong (1993a); Coelophysis, Struthiomimus, Deinonychus, and Archaeopteryx modified from Padian & Chiappe (1997).

From Middleton & Gatesy, 2000

bequietyellingcat:

museum drawings from last friday. fun fact: the dire wolf was native only to the americas, especially california. so now i’m pretending westeros is south america and ‘winter is coming’ is a reference to the shifting supercontinent cycle of climate change.

wait. ignore me.