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Published: 2006-12-22 21:43:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1158; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 43
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Profile of the new dromaeosaurid from Mongolia, [i]Tsaagan mangas[/i], or "white monster". I tried to keep the snarley, snaggletoothed look the from the fossil. I guess the teeth may have been straighter in life, but giving in to orthodontics took away some of its character
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This makes me think of people shouting "TSAAGAN MANGAS!" over and over again while circling a skull in the middle of flame....
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Looks like an ancestor to vultures.
You've inspired me to draw my Tsaagan Mangas like this, only with a wattle-like thingy added.
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What do you think about lizard lips vs. beaky edges in dromaeosaur mouths? The mouth on this reconstruction looks almost mammalian.
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Well, for a while I was dead set against lips in dinosaurs, but there was a recent SVP poster and upcoming paper that pretty solidly demonstrates lips were present in most theropods. On this one I tried to restore it more like a bird's mouth, with a rigid margin instead of the muscular croc-like corner of the moth.
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That's intersting news! So, in the light of current evidence, does it look like a beaked tip fading away into lips for most dinosaurs?
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Nope, like in modern birds, a beak negates lips. But forms with no beaks would have had lips rather than croc-like snagle teeth.
And we're talking lizard-like lips here, not mammal like, which are very different structures.
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Thanks for the clarification! I'm guessing lizard-style lips cannot be moved or brought to grin or sneer, right?
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Nope, they're immobile but flexible and only function to cover the teeth.
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Very vulturid with the feather/skin combination. Neato.
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