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Pachyornis — Excess tissue: Amblyrhynchus
Published: 2019-10-19 06:37:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2471; Favourites: 104; Downloads: 0
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Maybe some of you remember my first "excess tissue" drawing with the komodo dragon: images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8877… . And then I did a conventional version of Allosaurus plus one with "excess tissue": images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8877…Now I did one for the marine iguana Ambylrhynchus. The right drawing shows a marine drawing without anything what traditional paleoart considers "unlikely excess tissue", which is basically the skull shrinkwrapped in a thin layer of flesh (i.e. like in conventional paleoart of the last 20 years), the right one shows what Ambylrhynchus does look like. As you see, a lot of "excess tissue". Here is the skull for comparison: c8.alamy.com/compde/ahkjhc/ecu…
I think we should not be afraid of "excess tissue" in paleoart. Will do another theropod with "excess tissue" soon.
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true though obviously there are things to consider.
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Hi, are you planning on doing other modern animals with "excess tissue" soon or one day?
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Do you mean that the left one is what it really looks like?
This is a really cool idea. I'd love to see more animals done like this.
I know there was a whole book on the subject of what modern day animals would be reconstructed like.
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I think that depends on the type of animals (l have seen a trend of “beef” a lot of extinct animals just because yes.
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I have no doubt that some dinosaurs would have looked extreme as this, but I think those would have been smaller dinosaurs.
As you would know, integument like scale do not get proportionally bigger with animal’s size. So integument in bigger dinosaurs would have been less drastic.
(And of course many controversial integument reconstruction is related to big dinosaurs)
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Of course, that's true. I just picked Amblyrhynchus because it is a drastic example.
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