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Published: 2016-03-09 11:17:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 46992; Favourites: 1732; Downloads: 563
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Took an hour off work and did this piece. So this is my interpretation of Sue's death, Sue is the largest specimen of Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found. I was supposed to name this piece 'Sue- fallen queen' but no one really knows whether Sue's a male or female.Her damaged bones indicate he/she was injured, the tendon in particular but I think the injuries didn't kill sue, he/she most likely died of infection. And now sue's being scavenged by small birds and flies
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Where did you make this? LOOKS GREAT!!!!!
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here lies a powerful ruler
may their funeral be as regal as they were
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Sue is one of the most beautiful specimens there is! Have you seen the new one trix, is located in Holland now.
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1: Great image! It's the sad scene of Sue's death, but you made an excellent looking rex
2: Current theory is that robust T.rexes were female (as evident by MOR 1125, the rex with the soft tissue found in the leg bone and shown to be a pregnant rex). With Sue being the robust body type, it is generally believed it is a she (so the title "Sue - fallen Queen" would be appropriate).
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If no one knows whether Sue's a male or a female, don't immediately start the second paragraph with 'Her'.
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Small Birds-" Mom get the camera, we've got dinner for 3 years! Yea Haw!!!"
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How would infection kill her off? She had survived injuries that would have killed a mammal. It is more than likely that she died of thirst, starvation or even old age. Disease wouldn't have killed a dinosaur--they likely had too much plasma in their blood.
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I wouldn't really argue on how he/she really died this is just my artistic take on it. But saying disease wouldn't have killed a dinosaur is pretty much an assumption backed by zero scientific data.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-Tv8…
Also...
news.nationalgeographic.com/ne…
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Uhmm yeah first off, Natgeo documentaries regarding these kind of stuff aren't a %100 accurate and quite outdated too, I prefer reading published scientific papers
Second I'd rather look at BIRDS than crocodilians and lizards as reference to a theropod immune system note that dinosaurs are no longer the reptiles/lizards people thought they were, birds are theropod dinosaurs and they die from infections, from contaminants although I do agree that these animals were able to survive nasty injuries.
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Crocs aren't even related to lizards. And there are many who believe that dinosaurs were merely the midway between birds and crocs.
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Ah! I remember watching a program... I think it was called... Jurassic CSI part 2? In the program, they theorized she/he survived most of her/his injuries and that dinosaurs had the immune system of crocodiles/alligators.
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nice artwork,
sue appears to have ad the tip of its tail bitten off
when looking at Hartman's skeletal
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Poor Sue, gorgeous rendition of her tragic demise though!
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Like the illustration.
Poor Sue, went through so much just to be killed by what was essentially super sore throat...
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The Triceratops'es at the background looking with pure joy & satisfaction; nice touch !
Awesome work !
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Beautiful and quite emotional work! I really like all the details in it and what colours you've given Sue.
Also, are the birds supposed to be a specific species?
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The birds are supposed to be Avisaurus, but I might have gotten em wrong. I wasn't really planning to put em in the image but on the last minute I thought it'd be a cool touch.
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Poor Sue!!! Simply amazing. One of the best dinosau corpse depiction I've ever seen (really weird thi apreciation).
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You did this in an hour? Damn, you're good
Also, fantastic piece. I remember going to see Sue at the Field Museum, and thinking she was smaller than I'd expected. In this picture, even in death, she looks just as enormous and majestic as I imagine her.
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Oh I've seen sue!
Also, I'm just saying birds haven't evolved by then and in their place would probably be small scavenger dinosaurs.
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lol 
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Well you also have to tell the differene between avian and non avian before making a statement they are dinosaurs because people get confused by the word dinosaurs on birds and people tend to believe they are from the same group.
They are avian dinosaurs evolved after the non avian so no they are under the name dinosaurs but they are definitly not non avian.
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Yeah sorry I looked that up last night. I just don't think they were as developed
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i live in one of the suburbs of chicago, so i've seen her/him quite a bit. i adore the way you painted her/him, and the background is absolutely stunning!
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I like it! But i am still not 100% convinced about the procent amount of the feathers. There is yet no T-rex with feathers preserved. We just assuming on its relatives and the raptor family. But i dont say they dont exist but i think there is plenty of logical reason to still debate. Good work anyway.
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And of course, Sue was an old T. rex, well past initial breeding age; most individuals would have been considerably smaller, needing more insulation.
And of course, given the latitude and climate of Maastrichtian Laramidia, modern elephants are the wrong proboscideans to look at; we should be comparing it to a woolly mammoth in summer coat.
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Why do we even compare it to mammals at all? And why would it need insulation, i mean sure protofeathers etc quills. But we have triceratops skins ( even do its not a theropodia) there is no feather imprints. I have my doubts until there is ONE true t-rex specimen with anything preserved. According to the piece my friend Robert Dietrich have of Sam the T-rex wich he collected and the piece they have there is nothing indicating of Feathers on that particular region of the body wich if i am not mistaken was the neck region, same for the tarbosaurus ? Meanwhile if we jump to the conclusion the Ytyrannus got it t-rex must have it ? Im not saying there is none but there is no pure evidence for it.
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It needs insulation because if its body temperature is sustained much above the ambient air temperature of the environment it needs insulation to stay in equilibrium. Modern birds have extensive feathering because almost all of them maintain active body temperatures well above the ambient air temperature even in tropical regions. This is true even of large, running birds from very hot climates, like ostriches, even though they do have large amounts of naked skin to help shed heat.
Thing is, T. rex is a big to very big, active running predator, and it's an awful lot like a bird. Even if its active temperature is much lower, only say 30° C instead of the 40° more typical of a bird, any time the air temperature gets much below that, the animal is going to start to get cold. It's true that American alligators are scaly, and can deal with water temperatures of about 10°, which is a bigger problem than a similar air temperature. It's also true that American alligators hibernate when it starts getting down to 10°, and there are parts of the modern American subtropics where they just don't live, because despite being the subtropics the winter lows are -5° and colder; the record low in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the humid subtropics, is -31°. It doesn't have alligators. As a big running predator, without the physical adaptations to long periods of inactivity that an alligator possesses, in a range of climates that most likely included cool (though not bitterly cold) winters, and with an extensive family history of feathering, it seems likely that T. rex did in fact have an extensive covering of feathers, even if a tiny handful of small imprints from uncertain parts of the neck suggest that they weren't everywhere on all individuals.
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T. rex did in fact have an extensive covering of feathers, <--- For me it dosent really matter but there is alot of assumptions and there is yet no specimen found with any kind of extensive feathers. Until then i gladly talk about it.
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There aren't any specimens with any kind of extensive scale covering, either. There are a handful of small patches of scaled skin, found in association with different kinds of tyrannosaurid and therefore assumed to be from those individuals, from indeterminate parts of the body, in unpublished sources. Many birds, otherwise very-heavily feathered dinosaurs, have partly featherless legs covered in the small, hexagonal scales also known for fossil dinosaurs. Which is to say that, for most species of dinosaurs, ANY skin, scaled, feathered, or otherwise is nothing but assumption, because there are no specimens; and this is certainly the case for T. rex.
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