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I know it's weird, but ever since I learned of Citipati/oviraptorids as a kid they've been one of my favorite species of dinosaur.
Even when I was very young and still indoctrinated in religion instead of science I couldn't help but getting the feeling that I'd seen this animal before - very recently! - at a zoo.... In fact, the fossils and reconstructions I could find in my dinosaur books always reminded me of the cassowary.
And it's strange because as I've grown up, I've watched oviraptorids "grow up", too. They used to be some evolutionary flunk, some dead-end where nature went "oops!"; now that we have more and more fossils we know that they were actually a fairly successful specie of dinosaur, and what's more is that oviraptorids are now some of the "prime suspects" of feathered saurians.
Their faces look so ugly and derpy, but under all that derp is a purpose; their jaws were probably STRONG!
So my inspirations for my Citipati osmolskea chick would be cassowary chicks, and many many different kinds of exotic chickens, as well as some vultures for the eyes and face, and just what I know of how awkward and goofy all birds look as they're molting out of their baby-down into their adult plumage.
Also, this marionette absolutely TERRIFIES my rabbits. The oldest rabbit (Hazel, a boy) is starting to wise up to it and has even begun to begrudgingly accept its presence in The Basement. Hagrid (the youngest, a female) will see it move and immediately LEAP into her box and THUMP like a MANIAC.
Super sculpey
real feathers
needle felt base
painted glass eyes
acrylic paints
Mod Podge (to seal it all)
hemp cord
dowel rods
approximately 30 hrs of work
Even when I was very young and still indoctrinated in religion instead of science I couldn't help but getting the feeling that I'd seen this animal before - very recently! - at a zoo.... In fact, the fossils and reconstructions I could find in my dinosaur books always reminded me of the cassowary.
And it's strange because as I've grown up, I've watched oviraptorids "grow up", too. They used to be some evolutionary flunk, some dead-end where nature went "oops!"; now that we have more and more fossils we know that they were actually a fairly successful specie of dinosaur, and what's more is that oviraptorids are now some of the "prime suspects" of feathered saurians.
Their faces look so ugly and derpy, but under all that derp is a purpose; their jaws were probably STRONG!
So my inspirations for my Citipati osmolskea chick would be cassowary chicks, and many many different kinds of exotic chickens, as well as some vultures for the eyes and face, and just what I know of how awkward and goofy all birds look as they're molting out of their baby-down into their adult plumage.
Also, this marionette absolutely TERRIFIES my rabbits. The oldest rabbit (Hazel, a boy) is starting to wise up to it and has even begun to begrudgingly accept its presence in The Basement. Hagrid (the youngest, a female) will see it move and immediately LEAP into her box and THUMP like a MANIAC.
Super sculpey
real feathers
needle felt base
painted glass eyes
acrylic paints
Mod Podge (to seal it all)
hemp cord
dowel rods
approximately 30 hrs of work
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Dinosaur
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 116.7 kB
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Ahh yes! Now that we're discovering just how feathery many species of dinosaurs were, I'm sure the line between dinosaur and flightless bird (like the moa) will be harder and harder to distinguish. Really, moas were just like t-rexes tiny, bad-ass cousin ;)
I think I know the BBC show you're talking about (haven't had a chance to see it yet, though); there have been a number of similar TV specials in the recent past. I loooooove when fossils are so well-preserved that paleontologists can become like crime scene investigators! Really, the science of paleontology *is* like crime scene investigation - they can find fossilized pollen to tell them what plants were blooming at the time, the kinds of dust and particulates in the dirt lets them know what kind of weather was going on during the time, the way each layer of sediment falls tells them a lot about the movement of the geographical masses of the time.... Not to mention all the cool stuff they learn from each individual fossil :)
I think I know the BBC show you're talking about (haven't had a chance to see it yet, though); there have been a number of similar TV specials in the recent past. I loooooove when fossils are so well-preserved that paleontologists can become like crime scene investigators! Really, the science of paleontology *is* like crime scene investigation - they can find fossilized pollen to tell them what plants were blooming at the time, the kinds of dust and particulates in the dirt lets them know what kind of weather was going on during the time, the way each layer of sediment falls tells them a lot about the movement of the geographical masses of the time.... Not to mention all the cool stuff they learn from each individual fossil :)
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