Well, that's a cute one. But he sure needs new clothes, unless he enjoys the tightness. XD

And yes, we need more dinos, instead of dragons and lizards!
I have one, but she's not ready yet, needs more concepts and research first, but once I can, Minerva will have her best friend drawn at last!

That would be awesome! What kind of dinosaur(s) is she based on?

She's based on a raptor (the Jurassic Park ones, not the real ones palaeontologists "ruined" our childhood with XD) but has some unique features as a results of millions of years of evolution. So far, the only thing I have set is their females developped milk tanks similar to breasts but working differently. Also, each one has a unique tail pattern and females are usually taller and more muscular than males. But that's really all I have for now. :D

That is awesome! And since you're sticking to the Jurassic park body type (with no feathers) its easier to explain the divergent evolution lines. "Real" raptors turned into birds, where-as your raptors took on some more mammalian traits - or something like that. It sparks the imagination anyway. :D

Well we don't know that for sure, there's some theories now that dromaeosaurs and modern birds had a common ancestor but there's also a couple ideas that the long feathers on raptor arms led to flapping for stability when pounced on prey, introducing the concept of flapping wings to the evolutionary line.

Furthermore, to say that JP's depiction of Velociraptor Antirrhopus (more commonly known as Deinonychus) is somehow more mammalian is absurd, but then again so are most things when it comes to taxonomy. To put things simply, mammals are defined as mammals purely because they excrete milk and have a certain type of ear bone. That's literally it. The entire concept of "reptile" means extremely little to boot. The sooner people throw out traditional taxonomy in schools and start teaching clades the better.

(Fun fact, the lack of feathers isn't the biggest mistake on the jurassic park raptors - it's the wrists. The entire bone structure of the wrists in the movie is completely wrong, in real life they had very stiff wrists that faced inwards. The maxim "clappers not slappers!" will get you far!)

As for why there's so few dinosaur-sonas, it's probably because dinosaurs just aren't as popular as they were 20 years ago in the middle of the renaissance, and there's some extremely popular misconceptions out there right now, like the notion that T-Rex was a scavenger (extremely unlikely with more evidence supporting that it was an active hunter) and the idea that somehow, discovering that theropods had feathers "ruined" them. When pressed most people I've found say that feathers makes them look more like a giant chicken... which, from the stance of feathers being present is correct but not on any other. First off, though there are some similarities between the way feathers looked on theropods and some modern birds there's many differences too, like the bare feet on modern birds were not present on theropods and one must keep in mind that each creature would have feathers that fit and conform to the body. Anyone that needs evidence that feathers can look cool can simply google "bearded vulture," and anyone that thinks T-Rex was fat, fluffy and white like a chicken is just plain wrong.

Yikes, you took my mammalian comment to mean something completely different than what I intended it to mean. Obviously even if dinosaurs as we know them were stripped of their feathers, they wouldn't suddenly "be" mammals, and that wasn't what I was trying to say either. If you wanted to make my idea more scientifically sound you'd need to instead have a mammal species evolve that happened to look exactly like raptors at some point (though with skin instead of scales). But these are fantasy creatures in fantasy worlds, so regular evolutionary rules don't have to apply - and that was the premise I was operating under when I wrote that comment. Especially since Tani's characters often stretch the bounds of what we see in the normal world (and that's completely fine)!

I personally think feathers on dinosaurs are fine. It's just a problem of people having to give up an idea that they were used to and grew fond of as a child. I'm sure if we were able to see dinosaurs with feathers in real life they'd look pretty fucking awesome, just like birds look pretty sweet themselves right now.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd be butchered by any scientist if I said one of my characters is a sentient raptor with milk bags looking like breasts.

Granted, while I try to make the science in the NCISverse a bit harder than usual science-fiction, there are other things that push it to fantasy levels like having... "something" in this universe that allows various impressive feats and even reality-warping abilities to some creatures (humans get the shaft again, though) and a huge Dead-Space-Marker-style monolith to create entire new planets and civilizations from apparently nothing by just having humans "commission" them.

So I think a giant Deinonychus that can talk, who has breasts and planet-sized sapient ships that sit on gravity laws would be the least of my worries. XD

Yeah, exactly! I'm glad you understood what I was talking about, since the comment was meant for you. :) (And honestly, I'm not a human fan, at least not in science fiction. So if they end up getting the shaft in your universe, I won't cry about it.) XD

I would be agree with Liz up there. There is more Lizard and Dragons than dinosaurs as a 'sona. I do have a dinosaur character from my character list on my laptop, but I didnt thought to make it as a commission though.


*Thinking like a derp*

I think that you will get 2 commission from me instead of 1, Sara. XD.

I'm so READY! *holds up like 10 pencils* I'm actually writing the journal I'm going to post tomorrow right as we speak! How exciting. :D

XD. But then I will get 2. Simply that I will give you the details tomorrow after work. Otherwise, I would need you to create two characters. :D

Okay, that sounds good to me. :D I look forward to the details whenever you get them to me. :D

sure especially that I got a picture of one of my character as being put into... anthro sona.

Too cool. ;D

Hahaha I just don't know about getting dinosaur characters.....I used to be scared of them when I watched jurrasic park when I was like little....:(

Aww poor Sammy! Yeah, that movie is actually pretty scary, especially for a kid. That part with the raptors in the kitchen... *shudders*

I couldn't watch that I hid under my blankie and snuggles puff.......yes....I was a little wus >_<

This is awesome! And fighting commissions, you say?

HMMM~

I'm opening tomorrow! YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE! XD Seriously though, thanks! I'll have to poke you sometime soon on gtalk as well.

Totally! I haven't seen you online in ages :o

We do indeed need more dinosaurs; they rule.
And this one's no exception to that.

Aww, thank you Dark Chaos. :D