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Fishing master - Irritator
I bet some of you heard about the new fossil found of Irritator already.
Paleontologists now say that the lower jaw was probably able to split, what had me immediately think of a Pelican, maybe a little less skin to hold more fish.
Personally I LOVE whenever there is new infos or theories, nothing is better than constant changing dinosaurs, finding out new stuff about them every day :)
To warm myself up I decided to give the Irritator a quick sketch... and kinda lost it and did this full sketchy, Pelican colored Irritator illustration x)
What do you think? Splitjaw like Pelican? Snake? Just a wider jaw and no stretch? I like new unique traits, let´s see what comes up next B)
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Paleontologists now say that the lower jaw was probably able to split, what had me immediately think of a Pelican, maybe a little less skin to hold more fish.
Personally I LOVE whenever there is new infos or theories, nothing is better than constant changing dinosaurs, finding out new stuff about them every day :)
To warm myself up I decided to give the Irritator a quick sketch... and kinda lost it and did this full sketchy, Pelican colored Irritator illustration x)
What do you think? Splitjaw like Pelican? Snake? Just a wider jaw and no stretch? I like new unique traits, let´s see what comes up next B)
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Art 2023 © to Therbis
Remember this work is copy protected, you do not have the right to use this in any form without written permission from the artist (who owns the artwork) and the character's original owner (whether that be me or you).
Thank you!
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In all seriousness i've rarely seen or heard about new fossils like this epicsome one. As a floofy paleontologists i'm still a tiny beginner but.. an Irritator is definitely intriguing to examinate and make theories about how was their appearence. Looking so close to a Pelican and having a jaw able to split... holy moly! Great compliments to you, dear Therbis 😋👏
Love the pelican colors!!
I think a lot of the interpretations like this are missing the forest for the trees, though. Most vertebrates other than mammals do not have fused jaws, as they must, since being unable to chew their food like we can they must swallow their food whole!
There's really nothing in the paper that implies a fully split jaw, just that the jaw was flexible and not fused, which would make sense as we've already established exceptional torsion resistance in spinosaurid skulls.
It would make a lot of sense, since the jaw was likely skinny and relatively frail, having soft tissue connect it at what would be its most vulnerable point for bone damage from torsion, as well as aid in the ability to swallow large food items whole, like extant birds and reptiles.
I think a lot of the interpretations like this are missing the forest for the trees, though. Most vertebrates other than mammals do not have fused jaws, as they must, since being unable to chew their food like we can they must swallow their food whole!
There's really nothing in the paper that implies a fully split jaw, just that the jaw was flexible and not fused, which would make sense as we've already established exceptional torsion resistance in spinosaurid skulls.
It would make a lot of sense, since the jaw was likely skinny and relatively frail, having soft tissue connect it at what would be its most vulnerable point for bone damage from torsion, as well as aid in the ability to swallow large food items whole, like extant birds and reptiles.
Just wanna add that pelican mandibles are fused at the chin, and they do just bow out to the side like that lol. Nature is nothing if not unsettling and fucking weird lmao
But hey, like you said, until we find a preserved chin, who knows! That's half the fun of paleontology lol
But hey, like you said, until we find a preserved chin, who knows! That's half the fun of paleontology lol
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