GOING THERMAL
I am super stoked about this one. My paleoart is featured in a paper by Dr. Casey Holliday et al, identifying a vascular structure in crocodilians, dinosaurs, and other archosaurs which thermal imagery suggests has important thermoregulatory functions.
This new paleoart is based on thermal data from modern archosaurs, and shows what it might have looked like if you were pointing a thermal imaging camera at a Daspletosaurus gaurding its kill from two encroaching Deinosuchus first thing in the morning in the late Cretaceous Aguja Formation:
You can read the full scientific paper here:
The Frontoparietal Fossa and Dorsotemporal Fenestra of Archosaurs and Their Significance for Interpretations of Vascular and Muscular Anatomy in Dinosaurs
I also created this youtube video explaining the project in more detail.
Looking forward to see more #ThermalPaleoart from the paleoart community.
Here’s a Guanlong showing how this same vascular structure may be linked to the evolution and vascular nourishment of bizarre dinosaurian headgear:
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Francois on 20 Aug 2020 at 8:15 am #
I am absolutely fascinated and wondered by this artwork. I can’t wait to see more paleoart like this. I also deeply enjoyed reading the topic of what the T-Rex’s skin looked like and what it’s bite was like. I’m a huge T-Rex fan and I want to know everything about the animal from it’s appearance, to it’s biology and behavior. In fact, that’s what I wish to know about all the dinosaurs. I follow people online via their blogs, websites and YouTube who dedicate their time to uncover what dinosaurs were really like as real animals.