This is my last night in #RapidCity - tomorrow morning it's up early to head back to Gracie and Niko and the dude.
Today was good, the conf wrapped up well, but the only animal I saw was a brontosaurus* on the horizon.
In case you can't find him in the big terrible picture, I've screencapped the inset with the bronto below.
*sic. They're not called that anymore, right?
I can't NOT post this to sauropds.win: New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: BRONTOSMASH! II: the BRONTOSMASHENING. High-resolution version just posted to #patreon along with lots of discussion about the apatosaur neck combat hypothesis: https://www.patreon.com/posts/120678428
HT to @mike, because I believe he likes this sort of thing.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A conference sketch from 2015. This was a response to a conversation with Darren Naish, Mathew Wedel and @mike about the idea that apatosaurs might have had weapons or armour on their ventrolateral processes.
It's @drmambobob's #SauropodWinsday, and what I have for you today is picture I painted celebrating the taxonomic return* of Brontosaurus. A joyous day!
I made a sauropod taxonomy meme! And I think you're going to love it.
