Therizinosaurs have had a long and convoluted history when it comes to reconstructions. Meat-eater or plant-eater? Prosauropod or coelurosaur? Skin or feathers? These questions led to wild variations in what a therizinosaur looked like! Below is a selection of therizinosaurs in art - click to enlarge...
Skeletal Reconstructions by Jaime Headden, at the University of Maryland, Geology Department
Therizinosaurus by Jason Pederson
Falcarius by Michael Skrepnick
Therizinosaurus by Victor Leshyk
Therizinosaurus by Gabriel Lio
Beipiaosaurus by Gabriel Lio
Therizinosaurus by Luis Rey
Therizinosaurus by Luis Rey
Segnosaurus by Øyvind M. Padron
Beipiaosaurus by Audrey Atuchin
Therizinosaur by Audrey Atuchin
Therizinosaurus by Joe Tuccarione
and...
Meat-eating "therizinosaur" from the game Dino Crisis
Let the comments and discussion about these wonderful maniraptorians begin! Therizinosaurs Go!
6 comments:
Tuomas Koivurinne's is my all-time favorite, but I like the Victor Leshyk one. That poor Theri knows he's not getting out of this situation with all his limbs intact.
Matt Martyniuk also has an excellent Beipiaosaurus: http://azhdarcho.com/Art/Paleoart/beipiaosaurus.htm
I think the top skeletals, attributed to Tom Holtz, are actually by Jaime Headden.
Also, wow, I'd totally forgotten about that Dino Crisis therizinosaur. The art was so clearly done by the same team who worked on RE2&3.
HA HA! Dinocrises therozinosaur loks like a freek! HAHAHAH! um... whait.. Carnivorus?!!
"I think the top skeletals, attributed to Tom Holtz, are actually by Jaime Headden."
Good catch Zach. I noticed that the name attribution is correct, but I don't think the location is. I don't know that Jaime is at the University of Maryland, and I imagine it is attributed to the UMD because Dr. Holtz links to Jaime's image in his online notes for his dinosaurs course (scroll down for Therizinosauria here: http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/lectures/104coelur.html ).
that Dinocrisis one looks pretty creepy! LOL
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