Welcome ladies and gentlemen to ART Evolved's Feathered Dinosaur Gallery!
Thank you for waiting, but we've got a big one here!
Amazing fossil evidence show irrefutably that several dinosaurs had feathers. In an effort to promote the current view to the public, ART Evolved is proud to showcase art by incredible artists. Banish the recreations of naked JP velociraptors, and embrace the soft downy feathers! Science in action!
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Enjoy the over 70 submissions!
Enjoy the Feathered Dinosaur Gallery!
Evolution of the Raven (Corvus corax) by Mike Keesey
You can link toPhyloPic: http://phylopic.org/
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Raptor PSA by Trish Arnold
A Panoply of Protobirds by Albertonychus
I don’t hate the idea that some dinosaursmay have had feathers, (as a matter of fact I find that some dinosaurs actuallylook cooler with them) but after watching the goofy fluffysaurus (Gorgosaurusand Albertosaurus) on that documentary “March of the Dinosaurs,” Iknew they took this “Dinosaur evolved to birds” thing has gone to far!
Deinonychus Prey Restraint by Emily Willoughby
Digital illustration of predation behavior of dromaeosaurids as recently proposedby Fowler and colleagues. Paper is free to download here.
Baluar by Asher Elbein
Dromaeosaurus albertensis by Bill Unzen
The Smell of Rain by Emily Willoughby
Digital illustration of Deinonychus antirrhopus in a mistyforest.
Deinonychus Link by Jonathan Kane
This is how it wouldhave looked in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight
Princess if Link had transformed into a Deinonychus instead of a wolf.
Princess if Link had transformed into a Deinonychus instead of a wolf.
Deinonychus Pair by Niroot Puttapipat
Flying Velociraptors by Niroot Puttapipat
'Happy Birthday, Marc' by Niroot Puttapipat
Portrait of Marc Vincent (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurus) as a Deinonychus
Deinonychus antirrhopus by Pablo Lara
Pablo's website.
Ormr the Assassin by Bruce-Earl Barr
Sort of a Tramador the Tyrannosaur Fan character. Ithink the pack of the primordial feather is one of the most dangerous andinteresting characters in the Tyrannosaur chronicles! (mind spelling errors)
Deinonychus by Anthony Contoleon
The Deinonychus is based on a museum mount from the American Museum of Natural History.
Unfortunately at this angle, it looks like it is riding an invisible bicycle.
Mantling Dromaeosaur by Asher Elbein
Tongue Firmly in Cheek by Trish Arnold
DromaeosaurDigging Behavior by Emily Willoughby
Digital illustration of Saurornitholestes based on a discovery of fossilized burrows with claw marks that likely belonged to a dromaeosaurid,from around 80 mya Utah.
Saurornitholestes by Tom Parker
Saurornitholestes langstoni. Based on the MORmount, but with the posture of the arms fixed.
A Saurornitholestesuses the talons and the body weight to restrain its prey, an unfortunate andstill alive sub adult Stegoceras, while feeding on it.
Troodon and Gorgosaurus by Craig Dylke
A test of my new 3D lighting techniques. I had planned on illustrating the "recent" paper
by Chris Carbone, Samuel T. Turvey and Jon Bielby talking about how Tyrannosaurids probably HAD to hunt some of the time due to the far larger population of smaller theropods finding and eating carrion before the Tyrannosaurids could get there first. Sadly the time constraints of creating the new lighting, and memory consumption of 3D feathers caused me to create a more traditional scene.
Life of Maniraptors by Albertonychus
Talos by Emily Willoughby
Digital illustration of new troodontid Talos sampsoni, described as having a healed-over wound onits sickle toe, possibly injured in the act of predation. See the open-accesspaper here.
Talos sampsoni by Tom Parker
Talossampsoni; a newly described Campanian troodontid from the USA. The holotypespecimen (UMNH VP 19479) consists of little more than the hindlimbs, ulna andsome vertebre, so this reconstruction is mostly modeled on Saurornithoides andTroodon formosus. Plumage reconstructed after Jinfengopteryx elegans(CAGS-IG-04-0801) and the Rhea, an extant flightless paravian of similar weightand size to T. sampsoni.
Graciliraptor by Vasika Udurawane
'Come Here Fishy, Fishy' by Julio Lacerda
Stunning Buiteraptor. DeviantArt gallery.
The Southern Thief by Elia Smaniotto
Austroraptor cabazai
Sinornithosaurus by Emily Willoughby
Oil painting of Sinornithosaurus, a feathered dromaeosaurid from theearly Cretaceous of China.
NGMC 91 by David Tana
Life reconstructionof a feathered dromaeosaurid from the Yixian Formation of Early CretaceousChina. This specimen has been described in great detail, but is still notassigned to any particular species. The feathers on "Dave" andhis friend are not speculative; the exceptionally well preserved fossilmaterial clearly shows a dinosaur covered in various types of feathers. Iused photos of casts of NGMC 91 as reference, as well as the following paper:
JiQ., Norell, M.A., Gao K.Q., Ji S.-A. and Ren, D. (2001). The distribution ofintegumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur. Nature 410(6832),1084-1087.
Sinosauropteryx by Asher Elbein
Microraptorgui by Kalliopi Monoyios
Originally published in Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True
© 2008 Kalliopi Monoyios
Urvogel by Trish Arnold
Liaoning Scene by Emily Willoughby
Digitalillustration representing a hypothetical scene from the Jehol group of earlyCretaceous Liaoning of China, something like 122 million years ago. Severalanimals from the Yixian formation are represented here: A microraptoriddromaeosaur, Sinornithosaurus millenni, a feathereddromaeosaurid dinosaur; Liaoxitriton zhongjiani, asalamander; Alloraphidia, a snakefly; Epicharmeropsis, a mayfly, and a dead Callobatrachus,a frog.
Anchiornis by Emily Willoughby
Oil painting of Anchiornis, the first dinosaur for a which a full colorpattern was established, chasing a lizard.
Archaeopteryx by Terry Thielen
Archaeopteryx Pair by Peter Bond
Malagasy Bluebirds by Vasika Udurawane
My interpretation ofthe dinosaur Rahonavis ostromi (Maevarano Formation, Maastricthtian,Madagascar). A small (crow-sized) unenlagiine raptor which might've been aflying genus. Here, I have presented sexual dimorphism in these two, thecrested one being a male, the crestless one being a female.
Pencil drawing, coloring in Photoshop CS
Xiaotingia, the newarchaeopterygid (or troodontid) by Maija Karala
It's possible that at least some of these four-winged dinosaurs were
feathered right to the tip of the nose, since they apparently did not
have a proper keratinous beak. I have never seen anyone depict them
like that, however, so I gave it a try. It looks somewhat like a yeti.
It's possible that at least some of these four-winged dinosaurs were
feathered right to the tip of the nose, since they apparently did not
have a proper keratinous beak. I have never seen anyone depict them
like that, however, so I gave it a try. It looks somewhat like a yeti.
Xiaotingia zhengi by Tom Parker
Xiaotingia zhengi; a recently described archaeopterygid from the Late Jurassic of China. (Xu et al. 2011)
Feather Distribution by Albertonychus
Shuvuuia deserti by John Meszaros
A male Shuvuuiadeserti defends his small harem from a younger rival
by inflating his fleshy "horns" and throat wattles. Theinterloper
shows his submission by tucking his head between his legs.
by inflating his fleshy "horns" and throat wattles. Theinterloper
shows his submission by tucking his head between his legs.
Sketch of Avimimus by Glendon Mellow
Caudipteryx by David Orr
Shuvuuia by Christopher Hutson
An alvarezaurid moving between insect mounds encounters a snack.
Giant Alvarezosaur by Asher Elbein
Epidexipteryx hui by Pablo Lara
Pablo's website.
Incisivosaurus gauthieri by Pablo Lara
Pablo's website.
Conchoraptorgracilis by Jaime Headden
Sandstorm by Vasika Udurawane
Just to show howperilous life could be in the desert with dangers other than VelociraptorXD.....this is Citipati osmolskae, very often mistaken for Oviraptor. A veryold picture, from around middle of last year, drawn in eleventh grade. So Ihaven't got everything good and nice....under exam stress......sorry.... (BarunGoyot Formation, Campanian, Mongolia)
Citipati osmolskae by Niroot Puttapipat
Gigantoraptor erlianensis by Mo Hassan
Created in ArtRage Studio Pro using Bamboo tablet
Struthiomimus altus by Bill Unzen
Kinnareemimus khonkaenensis by Niroot Puttapipat
Coelophysis bauri by Pablo Lara
Pablo's website.
Guanlong wucaii by Niroot Puttapipat
Daiya and Xueman by Bruce-Earl Barr
Yet another Tyrannosaur chronicles OC. I wentwith a yin yang theme. Note that I like to use some sort of Dragon motif when Ido something with dinosaurs. Dragons will come up in future cartoons, assumingthat SOPA and PIPA don’t get passed. I think these would be cool to see in a TCadventure. (mind spelling errors)
SchyteLizard by Elia Smaniotto
Therizinosaurus cheloniformis
Therizinosaurs in Forest by Terry Thielen
A Very Speculative Daspletosaurus! by Alexander Lovegrove
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Tarbosaurus Head Study 1 by Niroot Puttapipat
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Tarbosaurus Head Study 2 by Niroot Puttapipat
The Mighty Handful by Niroot Puttapipat
Albertosaurus mobbed by Ornithomimus
The New Traumador by Craig Dylke
Just my equivalent of a doodle, but my planned future direction for Traumador. Don't expect the blog to restart (sadly) anytime soon though. I'm thinking more a reboot of his "universe" in some sort of book form. So do watch for more developments and tweaks on his new look.
Leaellynasaura amicagraphica by Niroot Puttapipat
I'm a Dirty Dirty Parrot by Elia Smaniotto
Psittacosaurus sibiricus.
Parrot's Face by Vasika Udurawane
Psittacosaurus major,a small experimental fun pic. (Yixian Formation, Barremian, China). I omittedthe background in it. (Photoshop coloring on pencil drawing)
Waller's Titan by Elia Smaniotto
(it's the terror bird Titanis, hope it's fine with that)
Psittacosaurus sibiricus.
Follow That Dream by Trish Arnold
Owl by Anthony Contoleon
Anchiornis by Bruce-Earl Barr
Hears a picture of an Anchiornis. If you see this picture then I must be more lovedaround the paleo art community then I thought! This is a drawing I made becauseI wanted to see if you guys would post such a Interesting piece of artwork. Plus it give me something for my local art show! Oh, and in case youdon’t want to go looking for the verse yourself and “risk yourscientific credibility” it says “For I am not ashamed of the gospel,because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes:first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”
[Admin - We at ART Evolved are proud of our policy of not censoring art that is sent in to us. Enjoy the art for what it is!]
The Future? by Trish Arnold
NEWLY ADDED ARTWORK!
Troodon in the Rushes by Raven Amos
Read more on Raven's blog The CAW Box here.
A Cold Day Out by Raven Amos
See more about this family of Albertosaurs here.
Feathered Dinosaur by Simon Farrell
See more at Simon Farrell's website.
There we are! Thank you so much for checking out ART Evolved's Feathered Dinosaur Gallery!
This is by far our largest gallery to date and one that I am sure will continue to grow! If you want to add to the gallery, send your art to artevolved@gmail.com!
Huge thank yous to all the amazing artists who submitted incredible work!
The next gallery here at ART Evolved will be in celebration of a fantastic paleoartist, Dan Varner, who we lost this year.
The Dan Varner Tribute Gallery will open May 2012.
Please join us in a tribute to the master of marine reptiles by sending your art to artevolved@gmail.com.