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Time for the Theropods
These are the most distant from the original design principles. But they can stand and are poseable as well.
#Therizinosaurs #Tyrannosaurs #Cryolophosaurs #Carnotaurus
#Austrlovenator #Deinonychus #Galiimimus
#Spinosaurus #Giganotosaurus #Baryonyx
12/X
I've been listening to the Common Descent podcast episode on Therizinosaurs and the highly speculative plantigrade-trashcan connection hypothesis: the notion that a plantigrade walk is associated with trashcans. : )
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/12/21/episode-207-therizinosaurs/
#dinosaurs
#fossils
#therizinosaurs
#reptiles
Giant Therizinosaurs Used Their Meter-Long, Sickle-Like Claws for Display https://www.sci.news/paleontology/therizinosaur-claws-11699.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04552-4
Early maniraptoran #dinosaurs, like alvarezsaurs and therizinosaurs, occupied enigmatic ecological niches and had bizarre morphological characters. #Alvarezsaurs underwent miniaturization to become the smallest non-avian dinosaurs ever. Some #therizinosaurs evolved large body sizes, with elongate fingers with slender and sickle-like unguals, sometimes over 1 m long.