Jeremy Wiles

@wilespaleo.bsky.social

Dinosaur-Whisperer of Bluesky, nerd & video game player. Working on a Masters. Into Paleontology. Views he/his own. PFP by @palearaptor.bsky.social

Sorry this isn't another Etch A Sketch doodle, you people really liked that. I'm still plugging away at the State/Provincial dinosaurs/fossils. The plan is to also release stickers and well as 8x10 prints of each of the illustrations without the state border.

A WIP illustration of a pair of Sonorasaurus, an adult and a juvenile,  walking through some monkey puzzle trees at sunset.

as always, andrey atuchin is way ahead of everyone else and has reconstructed maiasaura like this twice, both of which look beautiful. besides him, i've only seen it done this way in one or two sketches. i hope eventually it starts to actually catch on.....

A full body illustration of Maiasaura by Andrey Atuchin, once again showing the head with a large soft tissue structure reaching from the forehead down to the nose.

the palaeontology hill i'll die on is that i'm 99% sure almost everyone is depicting maiasaura's head wrong. it really could not be clearer that the 'crest' is supporting a much larger soft tissue structure - something even nonce horner noticed in 83! - but barely any artists have picked up on it.

A photo of ROM 66180, a partial Maiasaura skull showing the 'crest' forming a large bowl-shaped depression on the top of the skull.A painting of two Maiasaura by Andrey Atuchin, one of the only artists who has reconstructed it with a large soft tissue structure supported by the crest and nasals. They look very pretty!

『ディノサン』にまだ出てきてない恐竜で、出てきてほしかった恐竜はいますか?いたらぜひコメントで教えてくださ〜い🌺(出すと約束できるわけではありません。笑) If you have a favorite dinosaur that hasn't been appeared in Dinosaur Sanctuary, leave it in the comment. But it doesn't means I'll use it in the manga. Just curious;)

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