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Hateg Island Fauna and Gargantuavis

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 man is 5'8" for scale. (will adjust height to fit average in future charts, and add the average female, 5'4")

While I did not draw on top of skeletals, I would still like to thank :iconscotthartman: and Mark Witton.

made for trey's video www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp3H7K…
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Hatzegopteryx being the crowning artwork of this chart most likely got the most time given to it when I was drawing the dinosaurs. While I'm not entirely happy with the feather results I am quite proud of the shading. I took inspiration from some eagles and bats when coming up with the colors for hatzegopteryx. Assuming Hatzegopterix hunted on the ground I don't think it necessarily needed a white belly like those on birds of prey, but I could be wrong.

Magyrosaurus is where I started playing with layers to get lighting and texture. The colors are derived from Galapagos tortoise and barnacle geese. It is not the largest sauropod from it's homeland. If I remember correctly there is a sauropod at least twice the size.

Zalmoxes is an animal that could be considered rather generic. whether or not Rhabodonts had feathers , I did end up giving it a beard. 


Gargantuavis is a very fragmentary bird. It likely resembled an ostrich. Please take this reconstruction with a massive grain of salt. The whole bird is basically filler incarnate due to the lack of material.
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Dylan613's avatar

That's cool! If time travel was real, I'd like to build my lodge home in that island during the late Cretaceous (but around thousands of years before the KPG extinction occurred) for me to live for my vacation. I'd love to see these prehistoric animals almost everyday. :D