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Submitted: January 27
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Microraptor guiby ~T-PEKC

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Another entry for "All Your Yesterdays" contest. Nothing crazy speculative here, just an unusual take on the traditional way to reconstruct Microraptor, the famous four-winged dromaeosaurid from China. Here I depicted an individual who got caught in a wildfire and lost most of the feather coating on it's right side. Having lost two of its wings, it got bound to the ground and acquired cursorial lifestyle. Not that it couldn't climb on trees anymore, just the way back to the ground was not as comfortable as with full set of four wings.

My intention with this drawing is by depicting pathological condition in feathered dinosaur, to show the underlying anatomy (especially the forelimb which forms wing and how feathers atach to it) and how feathers change the basic shape of the non-avian dinosaurs (or birds for that matter).

Refernces:

Xu, X., Z. Zhou, X. Wang, X. Kuang, F. Zhang, X. Du. 2003. Four-winged dinosaur from China.- Nature, 421, 335-340.

Skeletal drawing by Jaime Headden

of Microraptor gui [link].

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~titanlizard May 11, 2013

So nice picture, but wheres the third finger from the hands?

~T-PEKC May 11, 2013

It's there and it's quite visible if you pay attention to it, connected via tissue and skin to the second finger forming the base to which feathers attach to form wings. This is the condition in birds (2nd and 3rd fingers fused together by soft tissue) and there is no reason to think that deinonychosaurs like Microraptor were different.

~titanlizard May 12, 2013

Oh, now I can see!!! I know that the feathers were connected to the second finger since the Dinosaur Revolution. Sorry I was the blind guy

~T-PEKC May 12, 2013

Heh, no problems.

I admit it's a little bit hard to notice if you don't look specifically for it.

~Blackest-Phoenix Apr 16, 2013 New member

This is beautiful & a fantastic conversation piece. I plan on ordering some of the amazing artwork here on DeviantArt, this is going to be 1st, followed by beauties like this: [link]

~T-PEKC Apr 17, 2013

Thank you for the kind words about this piece. It would be appreciated if you eventually buy print of it.

~emiaka Apr 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

This is stunning. I really love it. I feel so bad for him, though, poor thing!

~T-PEKC Apr 7, 2013

Thank you!

One simply cannot not feel bad for an injured dinosaur like that.

~ZeWqt Mar 13, 2013

I first thought it has a parasite or a deasase. Nice concept of an "injuried" Dinosaur btw!

~T-PEKC Mar 14, 2013

Thanks!

Yes, a parasite or diseas could have worked too, but since I have not enough knowledge on animal's diseases and parasites, I decided to go with wild-fire.

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