Heres Some More That Didnt Fit In The First Post. Genus In The Alt Text Same As Before.

Heres some more that didn’t fit in the first post. Genus in the alt text same as before. 

and before you say any of these aren't scary: trust me, I have receipts

Paleopathology is such a cool field! One of my favorite examples is Dolly, a sauropod who had a respiratory infection severe enough to cause lesions on some of its vertebrae.

The pattern of the lesions is super interesting, and a really neat example of the similarities between sauropod and bird respiratory systems!

Do we have any records of fossil dinosaurs afflicted with illnesses? I guess fossils wouldn't really make it easy to preserve dinos that died from proto-flu, but what about stuff like cancers or malformations?

We do actually! Paleopathology is a whole field and there are tons of specimens that showcase signs of illnesses and injuries! It's really cool actually. there are so many examples that I can't even find the one I wanted to share as a prime one (it was an ornithopod that had a whole cancer study done, can't find it anywhere)

but infections were common and there's tons of studies about the signs of those in fossils as well!

A deinocheirus heading to a riverbank for breakfast.

This painting was done completely on stream! I had a blast chatting with people while working on it.

Unreferenced Tyrannosaurus from my sketchbook!

These were some of my more popular Dinovembers from Instagram and the bird app.