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It's Dave

Published: Oct 22, 2011

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Dave, the also known by the less memorable moniker "specimen NGMC 91" was a juvenile dromaeosaur that became famous for his feathers. Or her feathers. I don't think we can tell. For a good while we didn't really know its exact place in the dromaeosaur family tree either, but now it seems we can at least agree that it was a subadult Sinornithosaurus.

I illustrated Dave with a protobeak, even though there seems to be no indication that such things existed in deinonychosauria. I think the feather covering should go further down the snout too.

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JD-man

Nov 27, 2015

I really like this deviation, partly b/c it reminds me of Ellison's drawing of the same specimen ( 41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me1… ) & partly b/c reminds me that Sinornithosaurus was probably a tree climber to some extent ("Keratinous sheaths are preserved on the pedal unguals, making the claws half again as long as the unguals. Studies of arc measurements show Microraptor plots with climbers, while Archaeopteryx, Confuciusornis and Sinornis plot with perchers, Sinornithosaurus plots between perchers and runners, and Compsognathus and Caudipteryx plot with runners": www.luisrey.ndtilda.co.uk/html… ).