Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.
God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.
Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,
the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…
The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…
And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?
I’d never heard of her and I got more and more shocked as I read on. The sheer number of brilliant people in history who’ve gotten no respect or recognition because they aren’t well-off white men. What a massive loss to us all.
“The fearsome roar of Tyrannosaurus Rex as portrayed in film has left many a cinema-goer quaking in their seat.
But new research suggests the king of the dinosaurs made a far more sinister sound.
For a new BBC documentary, naturalist Chris Packham visited Julia Clarke, professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Texas, to test out a the theory that dinosaurs actually sounded more like birds and reptiles, than today’s predatory mammals.” – Source
reblogging for later!
Okay, yeah, that is scary as FUCK, oh my god.
Oh yeah, that’s a sound that’ll haunt me. I mean they admit their science is far from conclusive, but that sound… yeah, if I heard that in an alley I’d start running like fuck.
https://youtu.be/cpipaUfcnmM you have to use headphones though otherwise you won’t be able to hear it, even with your sound turned way up
ever heard something and felt like a prey animal again? holy shit human ears were not meant to hear that
People who took the news of feathered dinosaurs like this:
And those who took it like this:
I hate it when people say “science ruined dinosaurs” as though dinosaurs are just some pop culture monster invention and not real things that existed and that we are continuing to make new discoveries about
Amen
Listen I don’t care if you think feathers on a dinosaur look stupid if a 9 ton apex predator is coming at you at 25 mph, you’re not going to laugh at its feathers. YOU’RE GOING TO HAUL ASS
Most of y’all are afraid of geese and they have feathers.
Imagine a 9 ton goose that’s about to fuck your shit up.
You mean like these?
Ah, the various forms of “terror bird”, the apex predator for roughly 40 million years-ish. Believed to use their beaks as blunt axes to crush the HELL out of prey trapped under their feet because they were not physically capable of the rapid side-to-side motion other animals use to shake their meals to death in their jaws.
Yeah, you’d shit yourself if this came honkin’ at you.
“You’re in the wrong neighborhood, college boy.”
It kind of depends on the artist? Because sometimes I see
art of feathered dinosaurs making them look like derpy chickens and other times
I see a majestic dragon covered in feathers like YAS BICH THIS IS WHAT I WANT
CHARGING AT ME AT 25 MPH COMING TO BITE ME IN HALF AND SPIT OUT MY BONES
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