Starting off 2026 with a remake of one of my oldest works, Patagotitan! Even though it's not the largest, the completeness of its remains makes it one of the most impressive dinosaur discoveries. Seeing a cast of the skeleton in person was absolutely breathtaking.

Update: I forgot to fill part of the lacrimal with white, it's not so freakishly thin at the bottom.

Merry Christmas! While the genus Acrocanthosaurus is currently only known from a single species, differences in the skull of the largest known specimen suggest that the giant sail-backed carcharodontosaurs may have been more diverse in North America than we thought.

Shuvosaurus is one of the most incredible cases of convergent evolution in fossil reptiles - it was mistaken for an ornithomimid dinosaur for more than a decade, but as a pseudosuchian, it's more closely related to crocodylians than to any dinosaur.

Aside from its eponymous short crest, Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus differs from the other species in the genus by having proportionally longer limbs. It was once suggested to be the female counterpart of P.walkeri, but the two lived at different times.

As well as being the largest and geologically youngest species of Parasaurolophus, P.tubicen also had a crest with a rougher surface texture than its closest relatives (perhaps suggesting it was covered in keratin, unlike the fleshy or scaly crests of most other hadrosaurs).

The iconic head crest of Parasaurolophus had a series of internal channels that could have created trombone- or tuba-like sounds as the animal blew air into them, making it one of the very few dinosaurs for which we can actually try to reconstruct the original sounds.

Triceratops horridus, the species depicted here, is the smaller of the two - the later T.prorsus could reach about 9 meters in length, and likely rivaled or exceeded the largest T.rex in weight.

I literally made this one months ago and forgot to post it here.💀 Like many living animals, the horns and frill of Triceratops are highly variable between individuals, so much so that nearly twenty species have been attributed to the genus (only two are still valid today).

After spending days/weeks working on a skeletal of your own, you can easily recognise when the creative liberties, unpublished material, or specific quirks you incorporated into your artwork have been used elsewhere. It’s frustrating because there’s not much you can do about it.

For a detailed explanation of how the size estimate was made, see the Deviantart version:

The monstruous alligatoroid Deinosuchus is famous for fossil evidence of having preyed on hadrosaurs and tyrannosauroids, although it seems to have preferred sea turtles. Compared to modern crocodilians, it had a massive skull, even relative to the enormous rest of the skeleton.

@Fang83768513 (2/2) Final five, because Twitter wouldn't let me post them all at once. Silhouettes marked with '?' are dragons we haven't yet seen in the TV shows.

And now for something entirely different: the (approximate) sizes of every dragon in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe. Thanks to @Fang83768513 for help with wingspan estimates and the Meleys silhouette! (1/2)

The largest named megaraptorid (though not by much), Maip shows a more typical state of preservation for the group. Its presence confirms that megaraptorans held the apex predator niches in part of South America right up until the end of the Cretaceous.

Don't ever try to reconstruct giganotosaurines, folks. I tried it once and barely escaped with my life. Anyway, here's Aerosteon. Although it tragically doesn't preserve the characteristic thumb claw, it's still one of the most complete and well-preserved megaraptorans.

Spinosaurus sleeping on the beach

Merry Christmas! Fukuiraptor is one of the earliest known species of megaraptoran, having yet to evolve the famous elongated thumb claw. Remains of at least 14 individuals were found in the holotype quarry, which could be the first evidence of gregarious behavior in the group.

"Two earthlings" - John Brosio

A highly versatile predator, Allosaurus was capable of tackling everything from stegosaurs to sauropods to other allosaurs. With some of the most complete individuals being riddled with healed -and unhealed- injuries, theirs was a very dangerous lifestyle, even for a theropod.