Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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This illustration will be available as stickers and magnets in the near future. More on that later! I could probably rant about this dinosaur for a long long time, but to keep things simpler on my end, I decided not to do a voiceover for this one.

I am lucky enough to work in the same building where this animal's fossil is housed, and just down the hall from some of the scientists who researched it! The colours are based on actual preserved evidence of pigments, with a few artistic licenses chucked in (namely, some inspiration taken from my uromastyx lizard, Cicero).

The image that pops in and out as reference is by Julius Csotonyi, the scientific illustrator that worked with the researchers.

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