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  • About the Blog: This was once an ongoing daily dinosaur encyclopedia. Since I and the artists have gone off to start “real careers” and whatnot, it’s become a repository for (mostly) accurate dinosaur content on tumblr. AKA, birds and reconstructions of extinct dinosaurs that don’t make my eye twitch

    About the Blogger: I’m Meig (ey/em), a paleontology doctoral candidate trying to finish my damn dissertation. I’m also a fat intersex disabled neurodivergent insane nonbinary pansexual jewish anarchist with five companion parrots and a fantastic spouse. I’ve been trying to use social media less as I’ve realized how much it impacts my own mental health and wellbeing, so I’m not really online much. But when I am, I post shitposts to @zygodactylus and Jewish/Leftist stuff to @jewish-kulindadromeus. My account is @anachronornis because I thrive on chaos.

    About the Blogger’s Research: I’m studying the paleoecology and adaptive radiation of birds following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction and during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

    About asks: Feel free to send them, but I cannot guarantee I will answer them, as I am trying to graduate in the next year or two

    About the Blogger’s Birds: I have two cockatiels, Minerva and Ahsoka; two conures, Ellie and Willis; and a caique, Bumi. All are adoptees, most from shelters. Willis had a mate, Aurora, who was very sick - we took her in for hospice care, as she and Willis had been in a shelter for sixteen years and we wanted her end of life to be more peaceful. She actually lived longer than we thought she would, but she sadly crossed the rainbow bridge in December of 2023. The only one who poses for photos to any capacity is Ellie, so you may have seen a photo of her elsewhere. We’re also each other’s ESA’s so there’s that I guess.

    Aaaand that’s probably all you need to know. Enjoy the dinosaurs, aka, all the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon (and Cetiosaurus if you wanna be a pedant about it). Enjoy the floof.


    If you are looking for the 2026 Draw Dinos Daily Prompt List, here’s a google doc!

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    Aviapril day 15, Wintonotitan wattsi. Long time no see, sprite at max dimensions! I haven't looked at the planning for the rest of the month so I'm really hoping there won't be a bigger dinosaur later.

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  • SLOPPERS; WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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    baby pygmy falcon has grown into a penny!!! watch her wealth multiply!!!!

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    Day 107 of DDD! The Gastonia! a Nodosaurid from Cedar mountain formation with a SUSPICIOUS amount of complete skulls. Appearently this guy's most unique part is the beak! What a guy.

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    Day 103 of DDD! The Therizinosaurus! What was originally thought to have been a massive turtle who turned out to be a massive therapod instead! Therizinosaurus is from late cretaceous Asia from the Nemegt formantion, living amongst the likes of Tarchia, Mononykus and Tarbosaurus! Funfact, Therizinosaurus has the longest known "manual unguals" of any known animal!

    Also shoutout to the person who asked me about drawing therizinosaurus, this one goes out to you <3

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    Day 101 of DDD! The Enigmacursor! A relatively new dinosaur discovery from 2022! So we don't know alot about it so far except that its a neornithischian from Morrison! Its fun to learn more about the little guys when everyone focuses on the massive sauropods in morrison.

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    Aviapril day 17, Gastonia burgei. Ankylosaurs just have this way of making me move past my 1-hour time limit. Also tried adding some texture to the armored part on top to suggest the smaller osteoderms.

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    Day 97 of DDD! The Ichthyornis! The fish bird, a cretaceous bird speculated to have been in the same niche as modern gulls. Though unlike them, these guys still had teeth! It is also one of the few ornithurans with plenty of specimens!

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