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The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 1)
This past week I researched and illustrated a dinosaur alphabet book! I researched and illustrated 26 maniraptorans for the project, specifically limiting myself to species that went extinct before the Eocene to exclude modern birds. This project was a huge amount of fun for me and I'm very proud of the result, so I hope you all enjoy them too! Please look forward to the rest of the series, which I'll be posting over the course of the coming week or so.
The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 2)
Part 2 of my dinosaur alphabet! A lot of super interesting species in this batch. I find it very amusing that Halszkaraptor is pretty much just an extra long duck... convergent evolution is wild.
The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 3)
Part 3/5 of my dinosaur alphabet! Some of my favorite species in the whole set in this batch, but I'll let you guess which ones those are :)
The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 4)
Part 4 of my dinosaur alphabet! I'll admit Yi qi for Q is the most questionable of the letters, given that it's the only one picked for species name rather than genus name. Unfortunately, though, the only genera I could find that fit my requirements (maniraptorans extinct before the Eocene) were things described in only 1 or 2 papers and had no pre-existing restorations to reference, so I would've had to make restorations for them whole cloth, and I just didn't have the time for that on this project (though maybe I will some other time?). So Yi qi was moved from Y to Q and I picked a different species for Y. (The other thing I was considering was throwing Quetzalcoatlus in there as a curveball, since it's not even a dinosaur muchtheless a maniraptoran, but that probably would have been a joke only for me.)
The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 5)
Aaaand here's the fifth and final part of my dinosaur alphabet! Thanks for joining me, everyone - I hope you enjoyed it! Let me know if you'd be interested in a physical book or poster or something of these together; I'm planning on making something like that for myself & friends and I would be happy to make a few extra to sell if there's interest.