Microraptor

(yeah i'm using the same image from last time, any problems?)

So basically Igor is a british businessman Iguanodon based on the "I've bought a propety in Egypt" guy, while Icarus is an Microraptor with albinism which is based on white doves and Cupid (if you can't tell).

ANYWAYS, I'M SORRY FOR BEING TOO LATE FOR IGUANODON'S BIRTHDAY I WAS ON VACATION AND MY PARENTS DIDN'T LET ME BRING MY DRAWING TABLET-

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On this day, 4 years ago, your's truly first joined Dinopedia, I usually do something for these anniversaries but I've completely forgotten about it until right now so uhhhhhh

Here's my updated top 10 favorite Dinosaurs, there has been quite a few changes

10. Diabloceratops

Diablo officially replaces Pachyrhinosaurus as my favourite Ceratopsian, this thing just has one of the coolest and most unique looking horn orientation, and fire name as well. Diablo was my favourite Ceratopsian at one point, but then I kind of just, lost intrest in it, now after finding really great art of it, I love it again

9.Nanuqsaurus

Nanuq drops one spot down the list, what can say besides it's the coolest Tyrannosauroid (pun not intended), iirc, it's appearing in Surviving Earth, so I'm excited for that

8. Australovenator

Megaraptorans are a goated group of animals, your favourite could literally be any species and I'd fully understand why, the only reason I've put Australovenator as my favourite is because I like the JWE 2 design

7. Acrocanthosaurus

Acro replaces Mapusaurus as my favourite Allosauroid, I like big animals and I like unique animals, this thing is both, Mapu will always hold a special place in my heart though

6. Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus remains in the same spot it was before, take what I said about Acro and copy paste it here, and also I fell in love with the Planet Dinosaur depiction as a kid so that's also a big player

5. Microraptor

Microraptor also remains in the same spot it was before, it's adorable, unique, and it has a interesting history, I still can't believe we know the colours of some Dinosaurs

4. Dreadnoughtus

Dreadnoughtus replaces Isisaurus as my favourite Sauropod, it's big and has a cool name, it also for some reason had an increase in media appearances in recent times, Dominion, PHP, and Dino Dex all had excellent designs

The top 3 has 0 changes

3. Natovenator

Natovenator is the best Dromaeosaurid, it's unique and has a catchy name, I can't help but like it, also I had it as my pfp for a long time

2. Rajasaurus

It's an Indian Dinosaur so obviously I'm gonna be biased, and one of the only cool Indian Dinosaurs as well, I've only liked it more after the PHP depiction

1. Parasaurolophus

This is no surprise, Parasaurolophus was my first favourite Dinosaur and always has been and will always continue to be

Welcome back to looking at more Dino Dan creatures. Today we are moving on to all the new creatures introduced in Trek’s Adventures. Basically I’m looking at the design and any other information the show gives and amazing how accurate/inaccurate it is, followed by personal notes on the design itself.

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

Alberto is fine design, but I don’t like the eyes and how it looks angry all the time. Also the shrinking wrapped skull and weird neck posture feels worse on the here than on the OG Rex.

Major improvement, I like the new skull shape a lot. But with that said now the colors look much too bright, the darker shades of blue were better. This deisgn with the old colors would be perfect

The colors look cool and the tail fans’ nice, but just like the original Dromaeo, he’s got a terrible feather cut. The skull shape is kinda bad too.

This looks much better, nice thin skull shape and a kinda cool feather crest. It’s a shame about the face and arms tho.

This Amargasaurus design is whack. Why is it so big and what’s with the proportions?! Also, while I prefer the spiked look for Amarga, I’d take any accurate neck sails over these weird Spino fins. With that said, I can’t deny the colors are beautiful (on the male, the female’s fine). Like the original Tricera, the color barley save it, but to a slightly higher degree

This Giga has really cool gray colors (would love to see this design in the shape of the RJ Palmer one), but the proportions are just wack. The arms come off as particularly goofy, since they’re way too small with hands much too big. Also, the ischium and pelvis thing I pointed out feels wrong. Head is alright though. If the proportions were better, this could have been really cool.

I’m not sure how I feel about the Micro. The colors, while outdated, look nice. Ignoring how skinny it is, the proportions look nice. The face is a mixed bag, but it’s a bit tolerable every now and then.

The face is better, but the crest looks silly and dumb. The body is honestly a bit of a downgrade, maybe because of the wings, colors, legs and chest. And it still baffles me that as late as the movie, they STILL avoid giving the dinosaurs proper wings!

Pterodaustro has a great face and actually looks really pretty with the red color and blue patterning. Quite a unique choice of creature too.

Draco has a really nice combo of green white and purple. Ignoring face being off a bit and the side spikes, pretty good design

I adore the coloration of Kosmo, blue with white and purple works so well! The face and shape are spot on as well. With that said, I don’t understand nor appreciate the rocky skin and osteoderms. But I can overlook that, one of my favorite herbivore designs from this show.

Why is Theri so small?! Also, the face looks kinda unappealing, especially how it doesn’t have feathers on the face. That and the back is weird. The rest of it is fine, the colors on the male looks pretty cool, with the white base and red spots (like Amarga, the female is just fine). Overall, kinda bad, I much prefer even Dominion Theri over it.

Psittacosaurus looks good. The brown and white stripes with hints of yellow go well together. I also find it neat how I can actually tell what species it is based on the skull. I’m also kinda upset it couldn’t use the quills for defense IRL. Also the body is a bit off

I’m doing the “Meteorite Survivors” trio cause well, I did do the Triassic Lizard boi, this is fair game too. That and unlike the one-off creatures from “Tyrannosaurus Trek” and “Quetza Grandma”, these aren’t so overly-cartoony to the point of being fruitless to cover.

I do like the colors, but I don’t really care for Tuatara. My absolute least favorite extinct animals are the ones that are too similar to modern stuff, because they’re often not unique enough, so not-lizard boi over here gets no praise from me.

What the hell is that?! It looked like a 10 yr old edgelord tried designing a shark. The fins look stupid and the face isn’t much better. Colors are neat I guess. So yeah, really bad design.

While this design doesn’t fit a Createous bird, the colors are really pretty and it’s unironically a better design for Archeopteryx than the one Dino Dana gave us.

The proportions for Deino aren’t nearly as bad as the Giga, and it’s kinda cool, mainly cause it’s a big crocodile. The tealish-green and reddish purple are another really good color scheme.

Archelon is also fine. The blue colors and orange shell looks pretty good here. The pointed shell is such a weird choice to me (tho looks a little cool) and the alt. isn’t much better. The flippers are also kinda bad.

Plesiosaurus is also decent, I like the green and orange patterning but its pretty un-notable beyond that

Like Kosmo, Futa has a beautiful green and blue color scheme with red highlights. I also don’t mind the shape, despite being inaccurate. The lips not closing is a red flag tho.

I honestly take more offense to the overly rough face of Ozraptor than the over-feathering. The colors are neat, but the design becomes kinda bad once you realize what Ozraptor is meant to be (small abelisaurid).

Also I find it weird how Futa and Ozzie were were introduced in Trek’s Adventures but only appeared once until Dino Dana

This color scheme would look beautiful on an accurate Utahraptor, but the face, arms and toe claws are a new level of “WTF that’s so wrong”.

This one is just disappointing, given how the toy and website version actually had feathers. Colors are still nice I guess, despite those also being a downgrade.

Updated notes (updates in highlights):

Thank you to @ScaryLookinHobo for pointing out some of these out to me.

This one was more of a grammar error, (original just said “shrink”)

Realized/forgot to mention the Stygi’s pronated arms

Can dinosaurs shiver?

I think I was wrong about Compy having 2 fingers

I didn’t notice the wrong fingers on Quetz before

Forgot to mention eppcopitals

The Stego plate placement looked off initially but I think mainly just a body shape and plate shape that threw me off.

Anyways thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2385604

This new specimen is the smallest Dromaeosaurid fossil ever discovered. The individual is a juvenile

Sorry they're so blurry, I literally had to photograph the screen with my phone

Protoceratops chilling

Parasaurolophus taking a swim, remember, there's no life guard on duty

Mammoths, gee I wonder why I added them. Did have to do with the fact they're the state fossil of, what was it, Arkansas, Alabama, Arizona...

Blurry image of a velociraptor

Spinosaurus swimming around. THEY COULD SWIM, FIGHT ME

That's not very scary, looks like a 40 foot Turkey.

Paraceratherium moment

I wanted to get an image of a brumal tyrannosaurus in the woods but this was the only one who wasn't sleeping. Even then I had to move him to a more densely forested area do to him being on the outskirts of his enclosure.

Who says there's no such thing as an aquatic dinosaur

And last but not least, Dinopedia's popular mascot: Microraptor gui

Nigel Marven says this in Prehistoric Kingdom but is it actually true or just speculative