Yi

Okay so I thought this was fun, a DinoArt contest for anyone willing to participate

And the first round was fun so I thought I'ma continue it

Rules & Regulations

• Draw any Dinosaur that has 7 or less letters in their name

• Shortenings like 'T-Rex' doesn't count 🙃

• Any form of media is accepted (Pencil, Software etc.)

• Deadline is Feb 19th

• Don't criticize others' drawings unnecessarily

• Try to be original

• Call dibs on Dinosaurs yall plan to draw, only 2 ppl can draw the same Dinosaur

• Tags of the post is there to help y'all, but not to limit

• Upload the drawing to the comments

This is not cutthroat competitive, it's just for fun, so enjoy! ✨

Click to see full image below

Hi im Kyle i'm a birdwatcher and i'm recording at night to see some owls its pretty strange why i would do it but here i am, ooh a owl!

Yeah pretty cool to see, anyway im just gonna stop recording and uhh

I hear screaming

Im locked in my room

fvb jhu'a ybu rfsl

mpyza slaaly vm lhjo ahnz

@ZeldaPro97

@Rexyisdebest

@CreepyLegos

The term "Draco-mammal" is a term I made up to refer to dragons with mammalian features like ears and noses. So what kind of Dinosaur would this even evolve from

My assumption is Yi qi or maybe an Abelisaurid this is ignoring the 3 pairs of limbs that this has but what would it evolve from and explain how

New dinosaur claymation just dropped!

Yi qi | Dinosaur Claymation Short - YouTube

Birdeye view of a battle between a battle between Pokemon/Pokemon Trainers and Dinosaurs, in the corner a Yangchuanosaurus gets his head shot by a rifle by a Trainer as a Sinraptor cries. A Pachyrhinosaurus launches a grenade and kills a Pichu as a swooping Hatzegopteryx kills it. On the far fight, a Tarbosaurus and Tyranitar shoot each other with Desert Eagles and a Yi Qi plans a spy mission to deactivate one of the tanks. A Charonosaurus and Alioramus drive a tank and kills a Kirlia. Such a horrific sight

Opening paleo exhibit: Yi

Yi was a genus of scansoriopterygid theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now Asia, 159 millions of years ago in the oxfordian stage of the late jurassic period. The first and only known fossil specimen of Yi qi was found by a farmer, Wang Jianrong, in a quarry near Mutoudeng Village (Qinglong County, Hebei). Wang sold the fossil to the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature in 2007, at which point Ding Xiaoqing, a technician at the museum, began further preparation of the fossil. Because many of the unique features and soft tissues of the specimen were uncovered by museum staff during preparation rather than amateur fossil sellers before the purchase, the scientists who studied it were confident that the specimen was authentic and unaltered. This was confirmed by a CAT scan. They named and described the type species Yi qi. The generic name Yi means "wing" in Mandarin. The specific name qi means "strange". Yi has the shortest name out of all dinosaurs.

Yi was a insectivore and it hunted insects. It was a small creature covered in feathers, with bat-like wings. On twelve positions the fossil was checked by an electron microscope for the presence of melanosomes, pigment-bearing organelles. All nine feather locations showed eumelanosomes, which cause a black colour. In the head feathers also phaeomelanosomes were present, rendering a more yellow-brownish hue. On the membranes, only one observation had a positive result, of phaeomelanosomes. The eumelanosomes of the calf feathers were exceptionally large.

Small patches of wrinkled skin were preserved, between the fingers and the styliform bone, indicating that unlike all other known dinosaurs, the planes of Yi qi were formed by a skin membrane rather than flight feathers. The membrane stretched between the shorter fingers, the elongated third finger, the styliform bone, and possibly connected to the torso, though the inner part of the wing membrane was not preserved in the only known fossil. This would have given the animal an appearance similar to modern bats, in an example of convergent evolution.

Yi could grow up to 63 centimeters in lenght, had a wingspan of 60 centimeters and could weight up to 380 grams.

In 2020, T. Alexander Dececchi and colleagues found that, though Yi and other scansoriopterygids were gliding arboreal animals, they had notorious deficiencies in flapping behaviors such as wing-assisted incline running or taking-off from ground compared to other small paravians, and had similar gliding abilities to those of nearly-sized mammalian gliders, such as bats. Their results suggest that scansoriopterygids might have been specialized maniraptorans in mainly closed forests. While the high glide speed and average glide ratios would have been more efficient for travelling across small gaps in the canopy, longer flights would have been less efficient with higher predation risks. The poor gliding abilities of scansoriopterygids like Yi and Ambopteryx along with their difficulty to take-off, would have made them highly susceptible to be out-competed by more capable aerial vertebrates. Moreover, their likely specialist life-style may have further contribute to this disadvantage.

Paleo exhibit: Yi

Next weeks exhibit: Carcharodontosaurus