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The Swift Killer's Headby ~Qilong

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Here is the full depiction of my stippled skull for Velociraptor mongoliensis. This skull is not based on any particular skull, but a large array of them, and thus represents a complex rather than a particular morphology.

~palaeorigamipete Mar 7, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

This is simply fantstic! incredible work!

~Qilong Mar 16, 2012

Thanks!

!Panzerwerk Feb 3, 2012 Professional General Artist

Beautiful work !

~Qilong Feb 3, 2012

Thank you! I had fun doing it.

~Anto009 Jan 18, 2012

Everytime I see something like this I fangasm, it's my favourite style of shading with my favourite style of illustration, all together in an amazingly done drawing

~Qilong Jan 22, 2012

I'm glad you like it

~orbyss Sep 18, 2011

I just had a dream with a damn V. mo. in it yesterday morning so this is grand. I never dream of dinosaurs, so it was a treat, but these things were hilarious and realistic — not much regal aside from their bitchin' little claw. Man, were they cute, though.

Unfortunately I have no critique, but it says something that I thought it was a composite right away. Personally this has to be my favourite reconstruction yet, so hell yeah!

~Qilong Sep 27, 2011

That's okay, the skull is there to be enjoyed, by those who wish it.

~JD-man Sep 18, 2011

In the view from above, what is that bone in front of e/eye socket? Would that have given it "eagle eyes" in life?

~Qilong Sep 18, 2011

Most people who work on the anatomy of theropod dinosaurs think it's a combination of two bones, the prefrontal and the lachrymal, which are fused together. As for what it does to the eyeball itself, there has been thought that it's like the bones of raptorial birds, but the truth is that's not true. Eagles, and several other birds, have another bone above the eyeball called the palpebral; this bone is tall, curves above the eye and reaches close to the postorbital. Some other dinosaurs do have such a bone, and in in a few like the ankylosaurs and stegosaurs, there are several of these and they are all fused into a single ring around the eyesocket; in ceratopsians, these bones are all fused to the scleral ring that also supports the eyeball (or that's the hypothesis, anyway). We can think that Vel had such a palpebral bone, and there is some evidence for it, but that's not what the actual bones show for now.

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