Weird Birds - a Spooky Paleoart Trend

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Hey everybody!
If you're not on Twitter, you may have missed the #WeirdBirds trend going on right now. People are posting (mostly) creepy photos of prehistoric creatures in our modern world. There's been a lot of creativity, particularly on the part of the user Archesuchus, who kickstarted the trend, though you could say there are some "ancestral forms" of the trend.
I wrote something of a "curatorial" post on my blog to collate various creations into one easy to find location. I had hoped it would be comprehensive, but the more I looked, the more I found, and I eventually had to give up if I was going to have any hope of actually publishing the dang thing! Definitely look for more examples of the trend yourself, or even create your own, and share them for us to see!
I'll link to my blog post below, and share a few choices examples:

Weird Birds - a Spooky Paleoart Trend


The picture by Archesuchus that started it all (Done with a real, physical prop!!!):




Some predecessors:




Some descendants:

[Libraraptor]

This is an interesting development. It shows how relevant dinosaurs still are. We would even like to have the around. But is it true? In Germany we have a debate how to encounter the reason spreading of the wolf. Taking extinct dinosaurs, pretenting they exist in reality, is a safe way to get in "dangerous contact" with "wildlife" without any dangerswhatsoever. Reminds me a little at Robert Mash's book with dinosaurs as pets.

[Primeval12]

This is what the Jurassic franchise needs to do. Fallen Kingdom was a step in the right direction, but this story amps it up to 11. It proves once again that accurate dinosaurs can be scary, there is no plot armor, and the creatures behave like animals. I absolutely LOVE this thread so much.

[HD-man]

Reminds me a little at Robert Mash's book with dinosaurs as pets.

I reviewed that book!👌 It stinks!: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3481749012

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

I've added my own attempt at this trend tto my blog post, so I can share them here. I hope you like! I genuinely can't decide between the two. I think these are the best pictures I took, and I wish I could combine them somehow (but I'm no good at photo manipulation). I prefer the overall lighting (particularly the darker-looking sky) and some other minor details of the first one, but I prefer how much more visible the flames are in the second one. After the work I put in making the fire bright but safe, I'd hate for anyone to think I used artificial lighting!
My little headcanon for this image:
"A fire started by a trainwreck has driven Something out of the forest and into town... there's a lot of Weird Birds in this area, but only the old timers still recognize the Old Man of the Woods."





A nerdy little footnote I think y'all might appreciate: one of the train cars in the background is a Sinclair Oil tank car. You can just make out the Brontosaurus logo if you look closely! 

[HD-man]

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[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

@Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews) Does this count?: https://twitter.com/A3Dnazrigar/status/1706514691592446248

Works for me!