New Look of Utahraptor

[Yutyrannus]

Not much to go off of, but Scott Hartman released this image today:
http://phylopic.org/image/b5ba185e-61ad-40fd-a494-d4ab4e5ae1f8/

It is quite a bit weirder than previously thought.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Not much to go off of, but Scott Hartman released this image today:
http://phylopic.org/image/b5ba185e-61ad-40fd-a494-d4ab4e5ae1f8/

It is quite a bit weirder than previously thought.

Scott did say he was working on a new updated version.  It better be more accurate before I can make a new one. lol

[Iguanocolossus]

That's right! They found some more next to some Hippodraco! I can't wait to see accurate reconstructions based on those fossils.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

new look :

old look :

link to artist's page with info : http://ewilloughby.deviantart.com/art/The-More-Accurate-Utahraptor-442020192

[Patrx]

Whoah! That's a bit drastic. The jaw looks cool. I'll be interested to see more new reconstructions based off this data.

[Dan]

Interesting. Maybe this makes the stocky little CollectA Utahraptor a bit more accurate.

[Balaur]

Wow! This is what I've been waiting for for a long time! That is really cool!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Yeah it has a bit of a Masiakasaurus curve to the jaw..very interesting !

[Ultimatedinoking]

Whoah! That's a bit drastic. The jaw looks cool. I'll be interested to see more new reconstructions based off this data.

so Utahraptor got bulked up? the head kinda looks like dromeosaurus.

[Yutyrannus]

I just found some very cool new information and a new picture.

Here is the picture by Julius T. Csotonyi:


And the very cool new information that came with it:
"This image endeavors to restore some of the events leading to the creation of a large block of highly fossiliferous sandstone (containing Utahraptor over a range of ontogenetic stages and Hippodraco) from the Cretaceous in what is now Utah."

[Jetoar]

Really cool image  .

[Yutyrannus]

Indeed it is, but check the quote below it, that's even cooler .

[Balaur]

Wait. Am I reading that right? So, embryoes?

[Yutyrannus]

Yep.

[Patrx]

Wait, what's up with those wings? Some of the raptors don't have their primary feathers! Does this perhaps mean that the new findings show the feathers the way they're depicted here?

Wait. Am I reading that right? So, embryoes?

Not necessarily embryos - I think the new findings include fossils of specimens in varying stages of growth - juveniles, adults, subadults, that sort of thing.

[Yutyrannus]

Wait, what's up with those wings? Some of the raptors don't have their primary feathers! Does this perhaps mean that the new findings show the feathers the way they're depicted here?

I don't know about that.

[Yutyrannus]

Wait, what's up with those wings? Some of the raptors don't have their primary feathers! Does this perhaps mean that the new findings show the feathers the way they're depicted here?

Wait. Am I reading that right? So, embryoes?

Not necessarily embryos - I think the new findings include fossils of specimens in varying stages of growth - juveniles, adults, subadults, that sort of thing.

Yes, that's what its supposed to mean I think.

[Yutyrannus]

Wait, what's up with those wings? Some of the raptors don't have their primary feathers! Does this perhaps mean that the new findings show the feathers the way they're depicted here?

Wait. Am I reading that right? So, embryoes?

Not necessarily embryos - I think the new findings include fossils of specimens in varying stages of growth - juveniles, adults, subadults, that sort of thing.

Yes, that's what its supposed to mean I think. The picture implies that as well.

[SpittersForEver]

yeah I agree

[HD-man]

Yeah it has a bit of a Masiakasaurus curve to the jaw..very interesting !

It reminds me more of a male salmon ( http://www.fishwatch.gov/seafood_profiles/species/salmon/imgs/galleries/sockeye_salmon/02.jpg ), which makes me think it's a sexually dimorphic feature. Hopefully, we have enough adult Utahraptor skulls to say for sure either way.

Wait. Am I reading that right? So, embryoes?

Who said anything about embryos? The quote reads, "over a range of ontogenetic stages". Based on what I've read elsewhere, that means "two adults, each 5 to 6 meters in length; three juveniles about the size of turkeys" & 1 baby ( http://westerndigs.org/dinosaur-death-trap-found-in-utah-may-contain-raptor-family-horse-dragons-cannibalized-baby/ ).