The Speculative Dinosaur Project

[Yutyrannus]

Here is the Alaskan Whipneck:

The Alaskan Whipneck is an Elasmosaur belonging to the group known as the Anguillosaurids. It is a top predator in the Arctic Alaskan seas and is one of the biggest of all Anguillosaurids, commonly reaching 33 feet in length with record specimens at 37 feet, second only to the 42 foot Siberian Whipneck. Unlike some other Anguillosaurs, the Alaskan Whipneck does not have a venomous bite. It is a fast swimmer, propelling itself with its powerful tail.

[Yutyrannus]

The Spinosaur and Dromeotyrannus should be coming shortly. I will also do an Eocene Carcharodontosaur.

[TheAllosaur]

I got to do this again, I think i'll do another dinosaur for this!

[Yutyrannus]

I got to do this again, I think i'll do another dinosaur for this!

Considering your awesome abelisaur drawings, I think you should an abelisaur for your next Spec creature .

[TheAllosaur]

Already thought about it!

I still have to finish my Saurobaun/Srak, and a short story, so i'll be a while.

[Yutyrannus]

I finally managed to become a member on The Speculative Dinosaur Project's Yahoo Group page. I am Yutyrannus5 on it. I have already posted some of  my and TheAllosaur's creatures and the descriptions of them on the page. If anyone else wants to see the page (which also has Spec's pterosaurs that were never added to the Spec website) or become a member here is a link to it.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DinosaurMailingList-KilledThreads/?m=0

Just a warning, registering and becoming a member takes a while and is kind of complicated.

[ZoPteryx]

That's great Yutyrannus!   Just out of curiosity, how far is the project from completion?

[Yutyrannus]

I have absolutlely no idea when it will be completed. With how much stuff keeps getting changed it may never be ! Also, when is the Saurocene going to be updated?

[TheAllosaur]

I will have another spec animal completed soon, probably an Abelisaur

[TheAllosaur]

I am going to start working on the life of India and the other Abelisaur havens, if that is alright with you, yutyrannus.

[Yutyrannus]

Well so much for my new pictures being posted soon ! I'll try to post more when I can.

[Concavenator]

That sounds really nice!For my art topic,I also wanna do something unique.
I will do a Monolophosaurus.But not a normal (scaly ) or even (slighty) feathered one...I will do it the most similar possible to a duck.It'll even have a beak 
But I'm really excited to see more pictures!

[Yutyrannus]

I finished and posted this one yesterday, but it got deleted when the forum went down. Again I mention that the drawing is mine but the creatures itself was created by someone else on the project as was the description:

Turso (*Tetraketos caucasica*)

Despiste being part of the once might Paratethys, the Caspian has been subjected to dry periods since it's formation. Hence, many of it's current fauna are recent migrants from freshwater ecosystems that feed the inner sea. However, a few of it's inhabittants are clearly marine animals. Selkies with little difference from northern species patrol these waters, as does the Turso. This plesiosaur likely evolved from a population that ended up in the Caspian Sea in interglacial periods, when vast lake systems formed between the Caspian sea, the Baikal Lake and the Arctic Ocean, allowing a brief passage for marine animals, which also explains the presence of selkies and seaguins in the Baikal. A possible ancestor of the Turso, *Tetraketos moorei*, was present around the european coastline as recently as the mid-Pleistocene, and probably occured in the high Arctic during interglacials. Polycotylid subfossil remains have been found on the Black Sea, which was a vast inland lake through most of the Pleistocene, and may belong to a closely related species if not an extinct subspecies. A population also lives in the Aral Sea, which seemingly diverged rather recently, probably having been transported there by the vast extensions of water formed by the melting of the last ice age.

The Turso has an average adult size of 7 meters, being the largest denizen of the Caspian, and has a distinct golden skin colour. Like in it's extinct *Tetraketos* relatives, the Turso's teeth have converged with those of ctenochasmatoid pterosaurs, being very thin, long and extremely numerous, being baleen-like. It feeds by straing prey from the bottom, trapping crustaceans, insects and worms in it's teeth while biting through the mud and sand, much like HE's greywhales. Annually, swarms of crustaceans and insects inundate the waters of the Caspian and Aral seas, and without any other local filter feeder the Turso has the prime spot, foraging pelagically without competition from baleen-squid or pachycormids. The Turso only has one natural predator, the ravenous Caspian Sea Wolf, which only poses a threat to the pups. Breeding adults congregate in pods, sorrounding the few young from attackers with their bodies, forming a living barrier against the selkies.

And here is the link to the full Spec Plesiosauria essay: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/DinosaurMailingList-KilledThreads/conversations/topics/22880

[Yutyrannus]

For anyone interested a forum for The Speculative Dinosaur Project has officially been started. I am signed up as Yutyrannus5. Here is the link:
http://w11.zetaboards.com/Spec_world/index/

[Balaur]

Cool! I might sign up.

[Yutyrannus]

Cool! I might sign up.

Yes, good idea. I would love to see some of your ideas enter the project . Also, it seems like my deep-sea ammonites have officially been approved!

[Concavenator]

I think I'll sign up 

[alexeratops]

I'm signed up as Therizinoceratops.

[Concavenator]

My aportation to this topic,I'll start with the tyrannosaurs  :
Diablotyrannus
Ichthyophaganax

More information when I do,and post the pictures.

[Concavenator]

I'm signed up as Therizinoceratops.

Me,I've signed up as Ichthyophaganax