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Troodon is dead! Long live Latenivenatrix!

I wanted to try to bring the new robust-jawed giant troodontid... sorry, stenonychosaur to life, and somehow went from a quick sketch to this. My original intention was to make it sort of a wolf-stork, but the end result is more similar to a certain African bird than I intended.

The bare skin on the snout isn't scaly, though it is somewhat keratinized. Instead it is inspired by the gnarly warty appearance of facial skin in some birds which (so I'm told) makes it less vulnerable to injury. It's also possible that the snout could have looked more like the cere of accipitriformes or the skin on anatid bills. Maybe that's a variant I'll try later.

In case anyone's wondering, both the cranium and the postcranium are very fragmentary with the neck missing entirely. Considering the proportions of the mandible, I suspect there might be some Utahraptor-like surprises there waiting for us.

Description
Troodon is dead! Long live Latenivenatrix!

I wanted to try to bring the new robust-jawed giant troodontid... sorry, stenonychosaur to life, and somehow went from a quick sketch to this. My original intention was to make it sort of a wolf-stork, but the end result is more similar to a certain African bird than I intended.

The bare skin on the snout isn't scaly, though it is somewhat keratinized. Instead it is inspired by the gnarly warty appearance of facial skin in some birds which (so I'm told) makes it less vulnerable to injury. It's also possible that the snout could have looked more like the cere of accipitriformes or the skin on anatid bills. Maybe that's a variant I'll try later.

In case anyone's wondering, both the cranium and the postcranium are very fragmentary with the neck missing entirely. Considering the proportions of the mandible, I suspect there might be some Utahraptor-like surprises there waiting for us.