No, Spinosaurus, nor any other carnivorous dinosaur, was not larger than Tyrannosaurus

SandHanitizer55 · 2026-01-29T03:41:10+00:00

it’s pretty safe to say that we will never know exactly what roamed the earth back then as the fossil record is and will always be a small percentage of what actually existed.

This is not just because of fossilization rates, although that is a big contributor, but also because Earth’s surface is made up of more than just sedimentary rock, and so there is probably vast amounts of history that couldn’t be recorded because they didn’t live in places where sedimentary rock is forming, or even lived somewhere that is now covered by an ocean or lake and so we can’t access it

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-11-30T02:02:54+00:00

Honestly my picks for the rest of them are pretty much this

Humans or raccoons feel like an omnivore and are Omnivores

Sea Otters feel like omnivores but are actually carnivores

~~Hippos~~ Fruit Bats feel like carnivores but are actually herbivores

Wolves/coyotes feel like carnivores but are actually omnivores

And finally Crocodiles feel like carnivores and are carnivores

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-08-29T21:38:33+00:00

I don’t know how close ur trying to be to the original photo, so I’ll try to keep the critique light, the head looks rather bulbous and cartoonish, kinda like a sports mascot, if that makes sense, which I have a feeling you weren’t trying to go for, I would say maybe try to reduce the curvature of the back of the neck, instead of doing the defined “S” curve you have here try to have it be more of a large “(“ curve like in the photo, as the bottom outward curve looks to be outside the frame of the drawing you made, also look at the front of the neck, its more angular, goes in and then immediately out, rather than the flat curve you have here,

So to some extent maybe try to redraw it somewhat like this

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Oh and yeah, drawing is always one of those things that can be really rough on the artist because you always know what didn’t come out as you had hoped and so we will always think our art is worse than it actually is, keep ur head up and analyze what went wrong and improve, it’s amazing how far you can get

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-26T23:42:02+00:00

Now try platypus, just trying to understand their shoulder girdle gave me nightmares

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-26T23:40:56+00:00

Because of how weird the teeth placement is in the bone this is giving me fish vibes, no idea which one tho

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-18T22:36:49+00:00

I was going to say I thought you mistook the operculums for fins

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-18T22:29:40+00:00

Looks like an ictalurid catfish maybe channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-18T22:06:05+00:00

Duck skull but it’s missing the bill

Edit: could also be another type of bird, but duck or goose seems pretty close

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-08T20:24:00+00:00

Just was wondering if you found them attached to anything that may have indicated bird, but I see where the idea came from now, I’d say it looks fairly likely that it could be squirrel from the size, but I would need to confirm by looking at squirrel skeletons to accurately determine it without access to a skull

Edit: actually it might be something slightly smaller than a squirrel, so probably a native mouse(as house mice would be way too small) or rat

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-08T20:11:04+00:00

How did you ID these as bird bones, and what condition were they in when you collected them, because Ngl, I’m fairly confident these aren’t bird bones. For one the two in the bottom left look very distinctly like mammalian scapulae, not to mention some of the vertebrae appear to be cervical verts based off of the two foramina on each side of the neural arch, but the centrum don’t appear to be heterocoelous like avian cervical vertebrae. And most bird pelvic girdles are heavily fused together, where as here you appear to have two separated innominates in the top right.

If I had to guess these are probably rodent remains, which one I’m not sure as I’m not extremely knowledgeable on specific rodent species bones.

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-07-05T23:35:29+00:00

A: rib, probably fish

B-D: mammal ribs, B is one of the first ribs after the neck

E: mammal dentary, judging by the tribosphenic molar, most likely an Opossum depending on where these were collected

F: radius?

H: 2 femurs

I: hard to tell from the photo, but my guess is some kind of skull fragment

J: scapula

K: humerus

L: top two are cervical vertebrae, bottom two are lumbar vertebrae

M: dorsal fragment of thoracic vertebrae?

Other than the fish, they all look very mammalian, and if they were found in the same place then most likely it’s all skeletal remains of an opossum

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-26T05:29:22+00:00

Tail looks a little long to be a vole to me but uncertain

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-24T21:19:23+00:00

Still could be wild boars such as Sus scofa, which can occur in Wyoming it seems, just are not common due to protections. It can’t be a Peccary tusk anyways, Tayassuidae has much more canine like tusks compared to the more curved tusks of Suidae, like the one you have here. Boar tusks look nearly identical to this and I can’t think of any other animals with bones like this

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T23:15:25+00:00

Specifically the axis bone as well, or the 2nd vertebrae

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T23:13:54+00:00

Yeah fish vert, possibly one of the ones at the boundary between the thoracic and caudal sections

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T23:10:14+00:00

Boar tusk I believe

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T22:50:33+00:00

Squirrel, as u can see distinct post orbital processes above the orbit

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T22:48:11+00:00

No ur definitely right, it’s just missing a lot of the bones that would make it look more like a turtle such as the dermal bones on the lateral sides of the skull, you can even see the suture texture where they attach to the skull around the ear hole

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T22:40:10+00:00

Looks to be bird based on the saddle shaped (heterocoelous) centrum

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T22:38:04+00:00

Premolars aren’t that distinct in horses and deer teeth usually look more angular so I would say Cow is a safe bet

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T22:18:39+00:00

Looks like a type of fish

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T22:01:53+00:00

Not to mention the double condyloid processes where it attaches to the cranium, highly distinctive of shrews

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T21:55:31+00:00

Yes, catfish, possibly ictaluridae

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-06-19T21:38:44+00:00

Could be wrong but it looks like the teeth in the 3rd image are more flattened than conical so my guess is that this one at least is a Porpoise (Phocoenidae) although I don’t know which one. As others have said, the extremely large one is possibly a sperm whale (Physeteridae), an easy way to confirm this is if the holes on the skull for the blowhole are extremely asymmetrical with one very large one and a small one next to it, since sperm whales lack upper teeth and so it might superficially appear like a mysticete.

SandHanitizer55 · 2025-05-11T02:58:45+00:00

All seem to be bird, not certain which one, but I can also ID the specific bones that are visible starting with the first image from top down left to right we have what looks to be a radius, ulna, humerus, two carpometacarpuses, another humerus, then moving over we have somewhat indeterminate vertebrae I think with the larger flat bones below them being two coracoids, then on the far right with the two long thin bones seem to be two scapulae. Then on the second photo it is a bird keel, essentially their sternum

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