Scientific Illustration

paleoillustration:

paleoillustration:

Sinosauropteryx prima (2007) by Julius T. Csotonyi.

-Digital painting / photographic composite

A metre-long compsognathid dinosaur, Sinosauropteryx prima, forages for prey in a Cretaceous Chinese forest. This dinosaur is among the growing number whose remains include preserved feather-like integumentary structures, strongly suggesting their close kinship with birds.

And now I reblog myself because I have no shame and I love this picture so much.