The recently described

is surely one of the weirdest theropods we know: this humongous, feathered ornithomimosaur sought for food from lake shores and rivers, eating everything it wanted. Its similarity to a gigantic wading bird is striking and although its modern analogue would be the spoonbill (as

pointed out in an excellent post on

:

), when I think of a big shorebird the thirst thing I've got in mind is obviously the shoebill. And when I think of a shoebill, this (link:

) is the picture I'm thinking of. Of course putting a duck inside its mouth wasn't very cool, so I thought that a generic deinonychosaur would be something more suitable.

It's obvious that

hunted small vertebrates, but its fragile skull probably couldn't handle bigger preys like this one. This doesn't mean that the animal couldn't have tried at all and maybe it's just giving a ride to the maniraptoran, like the shoebill did in the photo (that's right, it's not trying to eat it - though it could). The idea was good enough so I gave it a go.

Sadly, during the scanning process lots of shadows and effects were lost so if I'll ever have the occasion I'll scan it properly. Still, it's not that bad - I think that the blue hue is a nice touch.

Maybe I'll do a coloured version with some changes (I'll sure add a background), but for now this is what you have.





, 2014.

Pencils (H, HB, B, 2B), Adobe Photoshop.

References:

, 2014.

