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Today's new drawings are of two newly discovered Sauropod Dinosaurs.
Gnatalie the Sauropod Dinosaur
Ganatalie is the name given to a fairly recently discovered Sauropod dinosaur. Gnatalie was found in Southeastern Utah and was around 75 feet long. It is related to the well-known Sauropod called Diplodocus. It was long and slender but still huge.
The humorous nickname for this dinosaur came from the many gnats that harassed the excavation team the first year of the dig. I assume they brought repellent the other several years. Yes, it took several years to excavate this huge dinosaur. The gnats I drew harassing the dinosaur are actually scientifically correct. Gnats first evolved in the middle Triassic Period millions of years before the first dinosaur appeared.
I suspect this dinosaur was found in a bend of a Jurassic river where dino carcasses washed up 250 million years ago. There were other species besides Gnatalie so it was hard to get the assemblage right. In fact, the Gnatalie fossilized skeleton on display at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History is a composite of two individuals.
Now, the most unique part is that it is thought that subterranean igneous activity acted on these fossilized bones and turned them green. So this is a green dinosaur.
Next dinosaur drawing coming soon... probably tomorrow.
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