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Where a city burned beneath the sky
The torn heart of empire bleeding out
It's cultures into the sands.

I dreamed a dream of a giant horse
A vector of plague into a trusting host
A cargo released to work it's wrath
All beneath a smoldering cloud.

I dreamed of decades worth of death
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Clogged with timbers black and weeds
With a rot from cancer deep.

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Copyright 2007 Asher Elbein

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And now no man will ever spy
A thunderbeast young and swift of stride
Outpace the opressor and turn the tide.

100 Million years,
5 million more,
And now no man will ever see
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Raide up it's arms to the sky and fly.

60 Million years,
5 million more,
And now no man will ever spy,
A thunderbeast strong and full of pride
Collapse 'neath the burning sky and die.

100 years,
100 more
And now all man can ever see
Rock filled bone and dust dry teeth
Embraced by stone and slumbering deep.

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Appalachiosaurus Rampantby ~Ashere

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A rough illustration for the Alabama Museum. I'm going to color it later.

The original inspiration for this coloring job was the Emerald Swift, but I got tired and didn't properly commit to the idea and so we ended up with generic camo tyrannosaurid instead. I've been slugging at this one for a while and I'm sort of sick of it, so once again, if you have suggestions I'd love to hear them.

~Durbed Dec 13, 2012

Loving the pose. I though Appalachiosaurus forelimbs were actually three fingered and with massive claws, similar to Dryptosaurus? unless I missed something.

~Ashere Dec 13, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Short answer: I screwed up.

Long answer: I hadn't seen anything published about the forelimbs, so I made a guess that it was similar to other tyrannosaurids. Seems to be wrong, though. Oh well.

~geekspace Oct 24, 2012

Hmm...dull orange patches on the throat, upper skull & banded down the tail?

That said, nice partial application of the filamentous bits; for all the extrapolation Yuyutyrannus has encouraged, I'm ambivalent regarding the prospect of swathing every single tyrannosaur in snout-to-tailtip down. Especially given the preservation of scaly patches from G.libratus and T.rex itself.

~Ashere Oct 24, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Appalachiosaurus also lived in fairly warm, humid environments. There's little reason to suspect it wasn't feathered in some capacity, but I also highly doubt it was a fluffy creature. The bristles on its neck here can fluff up to make it look more menacing for display, since it doesn't need them particularly for insulation.

~geekspace Oct 24, 2012

I can definitely roll with 'bristles' as a tyrant-lizard feature...and now that I've had a higher-res look at this one, you've actually made a rather solid start of adapting the Swift color scheme to a beast of radically different size & morphology. Applying some sort of discoloration to the claws might be worth a go whenever you opt to gussy this pic up, but that's all I can suggest.

~RajaHarimau98 Oct 23, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Looks great! I like the feathers you gave it, and its nice to see such an underrated dinosaur.

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