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@thedoodlingdino / thedoodlingdino.tumblr.com

Jen Cotton, Time Traveling Wildlife Artist. http://www.prehistorica.com Trans woman, she/her.
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Your dinosaur art is just so lovely.

(Also your workspace looks like something Milo from Atlantis, or Evelyn O'Connor would have and that is very endearing)

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Aww, thank you! That feels good to hear, both about the art and the workspace. I try to make a cozy and adventurous workspace, it's a thing for me. I need a nest. I know Milo, but I'm not familiar with Evelyn--what' she from?

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A prosauropod giving me the side-eye. Well technically they are always giving the side-eye; if you've ever spent some time around one, you'll notice that the eyeball never turns in its socket. Most critters can't; that's why you see little to no whites of the eyes in most non-mammal creatures. They have this wreath of small bones called the sclerotic ring embedded in the eye that locks them in place. Predators are usually locked pointing more to the front, prey usually locked pointing more to the side. If a creature with sclerotic rings wants to change their angle of view, they've got to rotate their neck. So yeah; that's why the perpetual side-eye expression.

Even though Prosauropods had a mixed diet of meat and plants, they always seem to me to be giving more of a side-eye than other prey critters. It's something about their expression; they always seem stressed out. And boy do they startle easily, like they're wired up on caffeine and spooky bedtime stories. Which is odd, because the first coffee shop wouldn't show up for another 210 million years.

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This guy's getting a bit too curious. Time to back slowly away. Pachys don't bite, but they are excellent at re-shaping ribcages 😬

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My legs are safe and intact 🦵❤️

After the last post showing part of my workspace I had a concerned follower ask where I put my legs. My initial thought was that my femoral heads insert into my acetabulae, like everyone else - but then I realized that the question came because the photo did not include my chair and showed a standing desk with a screen over an occupied cubby in another desk, giving the impression that there was no place to sit. So! For sweet @onecornflower and anyone else concerned about whether my appendicular skeleton has a home, here is a wider shot showing the mess on the left side of my studio 😉❤️

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Light table cleared off and operational! Tough to ink with this guy looking over my shoulder, but.

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Studio explosion! Making new nameplate signs for some Ogden Dino Park/Stewart Museum exhibits 💚🦕

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‪113 mya. Zephyrosaurus was not expecting Punxsutawney sphenodont to check his shadow. Needless to say, he lost some tough guy street cred with the boys that day.

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