Adopt a dinosaur!


Let's be honest: Who doesn't want a prehistoric chicken? Get yours here!


Each adopt is:
30


Once bought you will get the original Image (about ~3800x1500px) without the watermark.
Just let me know the species & number!

You can do whatever you want with the adopt, except reselling it. You can gift it away tho.
If you want to credit me, I go by the name Tharkenta on Instagram & tumblr


You can click on the images to see a larger resolution!


◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈

Utahraptor
U. ostrommaysorum

Actually "Raptors" is not the right term for these animals, a raptor is a bird of prey, not a dinosaur. Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Dakotaraptor, Utahraptor, etc. are all Dromaeosauridae.
Utahraptor measures 4.9–5.5 m (16–18 ft) in length and weighed 280–300 kg (620–660 lb).
Fossils of dromaeosaurids were found all across the globe and they lived between the early Cretaceous and late Cretaceous. Utahraptor itself lived during the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian - Hauterivian), 135–130 Ma in North America.

◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈

Parasaurolophus
P. walkeri | P. tubicen | P. cyrtocristatus

Parasaurolophus was a Hadrosauridae that lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), 76.9–73.5 Ma in North America and possibly Asia.
The lengh is estimated at about 9.45 m (31.0 ft) and it was probably able to walk on all four limbs aswell as only on their hindlegs.
The most interesting part of this animal is probably their cranial crest, the head alone could be about 1,6 up to 2 metres in length. This probably had several functions, such as visual display, thermoregulation and providing resonating chambers for communication. In 1997 a Team of multiple Paleontologists modelled the crest in a computer programm and recreated the sounds with simulations of air blowing trough the chambers of the skull. This dinosaur was able to produce sounds around 30 Hz.
I also referenced the forelimbs off the Edmontosaurus 'Dakota'. Dakota is not a Parasaurolophus, but a a very well preserved Edmontosaurus of the same Family Order.

◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈

Meraxes
M. gigas

Meraxes belongs to the carcharodontosaur family and lived during the Late Cretaceous, (Cenomanian), 95–93.9 Ma in South America. This theropod was quite large with a lengh of 9–10 metres (30–33 ft). A study from 2023 even suggests is could reach a size of 11.6 metres (38 ft)!
Meraxes gigas is the most complete carcharodontosaurid skeleton known from the Southern Hemisphere. The most notable feature of this species are probably the reduced forelimbs, and a minor sickle claw on digit II.