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This is incredible! excellent work.

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I'm real curious about this piece. It's a great drawing, I like how the lighting highlights the diplodocus' back, and the shading and detail on the velociraptor.

Was a diplodocus able to stand on its hind legs, and why would it stand on it's hind legs, the much quicker velociraptors (they hunted in packs) would just tear at it. I'm not sure they lived in the same era, either.

That said, it's a beautiful drawing, and the pespective is good.

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I didn't actually make these any particular species, I didn't have any good references at that time, so I just drew a generic sauropod and theropod. I would say that the sauropod is most like an Apatosaurus, and the theropod would be like a young Torvosaurus, or something similar.

There is a lot of speculation on whether or not sauropods where able to rear up or not. One of the theories is that sauropods grew as large as they did as a way to protect themselves from predation, and that rearing up would just make them look that much bigger and more impressive. Another theory is that since most of them couldn't actually lift their heads up that high (their necks where just too stiff), it allowed them to browse from the tops of trees.

I'm personally skeptical of this ability though, for a couple of reasons. One, their tails may have been too stiff to bend back as far as would be needed. Two, it's possible that their front legs would not have been strong enough to push the front of their bodies off of the ground, and three, I'm not sure that they would have been able to return to a 4 legged stance without hurting themselves (especially that one).

I mean, it may have been possible for some of the smaller types, like Apatosaurus, but I don't think so for animals like Diplodocus or Barosaurus.

It does make for a dramatic effect, though.