"Don't Count Your Chickens": 1:35 scale Acrocanthosaurus vs. Sauroposeidon
This diorama depicts the moment when a serene walk along the beachside is interrupted by the violent assault of two young adult acrocanthosaurs. "Baby Girl", the juvenile Saurposeidon finds herself flanked by two ravenous theropods attempting to strafe her. One goes for the leg, while the other tries a second go at her shoulders. Baby Girl kicks out, pushing the one away from her body, which causes her to begin to lose balance. She may fall to her right, jeopardizing the other offender's life. Even if he can escape, Baby Girl's mother has been alerted to her daughter's plight. Maybe these two have bitten off more than they can chew... and it might be a lesson not to count their chickens before they hatch!
This kit is a unique portrayal of paleontologists' belief (based on fossilized trackways) that the acroncanthosaurs would flank and attack young saurposeidons in an attempt to injure them. They might have tried to injure the suaroposeidons enough so that they would succumb to their injuries over a short amount of time. They would do this because it would have been nearly impossible for them to have taken down the giant prey. Paleontologists suspect that the acros would then track the wounded sauros until they died from blood loss and exhaustion.
This model features a juvenile Sauroposeidon. Sauroposeidon (SOR-o-po-SY-dən) means "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon. It is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens, including a bone bed and fossilized trackways found in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.
Learn more about Sauroposeidon Here.
Our Sauroposeidon sports a highly speculative wattle. A wattle is a fleshy caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. Caruncles in birds include those found on the face, wattles, dewlaps, snoods, and earlobes.
While only the male of most bird species sport wattles, there are several bird species within which the female also has a wattle. Examples are the Helmeted Guineafowl, the Greater Prairie Chicken, and the Long-Wattled Umbrella Bird.
Although believed to be used for sexual display, large bare patches of flapping skin may also be used to thermoregulate a bird, especially in warm climates. So, it stands to reason that such a gigantic creature as a sauropod might have employed such a structure in its effort to thermoregulate.
While admittedly highly speculative, no evidence exists to the contrary, and this idea is no more speculative than some other ideas out there... including the portrayal of large inflatable neck bubbles on the Dreadnaughtus in the beloved Apple TV series Prehistoric Planet.
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*Kit colors vary. The actual model may be grey, blue, beige, tan, or white.
NOTE: Model ships unassembled and unpainted unless the "Buildup and Primer" selection is chosen at checkout.
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Ancient Era Artistry makes highly accurate, realistic "scientifically possible" dinosaur figures and dioramas. all of the ANCIENT ERA ARTISTRY modern paleoart model kits are sculpted by Matt Ramieri. His kits are rigorously researched, and with every species he sculpts, he makes it his mission to make each character as scientifically viable as possible. He calls his work "Scientifically Possible."
Matt includes all the known facts and most up-to-date scientific data to breathe life into the fauna of pre-history. Alternately, Ramieri believes that each character should have a personality... an identity that reflects everything from the brutal and tumultuous lives these creatures were forced to live to the freedom and fancy of young beasts at play. Matt means to fill in the gaps between the pages of scientific journals with this philosophical point of view, and he drives the path of speculation with the creative freedom of a character designer.
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