Color and position variant of this piece —another Deinonychus antirrhopus.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/another-deinonychus
If ancient sandpipers like the ones that left these tracks existed in Deinonychus's environment, it probably considered them a snaack. A few likely candidates for contemporaneous plants, horsetai...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/paying-the-piper
The dromaeosaur family tree begins at the base of the trunk (lower left) and branches into multiple distinct groups of dromaeosaurs including Unenlagiinae, Microraptoria, Velociraptorinae, and Dr...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/dromaeosaur-family-tree
Utahraptor protecting her territory.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/utahraptor-threat-display
Illustration of a newly-described hypsilophodont dinosaur from the Isle of Wight: Vectidromeus insularis! Vectidromeus means "Isle of Wight runner”, and the new genus is known from a partial...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/vectidromeus-pair
The birdlike theropod dinosaur Rahonavis has a splash while the frog from hell, Beelzebufo, looks on. Late Cretaceous Madagascar, ~70 million years ago.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/rahonavis-and-beezlebufo
Daurlong, a dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Longjiang Formation of China.
A new Deinonychus for 2023.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/deinonychus-2023
A Velociraptor mother protects her babies from the oncoming sandstorm.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/velociraptor-sandstorm
Another Deinonychus, this time in oil paint.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/deinonychus-leaps
Much like a modern hawk or eagle, a Deinonychus engaged in 'raptor prey restraint' mantles with its wings over its quarry to shield it from view from possible competitors, and is hyper-alert to s...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/deinonychus-prey-restraint-redux
A loose family group of Deinonychus attempts to corral a flock of Zephyrosaurus, with a composition inspired by Bob Kuhn, one of my favorite wildlife painters.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/deinonychus-and-zephyrosaurus
Shuvuuia (derived from the Mongolian word for "bird," шувуу) was an unusual small feathered theropods from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. The most remarkable feature of its family, Alvarezsaurida...
A pair of Deinonychus meander slowly through a humid, sunlit jungle.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/deinonychus-in-the-jungle
A fledgling Deinonychus attempts to prove himself on the battlefield with his first quarry—a large grasshopper that isn't much smaller than he.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/fledgeling-deinonychus
Deinonychus pair.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/deinonychus-pair
This is a remake of the original synapse illustration for Lee et al. (2018). Caption from original paper: Roles of Selected Newly Prioritized Genes in Neuronal Communication The 59 genes list...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/diagrams/synapse-and-gene-products-for-ea3
Were juvenile Deinonychus potentially arboreal? Paleontologists Bill and Kristen Parsons seems to think so, based on the limb proportions of the juvenile specimen MCZ 8791 , aged approximately on...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/how-arboreal-were-juvenile-deinonychus
Were juvenile Deinonychus potentially arboreal? Paleontologists Bill and Kristen Parsons seems to think so, based on the limb proportions of the juvenile specimen MCZ 8791 , aged approximately on...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/arboreality-in-juvenile-deinonychus
A shorebird-like color palette is one plausible interpretation of Archaeopteryx's life appearance, as it occupied a similar ecological niche to today's sandpipers.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/shorebird-archaeopteryx
One plausible route to powered flight involved the benefit conferred by longer controlled leaps to pounce upon prey from above.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/archaeopteryx-and-homeosaurus
Tyrannosaurus rex was unlikely to be an obligate scavenger, as was once proposed, but probably feasted on remains when hunger and opportunity arose. Here it munches on a Triceratops ribcage while...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/t-rex-scavenger
FEATHERED DINOSAURS AND BIRDS OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS (126 MYA), JEHOL BIOTA OF CHINA This digital mural was commissioned by the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum for a new exhibit called "...
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/jehol-mural
Confuciusornis pair, a crop from the Jehol mural currently on display at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum.
https://emilywilloughby.com/art/gallery/paleoart/jehol-mural-confuciusornis-pair