sailorgojirarex1997: Dinovember Day 14. An injured old male Chasmosaurus russelli walking
sailorgojirarex1997: Dinovember Day 14. An injured old male Chasmosaurus russelli walking away after getting into a skirmish for territory with another younger, more ill-tempered male. During the fight, the younger male gauged a hole in the old male’s frill, broke off the tip of one of his brow horns and gored him in the shoulder. The hole gored into the old male’s frill is minor, but the wound in his shoulder will be the death of him… I know that I already did a piece relating intraspecific combat for Dinovember already, but I figured it’d add something more to this one here. Given that there are instances among modern animals where confrontations between members of the same species can result in fatal injuries, it’s safe to assume that the same would be true among some large dinosaurs. I’d imagine that at least on occasion, battles between large ceratopsians would result in severe, if not outright fatal injuries. Perhaps even simple scuffles for food or aggressive displays of strength made to settle territorial or mating disputes could have sometimes gotten out of hand. I based the coloration of the Chasmosaurus here on the ones in Jurassic World: Evolution. The eye spots were my own creative embellishment. (NOTE: I had literally no idea that the main #DrawDinovember challenge was doing Chasmosaurus today. So, me also drawing it today was purely coincidental.) -- source link
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