My version of a strange, piscivorous theropod dinosaur that lived around 130 to 125 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous of Europe: Baryonyx. A member of the Spinosaurid family, one Baryonyx specimen was found with evidence of fish scales in the area of the stomach, and was also associated with some Iguanodon bones; I've portrayed it here as if about to grab the fish Scheenstia, while a lone Iguanodon forages in the distance. Two pterosaurs known as Istiodactylus fly overhead.



The Natural History Museum in London produced a great short video about the discovery of Baryonyx, which can be seen here:

youtu.be/94jLUmbqyMQ

An excellent skeletal drawing of Baryonyx, by the ever-rigorous Scott Hartman, can be found here:

www.skeletaldrawing.com/therop…



I had set myself a personal goal this year of making a new digital painting for each issue of Prehistoric Times Magazine, and this is the final image to complete the series. I'm also hoping to create a new piece of digital music for each new image I make – sort of an ongoing multimedia paleoart project – and the soundtrack for this painting can be found here at my SoundCloud page:

soundcloud.com/oviraptor-space…





Please do not reproduce or use without permission, and thanks for viewing (and listening)!



