Darren, while still tormenting us over the cladistics of the Giant Hoatzins of Doom, has written a good post on the “dinosauroids” of popular imagination (and, as Reid reminds us , of the splendid science fiction novels of Ken MacLeod). He doubts the humanoid appearance of the early model, and prefers a “birdier” version by the incredible Nemo Ramjet.
Thanks to Darren for the intro to Nemo, a scientifically literate artist whose vision contains multitudes, who has everything from whole imaginary ecologies to Turkish stuff (!) on his site. You could lose yourself in it for days. He’s going on our blogroll.
And Nemo Ramjet cites Darren as his inspiration!
http://www.nemoramjet.com/illuspicdino.htm
Hey, we sell Dutch’s books at lure coursing trials, and other sighthound-centric events. But I guess that’s not all that much of a stretch 🙂 BTW… we’re on our way to NM; will be in Socorro next week. Will be in touch.
Damn.. I just realized the previous comment was supposed to go with the previous post. Aaargh. Makes more sense there. Sorry.