Aftermath

Nature can be brutal, but there is new growth and life even in the brutality. This painting of a Stegosaurus ungulatus and the visible traces of an encounter it had with a Ceratosaurus was inspired by photos of deer bucks with the stuck and severed heads of their rivals still locked into their antlers, but also by a photo from Emanuele Biggi, of an iguana peeking out through the head of a dead sea lion washed ashore in Peru. I’ve referenced those sources to show that even a severed head stuck to a dinosaur’s tail spikes would have been a refuge and resource to small anurognathid pterosaurs.