The Dinosaur Guard

The Dinosaur Guard
Medium: digital painting

Just in time for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, here is the Dinosaur Guard! It's Fuli the Beishanlong grandis, Beshte the ultrasaurus, Bunga the velociraptor, Ono the Anhanguera blittersdorffi, and Kion the Tyrannosaurus rex.

Choosing a dinosaur for Kion was pretty straightforward: while T-Rex might not have been the biggest or meanest (we really don't know much about dinosaur behavior), T-Rexes are commonly accepted as being the biggest, baddest dinos out there. A lot of dinosaurs were probably very strong, but I picked an ultrasaur for Beshte because they were the biggest. I chose an Anhanguera blittersdorffi for Ono because, while we know almost nothing about dinosaurs' eyesight, these flying dinosaurs appeared to have held their heads at an angle to easily view the land below them while in flight. I knew Fuli needed to be an ornithomimid because of their long legs and lightweight builds that paleontologists believe gave them the ability to run very quickly, and I chose a Beishanlong grandis simply because I could find the most information on them. Bunga, as always, was the most difficult to choose, but because we have absolutely no idea which dinosaur would be the "bravest," I chose a velociraptor due to their reputation in pop culture.