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Good Mother Reptile

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Maiasaura (not MaiasaurUS) was the first dinosaur to be named with the feminized Greek suffix, changing the name from "good parent reptille" to "good mother reptile". Of course it's only in mammals that females provide such a disproportionate amount of parental care. Living dinosaurs (birds) find fathers equally likely to care for their young. Ahh well, a mammal named this dinosaur...

Edit: Gave it the rigorous and scale bar treatment, changed to my contemporary pose, updated the silhouette and made some minor adjustments to pectoral girdle position.

11/30/18 edit: Updated forelimb stance and various soft-tissue elements. You can sort of compare the main skeletal to the rigorous version (which doesn't have the updates) or you can read about it here: www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/t…
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I just want to say that I think it's fantastic that you keep your skeletal reconstructions so up to date and easy to access. And your work is always of fantastic quality.
It's a fantastic resource for any aspiring paleoartist. So, great job!