In response to Saurian’s reconstruction, well, you know the drill. The following is what Dakotaraptor should look like. When these inaccuracies were pointed out on Facebook, the commenter was blocked and the comment was deleted.
There’s nothing wrong with the fact that the authors gave this information to Fabiani in full trust. When questioned about whether he should even know about this on Facebook: ( Screenshot taken one day after publication, implying that this was released two days prior to publication) The original Facebook posts containing the majority of the leaked details have since been taken down however, his ArtStation page for the model (released several days before publication) has the full name. In the last few days before publication, Fabiani also released full details about Dakotaraptor onto the internet, including name, size, and locality of discovery.
It was teased extensively for several months beforehand as “the Dragon” in all of Mesozoica’s social media outlets, including Facebook and even the official Kickstarter. A month ago, modeller Robert Fabiani showed his full model of Dakotaraptor on a livestream for the unethical dinosaur game Mesozoica (for information on why it’s problematic, check out this post). As of 21:00 PDT on October 31, 2015, all of the information contained and events described in this post are true and can be verified by multiple first-hand witnesses.Īs you probably know, yesterday Dakotaraptor steini, a giant, feathered dromaeosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, was revealed to the world.Įxcept it wasn’t.