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Digital fine art of a Stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus, from Greek stegos (στέγος) which means roof and sauros (σαῦρος) which means lizard, is a genus of herbivorous thyreophoran dinosaur. Fossils of this genus date to the Late Jurassic period, where they are found in Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian aged strata, between 155 and 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal. Of the species that have been classified in the upper Morrison Formation of the western US, only three are universally recognized; S. stenops, S. ungulatus and S. sulcatus. The remains of over 80 individual animals of this genus have been found. Stegosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus, and Ceratosaurus; the latter two may have preyed on it.
These were large, heavily built, herbivorous quadrupeds with rounded backs, short fore limbs, long hind limbs, and tails held high in the air. Due to their distinctive combin...

My Name is Walter Colvin, I am a 76-year-old retired disabled war veteran. I have been doing artwork from fun for about 17 years. I started out with oil, acrylic, pencil, and charcoal. Most of the artwork I did was for friends on request. I have only started to sell to public for about five years. Almost all the artwork I do now is digital art on the computer and digital photography. Started digital art about eight Years ago. I do miss brushing oil around on the canvas, but digital art is new challenge I enjoy. Most of the art I do is nature, wildlife and Landscape, but I do others from abstract to space. My goal in digital fine art is to make my digital art as good as a fine Oil painting. I would do my artwork even if I never sold...