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The Dinosauroid

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So I was looking at Celestialpo's awesome drawing of hyena-like scavenging troodonts, and I got the idea for a sapient descendent of the hyena-troodonts. A sophont. A dinosauroid. So I present you.... the Parasapiens!
Since hyenas in real life are quite intelligent creatures (intelligent hunting methods, complex and structured packs- far smarter than wolves or something)... the alternate hyena-troodontids should be pretty smart creatures, and they would have a high chance of evolving sapience. These Falconisapients are the sophonts of this world, with Bronze Age-level cultures. Falconisapients are largely anatomically similar to their ancestors, but they are less muscular and less weaponized, although they are still swift hunters. Although the deinonychosaurian scythe claw remains and still used for slashing enemies, it is considerably shrivelled up and the muscles supporting the claw are largely missing, so that the scythe claw is used as a way of threatening or in religious purposes.
They are gracile creatures, weighing 45~60 killograms (larger than their ancestors, but light for their size, as they are hollow-boned and slender; obesity is rare among dinosauroids, although females are commonly larger and heavier than males) with long, flexible (but no muscles so it appears stiff) tail, and lanky but quite muscular legs which they inherited from their ancestors, who used their sturdy legs going around searching for carcasses or stalking smallish animals. Their arms are relatively long when fully unfolded, and they fold in the traditional maniraptoran style, but the shoulder joints are extremely flexible and enables the arm to move in 180 degrees of movements in any direction, and they also evolved a ball-socket structure wrist joint which also allows flexbile actions using their hands. The hand claws are usually very blunt for better mainpulation of objects. They possess three fingers and three toes. The hand digits are opposable and sensitive.
Their jaws are pretty strong, enough to crush a human hand, which are the remains from the bone-crushing beaks and immensely strong jaw muscles of the hyena-troodontids. They have thicker, shorter necks than their ancestors, with obviously enlarged braincases. They have large, foreward-pointing eyes which are normal in modern predatory troodontids. Their mouth gape is very long, ear to ear, and their lower jaw opens about 95 degrees. Their beaks are commonly used to manipulate tools, especially spear-throwing, since dinosauroid shoulders are not apt for spear-throwing motions, they use their beaks instead, using their neck muscles to throw the spear.
The dinosauroids are covered in thick, soft brownish down, which varies considerably depending on the environment the particular individual lives in or their heritage. They have longer, erectile wing feathers often used for display by males. Their legs and hands are bare, covered with small, non-overlaping scales like bird legs.
While dinosauroids usually have surprisingly low sex appeals, although they do frequently have sex. In most dinosauroid cultures, mating is not unnatural; dinosauroids often have sex in public places. They live in monogamous pairs, much like humans, although in some tribes polygamy (one female individual and many males) is allowed. Dinosauroid societies are female centered, and in a tribe an old, wise female is often the chief (male leaders are rare but do exist), along with a council of both male and female members. Dinosauroids are ovoviparous animals. The newborn, similar to a hatchling bird, is hairless and pink, and needs extensive care of its parents. But the dinosauroid hatchling grows extremely fast compared to human babies, so that within hours after their birth they can clumsily walk, and after a few months they can start hunting small game on their own, and after a few years they are capable of living completely on their own (although parents do protect their offsprings for a fairly long time).
Dinosauroids rarely wear any sort of clothing; the plumage does the role that human clothes do. They do wear ornaments and armor (mostly light leather and wooden armor), but they do not usually clothe themselves to protect themselves unlike humans.
In dinosauroid societies, spears are very important weapons in both war and hunting, being useful and bears much symbolic meaning. Since dinosauroid tribes are mostly nomadic, hunting is a significant part of their culture. From the moment they are born, dinosauroids are granted a spear of their own, which is like a partner to themselves and which symbolizes honor (a high-level dinosauroid often add feathers and other ornaments to their spear to show off power), and they use the same spear all their lives (unless it breaks), and are buried with their spears in their graves. In fact, spears were the first tools dinosauroids invented, long pieces of sharp wood used to spear things, which evolved into larger, sharper and harder stabbing spears with stone, bone or bronze blades at the end. Stone Age dinosauroids also started using sharp pieces of stone, which developed into sharper stone knives, axes and hammers (still used in the Bronze Age), and finally bronze stabbing, quite formidable, knives held in their beaks or their hands (along with some longer swords).

so the introduction to dinosauroids... opinions?
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Raptor-Chick's avatar
This looks way too similar to Povorot's Dinosauroids. Reported.