Maginary Image of the Day · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
T. rex footprints rediscovered in the badlands
A schoolteacher in North Dakota just stumbled onto something 66 million years in the making — rare T. rex footprints preserved in the badlands. We couldn't resist imagining the original owner strolling back to admire his own giant tracks, tiny arms and all.
Inspired by rare T. rex footprints found in North Dakota, today's Maginary hero imagines the tiny-armed giant revisiting his own tracks in the glowing badlands.
The prompt behind it
"A cinematic golden-hour scene in the rolling North Dakota badlands, layered ochre and rust-colored rock striations glowing warm. In the foreground, a set of enormous three-toed dinosaur footprints pressed deep into ancient stone, each print filled with a shallow mirror of rainwater reflecting the sky. A friendly cartoon-realistic Tyrannosaurus rex, semi-transparent and shimmering like a playful ghost of the past, mid-stride above the tracks, tiny arms comically waving, tail swishing. Scattered geology brushes, a magnifying glass, and a battered field notebook rest beside the tracks. Soft dust motes and lens flare, dramatic sweeping sky in peach and lavender, epic sense of discovery, whimsical yet awe-inspiring, high production value, shallow depth of field."