I hope you enjoy reading themOh yeah I saw that actually! Really cool. I click on the occasional dino thing and now they're all coming up in my news feed bahaa
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I hope you enjoy reading themOh yeah I saw that actually! Really cool. I click on the occasional dino thing and now they're all coming up in my news feed bahaa
Not a python but yeah that oneYes the giant indian python right? Kaa for reals
Yes yes yes oh yes absolutely!I like thinking about all the dinos they haven't discovered yet. Imagine what lurks beneath the earth's crust. I propose a drawing competition where we imagine what they might be
What kinda monsters will appear?..I like thinking about all the dinos they haven't discovered yet. Imagine what lurks beneath the earth's crust. I propose a drawing competition where we imagine what they might be
I mean between the animals living in environments that dont produce fossils, never were fossilized, havent been found there have to be so many.I like thinking about all the dinos they haven't discovered yet. Imagine what lurks beneath the earth's crust. I propose a drawing competition where we imagine what they might be
Wow!!I mean between the animals living in environments that dont produce fossils, never were fossilized, havent been found there have to be so many.
I think we have found about 250,00 fossil species, but named 1,2 million living today (although experts estimate there are like 8 million alive today). Doing that math we only have found 0,31% of all animals that ever lived
Not dino, but flightless pterosaur had to exist. We found already flightless birds from mesozoic. Where is this buggerr?!?!I like thinking about all the dinos they haven't discovered yet. Imagine what lurks beneath the earth's crust. I propose a drawing competition where we imagine what they might be
Idk if it had to honestly. Flight was alot less ressource costly for pterosaurs than it is to birds, so getting to enormous sizes didnt mean they had to sacrifice flight like in birds. So there probably wasnt as much evolutionary pressure to lose the ability to fly.Not dino, but flightless pterosaur had to exist. We found already flightless birds from mesozoic. Where is this buggerr?!?!
We were close to finding one. Morphometric analysis puts Kunpengopterus near animals such as tree kangaroos and anoles in their arboreality. Best shot for flightless pterosaur would be abroreal quadruped in rainforest type ecosystem. Sadly environment as bad for fossils as islands.Idk if it had to honestly. Flight was alot less ressource costly for pterosaurs than it is to birds, so getting to enormous sizes didnt mean they had to sacrifice flight like in birds. So there probably wasnt as much evolutionary pressure to lose the ability to fly.
Also most flightless birds are herbivorous, which was apperently very rare in pterosaurs, so that probably played a role aswell.
I mean it probably still happend anyways, but there was alot less inticement as for birds.
Also if it happen it probably happend on some island, which means it had a very restricted range, which intern means that finding a potential fossil of it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and you have to be lucky enought to have the fossil consist of bones that would actually show is was flightless
So this guy really has all the odds against him, which probably explains why we havent found one yet
Why is that?Best shot for flightless pterosaur would be abroreal quadruped in rainforest type ecosystem. Sadly environment as bad for fossils as islands.
Yeah i tried it a couple of times, but unfortunately the ones i watched rarely if ever actually had animals show upkind of random, but does anyone else like to go to different zoo and aquarium sites and watch the live webcams?
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Looks like a troodontid more than a dromeaosaurAnyhoo - hey dino guys, did you see the new giant raptor they discovered in China? Fujianipus yingliangi
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@Marvinb I'd love to see your model of it!
I tried drawing digitally with a mouse for this, it's not my best work but it's decent for what it isI like thinking about all the dinos they haven't discovered yet. Imagine what lurks beneath the earth's crust. I propose a drawing competition where we imagine what they might be
Yeah I've watched a few, aquarium webcams are always more lively than zoo webcams. My favourite is the monterey aquarium webcams since there is quite a few of them available. I have also tried multiple times of the giant panda webcam when the edinburgh zoo still had them but most of the time the pandas were either sleeping or not there at all.kind of random, but does anyone else like to go to different zoo and aquarium sites and watch the live webcams?
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Yeah i tried it a couple of times, but unfortunately the ones i watched rarely if ever actually had animals show up
Yeah I've watched a few, aquarium webcams are always more lively than zoo webcams. My favourite is the monterey aquarium webcams since there is quite a few of them available. I have also tried multiple times of the giant panda webcam when the edinburgh zoo still had them but most of the time the pandas were either sleeping or not there at all.
Erosion caused by acid soils in rainforests and high decomposers activity.Why is that?
Anyone familiar with mononykus? They were smallish, vaguely raptor like animals and lived in the deserts of mongolia.They had very good hearing to locate insects and a single big claw to break into termite nests and dead wood to eat said insects.I propose a drawing competition where we imagine what they might be