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Yi qi is a dinosaur that evolved flight seperately from birds (& is unrelated to pterosaurs), with both feathers & bat-like wings.

(Credit: Emily Willoughby)

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2019-06-13

Scaphognathus crassirostris was a small pterosaur from Late Jurassic Germany. It had a wingspan of just 90 cm!

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2019-06-10

Very interesting, from : "New research, led by the University of Bristol, suggests that feathers arose 100 million years before birds—changing how we look at birds, and pterosaurs, the flying reptiles." https://t.co/4214ojSu2L

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2019-06-08

I've been thinking a lot about pterosaurs this week, so here's of two Thalassodromeus for Thalassodromeus had a very odd skull, even for a pterosaur: weird jaws, huge crest, and expanded jaw muscle space.

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2019-06-07

"Extinct Animals", el delicioso libro ilustrado de Hilary Stebbing publicado por en 1946 sobre animales del pasado https://t.co/4f86tUkwJf

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2019-06-05

Pterois or Lionfish watercolour tutorial!

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2019-06-05

Some things for class, these are studies of a made up animal that I based off of a bat, puffin, and pterosaur. They use a form of sonar to fly and locate prey and receive the signal with their head crests.

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2019-06-03

Want to make a pterosaur weathervane? Try Jianchangnathus. Just don't forget the teeth. https://t.co/Uvoq6xX4xT

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2019-06-02

Elanodactylus has some unique skeletal features among pterosaurs and evolved long neck vertebrae convergent with another group, the azhdarchids. https://t.co/PyfxWV07cv

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2019-05-29

Pangupterus, described in 2016, is a pterosaur from the Jiufotang of China. It sports an incredibly long, slender beak studded with teeth near the tip. https://t.co/paU2pLeWe8

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2019-05-22

Cretaceous Romania was a wild place. This pterosaur, along with its two kin, ruled the roost of Hateg Island. https://t.co/3VRuOyG8nw

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2019-05-21

This enigmatic pterosaur from China is one of many from the famous Yixian Formation. https://t.co/3uttZaUvtG

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2019-05-18

New blog post: part 2 of my analysis of the Crystal Palace models. This time we're covering Teleosaurus, pterosaurs and Mosasaurus (dinosaurs are obviously missing, but they're up next). Features two new palaeoart pieces done for .

https://t.co/sGjojAwsAs

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2019-05-18

Cute little Bellubrunnus is among the smallest of all known pterosaurs. It is also noteworthy because its wingtips curve forward, unlike other pterosaurs. https://t.co/WeTadwTPns

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2019-05-16

Wukongopterus is the founding member of the wukongopterids, a group of early pterosaurs characterized by long tails and elongated necks, an example of mosaic or modular evolution. https://t.co/SqxxWbSegO

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2019-05-12

WIP, some things still left to refine/finish. Skeletal, musculature and full reconstruction of the head of Eudimorphodon ranzii, an early pterosaur from Late Triassic (Norian) Italy (Zorzino Formation)

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2019-05-07

Found these unfinished biker bounty hunter samus drawings from over a year ago and decided to paint over some of them
the space pirates are probably a bike gang, ridley has a cool pterodactyl helmet, no one knows what he looks like underneath

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2019-05-05