Today is National Sewing Machine Day?!

So, here is a little throwback to some sewing machines being used in Vaughan’s Glove Factory, Great Torrington taken in 1978 by James Ravilious for the

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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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Sketches for Maraapunisaurus, Ambopteryx, Haasiophis (vs Azhdarchid) and Giganotosaurus

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It's leaping foward or launching, usually it would walk on all fours like here (art by Mark Witton). Azhdarchids generally had long hindlimbs fitting their lifestyle.

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Alanqa is one of only two azhdarchid pterosaurs from North Africa. https://t.co/7w3FzElZkw

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Here’s the “implausible eye position”. My guess is that he doesn’t know what an Azhdarchid skull looks like, because I drew the eye in exactly the right place. As well, the “excessively speculative” Caryosyntrips and the Volgadraco with the “implausibly large ear”.

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That’s true, but compare it to the monster neck of an Azhdarchid like Arambourgiania, the biggest living thing to ever fly. (Art by

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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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Arambourgiania philadelphiae fue un enorme pterosaurio de la familia Azhdarchidae que vivió durante el Cretácico tardío. Su envergadura alar llegaba a los 10m y su cuello medía unos 3m. Recreaciones de

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Just finished Arambourgiania, the other end of the azhdarchid ecological and morphological spectrum opposite Hatzegopteryx. It may look ungainly, but keep in mind that head is a lot lighter than it looks.

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Lol. It's got a short neck for its family, the azhdarchids. That's Hatzegopteryx on the right (art by Mark Witton)

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Just completed a reconstruction of the giant short-necked azhdarchid Hatzegopteryx! A giant, terrestrial apex predator from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. I primarily referenced the PeerJ article by and

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