A while back, there was a hybrid design challenge in TheGamingBeaver's Discord server, so me and a buncha peeps got together to make this abomination: Thalazhdar kakoneiros (we didn't get top 3 sadly)

It'd take too long to tell you what it's made of.

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In light of how popular azhdarchids currently are I decided to do something weird and delightful.

Have you ever wondered what a terrestrial pterosaur would look like? here's my take:

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Had an idea a while ago for some spec evo contest, basically if an azhdarchoid tried to be Tanystropheus

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Thanatosdrakon. The newly-described oldest giant azhdarchid from south america.

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New azhdarchid alert!!! The "Padrillo pterosaur", previously known from just a big humerus, has a name now: Thanatosdrakon amaru. Here's the holotype specimen, from the upper Coniacian-lower Santonian Plottier Formation of western Argentina

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Hatzegopteryx ("Hațeg basin wing") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuş Ciula Formation, an outcropping in Transylvania, Romania.
https://t.co/94Gsn2IsJS

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Balance demands that we post the Hornby Island azhdarchoid. It's also cute

Art by Mark Witton, from this paper: https://t.co/3QqFlx50Rd

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That’s another plane, right?
- Not exactly.

Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni

(Based on the skeletal by Brennon Valdez)

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I'm glad that it looks like the Quetzalcoatlus in Jurassic World Dominion is being hyped as a massive threat because yea Azhdarchidae pterosaurs were the stuff of fucking nightmares

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and I examined the skeletal proportions, cranial anatomy and sedimentological setting of and other and concluded that they were strongly adapted for quadrupedal walking in terrestrial settings... 2/n

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Our view of what and other were like mostly has its genesis in Witton & Naish (2008). Azhdarchids are the most distinctive and unusual of and views on how they might have lived have varied considerably (vintage images shown here!)... 1/n

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Pterosaur bundle pack. Featuring Cryodrakon, Azhdarcho, Tropeognathus and Thalassodromeus.

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Azhdarchid colors and fluff practice for for an upcoming piece

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quetzalcoatlus just got the most literature of any azhdarchid ever so what if we looked at the other ones too

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The Quetz Monograph Lives and Other News on Azhdarchid Pterosaurs -- a new roundup of news at .... https://t.co/YHFf2P9npV

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