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Arzach azhdarchid? Arzdarchid?

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2021-09-18

For some from 2016: the azhdarchid that would eventually become Cryodrakon is scavenged by a variety of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. I should do top-down views more often, they're fun to execute and interesting to look at.

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2021-09-17

A group of Azhdarchid pterosaurs flies over a herd of swimming Titanosaurs

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2021-08-22

This azhdarchid piece by Chase Stone 😍 https://t.co/vbqYnqhQqO

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2021-08-10

Re-designed Azhdarchid, into a trans-Atlantic commercial plane with less frontal loading

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2021-06-27

Hit us up with your scariest dinosaur or pterosaur ... Here's ours:

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.

Via https://t.co/uwPAGd8upM

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2021-06-24

Pachycephalosaurus for the Capricornus was also obvious : small plant-eater, strong personality, probably prone to fighting head on. They didn’t ram into each other though, and fought more like giraffes!
Quetzalcoatlus is one of those giant Pterosaurs called Azhdarchids!

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2021-04-21

'The neck's best thing'
Azhdarchid Pterosaurs, largest flying animals ever, had much longer necks than giraffes! have just observed a unique structure in vertebrae which 'spoked volumes' & made them possible.

: https://t.co/A6wzZyL8H3

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2021-04-17

pterosaurs were around for ~160Myr, and died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction 66Mya.

the large Azhdarchidae were doing very well at that time - they were the dominant predators on some island ecosystems - but then being big quickly became very bad
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2021-03-16

Large azhdarchids small azhdarchids

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2021-02-04

And, OK, a 5 m wingspan is not that exciting when we know of 10 m wingspan azhdarchids, but in 1852 this was a big deal: not only a flying reptile almost 2x larger than any living bird, but the largest flying animal known at that time. P. cuvieri was a real game-changer.

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2021-01-01

Azhdarchids in general can fuck right off. What the hell are you trying to accomplish with this

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2020-12-30

the head is a little too large in the model from what I've heard, but azhdarchids like that did exist and could have carried their weight thanks to their very light skulls and hollow bones

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2020-12-13

Plus, we still have compelling evidence of gigantic, 8-9 m wingspan toothy sea-going pterosaurs. Next to azhdarchids, they're the biggest pterosaurs of all - there's plenty of real science on these guys to get excited about. (Average-sized 5-ish m wingspan Cimoliopterus below.)

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2020-10-16

Once upon a time, people promoted the idea that Quetzalcoatlus looked like this... https://t.co/WB1NSII1kl

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2020-09-22

By c 2015 it had become obvious that some giant - like Hatzegopteryx from Romania - were also 'thick necked'. This has major implications for behaviour and feeding behaviour. Our 2017 paper on this appeared in .... https://t.co/azYXQCldHo

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2020-09-13

Giant azhdarchids were seriously huge - giraffe-sized animals with wingspans comparable to small aircraft. Baby sauropods were pretty small - maybe a metre long, at most?

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2020-08-19

AZHDARCHID EATS SMALL SAUROPOD became a meme thanks to our 2008 paper, but - as with all memes - its popularity was accidental. In the Before Times (2005 - 2007) I was drawing azhdarchids eating all sorts of stuff: fish, crocs, baby tyrannosaurs etc. (See archaic art below) https://t.co/ZACkIzKjsn

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2020-08-19