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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

Hatzegopteryx and Eurazhdarcho from the Hateg Formation! I wanted to paint a nice blue beach, I never did it before. It was fun to do. Hope you like it :)

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2021-03-17

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

Early on in the production of the Graphic Novel we still thought our most complete pterosaur might be a very early azhdarchoid, turns out it's something much more basal, but for a short period of time we had a very different idea for this little guy.

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2021-03-14

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

y'all have no idea how tempted I am to recreate this but with an azhdarchid... but that would mean starting yet another art piece when I already have 3 in the works...

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2020-12-23

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

I did this recon of Cryodrakon a while back but I realized I never showed it. Cryodrakon was a large Azhdarchid pterosaur from late Cretaceous North America. I like to call these large azhdarchids Gitaffe-storks. And yes, yes they could fly.

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2020-07-21

Hatzegopteryx was a large, robust azhdarchid pterosaur who most definitely preyed on probably anything it could seize with its beak with! Though bones are currently only known from Romania (Hateg), it is possible that they roamed throughout other parts of the world!

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2020-07-10

탈라소드로메우스도 개떠라이같애 어떻게 실제로 저런애가 있었지 그냥 Azhdarchoidea계통군 애들은 다 예쁘다 헐 내 최애익룡 중 하나 된거같애

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2020-05-12

A wandering I finally got some toned mixed media paper; now I can employ some of the paint I have to play with.
I’ve finally become the PAINT paddock.

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2020-05-09