A tiny ancient relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered https://t.co/JDMJvxlPRQ

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Morning warmup sketch. Parapsicephalus purdoni, a rhamphorhynchid from the Early Jurassic of England foraging on the ground. I wanted to play with postures on this pterosaur plus some ideas on lights and shadows

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Sharovipteryx fue un reptil del Triásico con la capacidad de planear. A diferencia de los pterosaurios, la membrana de vuelo se localizaba en sus patas traseras, ya que las delanteras eran muy cortas
Esta configuración anatómica no se ha vuelto a repetir en ningún animal actual.

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A pterosaur in flight over the sea. Art by Czech paleoartist Zdeněk Burian.

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I drew two unicorn friends for The one in purple is stealing Blue's ice cream while he's distracted by the pterosaur flying over head.

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Waxing Gibbous - Tupandactylus navigans

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Fossil evidence is known of an individual that ate a pterosaur, with a tooth belonging to Irritator still inserted into the fossil neck vertebral column of a pterosaur. Artwork by

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This recon of Asilisaurus will appear in my book (currently in preparation) on one of the two plates that deals with the Manda Beds formation, and one plate showing the a[proximate size of selected non dinosaurian or pterosaurian Triassic & Jurassic reptiles

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Pterosaur of a species of ostentatiously crested prehistoric flying reptile (previously found in China & Brazil) has been discovered in the UK (#IsleofWight) for 1st time

: https://t.co/ovX2SMNtYl

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Next dragon...The pterosauroid wyvern

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These designs are based on a combination of various seabirds and pterosaurs - red-footed boobies, magnificent frigatebirds, Ornithocheirus, and Nyctosaurus - with a pirate motif all around. Maraupen is also based on the Ropen, a pterosaur-like cryptid from Papua New Guinea.

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Pteranomon X
(Pteranodon)
Pterosaur
Attacks:
Beak Pierce
Side Winder

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Afrotapejara may not hold as many superlatives as its contemporary Spinosaurus but it may have been just as spectacular.

https://t.co/KFS3oKprB0

Illustration by Brennan Stokkermans

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A fun comparison for Pterodactylus restored by Jean Hermann in 1800 vs. Pterodactylus restored by me, 220 years later. Hermann's pterosaur is the oldest known 'legit' piece of palaeoart - a fossil-based life reconstruction based on science, not mythology.

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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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Paleontólogo busca desentrañar los misterios del pterosaurio chileno ( ) El estudio de fragmentos de restos fósiles encontrados hace 30 años en el cerro “La Isla” permitió identificar los restos de un pterosaurio d la familia Ctenochasmatidae https://t.co/QXQVwag8BR

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New pterosaur! The Hasandong pterosaur was a member of the boreopterids, a group with vertical needle-like teeth that probably fed on fish and small vertebrates.

Introducing our newest artist, Brennan Stokkermans!

https://t.co/fnp2ANdoyk

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Some new for This 2018 Irritator image was destined for a future book, but it's now superfluous thanks some study or other that came out this week. This is a substantial update on a scene from my 2013 pterosaur book. Tapejara and Anhanguera also feature.

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