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I'm a Doctoral Student at University of Edinburgh 🎓 Discovering new pterosaurs for a living 🦕 Currently Intern at the Geology Museum in Warsaw 🥟 Also an artist 🎨Follow for prehistoric news 🦴 East European chatter 🥒 and ocassional ramblings✨
@SkyeMcDavid Don't worry, Alan is just a story they made up to scare us. He's all like "Yeah, birds are dinosaurs huh? Well -- what about err Kevin Padian's bipedal pterosaurs from 1984! D'ya think of THAT?"
The most dominant groups of animals on Saikin are lineages from the Mesozoic with both dinosaurs and pterosaurs having been able to grow to massive sizes relatively easily
And their diversity has exploded since the paleocene
@WryCritic @littlesofts My fave...that's hard to decide! I'd say Sinosauropteryx or any raptor really. Many pterosaurs too. And Deinocheirus for some reason. Love them all!
Hațeg Island is still one of the most interesting places in Earth's history, inhabited by dwarf dinosaurs that were often meals for giant pterosaurs.
Art by Mark Witton and Emily Willoughby
Asking everyone. For Prehistoric Planet season 2, what are things you would like to see?
I personally hope the Rajasaurus and Isisaurus sequence that didn't make it into season 1 to get finished and depiction of Pterosaurs diving for fish as seen in concept art.
@cyborg_blood ye ye but also consider… pterosaurs (kinda old art)
If we're using pneumatised pectoral girdles and forelimbs to predict syrinx evolution, and are now thinking this was a deep dino or perhaps basal onithodiran event, pterosaurs are suddenly very relevant - even early pterosaurs have pneumatised shoulders and arms. Hmm.
Who likes pterosaurs? Doing a soft launch for my online shop, you can now purchase this print on my page ( limited stock )! https://t.co/mRitpKbqUG
#art #illustration #digitalart #Pterosaur #print #dinosaurart
Aside from the precursors whom are sophonts, that title goes to the red dragon, a true dragon that preys on large animals, Small wyverns are extremely diverse competing with birds and pterosaurs, basically the forbidden phenotypes, the BT for obv, the Elasmarin Saunters. https://t.co/58s62qBSSs
#speculativeevolution #思弁進化
海洋翼竜(Marine pterosaurs)
プテラノドンの子孫で飛べないが泳ぎが得意、卵は陸で産む
Descendant of pteranodon, cannot fly but is a good swimmer, lays eggs on land.
Individual views of the Osteopterosaurs
The dolphin analogues
Waspish
Pteryspinys
Frutail
Jarami
Sketch and closeups. I used Scott Hartman’s 2016 Shonisaurus as ref, pterosaurs are quasi Carniadactylus AND THE ECTOPARASITES ARE SPECULATIVE. We don’t have direct evidence that they hosted any, but I figure slower ones might have less invasive barnacle-like creatures on em
On a Late Triassic afternoon, a large ichthyosaur lazily drifts into a shallower bay on its side to be pampered by local fish and early pterosaurs, who peck at dead skin, bits of food and ectoparasites.
Cutting through the ocean's surface, Aestulback Drifters have cut out a niche for themselves. Despite their heavy appearance, these Pterosaurs are surface water predators. Ramming right into aquatic tetrapods trying to breath and eating them alive.
A poster featuring iconic and charismatic prehistoric animals that too often get mislabeled as #dinosaurs. #MarineReptiles, #pterosaurs, and the relatives of mammals and crocodiles are spotlighted here!
https://t.co/bkTV0oUOXS
Art by @GrecoWestermann
A bathawk closes in on a common pheasant. Unlike most pterosaurs, which hunt on the ground, bathawks usually catch prey on the wing.
Was thinking back to HTTYD and how Toothless's flight was affected when he lost his tail fin(amazing smeer frame by the way)
Would sth similar happen to non pterodactyloid pterosaurs if their tail structres where damaged?They must have had some use other than display and signals