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Paper about Hatzegopteryx material finally out.; It was about goddamn time
Topic Started: Jan 18 2017, 11:05 AM (639 Views)
babehunter1324
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The abstract had been around for quite some time but just today a peer reviewed paper by Mark Witton and Darren Naish has been released, finally confirming that Hatzegopteryx was indeed short necked, this alongside it's relativelly wide skull seems to confirm that Hateg's giant pterosaur was indeed a superpredator going after considerably larger prey that most other azdharchids.

Link to Mark Witton's post: https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com.es/2017/01/new-paper-when-short-necked-giant.html

Link to the paper: https://peerj.com/articles/2908/

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Edited by babehunter1324, Jan 18 2017, 11:10 AM.
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Its kind of sad it took THREE FOUR YEARS for people to get this.

Since 2013 it was clear that Hatzegopteryx was a short-necked macropredator
Edited by heliosphoros, Jan 18 2017, 03:13 PM.
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heliosphoros
Jan 18 2017, 03:13 PM
Its kind of sad it took THREE FOUR YEARS for people to get this.

Since 2013 it was clear that Hatzegopteryx was a short-necked macropredator
Well sure. But the paper just got released, after all back when the Deinocheirus abstract was released most people depicted it as a humpback Ornithomimid, we only found out about it's truelly weird self when the paper was fully released.
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heliosphoros
Jan 18 2017, 03:13 PM
Its kind of sad it took THREE FOUR YEARS for people to get this.

Since 2013 it was clear that Hatzegopteryx was a short-necked macropredator
Well now it's been calculated, tested and published in formal scientific literature.

Also that blog post has one of Witton's best lines:

"Hatze la vista, baby."
~ Terminator Azhdarchid, 2017.
Edited by Incinerox, Jan 19 2017, 09:54 AM.
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babehunter1324
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It bothers me that he miss spelled "hasta" unless he did so to emulate Arnold Schwarzenegger spelling.
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babehunter1324
Jan 19 2017, 02:37 PM
It bothers me that he miss spelled "hasta" unless he did so to emulate Arnold Schwarzenegger spelling.
I believe he misspelled it on purpose , making it Hatze instead of hasta (since we're talking about Hatzegopteryx) ;)
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Jan 19 2017, 02:42 PM
babehunter1324
Jan 19 2017, 02:37 PM
It bothers me that he miss spelled "hasta" unless he did so to emulate Arnold Schwarzenegger spelling.
I believe he misspelled it on purpose , making it Hatze instead of hasta (since we're talking about Hatzegopteryx) ;)
How?... How didn't I caught that?!
Edited by babehunter1324, Jan 19 2017, 02:52 PM.
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That was the joke...
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