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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,648 Views)
Ignacio
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Makes sense XD
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Feb 21 2015, 06:19 PM
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Feb 21 2015, 06:04 PM
....John Conway vs. Mark Witton .....who would win?
John Conway, of course. Witton has a great knowledge of extinct animals, but so does Conway, and I think Conway is a professional artist, rather than a hobby artist.

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Ever since I saw this in All Your Yesterdays its been a personal favourite... Image by DeviantArtist Uralowa.
WOW!
A non "Meat-Loafed" Ambulocetus :adowable:
Edit: Actually managed to found another depiction that isn't a whale-wolf out of hell
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That's actually a pretty noble looking animal...
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The Eyes that follow you in the Alolan forests

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Feb 21 2015, 06:19 PM
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Feb 21 2015, 06:04 PM
....John Conway vs. Mark Witton .....who would win?
John Conway, of course. Witton has a great knowledge of extinct animals, but so does Conway, and I think Conway is a professional artist, rather than a hobby artist.

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Ever since I saw this in All Your Yesterdays its been a personal favourite... Image by DeviantArtist Uralowa.
Not actually that keen on that art as t makes them look to much like otters when they acted like crocodiles

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Feb 21 2015, 07:46 PM
Not actually that keen on that art as t makes them look to much like otters when they acted like crocodiles

Citation please. And I don't mean WWB.
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Feb 21 2015, 07:49 PM
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Feb 21 2015, 07:46 PM
Not actually that keen on that art as t makes them look to much like otters when they acted like crocodiles

Citation please. And I don't mean WWB.
Having the appearance of a 3 meter (10-foot) long mammalian crocodile, it was clearly amphibious, as its back legs are better adapted for swimming than for walking on land, and it probably swam by undulating its back vertically, as otters and whales do. It has been speculated that Ambulocetids hunted like crocodiles, lurking in the shallows to snatch unsuspecting prey. Chemical analysis of its teeth shows that it could move between salt and fresh water. Ambulocetus did not have external ears. To detect prey on land, they may have lowered their heads to the ground and felt for vibrations

good enough citation?
from wikipedia
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Feb 21 2015, 07:53 PM
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Feb 21 2015, 07:49 PM
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Feb 21 2015, 07:46 PM
Not actually that keen on that art as t makes them look to much like otters when they acted like crocodiles

Citation please. And I don't mean WWB.
Having the appearance of a 3 meter (10-foot) long mammalian crocodile, it was clearly amphibious, as its back legs are better adapted for swimming than for walking on land, and it probably swam by undulating its back vertically, as otters and whales do. It has been speculated that Ambulocetids hunted like crocodiles, lurking in the shallows to snatch unsuspecting prey. Chemical analysis of its teeth shows that it could move between salt and fresh water. Ambulocetus did not have external ears. To detect prey on land, they may have lowered their heads to the ground and felt for vibrations

good enough citation?
from wikipedia
I meant give the link as well as quote it.
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The quote even says it has been SPECULATED that Ambulocetus hunted like crocodiles, it says nowhere that it's been proven or even that it's a majority view.
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@CyborgIguana- Exactly. There's a just as likely chance that Ambulocetus hunted fish like an Otter. I even think it fished like an Otter and hunted like a Crocodile.
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Feb 21 2015, 07:55 PM
Ambulocetus did not have external ears. To detect prey on land, they may have lowered their heads to the ground and felt for vibrations
Ears are useless underwater anyway. External ears were something dolphins gave up long ago. It MAY have rested its jaw on land but at the same time, that's a pointless thing to do when yer trying to hide from prey in water.

On that note, ichthyosaur Platypterygius was completely deaf. It had no ears AT ALL.

But all this said, there's no reason why it couldn't have hunted like a crocodile (hypothetically) AND held hands like sea-otters do. The two behaviours are not mutually exclusive.
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Ambulocetus did not have external ears. To detect prey on land, they may have lowered their heads to the ground and felt for vibrations
Ears are useless underwater anyway. External ears were something dolphins gave up long ago. It MAY have rested its jaw on land but at the same time, that's a pointless thing to do when yer trying to hide from prey in water.

On that note, ichthyosaur Platypterygius was completely deaf. It had no ears AT ALL.

But all this said, there's no reason why it couldn't have hunted like a crocodile (hypothetically) AND held hands like sea-otters do. The two behaviours are not mutually exclusive.
Incinerox that was Dinosaw you quoted. However I do agree with you. Ambulocetus could have acted a bit like an otter and a bit like a crocodile at the same time, which I think it's one of the more likely positions.
Edited by Guat, Feb 21 2015, 10:13 PM.
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Well, I wonder if Ambulocetus has limps that are powerful enough to use to launch itself forward like crocodiles.... remember that it doesn't have powerful tail like croc do. And to my current knowledge, there are also no semi-aquatic/aquatic mammals that use this strategy to hunt at all.
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Some mammalian predators occasionally use a similar style, approaching prey from the water (polar bears, jaguars ...).
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Mathius Tyra
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But the bear and the cat don't leap on their preys, they just attack and use their limp to snatch the prey which doesn't require as much as power to push themselves forward.... Well jaguar probably can do that but not from swimming position but standing in shallow water where its feet can touch the ground.

Ambulocetus in the same time can't use its front feet to snatch the prey nor has hind legs that can perform such leaping like jaguar does in shallow water, its legs look more like otter's legs if you ask me....


Anyway, correct me if I am wrong though. :P
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Feb 22 2015, 09:01 AM.
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That velociraptor... The one trying to fly...

He is now my favourite velociraptor.
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