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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,685 Views)
Yi Qi
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http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/01/26/troodontids-and-owls-oh-the-ir/

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/01/29/troodontids-and-owls-oh-the-ir-1/

read this, assymetrical ears would be nigh useless without facial disks, and as we see from owls animals don't look like their skeletons, so its VERY VERY VERY likely that troodontids looked like owls.

Besides the fact that facial disks developed independently many times troughout nocturnal birds (check frogmouths) so troodontids looked atleast owl like thats almost sure.

We have virtually every piece of evidence we can currently grasp going for it, but nothing going against it, everything just seems to point out that troodontids were the owls of the mesozoic.
Edited by Yi Qi, Oct 5 2014, 09:43 PM.
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BossAggron
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Formerly Dilophoraptor

I'll remember this next time i think of drawing a Troodontid of sorts, Thanks!
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Ignacio
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CyborgIguana
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Conway is love. Conway is life.
*notspam*
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Dilophoraptor
Oct 5 2014, 09:25 PM
I'll remember this next time i think of drawing a Troodontid of sorts, Thanks!
Same
man I'm going to have a field day trying to get the perfect creepy troodon now xD
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CyborgIguana
Oct 5 2014, 10:12 PM
Conway is love. Conway is life.
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Yep... and that animal is a troodontid by the way... i don't see the resamblence to owls. :P
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CyborgIguana
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Looks more like some kind of jay than anything, but still a great piece of art.
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Slothy Dude
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The Happy Xenarthran.

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Oct 5 2014, 09:18 PM


Besides the fact that facial disks developed independently many times troughout nocturnal birds (check frogmouths) so troodontids looked atleast owl like thats almost sure.
Well they also could look like frogmouths. :D
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CyborgIguana
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Which look like owls. :P
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The Happy Xenarthran.

Sure: xD https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRr8_cueXF7Zqx24FEgUccMdI4BXtdB_iRa-YyJ-cETgSq6a58F3w

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTn7mq5EzI3YXLydAC3-SQNR0lIJROez_wdxicmbxY4WvR2ajL4
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sloth dude
Oct 5 2014, 11:00 PM
Did I say they were identical to owls? :P
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Yi Qi
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Aside from the beak and eyes, frogmouths are pretty owl like, despite the two birds not being related at all (Frogmouths are closer to nightjars while owls are closer to things like rat tails and Quetzals)

Sure they arent identical, but you can see convergence at work here


Another evidence that comes to show that assymetrical ears and facial disks evolved independently in three different, very distantly dinosaur groups, Troodontids, owls and frogmouths.
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Speaking Of Owl Dinosaurs (though this isn't even close to a Troodon)
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Yes that is indeed a true beauty.
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