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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,389 Views)
Paleop
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Paleopterix

what are some good dinosaur related YouTube channels/shows?

the best ones I can think of are: Thagomizers, Saurian, Your dinosaurs are wrong(show by the geekgroup)

and what are some good documentaries?

Thanks :)
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MightyFan217
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OH YESSS!

So I have a question regarding the larger species of Pterosaurs in regards to how their wings fold; how do they not injure themselves with how they fold their wings when on the ground for certain species such as Quetzalcoatlus?
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CyborgIguana
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I don't really understand your confusion. Why should they injure their wings with the way they fold them?
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MightyFan217
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OH YESSS!

Take this image her for instance:
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How is that Quetzalcoatlus can bend it's wing membrane to such a degree and yet still be capable of flight as a whole?
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Rockypockypuff
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Is walkin' with a dead man.

I'm no expert, but wouldn't that be like, for example, human skin? Flexible?
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Jun 26 2015, 03:15 PM
Take this image her for instance:
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How is that Quetzalcoatlus can bend it's wing membrane to such a degree and yet still be capable of flight as a whole?
Well, the membrane looks more like its slacking rather than pulling, if its from the Leg to wing it could either be flexible or they could have had more skin there to make up for the pulling.
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Admiral General Aladeen
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Yeah, it's not stretching it's wing at all, it's folding it up.
If anything, the wings would take far more wear and tear through normal flight than when tucked away :)
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I too am wondering about the Quetzalcoatlus' wings, but more about their flight abilities. Quetzalcoatlus bodies seem in such disproportion, or at least from the reconstructions I have seen. Is there any chance that these creatures were actually flightless or at least some species?
Edited by SpookDoc, Jun 27 2015, 01:48 AM.
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SpookDoc
Jun 27 2015, 01:46 AM
I too am wondering about the Quetzalcoatlus' wings, but more about their flight abilities. Quetzalcoatlus bodies seem in such disproportion, or at least from the reconstructions I have seen. Is there any chance that these creatures were actually flightless or at least some species?
They could fly. Their wings may be short but so are Harpy Eagle Wings. Also quadrupedal-launching allows them to fly as well.


Also what good reason would Azhdarchids have to loose flight.
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

SpookDoc
Jun 27 2015, 01:46 AM
I too am wondering about the Quetzalcoatlus' wings, but more about their flight abilities. Quetzalcoatlus bodies seem in such disproportion, or at least from the reconstructions I have seen. Is there any chance that these creatures were actually flightless or at least some species?
All tests on azhdarchid flight mechanics, focusing specifically on Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx (the most likely candidates for flightlessness), have shown that not only were they flight capable, but extraordinarily GOOD at it.
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Bill
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most (if not all) sauropods and ornithopods dinosaurs had monocular vision, did their eyes moves separately like those of chameleons?
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Mathius Tyra
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I think their eyes are more like any grazing herbivore's standard today, like horses and cattles.
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MightyFan217
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OH YESSS!

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In all honesty I know Tyrantrum isn't an entirely accurate T. rex, but here's my question; is it even remotely possible for feathered beards at all?
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Yep. Lammergeiers have their own feathered beards.
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Does anyone know where I can find a good site with a lot of up-to-date information on paleobiology? I'm an environmental science major (my college lacks a geology major and that was the next best thing) and hope to become a paleontologist one day, but I've been somewhat away from it for a few years and I'm hoping to get myself back up to speed. I'm just not sure where to start. I especially like vertebrate paleontology, but anything is helpful.

Thanks in advance.
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