Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]






Shoot a firework rocket ~ Winners!
Make a forum zoo!

Welcome to The Round Table. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,381 Views)
BossMan, Jake
Member Avatar
Son of God

I remember reading about this somewhere but I have to make sure were Unenlagians adapted to life like waidibg birds such as Herons using their long snouts to catch fish?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
CyborgIguana
Member Avatar


We don't know for sure, but it's a plausible hypothesis in line with what we know of their skeletal anatomy (and IIRC their teeth are conical like those of spinosaurids, which are known to have been at least partially piscivorous).
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Paleop
Member Avatar
Paleopterix

since at least a few ground sloths lived in desert or desert-like environments, are coated in thick fur, and have been found to frequent caves...
how reasonable is it to suggest a nocturnal lifestyle where the sloth spends most of the day sleeping in caves (sheltered from the heat)digesting food, while at night going out to feed?

I'm not exactly sure how good an insulator sloth hair is.

also speaking of hair like projections: would proto feathers have been bendy and soft like hair or have been like the shaft of a feather?

and on the subject of rex:
assuming males are smaller than females, would there be other types of sexual dimorphism; such as females being bulkier or males having proportionally larger heads?

still on rex:
is t rex roaring like a gator(closed mouth, using throat) more likely than the roaring shown in most documentary's?

Thanks :)
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
CyborgIguana
Member Avatar


Confidence of sexual dimorphism in fossil taxa is actually astonishingly rare. We don't even have any solid evidence that T. rex females were larger than the males (regardless of what all those documentaries would like you to believe). So for the moment, it's impossible to say.

As for the roaring, yes, I'd say closed-mouth bellowing is more plausible than open-mouthed screaming (assuming tyrannosaurids even roared at all. The truth is that we have no idea what kinds of vocalizations, if any, these animals were capable of).
Edited by CyborgIguana, Jul 30 2015, 10:36 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Paleop
Member Avatar
Paleopterix

thanks cyborg :)
anyways, I just came up with this question while reworking my t rex's head & neck,
in most reconstructions of dinosaurs you can see the back of the lower jaw(see below)
wouldn't it make more scene for it not to be visible? wouldn't the neck be thicker and smoother there due to additional muscle, fat and soft tissue? (especially with t rex)
Posted Image



also what's the middle hole in the skull that shrink-wrapped reconstructions always show?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Joe99
Member Avatar


Paleop
Jul 31 2015, 12:07 AM
thanks cyborg :)
anyways, I just came up with this question while reworking my t rex's head & neck,
in most reconstructions of dinosaurs you can see the back of the lower jaw(see below)
wouldn't it make more scene for it not to be visible? wouldn't the neck be thicker and smoother there due to additional muscle, fat and soft tissue? (especially with t rex)
Posted Image



also what's the middle hole in the skull that shrink-wrapped reconstructions always show?
its called the Antorbital fenestra and it really make me mad when that shrink-wrapped reconstructions always show it and the neck should be thicker
Edited by Joe99, Jul 31 2015, 12:34 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
54godamora
Member Avatar


What would seem more dangerous in a rage : a triceratops or a kaprosuchus?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Incinerox
Member Avatar
Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

54godamora
Jul 31 2015, 11:10 AM
What would seem more dangerous in a rage : a triceratops or a kaprosuchus?


Triceratops, no brainer. It's like comparing the physically destructive power between a particularly lazy lion and a really big, aggressive, particularly meat headed elephant.

Paleop
Jul 31 2015, 12:07 AM
thanks cyborg :)
anyways, I just came up with this question while reworking my t rex's head & neck,
in most reconstructions of dinosaurs you can see the back of the lower jaw(see below)
wouldn't it make more scene for it not to be visible? wouldn't the neck be thicker and smoother there due to additional muscle, fat and soft tissue? (especially with t rex)
Posted Image


This isn't necessarily true. Crocs have MASSIVE neck and jaw muscles but...
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
54godamora
Member Avatar


Okay what would seem more... destructive if a triceratops: lighting bolts from its horns or beams of searing heat from its horn?

Reason why: in a story of mine, the main character gets enraged when his girlfriend, blake belladonna is under attack by roman torchwick, he turns into a triceratops in a rage.

So, what would be more destructive lighting or this: gomora's beam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhvWU3fRkDU

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Zoo Tycooner FR
Member Avatar
#Lithopédion

What is the biggest Thalattosuchia ?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
54godamora
Member Avatar


i would say dakosaurus.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Fluffs
No Avatar
Pull my finger!

54godamora
Jul 31 2015, 01:04 PM
Okay what would seem more... destructive if a triceratops: lighting bolts from its horns or beams of searing heat from its horn?

Reason why: in a story of mine, the main character gets enraged when his girlfriend, blake belladonna is under attack by roman torchwick, he turns into a triceratops in a rage.

So, what would be more destructive lighting or this: gomora's beam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhvWU3fRkDU

What did I just read.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Zoo Tycooner FR
Member Avatar
#Lithopédion

I have finally found the biggest Thalattosuchia : Machimosaurus was not only both the largest teleosaurid and thalattosuchian, but with a length exceeding 9 metres (skull length 1.5 m), it was the largest crocodyliform of the Jurassic
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
54godamora
Member Avatar


i'm writing an RWBY fanfic called RWBY: creature shifter, and the main character can shape-shift into a variety of prehistoric animals, including a t-rex that behaves like Godzilla, heat ray included and roar.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image Guat
No Avatar


54godamora
Jul 31 2015, 02:28 PM
i'm writing an RWBY fanfic called RWBY: creature shifter, and the main character can shape-shift into a variety of prehistoric animals, including a t-rex that behaves like Godzilla, heat ray included and roar.
As I said before those aren't dinosaurs. Just monsters.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
3 users reading this topic (3 Guests and 0 Anonymous)
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Extinct Animals & Evolution · Next Topic »
Add Reply