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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,483 Views)
CyborgIguana
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Related to the above post, is it possible that dromaeosaurids could have regularly mobbed tyrannosaurs in the manner of corvids?
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Furka
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Well I can see a flock of Troodons gathered annoying a small Tyrannosaur to distract it and get access to a carcass, but I doubt they'd get too close to the larger species.
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Similis
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As long as they were agile and organized enough not to get eaten themselves. Deinonychosaurs weren't extremely damage-resistant when facing bone-crushing bite force of Tyrannosaurids.
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CyborgIguana
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Of the three largest ankylosaurs (Ankylosaurus, Euoplocephalus, and Tarchia), which was biggest? I've seen varying estimates on their length, width, and weight.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 15 2014, 03:01 PM.
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Furka
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Everything I've seen on Euo always stated it's lenght to be around 6 metres, so it should be the smaller of the two. Anky and Tarchia were of similar size, with anky probably a tiny larger.

Regarding this, I remember Jack Horner mentioning in the JP3 DVD that his team found the remains of what could have been the biggest ankylosaurus ever found, over 10 metres long.
I've never found anything else on the subject, so I am no longer sure about the truth of the statement.
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CyborgIguana
Mar 15 2014, 03:00 PM
Of the three largest ankylosaurs (Ankylosaurus, Euoplocephalus, and Tarchia), which was biggest? I've seen varying estimates on their length, width, and weight.
I do believe Ankylosaurus is the largest at around 6-7m. Although, recent ankylosaur estimates have been such a mess I really don't know all that much about the size of others, or even the size of Ankylosaurus itself.
Edited by DinoBear, Mar 15 2014, 03:18 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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Furka
Mar 15 2014, 03:12 PM
Everything I've seen on Euo always stated it's lenght to be around 6 metres, so it should be the smaller of the two. Anky and Tarchia were of similar size, with anky probably a tiny larger.

Regarding this, I remember Jack Horner mentioning in the JP3 DVD that his team found the remains of what could have been the biggest ankylosaurus ever found, over 10 metres long.
I've never found anything else on the subject, so I am no longer sure about the truth of the statement.
The JP3 Anky was oversized to around that length anyway.
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BossAggron
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If Nanotyrannus is a Juvenile tyrannosaur, could there still be a Dwarf Tyrannosaur that Mimicked a juvenile Tyrannosaurus?
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CyborgIguana
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Of course there could've been, but we can't treat the existence of such an animal as fact or even anything beyond an unsupported hypothesis without fossil evidence.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 15 2014, 10:31 PM.
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Ulquiorra
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After watching Clash of the Dinosaurs, it mentioned that all dinosaurs have a wish bone, hollow bones and air sacks in their lungs all traits that modern birds have today, yet if this is true with non-avian dinosaurs, like hadrosaurs and sauropods, could it be possible that they also had feathers of some kind?

Its left me with images in my head of a brachisaurus looking like a giant four legged ostrich.
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Glocks Nigh Svenure
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Did pterosaurs have fur or feathers?
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CyborgIguana
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They had pycnofibres, which are fur-like structures somewhat similar to the protofeathers seen on primitive coelurosaurs like Sinosauropteryx. But pterosaurs almost certainly lacked true feathers, as they weren't closely related to birds at all.
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Glocks Nigh Svenure
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Thank you! I see they are always drawn fuzzy but I didn't know with what. xD I don't know too much about paleontology but I am learning. :P
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CyborgIguana
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Funny, I personally find that there aren't enough fuzzy depictions. :P
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Glocks Nigh Svenure
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There are so many on the Deviant art website, have you heard of it? It's got all art types of course but lots of dinosaur art too that is really cool.
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