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| Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,320 Views) | |
| Acinonyx Jubatus | Jan 28 2016, 07:50 PM Post #2611 |
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Are there any animals that have full-on, muscular lips besides mammals? And mammals all have teeth, so they don't need beaks. The only beaked animals that you could even compare with Dicynodonts would be birds and turtles. Birds are horrible comparisons due to their lack of lips of any kind. Turtles lips' vary, but at least Softshells can have extensive soft tissue surrounding and overlapping their beak. Beaks are functionally analogous to teeth, not lips.
From looking at this picture, it seems to me that the beak region of large dicynodonts was rougher and therefore actually better suited to anchoring muscles and other soft tissue than the surrounding bone. |
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| TheNotFakeDK | Jan 28 2016, 08:35 PM Post #2612 |
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From what I've read, the beaks of dicynodonts have a rough texture with pitted foramina quite similar to that of turtles, which is used to infer the presence of a horny, keratinous beak. |
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| Viridian450 | Jan 29 2016, 01:45 AM Post #2613 |
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Just wondering if anybody has created a cave hyena for ZT2. I've been looking all over the place and can't find anyone that's made one, and thought it would make a good original concept.
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| Furka | Jan 29 2016, 04:44 AM Post #2614 |
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I do know there is one, just don't remember where. However, we do have a topic where you can ask for mods you are looking for ![]() http://thezt2roundtable.com/topic/8538011/1285/#new Edited by Furka, Jan 29 2016, 04:45 AM.
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| Viridian450 | Jan 29 2016, 05:32 AM Post #2615 |
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I was actually looking into making my own, and I just wanted to know if someone would get mad at me for doing the same animal. I've never released any of my stuff because I don't want anyone to get angry at me for doing something similar. Is that much of a problem in this community? Also, I just don't want to deal with animosity over whether my dinos have feathers or not or something dumb. |
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| Furka | Jan 29 2016, 05:43 AM Post #2616 |
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Well no one has ever gotten angry at others for making similar stuff, everyone is free to do what they want with their creations. There might be some people who get a bit disappointed when they get another version of the same thign instead of something new, but that doesn't really stop anyone. As for your second point, well in the end it's your creation and you are free to do what you want, but I wouldn't shut my door in the face of criticism, especially if it's constructive (which is what most people here try to do when it comes to projects). But I think we are straying from the actual subject of the topic here
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| Paleodude | Jan 29 2016, 08:10 AM Post #2617 |
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Is the new Utahraptor paper still in unreleased limbo? |
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| Incinerox | Jan 29 2016, 08:24 AM Post #2618 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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Yes, to everyone's dismay. |
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| BossAggron | Jan 29 2016, 08:57 AM Post #2619 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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Hell will freeze over and we will enter the apocalypse before the Utahraptor paper is released. |
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| BossMan, Jake | Jan 29 2016, 10:10 AM Post #2620 |
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Son of God
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Honestly I'm starting to questions the validity of those finds even being Utahraptors. Looking back on the deathtrap found a few years ago these animals would have almost certainly been adults. These bigger fossils would point to either a new species or the full adult size. If the last part is true than we've been finding juveniles this whole time ^That counts as my question am I alone on that theory or did I miss something? |
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| Incinerox | Jan 29 2016, 12:26 PM Post #2621 |
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Well, there were 6 of them (I believe it was a 16ft adult, 4 juveniles, and a baby), with a Hippodraco accompanying their remains. So we've gone from barely anything to the makings of a growth series. Noting the adult is not the largest individual of the species. Not by a long shot. |
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| Furka | Jan 29 2016, 12:42 PM Post #2622 |
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Weren't there 2 Hippodracos ? And frankly, this wouldn't be the only case of a dinosaur that turns out bigger than what we expected. I mean, there's that huge Edmontosaurus tail, and IIRC Alamosaurus was also thought to be smaller once ... |
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| Incinerox | Jan 29 2016, 12:56 PM Post #2623 |
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Nope, just the one. |
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| Furka | Jan 29 2016, 01:02 PM Post #2624 |
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Weird, I swear I could remember having heard there were tow of them. |
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| BossMan, Jake | Jan 29 2016, 01:50 PM Post #2625 |
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On Alamosaurus I can see that it could be bigger because we've found very few remains so it is fully possible that the ones we have found were juveniles. As for the Edmontosaurus in my opinion it seems very strange and off to say that the huge tail specimen is from an edmontosaurus. Think about it, this animal is the arguably the best know North American Hadrosaur and there are fossils ranging from near 40 foot adults to small youngsters. Overall we know of somewhere of a thousand individual specimens. And so this giant specimen is in my mind very unlikely a large edmontosaurus. Not to mention that E.Regalis the older species is generally larger. In my personal opinion this tail may represent the American variety of Shantungosaurus. This is my opinion and I don't have much more evidence to support that. |
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