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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,476 Views)
Furka
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Can anyone tell me the size range of Avisaurus ? Because I can only found satas on the specimens lenght, which is just a bone ...
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CyborgIguana
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Unfortunately I know very little about Avisaurus, but I've always imagined it as being around crow-sized.
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Hammond
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Swigity Swag what's in the Bag

The Fluffy Raptor
Apr 11 2014, 01:34 PM
Wouldn't Pakicetus have fur?
probably, just not a lot. :P

@Cyborg: none taken, just concern with the faith of humanity.
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CyborgIguana
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Could Dilong be a juvenile Yutyrannus?
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Similis
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CyborgIguana
Apr 12 2014, 01:00 PM
Could Dilong be a juvenile Yutyrannus?
Juvenile Yutyrannus have been found along with the adults.
Juvenile Dilong's maximum size estimate upon growing up is merely over 2m.

Nope.
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CyborgIguana
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Thanks, just curious. :)
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CyborgIguana
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Sorry about the double post, but I'm aware that Gastornis is now believed to have been herbivorous. Are phorusrhacids still considered predators? I'm pretty sure they are, but I just want to verify.
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Similis
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Phorusrhacids aren't closely related with Gastornis and are known to be primarily predatory.
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CyborgIguana
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True, they also have larger, more raptor-like bills that would be suited for a carnivorous diet.
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Rudyn
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Meerkatmatt2
Apr 11 2014, 12:08 AM
CyborgIguana
Apr 10 2014, 11:08 PM
hammond
Apr 10 2014, 06:55 PM
Well I got this from an unreliable source but here goes, I've been hearing some talk from some people that work with me on volunteer hours and they say that stegosaurus's plates were just rocks or foliage.

I doubt it's true but I need to know if my beloved stegosaur has turned into a nodosaurus(even though it's not) with a spiked tail.
WHAT??? No offence, but how could you buy that for even a second! That's complete and utter rubbish! The odds of all known stegosaurid genera having perfectly arranged rows of rocks preserved near their skeletons is astronomical! I wouldn't even buy that if it came from an otherwise reliable source.

BTW just out of curiosity, where exactly do you work on your volunteer hours?

Also, while this is unrelated, can anyone (preferably someone who's NOT a creationist) shed some light on this thing that I just stumbled across? Because I'm kind of freaking out right now.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/stegosaurus-rhinoceros-or-hoax-40387948/?no-ist
Cyborg, calm your stegosaurs, it could of been a practical joke someone pulled on people. anyway, the smithsonian says that it is no evidence for modern non avian dinosaurs.
Not this is the only historical thing what some people that the evidence that dinosaurs lived together with humans see some:

http://kriptozoologia.blogspot.hu/2012/06/living-dinosaurs-avagy-elhetnek-e-meg.html

/I know there is somewhere an English version but Sorry didnt find English version/

I found some English one and some picture :D

http://www.creationists.org/living-dinosaurs-australian-yarru-tribe-sees-plesiosaur.html

http://s8int.com/WordPress/2012/02/04/three-cryptozoological-mysteries-the-penn-state-dinosaur-that-was-the-ancient-chinese-rhinoceros-that-wasn%E2%80%99t-and-the-19th-century-pterosaur-displaying-previously-unknown-morphological-feat/

http://s8int.com/images8/petro1-small.jpg

http://www.ianjuby.org/delk/Alvis_Delk_Print_overview_800px_dsc9293.jpg

http://truedino.com/MANWITHDINOS.JPG

http://img.youtube.com/vi/dWe3cteDuBc/0.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4pWZjdw4uPc/Ump4twPpghI/AAAAAAAAEE4/M4m1C9Cfc4o/s1600/6.+Pterosaur+petroglyph+near+Thompson,+Utah.jpg


but I think some people misunderstood what this subject try to show or some subject may fake things or accidentally similar to a dinosaur.

(Or may in historical times may some cultures was enough advanced to reconstruct dinosaurs from bones and this imagery remaining in different times.)- XD
Edited by Rudyn, Apr 12 2014, 09:09 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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Do we know of any flightless pterosaurs?
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Similis
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CyborgIguana
Apr 12 2014, 05:06 PM
Do we know of any flightless pterosaurs?
Nope. All of the ones discovered are, so far, known to be capable of flight.

@Rudyn - yet somehow those 'dinosaurs' didn't preserve in any form of recognizable life-like art(only misshapen objects, some of them easily subscribe as representation of lizards or mammals), nor in bone, nor as subfossil material. :P
Edited by Similis, Apr 12 2014, 11:19 PM.
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Looks more like a mutant rhino with leaves glued to its back than a representation of any kind of dinosaur. :P
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Is it true that Paul MacCready's 1984 Quetzalcoatlus model was a failure when it came to getting to fly, and that the media has been covering it up all these years since? Because what this could end up meaning for the flying ability of Quetzalcoatlus is making me somewhat uneasy.
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CyborgIguana
Apr 13 2014, 10:36 PM
Is it true that Paul MacCready's 1984 Quetzalcoatlus model was a failure when it came to getting to fly, and that the media has been covering it up all these years since? Because what this could end up meaning for the flying ability of Quetzalcoatlus is making me somewhat uneasy.
One model that was gotten wrong doesn't mean a living animal couldn't fly. And our knowledge of pterosaurs, not to mention Azhdarchids, improved greatly since then. Cyborg, I don't know what sites are you reading these things on, but I'm pretty sure you're causing yourself a paranoia xD
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