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| Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,240 Views) | |
| stargatedalek | May 13 2017, 01:54 PM Post #3811 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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That depends on how one defines quadruped. It's highly unlikely Spinosaurus walked on its palms or knuckles as a traditional quadruped does because the fingers are not built for it, but it's leg muscles are also atrophied to where the legs would not have been able to "lock" upright under the animals weight. I don't buy into the whole leaning back thing, that only helps with the weight distribution, nothing to do with the leg muscles themselves being atrophied. It may have slid on its belly, it may have leaned on its upper forearms (like a marine turtle of all things), or it may have moved "bipedally" but only moving one step at a time and then placing its weight on the ground between steps. No one is sure. |
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| TheBlackLizard | May 13 2017, 03:49 PM Post #3812 |
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The crazy italian guy that loves Prehistoric Animals!
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I heard that it probably spent most of the time in water, as modern crocodiles do. |
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| stargatedalek | May 13 2017, 06:45 PM Post #3813 |
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A poor comparison, as crocodiles spend a lot of their time on land. Some even become terrestrial predators during seasonal droughts. Something Spinosaurus was definitely not capable of. Nor was Spinosaurus an ambush predator like most crocodiles, rather Spinosaurus would have hunted more like a large toothed whale or even some sharks than a crocodile, attacking fish only marginally smaller than itself. It relied on superior weaponry and brute strength to kill prey in its own element, it didn't have the anatomy needed for dragging creatures into the water. |
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| Moi | May 17 2017, 10:05 AM Post #3814 |
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لماذا ؟؟
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since bees first appeared in the early cretaceous, could have some late cretaceous pterosaurs/dinosaurs eaten honey ?
Edited by Moi, May 17 2017, 10:05 AM.
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| Jules | May 17 2017, 10:11 AM Post #3815 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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We haven't found a specialized honey-eating dinosaur or pterosaur yet, but it seems very probable to me that at least some would feed on honey when possible to do so. |
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| heliosphoros | May 17 2017, 06:00 PM Post #3816 |
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Probably. I don't know if hive-forming species were around, however. |
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| stargatedalek | May 17 2017, 10:24 PM Post #3817 |
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Are there even any species today (sans bees obviously) that survive solely or primarily off of honey? Bee colonies themselves are often prey for some specialized species of wasps, but that's the closest thing that comes to mind. |
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| AnimalGenius | May 17 2017, 11:07 PM Post #3818 |
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Shuvuuia![]() This isn't answering the question you just asked but I think someone asked about a prehistoric creature eating bees and found one: I think a current species that eats honey is the Honey Badger but I don't think there's an animal that only eats honey. Edited by AnimalGenius, May 17 2017, 11:13 PM.
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| Moi | May 18 2017, 02:30 AM Post #3819 |
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لماذا ؟؟
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I didn't mean Exclusively feeding on honey, just eating it when available. |
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| Furka | May 18 2017, 02:35 AM Post #3820 |
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Well not just wasps, some moths and IIRC other insects are pests to bee hives. And while not after honey itself, bee eaters specialize in, well, bees and such. Honeyguides also come to my mind but I don't know if they are actually specialized for that. |
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| Jannick | May 18 2017, 04:47 AM Post #3821 |
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Papua merdeka!
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Honeyguides don't really eat honey, they're mostly after the bee larvae and beeswax inside the hives. |
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| Incinerox | May 18 2017, 02:47 PM Post #3822 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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The thing is that if you have an animal that could rely entirely on honey and nothing else, the odds are they're better off just specialising on eating nectar. And there are a LOT of animals that feed mostly, and often exclusively, on nectar. --- As for animals that will eat honey when given the opportunity, there are LOADS of those. I mean, why wouldn't there be? Honey's great. Edited by Incinerox, May 18 2017, 02:53 PM.
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| BossMan, Jake | Jun 8 2017, 10:23 PM Post #3823 |
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Son of God
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What are some examples of baleen whales that lived around the Pliocene era? Prehistoric or not, something the size of a killer whale or larger? |
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| heliosphoros | Jun 10 2017, 09:01 AM Post #3824 |
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I know baleen whales only achieved large sizes on the onset of glaciations. |
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| Jannick | Jun 10 2017, 09:10 AM Post #3825 |
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Papua merdeka!
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There have been finds in the North Sea of gigantic rorquals dating back to the early Pliocene. AFAIK they were tentatively assigned to "Balaenoptera sibbaldina/borealina" or some other dubious taxon. |
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