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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,396 Views)
DK1000
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Anas platyrhynchos
May 24 2015, 05:44 PM
Is it possible that Dilophosaurus could have hacked up mucus and spit it in the eyes of a competitor while in a fight
That would mark the peak of paleontology, but it's very unlikely.
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2 Sapeornis questions
-it had flight tail feathers?
-I read that Sapeornis was herbivore but fossilworks says it was a ground carnivore, which one is true?
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Judging by its beak shape I'd say herbivore is more likely (possibly omnivore).
Edited by CyborgIguana, May 24 2015, 07:44 PM.
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hi

The Relentless Huntress
May 24 2015, 06:06 PM
Anas platyrhynchos
May 24 2015, 05:44 PM
Is it possible that Dilophosaurus could have hacked up mucus and spit it in the eyes of a competitor while in a fight
No modern animal I know of does that so I really doubt it would do that.
People?

Ex:Karl Tanner vs Jon Snow
Edited by Brach™, May 25 2015, 03:30 AM.
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Incinerox
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Don't llamas do that?
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The Relentless Huntress
May 24 2015, 06:06 PM
Anas platyrhynchos
May 24 2015, 05:44 PM
Is it possible that Dilophosaurus could have hacked up mucus and spit it in the eyes of a competitor while in a fight
No modern animal I know of does that so I really doubt it would do that.
Ok. Thanks. I kind have got the idea from when I accidentally hacked up a big ball a mucus on my IPad
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Incinerox
May 25 2015, 03:58 AM
Don't llamas do that?
I thought that was vomit they hacked up.

As for people they aren't archosaurs, which would be more comparable for behaviors such as that, so I'm pretty sure that wouldn't apply with dinosaurs.
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No no, seabirds vomit. Llamas and other camelids just spit.
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Incinerox
May 25 2015, 01:04 PM
No no, seabirds vomit. Llamas and other camelids just spit.
It seems that Camelid spit is spit usually mixed with stomach contents when they spit.
http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/camel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca#Spitting

Even then using mammals to compare defensive behaviors in archosaurs isn't always the best comparison. Dilophosaurus more likely vomited then hack up mucus.
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Even then, it was more likely a defensive or territorial thing to do, not blind prey with it.
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Incinerox
May 25 2015, 01:56 PM
Even then, it was more likely a defensive or territorial thing to do, not blind prey with it.
Agreed.
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How valid is this hesperornis reconstruction?

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It says in the Dinogoss blog that it's unlikely for teeth to be sheathed by a beak, thus making the reconstruction above more "correct" than the ones with teeth in beaks.

So uh, does this mean the other hesperornis reconstructions are wrong...?
Edited by Tyranachu, May 26 2015, 08:03 AM.
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It's indeed unlikely that teeth can grow on rhamphotheca, as far as I know..
Edited by Even, May 26 2015, 08:16 AM.
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Tyranachu
May 26 2015, 07:58 AM
How valid is this hesperornis reconstruction?

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It says in the Dinogoss blog that it's unlikely for teeth to be sheathed by a beak, thus making the reconstruction above more "correct" than the ones with teeth in beaks.

So uh, does this mean the other hesperornis reconstructions are wrong...?
That is the most accurate Hesperornis restoration out there to date.

Unless someone else actually drew one taking ALL of his Hesperornis posts to heart. Because there's a LOT people do wrong with Hesperornis.

Like giving it visible knees, ankles joints and shins, apparently.
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Whats the Oldest True shart Shark that we know of?
Edited by BossAggron, May 28 2015, 06:23 PM.
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