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10 Aug 2021, 5:36 pm

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/university-queensland-dinosaur-discovery/


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10 Aug 2021, 5:44 pm

Gondwanaland dinosaurs are fascinating



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10 Aug 2021, 5:45 pm

i think pterosaur is a pretty cool guy eh fleis around and doesn't afraid of anything


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10 Aug 2021, 5:46 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
i think pterosaur is a pretty cool guy eh fleis around and doesn't afraid of anything


Not to mention those teeth!



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10 Aug 2021, 7:21 pm

I could whup him.


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10 Aug 2021, 7:27 pm

godzilla looks like stegasaurous



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10 Aug 2021, 10:11 pm

Boogles the mind trying to imagine how something that big could even get into the air and fly. Ecologically the closest thing today would be pelicans who scoop big fish out of the sea while on the wing. But they are nowhere that big.



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11 Aug 2021, 2:00 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Boogles the mind trying to imagine how something that big could even get into the air and fly. Ecologically the closest thing today would be pelicans who scoop big fish out of the sea while on the wing. But they are nowhere that big.


Albatrosses seem to live close to cliff edges near the sea so they don't need to take a run-up. A similar tactic might be used by this gigantuan pterosaur



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11 Aug 2021, 3:41 am

Didn't Birds evolve from Dinosaurs? when you see Herons and other water birds eat their prey, you do wonder.



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11 Aug 2021, 4:23 am

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Didn't Birds evolve from Dinosaurs? when you see Herons and other water birds eat their prey, you do wonder.


Yes.

Some dinosaurs evolved feathers as insulation (the equivalent of fur in mammals). And some tiny feathered dinos took to the trees to hunt insects and became crude gliders (like flying squirrels), and the rest is history.

In fact primitive birds were already invading the skies in competition with that creature. But pterodactlys (like that thing in the article) were not themselves the ancestors of birds, nor were they (strictly speaking) themselves "dinosaurs", but of a different branch of the reptile family tree.