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buglord posted:I remember some fan art of hippos and ostriches demonstrating what would happen if we gave extant animals the same treatment we give dinosaurs by making them look all scaly and scary. Yeah, it's called the "shrink-wrapped dinosaur movement." Worth a google. A lot of dinosaur artists had a bad habit of forgetting that most animals aren't the same shape as their skeleton. Which I guess was in turn a reaction to the old-school "ponderous swamp lizard" style of dinosaur illustration. Anywho, I posted this in one of the previous GBS dinosaur threads. Dimetrodons aren't dinosaurs, but still: what kind of colour schemes might our PREHISTORIC PALS had? 
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:serious reply: While the serious replies are happening, where are we up to with quetzalcoatlas? Could it actually fly? What would it have eaten? How is it real???
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:quetz almost certainly did fly, i think the main debate now is whether it was a relatively powerful soaring flier or it could only fly in short bursts for short distances like a turkey. i don't know enough about biomechanics of flight to add anything worthwhile so i just choose to believe they spent a lot of time airborne 'cause it's way cooler. Good stuff. I'm trying to imagine what you do with a metres-long beak. Kingfishers and bee-eaters have a similar shape happening, but I can't imagine a quetzalcoatlas nimbly grabbing flying prey on the wing, or snapping fish out of the water without levering its own neck in half. As you said, we really need to find a fossil with gut contents...
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the holy poopacy posted:They subsisted primarily on takeout. Sesame chicken was their preferred prey but fossilized whopper wrapper deposits located nearby demonstrate that they were not above hitting up burger drive thrus when food was scarce. I can definitely picture a quetzalcoatlas waddling down the drive thru lane and darting all four metres of its beak into the little window. Plucking a screaming guy with a cardboard hat from the store e: aaaa I have to draw this when I get home Tree Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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FlocksOfMice posted:https://alphynix.tumblr.com/tagged/retro%20vs%20modern%202022 Oooh, nice. It's also cool that the 60's dinosaur has natural earthy tones and the 90's dino has a RADICAL colour scheme. (And the dinosaur depiction of our own time, of course, is correct and accurate and above merely contemporary concerns)
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Okay. Been thinking about this feathered bird thing. So I tried to draw velociraptor with the colours of some of the birds that live nearby, to see how it looks
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Anne Whateley posted:Modern Quetzalcoatlus is sick as gently caress, to the point where I officially have to change my favorite dinosaur I just... I can't picture quetzalcoatlas flying. It's only marginally more difficult than picturing a flying giraffe. Nothing on earth today has wings that are used for flying and running; they're such radically different forms of movement with such different stresses. Maybe the oxygen levels in the atmosphere were higher back then, and there was simply more fuel to be had? I don't know.
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Salt Fish posted:Edward Drinker Cope Nah, the head's on the correct end
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