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Post by Joey12 on Feb 21, 2022 7:19:52 GMT
Looks like little baby hands but I still wouldn't mess with it.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Feb 21, 2022 12:29:26 GMT
Looks like little baby hands but I still wouldn't mess with it. No way! |
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Post by Joey12 on Feb 22, 2022 6:33:17 GMT
Maybe it will go for the cat but if it came here it could eat all the squirrels it wanted. Our mild winter produced an abundance of squirrels.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Feb 22, 2022 7:34:51 GMT
Looks like little baby hands but I still wouldn't mess with it. What gets me about Abelisaurids is why they had arms at all since the arms were completely immobile. The fingers didn't even have claws. What's the point of having arms if you can't use them? |
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Feb 22, 2022 8:29:19 GMT
Name: ZhejiangosaurusPronunciation: Zay-jee-ang-o-sore-usMeaning of name: "Zhejiang lizard", after Zhejiang Province, eastern China, where its fossils were discovered.Species: Z. lishuiensisSize: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils.Family: NodosauridaeDiet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered in the Chaochuan Formation of Zhejiang Province, eastern China. Named by Chinese authors Lü Junchang, Jin Xingsheng, Sheng Yiming and Li Yihong in 2007.Lived: 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now eastern China.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Feb 22, 2022 14:06:10 GMT
Looks like little baby hands but I still wouldn't mess with it. What gets me about Abelisaurids is why they had arms at all since the arms were completely immobile. The fingers didn't even have claws. What's the point of having arms if you can't use them? We may have stumbled upon an evolutionary cul-de-sac. Like other individuals, not all dinosaur species were probably fitted with optimal properties and their kin might have died out in a relaively short time as the result of others being fitter to survive. |
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Post by Joey12 on Feb 23, 2022 5:40:17 GMT
Beats me unless they were either just starting to form arms or get rid of them altogether.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Feb 23, 2022 9:19:11 GMT
Today's entry is the largest-known Jurassic pterosaur: Name: Dearc Pronunciation: JarkMeaning of name: "Reptile"Species: D. sgiathanachWingspan: Estimated to have measured up to 3.8 metresFamily: RhamphorhynchidaeDiet: PiscivoreFirst fossils found: Known only from a single, almost complete skeleton thought to belong to either a juvenile or a sub-adult, discovered by Amelia Penny in the Lealt Shale Formation on the the Isle of Skye, northwest Scotland. Named by Natalia Jagielska, Michael O’Sullivan, Gregory F. Funston in 2022.Lived: 168.3 to 166.1 million years ago during the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic in what is now northwest Scotland.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Feb 23, 2022 16:21:34 GMT
The stuff of a real life scary movie!  |
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Post by Joey12 on Feb 24, 2022 6:41:54 GMT
It would scare me if it flew over.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Feb 24, 2022 9:47:42 GMT
Name: DsungaripterusPronunciation: Sung-ah-rip-teh-rusMeaning of name: "Junggar Basin wing", after the place where its fossils were discovered.Species: D. weii Wingspan: Estimated to have measured between 3 and 3.5 metresFamily: DsungaripteridaeDiet: ShellfishFirst fossils found: Known from a partial skeleton and some almost-complete skulls discovered in the Junggar Basin of northwest China. Named by Chinese palaeontologist, Yang Zhongjian, in 1964.Lived: 140 to 100.5 million years ago from the Berriasian stage through to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now northwest China. D. weii skull at the Paleozoological Museum of China
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Post by Tix Mascot on Feb 24, 2022 14:45:00 GMT
Was this also a flying creature?
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Feb 25, 2022 0:55:36 GMT
Was this also a flying creature? Yes, this one is a Pterosaur |
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Feb 25, 2022 8:34:08 GMT
Name: KentrosaurusPronunciation: Ken-tro-saw-rusMeaning of name: "Pointed lizard"Species: K. aethiopicusSize: Between 4.5 and 5.5 metres long, 2 metres tall and weighing between 1 and 1.5 metric tonnes.Family: StegosauridaeDiet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.First fossils found: Known from several specimens, the first of which was discovered by the German Tendaguru Expedition to Tanzania, East Africa, in 1909. Named by German palaeontologist, Edwin Hennig, in 1915. Soon after its description, a controversy arose over the name, which is very similar to the ceratopsian, Centrosaurus. However, due to different spelling, Kentrosaurus remains the valid name.Lived: 157.3 to 152.1 million years ago during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic in what is now East Africa. Kentrosaurus skeleton on display at the Natural History Museum, Berlin
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Post by Tix Mascot on Feb 25, 2022 14:27:13 GMT
Strange combination of a small head and long peaks.
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