Where are my new dino games?

There is no fucking way something like that existed. They either mismatched bones again or put it together wrong. Or it was purely aquatic, if it did exist.

Pterosaurs - even large ones - presumably were very capable fliers. The difficulty in flight is getting airborne, and in birds the initial push has to come from the leg muscles (which don't assist in flight and are just dead weight there). Pterosaurs, in contrast, could use their strong flight muscles for the maneuver, which allowed them to get much bigger. Bats, well, don't even have pneumatic skeleton.

It could glide.

Which was the best

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Dinostorm mmo is the best game and absolutey garbage game, love it

I think the big issue people have with believing that it can fly is that its head it too large in comparison to the rest of its body.

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I'd imagine it was mostly pneumatic and consequently, far lighter than it looks.

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Obviously Lost World, whole scene in the field is Kino

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this video gives me vertigo

If this animal (which is a reptile, not a dinosaur), really existed that way, then its beak should be extremely light, more or less like toucan beaks.

3 looks the best. The vibrant colours are great

Holy shit, I hope some alien has documented ancient life on planet earth so we can laugh at this kind of retarded video.

You do realize it's a hatchling? Due to scaling issues, there's effectively a cap in how large eggs and be, and even the largest dino hatchlings would have been 4 or 5 kilos, tops.

They weren't THAT big lmao

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The fact that the larger Magyarosauruses do absolutely nothing about them is silly.
Small Sauropods they may be, but they were still above a ton.

Why is it that when people draw dinos with feathers they cover them head to toe in the things?

What are the evolutionary advantages to having a head that's larger than your body?

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they didn't weigh that much at all, like there are healthy people who would weigh more than it

Was the T-rex really that fast?

...Yes they were? Even by the conservative estimates, Hatzegopteryx made Magyarosaurus look small in comparison(though the small sauropods were still heavier).

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it just needs to not be a disadvantage

Firstly, because whenever there's been direct evidence of distribution of feathers (down, fuzz, whatever, for most clades) of feathered species within tyrannoraptora/coelurosauria, it is from head to toe. For example, the largest known definitely feathered species, Yutyrannus at some 2 tons, was like that. Secondly, they don't: for example, even before Bell et al. (2017) paper, the latest reconstructions of Tyrannosaurus for example typically portrayed it with "a cape" of fluff on its back (a reconstruction that actually wasn't even contradicted by this emerging evidence, but it shifted interpretations towards not portraying them with any, or extremely limited, fluff).

>Secondly, they don't
Did you watch the webm? Niggasaurus is wearing a pimp coat of feathers

It just looks weird because those plants look like poorly rendered trees.

It's all hollow. Hollow beak, hollow bones, etc.

>peerj.com/articles/3420/
It does not seem fully grown Tyrannosaurs were particularly fast. Still quite possible that the the adolescents were significantly faster.
How are the theories about the Rex hunting in packs doing these days? Might have been that the younger members hunted quicker prey down, and the fully grown adults delivered the killing blows.

The legs, the belly, the base of the tail, snout, all seem pretty scaly to me. Besides, I wasn't thinking of that video or any other particular reconstruction. Just pointing out that a trendy T. Rex reconstruction in 2017 was far from entirely covered in feathers as it was (although some were more extensively fluffy). Now, due to this new evidence, they tend to be portrayed naked. Well, at least based on paleoart I tend to see (I follow a number of blogs from professional paleontologists).

>Dragons
Umnngh, heh, you silly child, tis merely a fairytale, giant beasts roaming the earth, how quaint
>Dinosaurs
Heehee yep that one's definitely real because this book says so, dinosaurs were big n cool and they look like my yummy nummy crackers

The Isle is pretty fun and chill, so far anyway I just got it a few days ago. They're remaking the game or some shit "soon" and I hope it works out.

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that's a based looking creature

In my understanding tyrannosaurids (the whole clade, not just Rex) underwent substantial morphological changes as they matured. Juveniles were agile and quick, and adults fearsomely powerful: this presumably allowed them not to have to compete on the same prey, one of the reasons for the group being so successful.

keep jerking off to jewish fairy tales

>science isn't jewish fairy tales
lmao

Well, toucans use their beaks to shed excess heat so that's one possible reason, although one unlikely to apply to Azhdarchids. I believe the most common interpretation is stork-like lifestyle in which they pick all kinds of small (relative to their own size of course) prey, and big head on top of long neck might have allowed them to do so without walking too close disturbing their quarry. Or perhaps reach deeper into water. Or something like that: to my understanding the actual answer is "nobody knows", but there are plenty of reasonable hypothesis.

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call me when a complete dragon skeleton is found

Dino Crisis is one of the IP that capcom just renew the copyright last year

you know, despite being a generic rexfag, I like that people main all sorts of dinosaurs. just like with clothes, cars, food, etc, there's something for everyone.

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I'm curious how paleontologist know when something is a different dinosaur when there are babies that could be 100x smaller like for long neck dinosaurs. wouldn't their bones change dramatically as they get older?

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They actually don't. It's all educated guesses, but a number of dinosaurs have arguments about whether it's a unique species or an age cycle of another. Nanotyrannus and Stygimoloch I think are the 2 big ones I remember.

Chickens can fly you stupid cunt. Only the hideously genetically modified "meat birds" can't fly at all

Prehistoric Kingdom is shaping up to become the management game of my dreams. If they ever release it, that is...

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I'm not a paleontologist so I can't provide a complete answer but for one thing, there tends not to be multiple species occupying the same ecological niche in the same geographical area at the same time (not for long, anyway, one would be competed out and go either extinct, or adapt to a different niche). For example, there's plenty of really big titanosaurian sauropods species, but was there other species than Alamosaurus at the end of the Cretaceous in North America? Not to my knowledge at least, so supposing you identify a hatchling as "titanosaurus" based on some characteristic feature of the skeleton, the fact that you found it in North-America in rock formation that formed 66Ma ago, would narrow the list of possible suspects to one. Now, I don't know how you would distinguish a titanosaurus from some other sauropod clades, but presumably there are some features that would be consistent even in babbies.

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>a post this coherent and well thought out on an /an/ based thread on Yas Forums on a Monday night
You're too good for this board.

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One of the most important things to learn about a new person you meet is what their favorite dino is

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>you can't fabricate a skeleton
lmao

For me, it's the common raven. For non-avian dinosaurs, I guess I would have to go with ankylosaurus.

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