Pterosaur thread
>>5083373
>>5083373No awe for the first and largest animals that ever fkew?
Soooo... what is the point of this?
>>5083387Sexual display
>>5083387Stylin' on crestlets
>>5083387Cocky scientists not so cocky when it's time to give a huge sail to that huge crest
>>5083392giwtwm
>>5083396Actually the smooth bone of the crest indicates it probably didn't have a sail
I want to see these fellas back Jurassic Park style more than dinosaurs. Absolutely bizarre creatures.
>>5083446same
>>5083380Slow board please understand.Also most people don't even bother with paleo threads anymore because they know the two schizos are going to ruin it anyway
>>5083503I hope that doesn't happen here. Most schizos are about dinosaurs
>>5083380>first
>>5084153Okay, first vertebrates to fly
>>5084153insect nigger
These guys look like they'd fall over.
>>5084684It's the magic of having a lightweight skull. Plus a recent study indicates it might have had aerodynamic advantages
>>5083373You should watch Pterosauric planet 1 and 2.
Something I think about sometimes with pic related is if they kept evolving like primates until large, ground-dwelling pterosaurs like gorillas or bipedal pterosaurs carrying tools that eventually built their own civilizations like humans became a thing. We could've lived in the pongodactyl timeline.
>>5083446If we could bring back any single creature, other than Deinonychus, I think I'd like to see hatzegopteryx or another large azdarchid. I would love seeing these guys on every coastline
>>5087205Indeed. The only speculative evolution work with that seems to be Kaimere's tapejarids
>>5083373i love dinosaurs
>>5090079not dinosaurs
>>5090995They are
>>5084153"Coincidence? I think not."
>>5083373me and my foid (she doesn't exist)
>>5090995They're big lizards. Same difference really.
>>5090079>>5090995>>5091050>>5092177barely related schizo tangent: I personally believe the current theories of pterosaur origin are complete bull, with scleromoclus being an awful model for flight in pterosaurs. To that end, it would also imply we're not really sure where they fit in avemetatarsalia. I personally would not be surprised if it turned out they actually WERE some early offshoot of dinosaurs. Hell, people have been considering Silesaurs as possibly being Dinosaurs recently, so shakeups of early archosaur relations are not unheard of. I look forward to it.
