Post paleoart and cordially discuss paleoart.>But I want to seethe and shit myself over feathers/lips/China/the CIA/religion/that one guy>But I want to seethe and shit myself over the people seething and shitting themselves over feathers/lips/China/the CIA/religion/that one guyNo. Post paleoart and cordially discuss paleoart.
>>5117572[spoiler]feathers[/spoiler]
Rare featherless Alioramus art.
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>>5117591>The third metatarsal of tyrannosaurids, including in the very largest forms, was pinched at the top between the second and fourth, forming a structure known as the arctometatarsus that aided in energy conservation and, in smaller forms, increased speed.[1] The arctometatarsus was also present in Appalachiosaurus[8] but it is unclear whether it was found in Eotyrannus[5] or Dryptosaurus.[16] This structure was shared by derived ornithomimids, troodontids and caenagnathids,[17] but was not present in basal tyrannosauroids like Dilong paradoxus, indicating convergent evolution.[2]Can somebody explain to me like I'm brain dead why "tyrannosauroidea" is a valid clade and why we know all of its members were even coelurosaurs?
>>5117609When did leopard seals and equines ever interact?
>>5118154Apparently they found a leopard seal tooth from a Pleistocene age site alongside the normal African wildlife and I don't think you could mistake these for anything else
>>5117906>Can somebody explain to me like I'm brain dead why "tyrannosauroidea" is a valid cladeIt ain't. Tyrannosaurids being coelurosaurs is pure chinktroon propaganda trying to force feathers on T. rex.Link related:https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70085 Proceratosaurids, including Dilong,Tanylogreus (and presumably also Yutyrannus, the potential sister taxon of and nearly identical to the unambiguous proceratosaurid Sinotyrannus, included), are early-diverging maniraptoromorphs outside Tyrannosauroidea and eutyrannosaurs are consistently paired with Megaraptora, Labocania and formerly thought as "unambiguous derived carcharodontosaurids" like Shaochilong.
>>5118973I look like this and do this.
>>5117609absurdist kino
>>5118869What would the point of this even be though? Even the "featherfags" don't actually argue for the existence of pennaceous feathers outside pennaraptora, no? Even a cassowary has more complex feathers than an ornithomimosaur would have. Arguing shit like feathers being ancestral to avemetatarsalia because of pycnofibres is just retard shit. Is there any reason for the propaganda angle of featherfaggotry other than publishing go brrrr?
>>5118973For anyone wondering the logic behind this>Remains of its small wings were incomplete and fragmentary but had seemingly unusual joints, with what looked like a stiffer wrist and more flexible “fingers” than other birds, which led paleontologist Robert Chandler to propose in 1994 that this terror bird species had modified its wings into clawed grasping arms.>Further investigation in 2005 showed that Titanis‘ arms weren’t that weird after all – the same sort of joints are found in terror birds’ closest living relatives, the seriemas.
>>5119401Plain demoralisation for subversion. Like the destruction of the 4 Olds or the 4 Pests campaign a "revolutionary" does not need a logically consistent motive for the abolishment of tradition, just that it is being replaced with something new, The more unconventional and more absurd the new thing is the better as it further degrades established social cohesion and the more it demonstrates ideological zeal for the "revolution".
we love paleoart
>tfw no neanderthal gf
Proboscideans are so nifty.
>>5121536The thumbnail made me think this was a single absolute monstrosity
>>5121506You can get with a redhead, that's the second best option
>>5121583I just really like Pelagornis, okay?
nice children picture book pics.
>>5121587>>5121590You just KNOW people would absolutely hate these if they were still alive today. The seagulls do not need pseudoteeth.
>we missed out on gorilla lemursIt's not fair bros...
>>5117573Kino
