A commission by WEZDARCHID, showcasing the primitive ornithocheiroid Piksi barbarulna and the more derived Pteranodon longiceps. A study shows that toothed ornithocheiroids retained arboreal habits, while derived toothless pteranodontians were terrestrial. This has quite the amount of implications for their ecologies; maybe some classical “piscivorous” pterosaurs were actually aerial hawk like predators, while pteranodontids may not have been able to perch on cliffs as commonly depicted (unless maybe flat cliff tops?)
>>5125971Okay.
>>5125971autism spotted
>>5125971Were backgrounds extra or what
>>5126054They were deemed expendable
>>5125971I think it's worth noting that the guy who commissioned this is the same guy who pushes his crack headcanon of Ichthyoconodon (and Volaticotherini in general) being capable of true powered flight instead of just gliding like a couple of the most complete members suggest. I'd take this with a big fuckin' grain of salt
>>5126270https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01226-0
