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| Jump Start. How the biggest-ever flying animal got airborne. New fossil evidence. (Page 2/4) |
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williegoat
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DEC 14, 04:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 2.5:
The real question is, do they have large talons? |
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I just want to know if they have tasty drumsticks.
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cvxjet
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DEC 14, 06:50 PM
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There was someone who had built a model of a pterosaur that flew via flapping it's wings- to test HOW it actually flew..........Quetzalcoatlus was
gigantic....Even on the ground it would have me setting speed records running from it!
 [This message has been edited by cvxjet (edited 12-14-2021).]
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steve308
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DEC 14, 07:26 PM
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Taste like chicken I presume.
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MidEngineManiac
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DEC 14, 09:03 PM
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<sigh>
I guess this means I gotta spend money on a new saddle. Again.
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Valkrie9
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DEC 14, 11:09 PM
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Patrick
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DEC 15, 12:17 AM
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From my favorite cartoon as a kid... Jonny Quest, dating back to '64. Great sound effects!
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maryjane
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DEC 15, 10:38 AM
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| quote | | I was reading that even this biggest of the pterosaurs would perceive a human as too large for a prey item. An infant human, likely, but you or I would not look like food to this species. It doesn't have teeth. That huge beak is being likened to a giant pair of chopsticks. So they're looking for critters that they can snag with that beak and gobble down whole, without biting or chewing the prey into smaller parts to swallow. |
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Neither do owls, hawks, eagles or other large predators and those don't woof down their prey whole either. Teeth don't matter, talons do.
You've evidently never seen a hawk or owl kill and eat a full grown chicken that is nearly as large as themselves. Eagles kill lambs all the time.
(Owls by the way, usually only eat the heads of chickens. So do raccoons)
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun. The frumious Bandersnatch!"
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rinselberg
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DEC 15, 11:27 AM
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Reading between the lines (perhaps) of whatever article I was reading, I think the latest fossils-based evidence on the big pterosaur's morphology and physiology infers that this species did not have the same possibility of eagles and hawks and other birds of prey that can tear their prey apart with their talons.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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DEC 15, 11:50 AM
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Nope... don't like any of this. I'm a big guy, and I know a lion can take me out, but part of me still feels like I can at least put up a fight. With something like that... I'm just an insect.
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Steel
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DEC 15, 11:55 AM
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The bird dino knew ice was heavier than water, clearly.
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