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rinselberg
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JAN 17, 05:32 AM
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OldsFiero
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JAN 17, 07:04 AM
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cvxjet
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JAN 17, 12:18 PM
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Quetzalcoatl was the biggest (Known) Pterosaur.....I would really like to see a living specimen of one of these- from behind a glass wall!
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Australian
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JAN 18, 03:02 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by cvxjet:
Quetzalcoatl was the biggest (Known) Pterosaur.....I would really like to see a living specimen of one of these- from behind a glass wall!
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The days of the zoo would be over if they could put animals back into wild as pretty sure you can't go catch an animal for the zoo. I don't think it will happen reanimating animals for a public show but we know it goes on with cloning.
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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JAN 18, 04:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cvxjet:
Quetzalcoatl was the biggest (Known) Pterosaur.....I would really like to see a living specimen of one of these- from behind a glass wall!
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They would be cool. They should maybe make a movie about that maybe. 
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cvxjet
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JAN 18, 09:42 PM
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I have been working on a scifi story since I was in my teens (Back in another Century (Yikes) One of the crazy ideas I had was a kid talking to his Grandfather and asking "You mean zoos used to just have regular animals- not prehistoric creatures? That would be boring!"
When I read Jurassic Park back in 1991, I was really impressed with the idea of getting DNA from insects trapped in amber- Michael Crighton was not the originator of this idea- He had read some articles by a scientist (George Poinar, Jr.) who actually came up with the concept with his wife.
One thing I realized while watching Jurassic Park was that you should NEVER re-create creatures that can FLY- they can then get out and cause havoc. Truthfully, a few bullets from a large "Big Game" gun would take any (Land-based) dinosaur down relatively easily...
Some of the best Dino simulations in a movie before JP was in an obscure movie; The Valley of Gwangi (They Rope an Alosaurus)
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Jonesy
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JAN 19, 09:08 AM
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Funny, i just watched a little mini-doc on youtube about these guys about a week ago.
Very interesting animals, would be scary as all hell to see one fly over your house.
Its amazing how big animals grew to be back then. I guess a big reason was the oxygen count in the atmosphere back then was much denser than today, allowing animals to grow to just large sizes.
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Patrick
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JAN 20, 12:12 AM
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I was experimenting with an AI photo program a couple months back, and just for fun I had converted a friend's photo of an American Bittern to... well, to whatever the flying reptile is that's being discussed here in this thread. 
Original photo....
AI (Stable Diffusion) generated image...
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Patrick
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JAN 22, 07:46 PM
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