... Ahh, I already replied in part, but you should check out Mambo-Bob's website. http://mambobob-raptorsnest.blogspot.com/ If you go back a few pages, he...
... with ... do ... anything ... Its pretty much an ibis like azhdarchid (which evolved after rocs took over Africa) and a colourfull anurognathid with purple...
... I thought the toth was fine. I doubt an anurognathid would be that brightly-colored however. Modern aerial-feeding insectivores (bats, swallows, swifts)...
I read a particular topic in which the present paleognath groups in Spec, rocs and gobblers, might become gruiformes and anseriformes respectively, and...
... Hmmmm. But why would a burrowing mammal suddenly climb? Weren't the common ancestors of wombats and koalas simply terrestrial? ... IMNSHO it's not even...
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Oct 8, 2008 9:47 pm
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... Eucalyptus is canon -- and the absence of a koala analogue in Australia is _also_ canon! Instead, there's the giant chimerasaur (with the oily poo that ...
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Oct 8, 2008 9:55 pm
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... I really didn't want to save the chimerasaurs, considering we have similar creatures on other continents (segnos, strek, chonchon, etc), and they need to...
... Can we have that it *uses* wasps by simply being attractive to them, via chemoreception, and the wasps simply collecting this pheremone. Generally being...
... I still can't see how that could evolve either. ... Must be because they live in rain- and similar forests. ... Not at those body sizes!...
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Oct 9, 2008 9:05 am
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... I only find them interesting *because* they have no feathers, maybe we can have a Hoatzin-theropod, or an homage to the idea that Deinochierus was a...
... And at that kind of body size, it's entirely possible they have no feathers. ... No. ... Not either. If you want a sloth-like clade of carpos, be my guest...
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Oct 9, 2008 10:21 am
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... Maybe it has naked patches of skin which generate some sort of sweat and/or pus which attracts wasps? I could see some form of commmensal relationship...
... True, but that's just the face, not the entire animal. There's plenty of examples of otherwise bland-looking animals (anoles, mandrill, or turkey for...
... feathers. Hrrm, that's true. I assume the young would have to be feathered up to a certain age however. ... I don't have huge issues with the arbros. I...
... It's not a mammal, so it doesn't normally do anything similar. ... Sure. ... Perhaps it was able to fold the feathers away or something. I don't think ...
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Oct 9, 2008 8:59 pm
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Oops, sent that too early. ... I don't remember much. That's what bobunk is all about. :-) I remember a beautiful picture of an orange one sitting in a tree...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 9, 2008 9:05 pm
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... Drat, forgot somehow sauropsids don't have glandular skin. ... I thought I saw a rather plausible argument online a year or so ago that the feathers would...
... I only opened it because of Darren's recent post. I really wish I hadn't, as I spent approximately an hour trying to come up with a sensible phylogenic...
... It makes a lot of aerodynamic sense, but I don't think the fossils rule anything out. ... Brian's style is not hyperrealistic at all. (He once complained...
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Oct 9, 2008 9:47 pm
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... I don't know much about lithornids, however, i do know a lot of the stork/secretary bird niches will be filled by azdharchids...
... half of ... realistic ... obvious ... comparable ... nonavian ... I agree sprawling limbs are possible among dinosaurs (hespornithids anyone?) let's not...
... I've seen perenties climb, I've heard of small turtles climbing I usually prove you wrong with this sort of thing. Most of all, I think you underestimate...
... Yeah, flipping back through the pages again, I didn't realize how little artwork was done by Brian. That said, he did some really amazing color pictures...
