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Rhamphorhynchus muensteriby *tranimation-art

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Rhamphorhynchus muensteri ("beak snout") is a Jurassic pterosaur with a relatively short wingspan of a 1.26 metres (4.1 feet) at its known largest and a corresponding small triangular sternum, where the flight muscles attached, and a long tail, stiffened with ligaments, which ended in a characteristic diamond-shaped vane. It had an elongated skull, and a pair of long, powerful forward-curving heterodont teeth on the upper and lower jaws, which would have been perfect for seizing and holding slippery fish, that "intermeshed" when the jaws closes — twenty teeth in the upper jaws and fourteen teeth in the lower jaws. Heterodont dentition is rare among modern reptiles but is more common among primitive ones, like pterosaurs. It lacks any bony or soft tissue crest, as seen in several species of contemporary small pterodactyloids, and is possibly nocturnal due to its extremely large eyes.

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*bcbdrums Jan 4, 2010

yay dinosaur

i've always been fascinated by the diversity in these creatures... i wonder how this guy managed to fly in the thin atmosphere of the earth, with his body size and stuff... that is of course, thin atmosphere in the evolution theory. Creationism gives a denser atmosphere for early earth that would have accomodated this guy well

*tranimation-art Jan 7, 2010 Professional Filmographer

Actually, the oxygen was denser back in prehistoric times. That's why insects were so gigantic at the time, like dragonflies as large as ducks. The thicker and denser the oxygen, the larger the insects. So this little guy had plenty of oxygen. Also, he fed on fish and lived near oceans, so wind currents were in its favour, which require very little energy to fly. They just kinda FLOAT along with the wind, like a seagull.

*bcbdrums Jan 8, 2010

lol, floating dinosaur

so what inspired you to draw this guy, hm~?
i'd like to see a giant insect

i wonder how amazing humans would feel, breathing denser oxygen...

*tranimation-art Jan 8, 2010 Professional Filmographer

I was doodling. I've always wanted to be a paleoartist when I was young; in fact, I still do. I always wanted to give life to these creatures that don't exist anymore, because they're not able to anymore, have them used in museums and textbooks, but my biology grades were awful and that dream was shattered.

I would love to see a giant dragonfly... I'm tired of the giant cockroaches. (SMASH!)

*bcbdrums Jan 14, 2010

ahh.... yeah, i've always been fascinated by dinosaurs and the like. and that's a great dream of giving them life, especially since they're not treated right in education today... there's a PBS kid's show called dinosaur train, where some pteranadons adopted a baby t-rex, and each episode they time travel to visit other dinosaurs. but, it's not really about dinosaurs, it's about non-discrimination, political correctness, going green, and all that jazz that the world seems to obsess about today...

lol xD i want to see grass taller than me

*tranimation-art Jan 14, 2010 Professional Filmographer

I've seen that show! It's a good show. The animation is pretty bad though. It makes me twitch, but I like the morality tales they give kids. I haven't seen something like that in a long while.

Actually, what's interest is in the prehistoric Mesozoic era, grass hasn't evolved yet. There was no grass at the time. They're were trees, shrubs, and furns, but no grass. Grass didn't come to be until the Pliocene. .....Wow, I just realize completely nerdy I sound.

*MouseAvenger Dec 27, 2009 Hobbyist Filmographer

Oh, one of my favorite flying prehistoric critters!

Nice drawing! ^_^

*tranimation-art Dec 27, 2009 Professional Filmographer

Thanks! Appreciate it! Pterosaurs are such fun to draw...

*MouseAvenger Dec 27, 2009 Hobbyist Filmographer

You're welcome.

~Anebrd Dec 24, 2009

vicious looking!

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