"...Pterosaurs were probably as hyperactive and energetic as modern birds and mammals, and nothing like the slow, laboured gliders they were once thought to be. Far from being scary, scaly beasts, pterosaurs would have been warm, soft to the touch and eminently strokable. Pet stores would be lining up to sell smaller pterosaur species – some with wingspans of under 50cm – if they were still around today...."
1 posted on
08/12/2013 8:30:34 AM PDT by
Renfield
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
08/12/2013 8:30:52 AM PDT by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
I’m just grateful that cows don’t fly!
3 posted on
08/12/2013 8:34:34 AM PDT by
kenavi
(Debunk THIS!)
To: Renfield
And they could be used as record player needles.
4 posted on
08/12/2013 8:35:37 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
To: Renfield
They had teeth. Birds don’t have teeth.
To: Renfield
Wow. Thanks for the article and link.
7 posted on
08/12/2013 8:41:38 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: Renfield
Judging by what I found on my freshly-washed car this weekend, they are still around.
To: Renfield
Far from being scary, scaly beasts, pterosaurs would have been warm, soft to the touch and eminently strokable. The critters sound downright cuddly...
10 posted on
08/12/2013 8:52:55 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Renfield
11 posted on
08/12/2013 8:55:36 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: Renfield
its a MAGICAL liopleurodon...
12 posted on
08/12/2013 9:00:36 AM PDT by
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
To: Renfield
We have a lot of great blue heron rookeries in the woods where we ride horses. Their loud, deep throated ork sounds and low flight over head remind me of the pterosaurs.
To: Renfield
Obligatory 6kyo dim bulb post:
If they were so cuddly why didn’t Noah let them on the ark?
17 posted on
08/12/2013 10:55:33 AM PDT by
GraceG
To: Renfield
Goblins are scary!
18 posted on
08/12/2013 10:57:35 AM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Renfield
Imagine what the big ones could do.
20 posted on
08/12/2013 4:05:35 PM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Fight the culture of nothing.)
To: Renfield
Reappraisals of pterosaur trackways and limb joints in the 1980s and 90s finally laid parts of the controversy to rest, confidently demonstrating that pterosaurs walked on four limbs held almost vertically beneath the body. This energy-efficient stance is reminiscent of the limb carriage in most birds and mammals, rather than the sprawled limbs of modern reptiles.
Four legged birds?
22 posted on
08/13/2013 8:33:43 PM PDT by
Eaker
(Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein.)
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