Posted on 11/04/2017 7:12:50 PM PDT by ETL
A monstrous, meat-eating flying reptile that had a wingspan of a small airplane, could walk on all fours and stalked its prey on land has been found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.
Fortunately for us humans, who would have made for a delightful midday snack, this pterosaur is dead. Long dead. Seventy million years dead.
With an approximately 36-foot wingspan, “It might have been this quite robust, formidable predator,” Mark Witton, an expert on pterosaurs at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., told National Geographic. “They seem to be feeding on things on the ground and are generalist in their ability to grab basically whatever they can fit in their beaks.”
Thankfully, that didn’t include humans, who weren’t around at the time. Scientists think this pterosaur had to settle for a diet of little dinosaurs. ..."
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Interesting issue regarding blood flow to the brain in a giraffe due to its very long neck.
This dinosaur would have similar issues, I would think.
Here is an example article:
https://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/for-giraffes-blood-circulation-is-a-tall-order/
That is pretty amazing with Earth only being about 4,000 years old and flat and all.
And while I don’t doubt that there used to be monsters stalking Earth prior to Martians landing here and colonizing Earth and cloning the Martian version of George Washington, et al, this stuff still makes my head hurt.
Another Caddis Fly hatch on the Missouri.
Takes a real man to cast a fly like that.
Good drawing of Vin Diesel!
If I had to guess I’d say warm blooded.
Yes, it’s an excellent introduction to geologic time.
Good find! You are on a roll with these graphics.
Yeah, interesting thought! :)
The question is....white meat, or dark?
Well you can tell the way I use my walk...
LOL! Perfect.
LOL. Only on free republic do we see such things.
Truly spectacular.
Lol! Took me a moment, but I figured it out!
Lol! Love that! I’ve had a smaller version of it that I’ve posted on FR a bunch of times. Think I’ll steal this one for the future! :) That is, unless it’s yours?
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