#nyctosaur

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Results from yesterday’s flocking paleostream

We have Mobulavermis eating a lancelet

A baby saltasaurus stuck in the ground

A Simurghia (my idea) family witnessing the first steps of their newest relative

Psilopterus and baby

Unfortunately I couldn’t capture the absolute skrunk of baby seriemas in the baby psilopterus

I mean look at these guys

#paleostream #flocking #seriema #mobulavermis #saltasaurus #Simurghia #psilopterus #sauropod #pterosaur #nyctosaur #terror bird #phorusrhachids #dunno how to pronounce that #bird #baby #paleoart

[harpagornis]

Artsvi tsnonter

#pterosaur #speculative evolution #speculative biology #speculative zoology #nyctosaurid #nyctosaur

[vickysaurus]

Took a bunch of Prehistoric Planet screenshots to use as wallpapers. Be sure to open them at their full resolution if you wanna use them!

#prehistoric planet #wallpaper #as you can tell by all these being from episodes 1 and 2 #there's several more of these posts coming up in the queue #dinosaur #dreadnoughtus #titanosaur #sauropod #velociraptor #dromaeosaur #theropod #tuarangisaurus #elasmosaur #plesiosaur #ammonite #cw: animal death #barbaridactylus #nyctosaur #pterosaur #tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurid

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream! Shamosuchus, Collignoniceras, Kuru and a Horizon nyctosaurs (plus launch ship) for @glaucophane (people who buy our graphic novel can get a wish on the stream)

Bonus night shot of the Horizon machines

#sciart #paleoart #paleostream #palaeoblr #cretaceous #dinosaur #dinosaurs #crocodile #shamosuchus #kuru #prehistoric planet #horizon zero dawn #horizon fanart #ammonite

[lowcountry-gothic]

Paleoart by ​Júlia d'Oliveira.

Provelosaurus, a Brazilian pareiasaurid reptile from the Permian period.

Kariridraco dianae, a new species of pterosaur from Araripe Basin, Brazil.

Therezinosaurus.

Waxing Crescent. Tupuxuara landing at nightfall. 

Waxing Gibbous: A Tupandactylus navigans couple flying over the Crato landscape.

Nyctosaur in the rain

A quick art of the newly described Tupandactylus navigans specimen.

Kurupi itaata, a newly described abelisaurid from the Late Cretaceous Marília Formation.

Afternoon at the beach. Inspired by a visit to a beach and the Kem Kem beds fauna.

Full moon at dawn. Caiuajaras singing a forgotten song as the moon sets and the sun rises.

#art #júlia d'oliveira #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #provelosaurus #kariridraco #therezinosaurus #tupuxuara #tupandactylus #nyctosaurus #kurupi #caiuajaras #paleoart

[artvianblog]

Day 16: Nyctosaurus gracilis

Nyctosaurus' head often gets reconstructed with a soft tissue frill resembling a sail, but there's more evidence that said structure didn't exist.

Although, a bunch of frilled nyctosaurs sitting on the ocean would look like toy sailboats and that's fun to think about.

#dinovember 2023 #dinovember #pterosaur #paleoblr #nyctosaurus

[dinosly]

Western Interior Seaway Tales Part 2

While escaping the Arctic, the lone Pteranodon and the following flock of Nyctosaurs inadvertently run into an electrical storm. There are some casualties. The piece not only depicts the Nyctosaurus' head crests acting like a lightning rod, but also them using the "flying V formation".

#palaeoblr #paleoart #paleontology #illustration #art #sciart #pterasaur #pteranodon #nyctosaurus #cretaceous period #lightning

[eeios]

Big commissions ahead! Two flying reptiles on Alsatian monuments from @jesuisbetejesuispatissiere for @coffee-without-a-pause ‘s birthday ! Happy birthdayyyy !!

🇺🇸 A Nyctosaurus on Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle and a Tapejara on Strasbourg’s Cathedral, as a bit of a following to my Dino Alsace illustrations !

🇫🇷 Un Nyctosaure sur le Haut-Koenigsbourg et un Tapejara sur la Cathédrale de Strasbourg, pour suivre mes illustration Dino Alsace!

Kofi || Commissions  

#paleoart #paleoblr #upthebaguette #alsace #commission #commission open #Illustration #artists on tumblr #france #haut koenigsbourg #castle #strasbourg #cathedral

[doorbloggr]

Saturday 4/6/22 - Media Recommendations #34

These past few years have been an exciting time for paleo nerds. The revival of the Jurassic franchise has renewed the public's interest in dinosaurs, and new paleontological discoveries such as the revamping of Spinosaurus, and new understandings of behaviour, integument, and taxonomy are coming out every few months.

But there's this disconnect between what the general public thinks of dinosaurs, and what experts and enthusiasts (like myself) understand. Once upon a time, dinosaur nature documentaries were all the rage. Walking With Dinosaurs was a cultural cornerstone of the turn of the century, but it has been a while since any Dino Doco has had anywhere near the same success.

Fast forward to 2022, and Apple TV presents a BBC series in the style of Planet Earth and Blue Planet, but with dinosaurs, called Prehistoric Planet. And I loved it.

Prehistoric Planet

BBC / Jon Favreau / Mike Gunton

The Pitch

Prehistoric Planet is a 5-part nature documentary, each episode about 45 minutes long. Unlike Walking With Dinosaurs, which explored habitats and species across the Mesozoic period, Prehistoric Planet focuses in on the end of the Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago.

Each episode explores biodiversity in a specific type of habitat;

Coasts

Deserts

Freshwater

Ice World

Forests

Rather than follow a group of animals in one specific locale, each episode will jump around different locations around the world that match the episode's theme. Episode 2 for example gives an insight into deserts in South America, North Africa, and East Asia. This formula allows the documentary team to discuss various species from all across the world.

There's fantastic variety in the species chosen to focus in each episode. With the dinosaurs, of course they have to discuss mainstream fan favourites like Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Velociraptor. But they also discuss species not as well known to the public like Nanuqsaurus, Antarctopelta, and even dinosaurs I hadn't heard of until now, like Zalmoxes.

Something I have seen discussed as somewhat unique to this series, is the spotlight on non-dinosaur animals from this period. Plesiosaurs, frogs, primitive birds, Mosasaurs, Ammonites, and most of all, Pterosaurs. Pterosaurs get a great amount of focus in multiple episodes, and from a variety of groups within Pterosauria; aerial expert Nyctosaurs, impressively decorated Pteranodontids, and the gigantic stalking Azdarchids.

And I can't believe I haven't mentioned it yet, but the documentary is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and that just ties together the whole package.

My Thoughts

As a fan of anything with David Attenborough, this was an immediate sell for me. The tenderness and wonder in David's voice as he details the mundane and exciting of these extinct animals holds your attention firmly.

The special effects used to create the illusion of these animals interacting with their world is stunning; water splashes and flows as animals move through it, snow and sand shifts against them, leaves are brushed aside. It's expertly done.

Every behaviour and design aspect of the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the animals they live with is called against direct fossil evidence and further inferred from behaviour and physiology in living animals. Even the most speculative aspects of their design have roots in actual zoology.

Each of the 45 minute episodes are accompanied with a 5 minute behind-the-scenes clip, where palaeontologists who were consulted for the project explain how all decisions made were steeped deeply in real science. These were once living things on this planet, and the way they are depicted, and described by David Attenborough, illustrates this fact.

That last part is probably my favourite aspect of this documentary series, that the dinosaurs and other creatures are treated like animals. They were not blood thirsty monsters that would stop at nothing short of absolute bloodshed. They had families, they would back off if there was too much danger, they were curious about their environment.

It's a shame that dinosaurs have become little more than movie monsters in the eye of today's public, because as Prehistoric Planet shows us, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and all extinct animals were living things, and they were extraordinary.

Credit to tumblr user @bluedaddysgirl for all the gifs used in this post

#blog #blogpost #palaeontology #dinosaurs #media recommendations #apple tv #documentary recommendations #prehistoric planet #david attenborough

[fleebites]

‪✨🖤💛dinosaur gallery🖤💛✨‬

prints (large and mini!) available in my store!

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#paleontology #paleo art #sauropod #sauropods #dreadnoughtus #dreadnoughtus schrani #diplodocus #nyctosaur #ankylosaurus #quetzalcoatlus #styracosaurus #ichthyosaur #helicoprion #stegosaurus #alcovasaurus #deinonychus #raptor #dinosaurs #dinosaur

[artapir]

Extrasolar quasi-humans with a healthy (?) admixture of pterosaur genes, loosely referenced from a photo of those Sri Lankan stilt-fishing platforms. I'm not sure what they're all looking at--some passing marine animal in the shallows, maybe, or an event taking place back on shore. https://www.deviantart.com/thomastapir/art/Nyctofishers-781893407

#alien #extraterrestrial #extrasolar #panspermia #humanoid #nyctosaurus #nyctosaur #pterosaur #hybrid #fishing #ocean #sea #drawing #illustration #cartooning #comics #fantasy #science fiction

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Drew this

The scale is a little weird but do this by myself at night

You ever fall in love with a prehistoric animal not because of other reconstructions but because of your own?

can we go back to Simurghia yet

Discount Pteranodont (jk love you tethydraco)

The child predator

and Jerry

#Khouribga phosphates #pterosaur #pterosaurs #pterosaur post #Cretaceous #late cretaceous #cretaceous period #prehistoric planet #Alcione #Alcione elainus #Simurghia #Simurghia robusta #hehe busta #Barbaridactylus #barbaridactylus grandis #tethydraco #tethydraco regalia #phosphatodraco #phosphatodraco mauritanicus #jerry #nyctosaurus #nyctosaur #pteranodon #pteranodontid #pteranodontia #azhdarchid

[harpagornis]

Where and how did pteranodontians come to be?

Epapetelo by SpinoDragon145

Pteranodontians are a famous clade of Late Cretaceous pterosaurs that include the titular Pteranodon, the nyctosaurs and taxa that sometimes are either pteranodontids or nyctosaurids like Volgadraco. They dominate the Late Cretaceous oceanic environments, seemingly replacing the closely related ornithocheiromorphs and other toothed piscivorous pterosaurs.

Strangely, they appear almost ad nihilo, suddenly bursting into the fossil reccord with no intermediary forms with other pterosaur groups. So, how did these pterosaurs evolve?

In most cladograms, they appear as sister taxa to Ornithocheiromorpha. Seeing as ornithocheiromorphs were around the earliest Cretaceous, this would suggest a ghost lineage of almost 50 million years. Unless early pteranodontians were small aerial insectivores or something, such a ghost lineage appears odd. It may however be corroborated by a Berriasian nyctosaur humerus (Naish et al 2010), assuming it is from a nyctosaur and not from a late surviving rhamphorhynchid (which had similar triangular deltopectorals) or something else entirely.

More likely is that these animals evolved much late and from within the Ornithocheiromorpha, which would make this group paraphyletic in regards to Pteranodontia. After all, both groups are dictated only by morphological traits (the relatively "primitive" ornithocheiromorphs lining together against the "derived" pteranodontians) and there's no way to get genetic analyses. An origin within Ornithocheiromorpha would lessen the degree of the ghost lineage and feel more "natural" than an extended 50 million year ghost lineage.

Within the Ornithocheiromorpha, I find the targaryendraconids to be possible ancestors, sharing upturned jaws with no crests, or alternatively the boreopterids, being freshwater taxa that would have easily survived the Cenomanian mass extinction.

Only further fossils will answer for sure.

#paleoblr #palaeoblr #pterosaur #pterosauria #paleontology #palaeontology

[justnoodlefishthings]

Everyone gives Pixar a hard time about what they did to Nyctosaur in The Good Dinosaur, but did you see what Blue Sky Studios did to Platybelodon in Ice Age?

[albertonykus]

Actually, there are several nyctosaur remains dated to the Maastrichtian as well. An SVP in 2016 also mentioned pteranodontids.

You’re right; I’d overlooked those (though the pteranodontids were presented at SVPCA, not SVP).

[ornisapiens]

On the twelfth day of Christmas the Leakeys sent to me

twelve rexes cycling eleven oviraptors ten birds a hopping nine lizard fossils eight pterosaurs snacking seven disproved hoaxes six stillborn eggs five ape femurs four nyctosaurs three apatosaurs two lines of descent and a hominid that fell from a tree~

#my writes #songs #xmas