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[–] [email protected] 115 points 8 months ago (9 children)

It's odd that razor sharp teeth is kind of the gold standard for a scary animal, but honestly, getting swallowed whole and slowly digested by stomach acid sounds so much more horrific. I'd so much rather a T-Rex eat me than that.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Drowning in stomach acid sounds particularly excruciating.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

It would have cost you nothing to not say that.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

If it's any consolation, you would suffocate long before any stomach acid got to you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

I recall reading a meme about the ocean being bullshit, something along the lines of "the most common way to die on land is something making your blood fall out".

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

WTF?! Is that a bird or a starship?
shape of hetzigopteryx from above

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

The turning invisible at the end is just great.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's a reason the Romulan starship class was named Bird Of Prey.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

It's a bird of prey.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Well, that sounds like a lot, until you realise that mfking seagulls can eat rabbits.

Your link mentions them weighing "a quarter of a ton". Now, idk what "ton" theyre using there, but a quarter of a US ton would be "only" 226 kg. That's ~500lbs.

I'd like to remind everyone that a reality TV-show called "My 600-lb life" exists.

So regarding hypothetical horror scenarios, I'm not too fussed about the overgrown seagull as much as I am about the feathered 4000-8000kg monster with a skull almost the size of an adult woman running at me at 70km/h.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Here's another comparison picture, though I'm not sure if it's valid or not. Looks cool, regardless.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated, but I love scientific pictures that almost look like shitposts 😀

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

That thing looks like a fucking dark souls boss.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Sharing tracker free link (junk at end deleted) to that since I prefer ’em. +(Piped mirror)

… oh wow I’ve seen that, absolutely wild. Is that seagull-doctor recommended behavior? Wonder how long it took that bird to fly again.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Nowadays the most dangerous birdy is this one, capable of gutting you with a kick and they don't hesitate to do so either.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

As I learned yesterday, they are illegal as pets in Montreal.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

That first picture..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the Wilddruden from the Ronja Räubertochter (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) movie.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Despite its size, it only weighed about 250 lbs. Most of its skull is hollow.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

just like the average internet user.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

omg u think I'm skinny😍😍

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (34 children)

In international standard SI units that's about 113 kg.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Depends, did it speak German?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Das haben wir damals noch nicht gemacht, aber mittlerweile ist das ein MUSS für jeden anständigen Dino

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This must be a poor reconstruction, no? how could this possibly fly? Tiny wings and a massive imbalance with like 2/3 of the thing being neck and head?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (5 children)

There's a little of both in play here.

First, the whole black and white part of the illustration is a neck flap that may or may not have existed. It makes the neck look super thick, but it was just the artist's interpretation.

Second, penguins. Pterosaurs have big, hollow heads and skeletons that look like they should have flown. The same can be said of penguins.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Look just because we haven't found any air fossils yet

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Almost the entire weight of the animal on the drawing is between its wings, and by that human there, there are more than 10 m of wingspan. Many small aiplanes are smaller than it.

Pterosaurs had a very unusual body shape that is nothing like birds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

you can make anything fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.

S'why I never understood the expression 'when pigs fly'. Like... do you really want me to abuse a pig?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

My very quick research leads me to believe they have very little skeletal remains that they used to guess what this guy must have looked like. I could be wrong

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Idk I’m still partial to quetzacoaltus!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

They're first cousins: Quetzalcoatlinae

Apparently Arambourgiania are also Quetzal's sibling.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Fucking quesadilla birds...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago
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