#Flying Dinosaur

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Pteranodon Flyers 🚀🦖🌠 Universal Orlando

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 52 2024 - Week 23 - 'Dino'

So I have exaggerated the size of the wings but shhh...it looks cool

A Scansoriopterygidae! (or climbing wings). One of the few 'flying' dinosaurs. I love me some flying dinosaurs, but Pterosaurs (my favourites) are not actually classed as dinosaurs. Booo.

But in later life I learned of a dinosaur who had evolved a bat-like wing membrane despite also having feathers. While they probably glided over flying, it's still always fascinates me that we found a dinosaur that mimics those very early ideas of what flying dinosaurs looked like.

In other words-there was once a species that looked like little dragons. And that makes me happy. A gorgeous little creature that I hope we uncover more secrets of in the future.

[70sscifiart]

Brian Edwards’ cover art for Purnell's Book of Adventures in Space, 1980

[raviolinn]

Thalassodromeus just chillin

[pimsri]

Sea-Wing

[barghest-land]

normannognathus :) colors were based on the brown pelican

[psie-smutki]

Tiberius the Utahraptor for @hircine-scholar 🛫

[theprissythumbelina]

I can't tell if my dragon worldbuilding has gone too far when I start reading scientific papers on bat wig morphology and comparing them to bird morphology.

[thatsbelievable]

[skylersprompts]

DC x DP Prompt *13*

Of course something like this would happen, while Bruce was out of state with Alfred. Some business for Wayne Enterprises had come up and after he was sure the kids had everything under control in his absence, he left.

If Tim had known this would happen, he would have volunteered to go instead of Bruce. But his newest case had just been to intriguing.

Tim looked at Damian, Dick and Jason. They seemed to feel the same way as him.

Tim just had wanted to look something up before dinner! He had found the two floating Toddlers in the Batcave. And after he send a quick emergency signal up to the Manor his brothers had come down prepared for a fight.

Instead all they saw where two black haired three-year old Twins, who were either bothering the poor Bats or crawling into the mouth of the T-Rex.

"You can order Pizza, I'm not going to deal with... this", was all Jason said with disdain, before he left for the stairs to the Manor.

And yeah... absolutely understandable. Tim would do the same if he could.

"Dick, get the pool net. Damian, prepare a room. I'm going to call Uncle Clark and ask him how to handle flying Toddlers", a deep sight escaped Tim.

Why had it be today, when Alfred wasn't here.

[reginaldubel]

dinovember day 8: hatzegopteryx 🍌

[jenfoundabug]

Adult mayfly showing off their beautiful wings and super long tail. Mayflies are yet another "dinosaur bug" with traits that may have been present in the first insects to evolve. For example, they can't fold their wings and instead hold them upright. Adults are very short-lived, and their sole purpose is to mate and lay eggs. The larvae live in fresh water and are an indicator of a healthy aquatic ecosystem.

unidentified species, order Ephemeroptera Northeastern Pennsylvania, US

[puma-or-cougar]

OMG DOES ANYONE REMEMBER HALF SHELL HEROES? Because I do, in fact, I just watched the episodes last night. I always thought that a Pteranodon was a little small for Raph, maybe a Quetzal or a Haztego would have been a better fit for him since they are larger flying reptiles, HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that I haven't fallen in love with this duo.

Sooo cuteee

Wait!

On another note, I have a question, does anyone know if Tumblr has a problem with mild blood or gore? I would really appreciate an answer since I'm working on something that I'm really excited to post here.

[tiedsh0es]

OJ with a microraptor

[pleistocene-pride]

Rüppell's vulture also called Rüppell's griffon vulture, named after Eduard Rüppell, is a large bird of prey in the genus Gyps which is native throughout the sahel and eastern Africa including the countries of Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, The Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Here they tend to inhabit grasslands, mountains, and open woodland. Rüppell's vultures are diurnal and very social birds, roosting, nesting, and feeding in large flocks. They spend much of their time flying at great altitudes, using strong winds and thermals to efficiently soar they are known to regular cruise at upwards of 20,000ft (6,000m) above the ground with some known to go as high as 37,000ft (11,300m) making them the highest flying bird. These vultures locate food by sight only, and often follow herds of animals. Once they find a carcass they swoop down, land a little way off, then bound forward with wings spread and their long neck outstretched. Even amongst old world vultures, Rüppell's vultures are specialized feeders with a spiked tongue and strong beak they can strip flesh with ease, and feed upon pelts, hides, and even the bones themselves.  Reaching around 33 to 41in (85 -103cms) long, 14 – 20lbs in weight, with a 7.5-8.6ft (2.26 -2.6m) wingspan. They are one of the largest vultures in Africa, both sexes sport mottled brown or black feathering overall with a whitish-brown underbelly and thin, dirty-white fluff covering the head and neck. The base of the neck has a white collar, the eye is yellow or amber, the crop patch deep brown. The head does not have feathers. This species of vulture is considered to be monogamous, forming lifelong breeding pairs. They nest on cliffs in colonies up to a 1,000 strong. After courtship a pair will work together to build a nest using sticks, grass, and leaves that they have gathered or stolen from other nests, here the mother will lay 1 egg. Both parents share in incubation of their egg over a period of 55 days. Once the chick hatches, both parents will feed and tend to it for about 150 days when it fledges. Young remain dependent on their parents after fledging, not reaching independence until the next breeding season. Under ideal conditions a ruppells vulture may live up to 50 years.

[greencheekconure27]

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