Yeah, that's right. I'm posting pterosaurs on the commie instance. What are you going to do about it?
Anyway, giant pterosaurs are cool. They're also kind of terrifying. Nature is weird.
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Why do they always draw dinos with bony heads? In the nature the skull is always protected with meat, fat, cartilage and skin.
I think they're going for the lizzard look, but now we know they weren't all lizzards
This isn't a dinosaur. Pteradons are a different thing, theyre just both big and lived at the same time
it's big and lizardy, which makes it a dinosaur. Phenetics 4 life.
And dinos aren't lizards either, so no reason to suppose that they have bony heads
I know, but for a long time everything was just made to look like bony lizzard. Jurassic Park didn't help
I think the idea is that they were large warm blooded creatures, and earth was hotter back then, so in order to thermoregulate they would have been leathery Like a phant or a rino instead of fluffy. The smaller ones should look like fowl, probably up to bear size.