World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
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World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
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#2So fantasy dragons and Avatar notwithstanding, six limbs on a land dweller is pretty weird. I'm going to have to question this creature either being real or actually having four-wings and a pair of legs.
http://www.thegeektwins.com/2010/06/flawed-science-of-avatar...
edit Looking a bit more into it, it looks like the artist's picture is a hopeful fantasy. The class of animals were more like flying squirrels in the sense that they used their hind legs for lift as well. So they're four limbed animals.
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#3I know it doesn't fit the profile (a lion's body and hind legs), but when I first saw the picture, I immediately thought "that's a griffin". The fact that there were also feathers on the hind legs and tail-feathers instead of a lion's tail were only things I noticed after looking more closely!
Re: World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
#4So fantasy dragons and Avatar notwithstanding, six limbs on a land dweller is pretty weird. I'm going to have to question this creature either being real or actually having four-wings and a pair of legs. http://www.thegeektwins.com/2010/06/flawed-science-of-avatar... edit Looking a bit more into it, it looks like the artist's picture is a hopeful fantasy. The class of animals were more like flying squirrels in the se…
Dinosaurs are part of the tetrapod clade, so I never expected "four-winged" to mean anything other than that the hind limbs and forelimbs are both feathered and used for flight. That's what the artist's conception based on the discovered fossils shows.
Re: World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
#5So fantasy dragons and Avatar notwithstanding, six limbs on a land dweller is pretty weird. I'm going to have to question this creature either being real or actually having four-wings and a pair of legs. http://www.thegeektwins.com/2010/06/flawed-science-of-avatar... edit Looking a bit more into it, it looks like the artist's picture is a hopeful fantasy. The class of animals were more like flying squirrels in the se…
Dinosaurs are part of the tetrapod clade, so I never expected "four-winged" to mean anything other than that the hind limbs and forelimbs are both feathered and used for flight. That's what the artist's conception based on the discovered fossils shows.
Oh wow. I think I need more coffee. The first few times I looked at the artist's rendering, I swear I thought it was a 4 winged, two legged animal. But you're right, they rendered it as a tetrapod.
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#6FYI: The fossil image in the article is actually 600x900:
http://img.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp-content/up...
Re: World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
#7So fantasy dragons and Avatar notwithstanding, six limbs on a land dweller is pretty weird. I'm going to have to question this creature either being real or actually having four-wings and a pair of legs. http://www.thegeektwins.com/2010/06/flawed-science-of-avatar... edit Looking a bit more into it, it looks like the artist's picture is a hopeful fantasy. The class of animals were more like flying squirrels in the se…
Flight of the Dragons postulates a four-limbed winged dragon, with wings evolving from ribs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_%28book%2...
Re: World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
#8So fantasy dragons and Avatar notwithstanding, six limbs on a land dweller is pretty weird. I'm going to have to question this creature either being real or actually having four-wings and a pair of legs. http://www.thegeektwins.com/2010/06/flawed-science-of-avatar... edit Looking a bit more into it, it looks like the artist's picture is a hopeful fantasy. The class of animals were more like flying squirrels in the se…
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Re: World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
#9So fantasy dragons and Avatar notwithstanding, six limbs on a land dweller is pretty weird. I'm going to have to question this creature either being real or actually having four-wings and a pair of legs. http://www.thegeektwins.com/2010/06/flawed-science-of-avatar... edit Looking a bit more into it, it looks like the artist's picture is a hopeful fantasy. The class of animals were more like flying squirrels in the se…
Flight of the Dragons postulates a four-limbed winged dragon, with wings evolving from ribs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_%28book%2...
It's also a fiction book.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flight of the Dragons postulates a four-limbed winged dragon, with wings evolving from ribs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_%28book%2...
It's also a fiction book.
Draco volans has rib-wings, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_volans