Huge Flying Reptiles Ate Dinosaurs

Live Science ^ | 5/27/08 | jeanna Bryner

[pissant]

With a name like T. rex, you'd expect to be safe from even the fiercest paleo-bullies. Turns out, ancient, flying reptiles could have snacked on Tyrannosaurus Rex To uncover these feeding habits, Witton and Portsmouth colleague Darren Naish analyzed fossils of a group of toothless pterosaurs called azhdarchids, which are muchbabies and other landlubbing runts of the dinosaur world.

A new study reveals a group of flying reptiles that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs some 230 million to 65 million years ago did not catch prey in flight, but rather stalked them on land. Until now, paleontologists pictured the so-called "winged lizards" or pterosaurs as skim-feeders. In this vision, the creatures would have flown over lakes and oceans grabbing fish from the water's surface, much as gulls do today. The new findings, detailed this week online in the journal PLoS ONE, don't ground the animals totally.

[pissant]

Heck you could stuff the bird with several minced up rival cavemen.

[Graybeard58]

Heck you could stuff the bird with several minced up rival cavemen.

In cartoons maybe.

[shineon]

Tastes like chicken.

[pissant]

[Graybeard58]

Barney and Fred, gay as Bert and Ernie.

[pissant]

Not with hotties like Wilma and Betty around.

[MovementConservative]

I’ll go along with Wilma, but Betty was kind of annoying.

[Founding Father]

ggg ping?

[fatez]

Looks like Spy versus Spy...

[biff]

I find this very hard to believe.

There is a reason that Boeing has not bitten the bullet and build a competitor to the A380 in that there is a law of diminishing returns when it comes to flying machines. In other words, get much bigger than the 747 and the strength and power requirements do not offset the weight gain.

Structurally these “birds” would be too heavy and they could not produce enough power to fly.

[CGTRWK]

Weight goes up with the cube, wing area goes up with the square.

[SunkenCiv]

Darren Naish site:freerepublic.com

Google

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[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

“In this vision, the creatures would have flown over lakes and oceans grabbing fish from the water’s surface, much as gulls do today”

Vision, eh?

And they call that SCIENCE?

Bah.

Anyway, I’m waiting for them to find the missing link between moonbats and Democrats. There can’t be too many missing links between....

[BradyLS]

It looks like a carnivorous, flying giraffe.

[SunkenCiv]

Quetzalcoatlus site:freerepublic.com

Google

[Rastus]

Were they French? Why are they wearing blue berets?

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[SunkenCiv]

Real life was exactly like DinoTopia, except for the fact that it wasn’t vegetarian. :’D

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Those were the good old days, I tell ya....an order of ribs was one rib and it was 48 feet long...

[Fred Nerks]

you may enjoy this topic:

The Impossible Dinosaurs - Megafauna and Attenuated Gravity
Kronia.com ^ | Ted Holden

Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 8:01:20 PM by Swordmaker

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989265/posts

[nothingnew]

Looks like Spy versus Spy...

Bwahaha!...yer right!

FMCDH(BITS)

[goldstategop]

Flightless Pterosaurus? Yes, there are flightless birds that fill a similar niche. Their huge size would have rendered them immune from all but the biggest of predators.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Reaganesque]

Polly want a T-Rex?

[Vision]

This may explain my fondness for seafood.

[bert]

“Imagine going after them with just spears” Quote from a guy standing next to me at the Royal Tyrell Museum

[Rider of Rohan]

Tell that to a bumble bee

[RGSpincich]

Structurally these “birds” would be too heavy and they could not produce enough power to fly.

[bmwcyle]

I see a good B movie.

[Alamo-Girl]

LOL! Thanks for the ping!

[pissant]

With Doug McClure, no less.

[bmwcyle]

[U S Army EOD]

There is no link between Moonbats and Democrats, they just change their disguise.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

That’s not much more than an airbrushed duck’s foot (actual size), with a woodpecker beak and a little fake fur in between.

Some call it science.

Librarians call it science fiction.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

If there is no link, then Evolution’s a lie!

But still, I think we should compare the DNA...

[Terriergal]

yup. Science fiction is right.

[Lady Jag]

Their taste for dinosaurs is precisely why Pterodactyls prefer to hang out where old politicians congregate.

[Centurion2000]

bump ... vision = science?

Seems to me the line between scienc-like religion and real science is getting awfully blurry.

[China Clipper]

If that thing in his mouth is a full size Brontosaurus, that thing would have to be huge!!

I do kind of like the hat. Very chic!
"although, I have to admit I like the cut of his jib!! Montgomery Burns

[null and void]

Red Dwarf ping!

CAT and LISTER are lying on bunks in a darkened room, watching television.

LISTER: Cat?
CAT: Mmm?
LISTER: Ya ever see the Flintstones?
CAT: Sure!
LISTER: D'ya think Wilma's sexy?
CAT: Wilma Flintstone?
LISTER: Maybe we've been alone in deep space too long, but every time I see that sharmi body, it drives me crazy. Is it me?
CAT: Well, I think in all probability, Wilma Flintstone is the most desirable woman that ever lived.
LISTER: That's good. I thought I was goin' strange.
CAT: She's incredible!
LISTER: What d'ya think of Betty?
CAT: Betty Rubble? (Pause) Well, I would go with Betty... but I'd be thinking of Wilma.
LISTER: This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?
CAT: You're right. We're nuts. This is an insane conversation.
LISTER: She'll never leave Fred, and we know it.

CAT shakes his head in resignation.

[Centurion2000]

bump ...

[McGruff]

[wizr]

I think what you are looking for is found in Sacramento. In fact we have called him “The Moonbat” for many years. He is now the ubermeister of all things legal in Kalifornia, and his name is Jerry Brown.

[mass55th]

"I’ll go along with Wilma, but Betty was kind of annoying."

That must be why they picked Rosie O'Donnell to play her in the movie.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[ken5050]

Looks like mobile windfarms..

[ohioman]

There is also no way in hell that these flying reptiles could kill any healthy T-Rex that is anything bigger than a baby.

[U S Army EOD]

They are the same thing, there is no evidence of any evolvement.

[RightWhale]

A lone wolf usually has no chance against a moose. Packs of these flying things could do it. Picture Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’. Wouldn’t want to be caught out in the open.

[MaxMax]

Someone should photo shop Reid and Kennedy into that pic.