“Fearsome Dragon” Discovered That Soared Over Australian Outback

https://scitechdaily.com ^ | AUGUST 9, 2021 | By UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

[Red Badger]

Or swimming things near the surface.................

[Ransomed]

That is so cool, holy cow.

Freegards

[Ransomed]

Interesting theory, you would think those teeth would be used to snag small quick things. I’ve wondered if some of them of them might have had throat pouches/crops like pelicans but the soft tissue didn’t translate to fossils.

Freegards

[pangaea6]

Probably where legend of dragons comes from, I believe they were around longer than folks think, or sooner

[Red Badger]

Every civilization has ‘dragons’ as far back as we can find.

Chinese, Japanese, Even Mayan and Aztecs had a version of a dragon..............

[CurlyDave]

Or swimming things near the surface...

The teeth are too thin to be real biting teeth. Might stab a small fish or the top & bottoms would also act as a sieve. Anything in the mouth is swallowed whole.

[pigsmith]

Probably where legend of dragons comes from, I believe they were around longer than folks think, or sooner.

Makes me think these huge bizarre creatures frequently found in ancient sediment areas are the evidence of God’s decision to wipe the slate clean with a world-wide flood and start over with only the creatures on the boat.

[Red Badger]

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[martin_fierro]

hyuck hyuck!

[NWFree]

Time for another Jurassic park sequel

[minnesota_bound]

I guess the dragon lore comes from fossils dug up long ago and the people then did not know how old those bones were.

[going hot]

Resembles somewhat a reptilian prototype of the later porpoise snout, minus the brain case.

likely a good swimming thing grabber.

[Red Badger]

They’ve gotten boring...................

[Beowulf9]

Same here!

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[null and void]

"“It’s tempting to think it may have swooped like a magpie during mating season, making your local magpie swoop look pretty trivial – no amount of zip ties would have saved you."

Huh? How does a zip tie save you from a mating magpie?

[null and void]

[Monkey Face]

What a cool find, RB!

Hiya, SC! Thanks for the ping!

I think I’d need a bigger sling shot to hit that “sparrow.”

‘Face

;o]

[Red Badger]

I think the writer was being mirthful, as in putting a zip tie on a bird’s beak to hold it shut, you couldn’t get enough zip ties to hold the Ptero’s huge spiked beak shut..............