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Another Speculative Dinosaurs thing. Yes indeed.Edit: Sorry, I didn't have time to post a big long description this morning for this picture. Don't really have much time NOW, but I will at least say what these things are:
This picture is somewhere in Southeast Asia (say continental Malaysia), and we are looking at a herd of balundaurs (high browsers descended from Protoceratops), being ridden by commensals (genus Commensasaurus, also called "land remoras", "hitchhikers" or "prefects"), descended from Australian dryosaurs that evolved as treeclimbers and rafted to Asia. The little birds on the balundars' heads are balaclavabirds, enantiornithine passerine-mimics. And if you look closely in the trees you can see arbronychosaurs, little tree-climbing deinonychosaurs ultimatly descended from something like Bambiraptor.
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This picture is in Wikipedia, where speculative evolution is described.
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Excellent! The way, how you showed the relationship in their ecosystem to each other is awesome!
Great details!
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You're welcome!
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Brace yourselves, for spec reboot questions will come... "wow, I'm surprised there isn't a winter is coming plz on DA"
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You still keep up with it on the Dinosaur mailing list? I could never navigate all the threads for Spec. I remember pterosaurs are now present and dendrosaurs are now specialized Iguanids...
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Stuff and nonsense!
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Very interesting idea, and without a doubt this is well within the realm of possibilities. Let's hope this pans out in fossil evidence. XD
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Well these things are supposed to be modern (that is, Cenozoic) animals, from a timeline in which the dinosaurs never went extinct. I doubt we'll find any fossils of sauropod-mimic ceratopsians. Arboreal ornithopods are a stretch too.
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Ah, sorry I must of misread the context. There's a possible sauropod mimic iguanadont from Africa, but given that ornithopods had a longer evolutionary spans than ceratopsians it is unlikely. However, the arboreal ornitopods may not be too much of a stretch given that they had the right environments and enough time to evolve such forms.Β
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Hey, Duke Dan, could ya shoot me a pic of Brontoceratops? I've been dying to now what that monstrous beast looks like.
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Hm. I don't seem to remember that one.
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It's the giant, 10-ton North American Chasmosaurine from theΒ Paleocene orΒ Eocene.
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I don't think I have that one on my harddrive any more
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hello i am working on a dinosaur spec and i was wondering if a few people from the old dinosaur spec could join in and give advice and such is it okay if you may join it? i am basically trying to revive it
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Hi. I think David Marjanovic is still active on the Spec wiki ([link] )
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thank you for this information
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would he be this Pantheraleo888 he seems to have been active around 2009
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Did you know that the dendrosaurs might end up as giant geckos?
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Probably not since they're herbivorous.
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Well, it's what David and Brian want appearently.
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really? are there any pictures from Brian?
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Not yet, but you can check the group and see his statements on the idea.
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Is Brian working on Spec again??
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Cool! Is he on devart? Can you give me a link to his new pictures?
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I'm not sure of he's on dA; so far, I have only found him on the yahoo group.
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