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Published: 2015-04-19 14:43:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 4473; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 27
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Imagining pterosaurs run is something I still have a hard time with, especially because I know about it for not such a long time and because there's not much art depicting it (or I just haven't found it yet).A Dsungaripterus weii was my victim for today. Luckily I had some good refs for the running pose like this: s2.hubimg.com/u/4785265_f520.j…
Apparantly pterosaurs ran sort of this way because of the membrane between their arms and legs. Must've looked funny with the smaller species I guess, but a Hazegopteryx running towards you like that was high likely another matter...
Ref used:
www.deviantart.com/art/The-Ugl…
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'It doesn't end!'
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Dsungaripterus: "must....keep
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This whole launching thing with the flick of the wrist could maybe implemented with pterosaurs? Like likking yourself forward instead of having a fluid motion, think like a kangaroo but with forelegs.
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That's a nice theory, but there are enough pterosaur walk tracks to prove they just walked
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Yah right, hehe i forgot about this whole track thing. Thanks for providing me with the heads up. I did see a Nyctosaurus(?) walking around on her forelegs here on deviantart, so I just continued on from that teory. Cheers!
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Nyctosaurus is a bit special: the hind limbs are very small, even to small to walk on when on the ground. That's why it was depicted standing only on its wings, you probably saw this one: www.deviantart.com/art/Watchfu… .
Nyctosaurus is actually the most adapted pterosaur for a life in the air: no fingers, tiny legs, long wings. They probably only came to land to lay eggs and take care of their young (if those were't able to fly only a few hours after hatching, apparently some species could do that)
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Ooh, I didn't know about that about them not being able to reach the ground with their hind limbs. They remind me of a kind of swallow that we have in Sweden, they even sleep in the air! They only land when they - you guessed it- lay their eggs. Weird how nature repeats itself. This is my theory of course, don't listen to me, I'm just a noob.
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Coming back to my comment: maybe they could touch the ground, but then they couldn't stand in the usual pose. After all we can't tell anything about that. Let's say they probably just spend most of their time in the air
Yeah, swifts. We have those too here in Belgium. They're really nice birds
Now we're talking about them anyway: they aren't swallows actually. They're more related to hummingbirds, that swallow-like appearance is just a case of convergent evolution.
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Yeah, swifts are here too, but we have two species of swallows. Ladusvala and tornsvala, where the tornsvala is very aerial in its lifestyle.
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I just looked it up, tornsvala is the common swift Wikipedia says.
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Oh, thanks. Can I have you as my private encyclopaedia? Sorry for not looking this up myself.
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Well, I don't know THAT much myself...
I think looking it up yourself will give you a faster answer than me in most cases.
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We need more art showing that Pterosaurs weren't made of toothpicks and paper.
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Definitely. Same with documentaries.
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*That is really... Really unexpected !*
But their wings seem so fragile
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They still have very strong muscles.
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I know they have strong Leng muscle's but are their 'hand/wings' are strong or; at least; durable too ?
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That's something I don't know anything about to be honest, but Mark Witton supports running pterosaurs so I guess it's legit.
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I really hope it is true; I mean only İllustrating a Runing/Walking Pterosaur is unic enough; İmagine those species're actually do that !
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Well lots of songbirds can technically run, though they would rather fly, that just popped into my head thinking about unlikely running creatures actually related to dinosaurs or pteroaurs. I guess if you gotta run, a creature will run. I think a pterosaur would run with the same frequency as a songbird, which is not often.
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Such a behaviour is very likely to me. Depending on the specie and how many time it spend on the ground (for searching food for example) made it a good runner or not.
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well that's a thought. Figured running would make it vulnerable.
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I bet pterosaurs would do good in camel racing competitions in Dubai XD
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I guess they could? The only drawings I've seen of running pterosaurs so far where of them in a running pose sort of like this...
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I've seen some other running poses (though admittedly those were either outdated and inaccurate). This might interest you
www.deviantart.com/art/Running…
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The original post has the wrong link. I meant to share this eurwentala.deviantart.com/art/… . The other is cool, but not was referring to.
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I know the one from the first link, that's one of the reasons why I wanted to give it a try myself
Oh nice, I've heard about bipedal pterosaurs before. It looks kinda awesome, but too bad it's impossible...
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There is only one image of a galloping pterosaur I have seen, even though that's a very likely way fro them to move around.
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This may interest you then... doodledemmy.tumblr.com/post/11…
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Oh, I thought you wouldn't have seen that since it was an animation and your post said picture (by the way, the other reply was meant for ).
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Eh, maybe I'll give that a try once. After all there needs to be more moving-pterosaurs-paleoart.
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I know him, his arts are awesome! It's because of one of his running pterosaurs I actually tried to do this one
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Haha X^D
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Great pics, but imagine if they could hop? Birds and bats do it.
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Thank you
Yeah, some people mentioned it already. Maybe they could?
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Big possibility, anyways, amazing
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If I'm correct, Joschua made an animation of a running pterosaur...
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Really? Then I should search it. The only animation I know is this one: www.deviantart.com/art/Running…
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Yes, he shared this too... maybe that's the animation what I'm talking about. If I was wrong, please have mercy. :-D
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Thanks
Yeah, it took me quite some time too to find out...
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