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Published: 2015-08-15 16:49:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 13671; Favourites: 443; Downloads: 0
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This might be what you'd see, if you peeked into a hollow tree with a flashlight in the Jurassic.A group of anurognathids, perhaps a mother with almost fully-grown flaplings still following her, or a male with a harem, sharing a day roost. There's no direct evidence of social behaviour in anurognathids, but it's, I think, plausible speculation.
A digital painting, inspired by a photograph of an owl family I saw.
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Man, after all the abuse my anuragnathids have been getting lately in my paintings, all I see when I revisit this painting is crushing guilt from those pleading eyes. Beautiful work though, just as I remember it!
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Haha, thanks! Your anurognathids don't seem to be enjoying their lives. Interesting paleoart, though!
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Thank you, I guess I should give them a little break
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Demanding, I'd guess. But awesome.
I know someone who has a pet owl (due to some sort of rescue circumstances: usually, owls are illegal as pets in my country). He's apparently a fine pet, as long as kept by someone with expertise and devotion to give the animal the space and peace it needs. I guess a small noctural pterosaur such as Anurognathus would not be very different.
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Owls are dinosaurs so basically this pterosaur is a clone due to convergent evolution.
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That would be entirely hypothetical and possibly very unlikely (there's only one species of eusocial vertebrate living today, so I suppose it's safe to assume they weren't very common in the past either), but not impossible.
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Or maybe they had a symbiotic relationship with sauropods, who in turn could've had whole ecosystems living on their large slow moving bodies.
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There Is no need for spamming stupid ass emoticons.
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I love how creepy the eyes are. They're staring right into my soul. I can definitely tell that you were inspired by owls.
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After seeing this, I'm thinking: how could people still call them reptiles?! Cause they look nothing like a cold-blooded reptilian. Oh, and by the way... SOOO CUUTEE!!!
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So cuuuuuute!
Kawaii-ness overload on maximum!
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This is certainly something I would LIKE to see
Anurognathids are like tiny little muppet-owl-bats X3
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Dos eyes... Now I know how creepy stories originated
I love how you styled this picture as your own
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"I shall stare into your soul with my cuteness"
but seriously, great job Eurwentala
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AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE but in all ahem, seriousness...I love that you're portraying this kind of behavior with these pterosaurs. Really, Anurognathus has come a long way since I was first introduced to it in WWD. Sure, its tiny size made it cute then but this is going over the limit with adorableness!
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Oh hello little guys! Imam leave now, you are too cute and too creepy at the same time. Bai!
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This is just lovely. A really nice representation of this species.
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This is really cute .. but I think it must be quite horrifous seeing these while peeking into a tree
I really love this piece, it brings the feeling of these cuddly insectivores into a good perspective
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Their yellow eyes are almost a bit disturbing 
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Cute pterosaurs. They do indeed look quite owl-like.
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My gods, the cuteneas overload. I want to take them all and cuddle them and make them my pets.
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