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Published: 2017-10-01 21:51:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 6217; Favourites: 325; Downloads: 22
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Here's the full colored version of the piece I made for Darren Naish's birthday. I'm sure this will speak on multiple levels for Tet Zoo fans. For others, suffice to say the pterosaur is based on the undescribed Hateg island Azhdarchid, the fish is a gar and the subject of animals trying to eat things that are too large for them to swallow has been covered on the Tetrapod Zoology blog several times.Related content
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Oh noes! Does he have any chances of surviving? D:
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shouldnt he be hunting a baby dinoesaur?
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Perhaps this is why these guys went extinct. They were so proud of their huge heads they forget to take their small torsos into consideration when trying to swallow large fish.
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he's gonna kill himself doing that
don't eat fish 10x larger than your stomach, kids.Β
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That moment when you're eating the rest of the Thanksgiving dinner in the dark so no-one sees you but you hear someone come towards the room.
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"The risk I took was calculated but man, am I bad at math"
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Pterosaur tries to swallow giant gar. Chokes. Dies.
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Yeah.Β I think we're about to see a pterosaur choke to death because his eyes were bigger than his stomach.
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That actually looks like a gar the pterosaur has in its mouth.Β Am I right about this?
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The Azhdarchid must have mistook its eyepatches for part of its actual eyes.Β How else can one explain how its eyes were bigger than its stomach?
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Just a fatal miscalculation.
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Oi why do pterosaurs seem so vulnerable?
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When you have to swallow everything whole, this sort of thing happens from time to time.
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Chew ur food, mr pterosaur!
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Chewing's impossible, but he should've prepared it properly!
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I knwwwwww but that stoopid Birb knew what was coming
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Would the pterosaur be even able to lift the fish? The gar probably weighs twice as much.
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Well, the picture is exaggerated to a comical degree for a reason.
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Then I must rephrase the question. Why is the fish so tiny?
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I ran of space on the digital paper?
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How does it fit in its belly? The fish is bigger the body!!
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The implication is that the animal will choke to death, this is based on Darren Naish's articles on animals that try to eat things that are too big or the wrong shape. Such as "Seagull attempts to swallow starfish, dies" etc.
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Hope he can swallow it whole in one piece.
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According to Mark Witton it could...
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Source please?? It sounds like you are misinterpreting the evidence.
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Here is stuff written by Witton that discusses pterosaurs vs humans, and on the potential of pterosaurs being able to swallow humans:
io9.gizmodo.com/5909528/what-wβ¦
And note this was written before it was found there were robust, heavy-jawed azhdarchids like this guy or (shudder) Hatzegopteryx.
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Yes, but a giant pterosaur such as Hatzegopteryx has a head much longer and larger than a man, as would the largest Quetzalcoatlus. This fish is a good deal longer than the animal's head, and is very thick, more to the point, it is far FAR larger than the animal's torso. A swallowed human would curl up rather nicely in the torso of the largest pterosaurs, but this is a solid column of armored fish that will not fit by any means. As I said, you are misinterpreting the evidence, "can swallow human" does not equal "can swallow anything".
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For a really big Azhdarchid like Quetzalcoatlus or Hatzegopteryx a human is just a small animal. Humans would not be even the length of it's bill, let alone whole skull. And if you are extrapolating based on the Rhamphorhynchus specimen, even a prey animal that occupied 100% of the trunk length would be tiny in comparison to a fish that is literally as long as the pterosaur itself from jaw tip to tail.
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Yeah I was going off the Rhamphorhynchus
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do you think this is the pterosaur equivalent to taking like 10 shots of vodka?
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