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Holly shit this nyctosaurus has REAL hands!?
KILL IT
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WTF? Ptreosaurs aren't skim-feeders, this was among the few marine ones but it would have plunged or plucked fish from water, if it did this it would kill itself.
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lovely... i have a book with high speed photography, one picture shows a swallow fishing like that, one of my faves in that book...
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It's a beautiful paint, but Nyctosaurus didn't have hands and the proportions are way off. I'm not trying to be harsh, but to give you a sense of my point of view... If this was a painting of a dog it would look a bit like a weird bear to everyone else. Palaeoart is about trying to achieve accuracy through the study of the anatomy and habbits of the animals in question.
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no problem, is one of my first paleo reconstructions, but thanks for the comment
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What he said. I'm afraid that Mark Witton did some research with a model skull and a water tank and discovered that no known pterosaur could possiby have been a skim-feeder. Also, the back prong of the crest was as long as the body (yes, everyone agrees that's daft, but it's what the fossils show) and there probably wasn't a skin sail.
But it's a beautiful, beautiful picture.
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in fact an animal much disputed
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What he said. I'm afraid that Mark Witton did some research with a model skull and a water tank and discovered that no known pterosaur could possiby have been a skim-feeder. Also, the back prong of the crest was as long as the body (yes, everyone agrees that's daft, but it's what the fossils show) and there probably wasn't a skin sail.
But it's a beautiful, beautiful picture.
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in fact an animal much disputed
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Anatomical speaking is quite inaccurate, but its a beautiful picture still
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in fact an animal much disputed
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