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So is forcing a new meme on us, the #buildafakepterosaur challenge, inspired by the theropod challenge last year. While that one was a critical response to the "averageness" of Indominus´ design, this one seems to have no purpose. I wanted to avoid this bandwagon, but since just challenged me, I guess I have to...

I was browsing through the designs already submitted and everything from hybrids to flightless storks has already been taken. Surprisingly, I did not see a fully marine pterosaur yet, so I jumped at the chance to fill that particular niche. One thing that keeps birds from becoming life-bearing fully marine animals are their calcified eggs. Fossil evidence shows that pterosaur eggs were soft-shelled, so in theory that would make it easier for them to become life-bearing animals like many lizards and snakes are today. So here we have a planctivorous rorqual-like pterosaur derived from Pterodaustro (in glorious flamingo pink) and a macropredatory orca-like pterosaur derived from some sort of ornithocheirid.

And since it seems to be required for the challenge, the pink one is called Cetopterus roseus and 17 meters long while the black one is called Orcinopterus horribilis and is 10 meters long.

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So is forcing a new meme on us, the #buildafakepterosaur challenge, inspired by the theropod challenge last year. While that one was a critical response to the "averageness" of Indominus´ design, this one seems to have no purpose. I wanted to avoid this bandwagon, but since just challenged me, I guess I have to...

I was browsing through the designs already submitted and everything from hybrids to flightless storks has already been taken. Surprisingly, I did not see a fully marine pterosaur yet, so I jumped at the chance to fill that particular niche. One thing that keeps birds from becoming life-bearing fully marine animals are their calcified eggs. Fossil evidence shows that pterosaur eggs were soft-shelled, so in theory that would make it easier for them to become life-bearing animals like many lizards and snakes are today. So here we have a planctivorous rorqual-like pterosaur derived from Pterodaustro (in glorious flamingo pink) and a macropredatory orca-like pterosaur derived from some sort of ornithocheirid.

And since it seems to be required for the challenge, the pink one is called Cetopterus roseus and 17 meters long while the black one is called Orcinopterus horribilis and is 10 meters long.