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fundinofactoftheday · 1 year

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Dinofact #116

Although originally thought to only be capable of gliding or "parachuting", Microraptor had true flight feathers as seen on modern birds, as well as a similar arrangement of primary and secondary flight feathers and assymetrical vanes. The similarities between Microraptor's feathers (and other anatomical features) and those of modern birds implies that Microraptor was actually capable of powered flight.

Source: Wikipedia

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amnhnyc · 3 months

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What’s one bird famous for its foul smell? Meet the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)! It’s the only bird known to have a form of digestion called foregut fermentation, in which bacteria help to break down the cell walls of leaves, its main source of food. This ability comes with a price, though. As bacteria is released, the Hoatzin bleches out methane. The burps have a manure-like odor that inspired this species nickname: “the stinkbird!”

Photo: The Next Gen Scientist, CC BY 2.0, flickr

#science #nature #natural history #animals #dinosaur #bird #ornithology #did you know #fact of the day #fun facts #orinoco #amazon #cool animals #hoatzin #stinkbird

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viviraptor-art · 4 months

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IF WE'RE GONNA DO IT, THEN WE'RE GONNA DO IT MY WAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REX RAPTOR! ❤️ [12/29/23]

#yugioh #rex raptor #dinosaur ryuzaki #red eyes black dragon #rebd #character birthday #yugioh duel monsters #yugioh dm #ygo #ygo dm #digital art #fanart #alt text #i used a rebd action figure as reference for this fun fact

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mycoblogg · 8 months

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Tell me a shroom fact please

a recently-found amber fossil (dating to ~100 million years ago) suggests that dinosaurs ingested psychotropic fungi !!

in this fossil, we see some of the earliest recorded evidence of grass. atop the grass? a fungal parasite. in comparison with our fungi today, this fungus is most similar to ergot - fungi that grow on rye & produce alkaloids. ergot has been used as a medicine, a poison & a hallucinogen by humans for thousand of years.

"there’s no doubt in my mind that it would have been eaten by sauropod dinosaurs, although we can’t know what exact effect it had on them." - george poinar jr, of the oregon state university's college of science.

the small chance that dinosaurs tripped on psychedelics keeps me going, tbh.

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tmnt-on-the-mind · 5 months

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he made them sweaters :}

#tmnt 2003 #tmnt #tmnt 2k3 #tmnt mikey #tmnt raph #tmnt leo #tmnt donatello #my art #god i love the fact that 2003 raph knits man aaaaaa #mikey always has to be on the annoying raph grind and i respect that #and i saw a post that talked about how they think don likes dinosaurs and i had to include it here #meanwhile leos just happy to have gloves built for his hands #aaaa man this was so much fun to draw i love these five foot nothing kings sm 💙❤️💜🧡

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the-dragon-girl-27 · 1 month

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Seen a lot of paleostream art on here and decided to finally try catching one of the streams myself and drawing along with it, twas fun

these fellas are all from the Yixian Formation.

#paleoart #paleostream #Psittacosaurus #Sinosauropteryx #Yutyrannus #Zhenyuanopterus #dinosaur #pterosaur #theropod #ceratopsian #Mesozoic #dragon draws creatures #kinda crazy learning the first 3 are all from the same place considering id call em pretty significant creatures for one reason or another #like scentifically significant more than like in terms of popularity i mean #also fun fact Yutyrannus is one of my all time fav dinosaurs #floofy t-rex my beloved

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marlynnofmany · 8 months

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Hey, do you think Quetzalcoatlus used to bite everything like pelicans do?

I'm picturing this one trying an exploratory nibble on the elephant beastie in the background, with a predictable lack of success.

#bites elephant: not food #bites bigger animal: still not food #bites baby T-rex: spicy food #adult T-rex bites back: Ahhhhh not food!#dinosaurs #and dinosaur-adjacent entities #fun animal facts #pelicans

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spacefinch · 6 months

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‘Cause the treasures that I seek

Are rare and ancient things

Like Velociraptor’s jaw

Or Archaeopteryx’s wings

(“I Am a Paleontologist” by They Might Be Giants)

Here’s my first dinosaur painting! I drew Archaeopteryx, and based the colors somewhat off of the Greater Roadrunner. It’s one of my favorite dinosaurs.

Fun facts:

Archaeopteryx could fly, but only in short bursts. It’s most likely that it hunted prey on foot.

Its scientific name means “ancient wing” in Greek.

Archaeopteryx’s long, bony tail helped it keep its balance while walking and running.

The first fossil of this dinosaur was discovered in Germany in 1861, and it caused quite a stir.

It also has a common name: Urvogel, meaning “primeval bird” in German.

Link to more Archaeopteryx facts: here

#my art #dinosaurs #paleoart #archaeopteryx #birdposting #watercolor #fun facts #according to my research

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mineralsrocksandfossiltalks · 5 months

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WORDPLAY WEDNESDAY

Hello my beautiful followers and happy Wednesday! Let's talk about words paleontologists use that maybe normal folk don't. Today's words are DIAGNOSTIC FEATURE.

In paleo, we use this term A LOT. It simply means that we can see a characteristic that identifies either and animal, plant, or specific body part. It can even refer to rocks! Here are a few examples:

Ammonites are identified by their suture lines. That's how we know odd-shaped ones like baculites are still ammonites.

Let's take a look at my favorite dinosaur, Stegosaurus. There are some obvious diagnostic features like the plates and the thagomizer but what if I don't have those?

Okay, let's say I'm out in the badlands of Colorado and I come across a dorsal vertebra (back vertebra). I can still still tell what dinosaur it came from.

This is a Stegosaurus dorsal vert. It is RIDICULOUSLY tall for any animal but that is a diagnostic feature...of all stegosaurs. Okay, so I've narrowed it down to a family. Here's a Kentrosaurus dorsal vert to give you an idea:

Above we have an Allosaurus dorsal vert. It looks very different than our stegosaurs, much shorter and more compact. Below is Apatosaurus' dorsal vert. It is also very tall in the neural spine. It's also like two to three times bigger than Stegosaurus. Starting to see?

To go further, I have to look at the rock and search for its diagnostic features. If the rock I am digging in looks like this:

or this:

I am in the Morrison Formation of the Late Jurassic Period...the rock formation Stegosaurus is found in. (and subsequently, Allosaurus and Apatosaurus but we already looked at the verts so we can tell them all apart if they were found altogether)

As for Kentrosaurus, I would have to be in Africa for starters so it never would have been him anyway. Now, this is way oversimplified but hopefully this gives you a better idea of how we look at multiple characters to figure out exactly what we've got.

#paleontology #dinosaur #fun facts #fossils #diagnostic features #geology #biology

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articbleu · 9 months

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'Cause when the moon's sittin' pretty above Rapid City 🌙 There's much more than meets the eye And I can only imagine what strange things could happen when nobody's on Skyline Drive ☁️

#witch #witch oc #magical girl #witchsona #stars #skywitch #my OCs #astrid #moira #maeofclubs #fun fact: this song is actually about dinosaurs #but as you can see #there are no dinosaurs in this pic #original

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fundinofactoftheday · 1 year

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Dinofact #120

Tyrannosaurus rex had the highest bite force of any dinosaur, and likely the highest bite force of any known land animal. However, when comparing the bite force of an animal to its body size, the Galapagos finch beats T. rex, and, if scaled up to the size of a T. rex, would have a bite force 320 times that of T. rex.

Sources: Wikipedia, the Daily Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, LiveScience

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albino-parakeet · 9 months

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Colored a doodle I drew of Reassuring Ranger based on a picture of a cowboy and his horse. (ft. Moments guide in the background)

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #Season of moments #reassuring ranger #sky but with dinosaurs #dinosaur #maiasaura #I know maiasaura is bigger than what I drew but it’s too late #This was just for fun anyways #Fun fact Maiasaura means “good mother lizard”#my art

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zachsanomaly · 6 months

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If these things hadn't been *fairly recently* killed off by sabertooth cats, it would've been a lot easier for us to make the connection that the two legged dinosaurs were just big ol birds. Literally just a t-rex that traded in teeth for a beak. (they ate horses)

#dinosaurs #paleontology #i'm aware they're not a direct descendant type deal but man are they sure related #science #animals #fun facts

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floxy-offical · 5 months

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Fun Fact

I love dinosaurs

I'm a big fan of dinosaurs

I was the mud and dinosaurs kid

I LOVE DINOSAURS

#fun fact #dinosaur #dinosaurs

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denim-wizard · 1 month