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Beigetreten Kasım 2019
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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
Skeletal time! Here's my new skeletal reconstruction of Kelenken guillermoi, one of the largest Phorusrhacids and one of my personal favorites. Weighing at 315 kgs, Kelenken was easily one of the largest predatory birds, and was the largest predator in its environment.
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EDGE Central
EDGE Central@NatSciChannel·
🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Brand New Terror Bird from an Upper Pleistocene cave in Bahia, Brazil! Named, Eschatornis aterradora, it is described off just a single leg bone that reportedly has enough diagnostic traits to name a new species off of. It wasn't big! 🎨: Zeinner de Paula
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DiscussingBones@DiscussingBones·
PALEONERDS.
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DiscussingBones@DiscussingBones·
I-i-i dont understand scientific consultants, they want feathers, they want teeth, they want realistic behavior I gave them a dinosaurs that covers all of that and they still hate it?!
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Giova
Giova@GiovaFavazzi·
Finally, managed to make some #paleoart with #plotopterids
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MrHootsMann
MrHootsMann@SpaceTaco101·
The flock gets a new applicant but Red is unsure how "picking up the target and smashing them against a rock and poking holes in their skulls" will translate on a slingshot
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DiscussingBones@DiscussingBones·
Research on the melanosomes of terror birds reveal they were bright red, and had an appetite for pigs. “You didn’t want to be in this bird’s space when it was angry, it’s temper was truly epic.” Source: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…
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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
Manifesting this for the starter trio final evos #pokemon
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Mauricio Anton
Mauricio Anton@MAntonPaleoart·
Xenosmilus hodsonae feeding on Platygonus. Tooth marks on the fossil peccary bones show that sabertooths efficiently defleshed their kills. One of many new illustrations I created for the exhibition "Dientes de Sable".
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Wyatt-Andrews-Workshop@wa_workshop·
Inflation is getting out of hand..
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The Anatomical Record
The Anatomical Record@AnatRecord·
Terror birds (Phorusrhacidae) ruled South America for ~40 Ma, but their growth was a mystery. New hindlimb osteohistology shows rapid, uninterrupted growth, heavy remodeling & cursorial stress in Oligocene Andrewsornis & Physornis. Dreyer et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…
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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
@saltsmellyfa It’s possible, we know there’s dimorphism (2 distinct size morphs in the same formations) but don’t know for sure what the driver is. Pretty much open to interpretation, the males could be larger as in seriemas but it could be the other way around
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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
Finally, my longtime favorite - Titanis walleri, the last of the giant Phorusrhacids. Titanis is known from an array of fragmentary remains, so this is a best approximation. There is distinct adult size dimorphism described from the material, which is shown here. More info below!
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Over the past few years, I’ve made a few basic skeletal references for several Phorusrhacids for personal reference, which I’ve never had the chance to share. They cobble together a few existing skeletals (my own, and a few published ones), but should be good references!

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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
@saltsmellyfa @HodariNundu @SergeiMerjeevs1 And here’s Xenosmilus! The red bar represents a few of the specimens sympatric with Titanis, and the blue bar represents a larger specimen found in a den site from a much younger bed. I typically stick to the red bar scaling when depicting Xenosmilus with Titanis.
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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
@saltsmellyfa @HodariNundu @SergeiMerjeevs1 Here you go! A lot of the material isn’t figured laterally, so the actual visible material here only visualizes a fraction of what is known (plus some pieces of other Phorusrhacids to fill in the blanks). Anything unfigured uses related taxa scaled to the proper measurements!
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Finally, my longtime favorite - Titanis walleri, the last of the giant Phorusrhacids. Titanis is known from an array of fragmentary remains, so this is a best approximation. There is distinct adult size dimorphism described from the material, which is shown here. More info below!

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Luka
Luka@P14zm0X3n·
Some dinosaurs that I played and liked from Prior Extinction
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randompaleonerd@randompaleonerd·
Rough cranial multiview and reference for the terror bird Andalgalornis steulleti! Skulls are edited from Witmer Lab‘s skull scan photos and the Museo de La Plata’s sketchfab model of the skull! Figures on the right are taken from the doctoral thesis of Dr. Federico Degrange.
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