tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post4882647548661971424..comments2024-03-25T09:31:36.926+01:00Comments on Furahan Biology and Allied Matters: A Natural history of Skull IslandSigmund Nastrazzurrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-14347261497046129392021-10-16T20:02:14.320+02:002021-10-16T20:02:14.320+02:00Also Pterosaurs were most likely not related to Sh...Also Pterosaurs were most likely not related to Sharovipteryx, most modern studies indicate that their closest relatives were Lagerpetids.Davide Gioiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00541804529581203322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-7513992253877874992016-04-28T01:11:24.243+02:002016-04-28T01:11:24.243+02:00was rereading these old posts, decided Petr's ...was rereading these old posts, decided Petr's comment deserved a small update, since in the last 4 years some pretty amazing stuff has been found palentologically speaking. one of the ones that has proven pretty darn amazing, in a "what the heck" way, is the Yi Qi (Lit. "strange wing") which was a small Maniraptorian which not only had feathers.. but it's wings were batlike tracts of skin stretched between enlongated fingers! and i say batlike because like bats the skin stretched across all of it's fingers, rather than just one like a Pterosaur. there is still some debate as to whether it could do full flight or just gliding (the skeleton was fully articulated with soft tissue impressions, but the difference between it's wings and a bat's or birds wings makes things tricky)<br /><br />Evolution can truly create some amazing and weird things.<br /><br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_%28dinosaur%29mithrilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03088999203605302318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-80637385633586753402012-01-17T17:24:27.893+01:002012-01-17T17:24:27.893+01:00And about the winged dinosaur part... Yes, birds a...And about the winged dinosaur part... Yes, birds are in fact theropods, but no dinosaurs had membraneous wings, while pterosaurs did. (I assume you meant meant animals with membraneous wings once the animal in the picture is depicted that way)<br />Pterosaurs certainly weren't dinosaurs, it seems they even weren't archosaurs, but fenestrasaur descendants (sharovipteryx) ;-)Petrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06537642993606964893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-67760493644485675292009-03-31T15:42:00.000+02:002009-03-31T15:42:00.000+02:00To be fair, it is suggested in the book that Kong ...To be fair, it is suggested in the book that Kong is not a gorilla, but a descendant of Gigantopithecus, and that both his ancestors and the Skull Island Gaur came to the island through the humans.Metalraptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053007518293924808noreply@blogger.com