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To clarify, the creature depicted here is Quetzalcoatlus which is a pterosaur whose name was based on Quetzalcoatl, and here it is being represented as such
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Tag yourself! I’m the lady playing the drum.
I’m the only guy holding a flared base object ready to serve my god
I’m the mighty Quetzalcoatlus, bow before me.
How has there not been a Dinotopia animated series. It would print money.
That’s a good question. I spent hours sitting in the isles of comic shops reading those.
Childhood is being in awe of the rex. Adulthood is running from these demons.
Wait, did the Aztec know that dinosaurs had feathers?!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-a-pterosaur-is-not-a-dinosaur-87082921/
But also, probably. They were crazy but pretty fucking smart.
There is no reason for news sources to keep applying the word “dinosaur” to pterosaurs. We have known about this distinction for a long time, and I bet that your average 10-year old paleo fan would know not confuse the groups. With even just a tiny bit of an evolutionary perspective, the distinction becomes clear.
They were crazy?
Why does he have cartoon legs?
