It's odd that razor sharp teeth is kind of the gold standard for a scary animal, but honestly, getting swallowed whole and slowly digested by stomach acid sounds so much more horrific. I'd so much rather a T-Rex eat me than that.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Drowning in stomach acid sounds particularly excruciating.
It would have cost you nothing to not say that.
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If it's any consolation, you would suffocate long before any stomach acid got to you.
I recall reading a meme about the ocean being bullshit, something along the lines of "the most common way to die on land is something making your blood fall out".
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WTF?! Is that a bird or a starship?
Well, that sounds like a lot, until you realise that mfking seagulls can eat rabbits.
Your link mentions them weighing "a quarter of a ton". Now, idk what "ton" theyre using there, but a quarter of a US ton would be "only" 226 kg. That's ~500lbs.
I'd like to remind everyone that a reality TV-show called "My 600-lb life" exists.
So regarding hypothetical horror scenarios, I'm not too fussed about the overgrown seagull as much as I am about the feathered 4000-8000kg monster with a skull almost the size of an adult woman running at me at 70km/h.
Here's another comparison picture, though I'm not sure if it's valid or not. Looks cool, regardless.
Unrelated, but I love scientific pictures that almost look like shitposts 😀
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A giraffe weighs about a ton.
Those are very big animals indeed, but also, tve flying one can't be too thick, or it wouldn't fly.
Think of the difference between a cat and a visibly similarly sized bird, like a crow or smth. The crow would have barely any mass and you'd be able to crush it's fragile body quite easily.
A cat on the other hand, has a lot of weight, comparatively, and doesn't rely on any limbs to fly, leaving them open to be weapons. Each limb hides a handful (hehe) of razors.
I read about these mega-birdos before and iirc, they too have hollow bones?
Size is scary, and birds can be mean as fuck, but it's pretty fragile. Think of what a good whack with a baseball bat on one of those limbs would do.
And then think how much it would damage a T-rex or equivalent non-flying animal. Not even a bruise.
Large pterosaurs needed strong limbs to get off the ground, but thick bones would have made them too heavy. The solution? A pterosaur’s wing bones were hollow tubes, with walls no thicker than a playing card. Like bird bones, they were flexible and lightweight, while strengthened by internal struts.
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/how-did-pterosaurs-fly
I reckon if you gave me a bit of armor of some sort, a good knife and a baseball bat, I could take one on.
I'm joking. Semi. I know I'm probably dead wrong in that but I have a hard time imagining their fighting tactics. Although some modern birds pierce things with their beak, and if that stomped on me, it'd still weight the ~230kg, and then proceeded to peck furiously?
I don't think protective biker gear or a baseball bat would help much, and I'm not too fit rn, so my roly-poly skills are a bit rusty.
they would be able to run up to you (at probably about the same speed as a giraffe, but whats important is that it would be faster than you), and then peck at you, and if you dont get impaled by its beak, then it would probably stomp and kill you anyway
i dont think any amount of armor can hold 230kg without deforming heavily, though i could be wrong
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I know I’m probably dead wrong in that but I have a hard time imagining their fighting tactics.
It could swoop down, pick you up, lift you a few hundred feet in the air, and then drop you.
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Nowadays the most dangerous birdy is this one, capable of gutting you with a kick and they don't hesitate to do so either.
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Also a nice birdy
That first picture..
Reminds me of the Wilddruden from the Ronja Räubertochter (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) movie.
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Despite its size, it only weighed about 250 lbs. Most of its skull is hollow.
Depends, did it speak German?
Das haben wir damals noch nicht gemacht, aber mittlerweile ist das ein MUSS für jeden anständigen Dino
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This must be a poor reconstruction, no? how could this possibly fly? Tiny wings and a massive imbalance with like 2/3 of the thing being neck and head?
There's a little of both in play here.
First, the whole black and white part of the illustration is a neck flap that may or may not have existed. It makes the neck look super thick, but it was just the artist's interpretation.
Second, penguins. Pterosaurs have big, hollow heads and skeletons that look like they should have flown. The same can be said of penguins.
Look just because we haven't found any air fossils yet
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Almost the entire weight of the animal on the drawing is between its wings, and by that human there, there are more than 10 m of wingspan. Many small aiplanes are smaller than it.
Pterosaurs had a very unusual body shape that is nothing like birds.
My very quick research leads me to believe they have very little skeletal remains that they used to guess what this guy must have looked like. I could be wrong
you can make anything fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.
S'why I never understood the expression 'when pigs fly'. Like... do you really want me to abuse a pig?
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kitty : 3
Hatzegopteryx
HatzeGOPteryx
GOP
What, did this thing hate women?
Pteryx means wings, hence the joke doesn’t fly.
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