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.
Drowning in stomach acid sounds particularly excruciating.
It would have cost you nothing to not say that.
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".
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 😀
That thing looks like a fucking dark souls boss.
Sharing tracker free link (junk at end deleted) to that since I prefer ’em. +(Piped mirror)
… oh wow I’ve seen that, absolutely wild. Is that seagull-doctor recommended behavior? Wonder how long it took that bird to fly again.
Nowadays the most dangerous birdy is this one, capable of gutting you with a kick and they don't hesitate to do so either.
Also a nice birdy
That first picture..
Reminds me of the Wilddruden from the Ronja Räubertochter (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) movie.
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
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
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.
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?
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
Idk I’m still partial to quetzacoaltus!
Fucking quesadilla birds...
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