New on the Dinosaur Toy Blog. A plush Quetzalcoatlus (Field Museum, Wild Republic): https://dinotoyblog.com/quetzalcoatlus-field-museum-plush-wild-republic/

"...most of the toy features a very short coat of polyester fuzz, which is actually quite fitting for a pterosaur that was likely covered in hairlike pycnofibres in life."

#DinoToyBlog #pterosaur #plushie #wildlife #toy #paleontology #FieldMuseum

imagine you've spent your whole life saying "well, actually, that animal isn't a dinosaur, it belongs in [some other group]"

now imagine new fossils provoke new phylogenies, and then [some other group] is found to be within dinosauria after all!

which group gets dragged into dinosauria by new phylogenies?

#dinosaurs
#fossils
#pterosaur

Fun lil Tupandactylus sketch

#tupandactylus #tapejara #pterosaur #sketch

Clue to Pterosaur Origins Found in Fossil of Flightless ‘Rabbit Reptile’ -
A Brazilian team’s finding helps fill in the fossil record to explain how the flightless reptiles evolved in the dinosaur era.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/science/pterosaur-fossil-brazil.html

#pterosaur #Brazil #paleontology

Gizmodo: Unique Triassic Reptile Had Slenderman Claws and a Beak https://gizmodo.com/unique-triassic-reptile-had-slenderman-claws-and-a-beak-1850743773 #pterosauromorpha #dinosauromorpha #kantipollicatus #kunpengopterus #rodrigomuller #lagerpetidae #kongonaphon #archosaurs #pterosaur #triassic #dinosaur

A young 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒖𝒓 doing the thing with an older, experienced 𝑷𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒐𝒏 who's aware of the dangers lurking in the Western Interior Seaway depths.
Made on Autodesk Sketchbook.

#paleoart #dinosaurart #mosasaur #pterosaur #Pteranodon #cretaceous #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalpainting

@Wandering_Goliath
hard question.

I guess today I'll go with Tanystropheus and Anurognathus.

#pterosaur
#archosauromorph

Cunny eater pterosaur .
#sfw #pterosaur #paleoart ?

New #pterosaur alert!
This is Petrodactyle wellnhoferi, the ctenochasmatid pterosaur from Germany!

#rubberhose #cartoon #paleoart #paleontology #Petrodactyle

I finally read @dave_hone 's blog about the interesting new Solnhofen pterosaur . It's from the Mörnsheim Formation, which overlies the Altmühltal Formation, and I get the impression most of the material usually thought of as Solnhofen is actually from the Altmühltal Formation, though Dave Hone doesn't exactly say that in his blog article, so I'm uncertain.

https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2023/07/14/a-new-and-large-ctenochasmatid-pterosaur-from-the-solnhofen-region/

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/current-in-press-articles/3878-a-new-solnhofen-pterosaur

#pterosaur
#fossils

New #pterosaur species from #Solnhofen described by Dave Hone and coworkers. Got a big crest so more palaeo #SexualSelection going on. Figure 12 is especially splendid.

https://palaeo-electronica. org/content/current-in-press-articles/3878-a-new-solnhofen-pterosaur

@SkyeMcDavid
long before the invention of the pegasus, Nyctosaurus galloped across the skies, its fierce whinny echoing across the heavens
#Nyctosaurus
#pterosaur
#fossils
#pegasus

One of my test drawings for an upcoming project 🤫
#rubberhose #pterosaur

the pterosaur Tropeognathus evolved to feast on all the tropes seen in popular paleomedia.

#pterosaur
#trope
#dinosaurs

Behold, the true Holy Grail of dinosaur collecting, the mysterious Walking With Dinosaurs Ornithocheirus by Toyway.

This detailed review of the figure also explains why it is so desperately rare.

https://dinotoyblog.com/ornithocheirus-walking-with-dinosaurs-by-toyway/

#DinoToyBlog #pterosaur #WalkingWithDinosaurs #dinosaurs #Toyway

Today’s #megafauna is the #cryodrakon! This large #pterosaur lived in Alberta, Canada between 74 and 77 million years ago. At the time, the land supported a temperate forest that would have provided the cryodrakon with plenty of mammals, lizards, and baby dinosaurs to snack on. Like #quetzelcoatlus, cryodrakon was a member of azhdarchidae: a family of late #cretaceous pterosaurs characterized by long legs and necks. Most members of this family are very large, and cryodrakon had a wingspan of 33 feet.

For a long time, cryodrakon fossils were confused for quetzelcoatlus fossils. This was exacerbated by the delayed publication of a full description of quetzelcoatlus. However, the discovery of several European azhdarchidae species allowed for additional differentiation. When the original quetzelcoatlus bones became available to view, it became clear that cryodrakon was species distinct from its Southern cousin. In fact, crydrakon was apparently more robust than quetzelcoatlus, making it perhaps the largest pterosaur ever.

Did you know that despite popular belief, pterodactyls are not actually dinosaurs? They are actually a type of flying reptile called pterosaurs.

#science #scienceactually #pterosaur #pterodactyl

On this second day of #MegafaunaMay, our daily #megafauna is quetzelcoatlus. Named after the feathered serpent god of the Aztec religion, this gigantic #pterosaur lived during the late Cretaceous period in modern-day North America.

With a maximum weight over 500lbs and a wingspan over 30 feet wide, #quetzelcoatlus has inspired controversy over its flight capabilities. For some, its massive size sheds doubt on the idea that it ever flew, but aerodynamic models suggest that it was, in fact, the largest flying animal known to have existed. The towering pterosaur was originally thought to have flown like modern condors by soaring on thermal updrafts in the air. However, more recent research suggests that it instead has more in common with the kori bustard, using its strong wing muscles to complete short, low flights.

Even short flights are impressive from such a heavy animal, and the wings had to be very wide in order to allow them. In fact, quetzelcoatlus’s wingspan is so long that its folded wings touched the ground when it stood on its 6-foot tall legs. This gave the pterosaur a unique approach to walking: each wing had to be moved out of the way of its corresponding foot with each step it too.

Like other #pterosaurs, this species had hollow bones, so its fragile remains are rarer finds than those of contemporary dinosaurs such as the T-Rex. Skulls have given us many hints about quetzelcoatlus’s lifestyle: its large eye sockets suggest that had excellent eyesight; its beak suggests a diet of creatures skimmed out of the lakes near where its fossils have been found; and a bony crest on top of its head could potentially have been used for attracting mates or controlling flight. Although we do not have a complete skeleton of quetzelcoatlus, reconstructions and comparisons to modern species have allowed us to fill in the gaps.

New on the Dinosaur Toy Blog, another Jurassic World pterosaur action figure. Not Pteranodon this time!

Quetzalcoatlus (Jurassic World: Mega Dual Attack by Mattel): https://dinotoyblog.com/quetzalcoatlus-jurassic-world-mega-dual-attack-by-mattel-2/

"The relative proportions of the head and body may be somewhat off, but unlike certain other Mattel toys, there’s really nothing exaggerated or monstrous about this Quetzalcoatlus."

#DinoToyBlog #pterosaur #toy #dinosaur #ActionFigure #jurassicworld #jurassic #world #Mattel

#watercolor #azhdarchid #pterosaur