Vertebrate Paleontology - Discoveries and Lectures

Status    Subject Created By Replies Views Last Post
Thread Announcement  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Uploading and sharing images
Life 6 4,962 by Shri devi
Feb 7, 2024 1:33:12 GMT 5
Thread Announcement  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Coronavirus Awareness Thread
Pages:
Life 91 16,294 by Infinity Blade
May 7, 2023 5:04:30 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling The Rise and Fall of The Straight-Tusked Elephants
Infinity Blade 1 1,549 by Infinity Blade
Feb 19, 2022 5:50:29 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Evolution of Eudromaeosauria
Infinity Blade 0 278 by Infinity Blade
Feb 3, 2022 3:05:41 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent
Life 0 334 by Life
Dec 23, 2021 19:27:08 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Why Giraffes have short necks
theropod 0 590 by theropod
Mar 14, 2021 21:08:04 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling The Cambrian Explosion and the evolutionary origin of animal
Life 0 170 by Life
Mar 14, 2021 14:31:54 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Could we ever know how dinosaurs thought or behaved?
Life 0 187 by Life
Mar 14, 2021 13:44:45 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Tyrannosaur Discoveries
Life 0 290 by Life
Mar 14, 2021 13:36:49 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Dawn of the Dinosaurs: New Discoveries from the Triassic
Infinity Blade 0 388 by Infinity Blade
Aug 10, 2020 21:40:13 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling The rise of super predatory sharks
Grey 6 2,549 by Grey
Jun 1, 2014 2:24:02 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling The Rise and Fall of the Neogene Giant Sharks
Grey 0 1,267 by Grey
Oct 17, 2013 19:49:50 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling The Life and Times of Tyrannosaurus rex
Grey 1 923 by theropod
Jul 2, 2013 0:23:48 GMT 5
Thread  
newBookmarkLockedFalling Dinosaurs of the 21st Century: masters of the sky
Grey 11 1,519 by creature386
Jun 29, 2013 0:22:32 GMT 5

Legend

Thread Announcement Sticky Locked new New Poll Bookmark

Board Information & Statistics

Board Description
Vertebrate Paleontology - Discoveries and Lectures
This section contain Lectures and/or Presentations of established paleontologists about their works and/or paleontological findings.
Board Statistics
Threads and Posts
Total Threads:12
Total Posts:31
Members
On This Board
You cannot create threads.
You cannot reply to threads.
You cannot create polls.
Members Online
Users Viewing
0 Staff, 0 Members, 1 Guest.

Shoutbox

The Chatting Zone
Infinity Blade: Dinosaur Revolution depicted Gigantoraptor like a bird of paradise, using colors, an inflatable throat sac, and dancing to court a mate. Jul 22, 2024 18:42:46 GMT 5
Exalt: Some birds are known for extravagant courtship displays. Has anyone depicted non-avian dinosaurs doing such a thing? Presumably theropods. Jul 11, 2024 6:31:19 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Cool thanks, Infinity. Jul 6, 2024 9:38:31 GMT 5
razor45dino: 1.2 tonnes is probably a large underestimate or is not representative of a 13 meter individual Jul 6, 2024 7:39:16 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: Assuming the Kaatedocus is 13 m and 1.2 tonnes, however, only gets you ~7.5 tonnes, which is unreasonable. Jul 6, 2024 7:26:59 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: If you scale a 13 m 1.9 t Kaatedocus to Diplodocus' length (24 m), it comes out to be ~12 t. This lines up pretty well with a Diplodocus' body mass at that length. Jul 6, 2024 7:24:20 GMT 5
Supercommunist: I've noticed that baboons seem to gang up on predators far quicker than other social animals. Jul 6, 2024 2:18:30 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Random question but do the weight estimates for Kaatedocus siberi look accurate? it was apparently 10 to 13 meters long and the sources I have seen state it was 1.2 to 1.9 tonnes. Jun 30, 2024 12:34:37 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: Developing it overtime would seem simpler and more intuitive IMO. Slowly, as the animal grows, it gets more and more wary of steep surfaces. Jun 26, 2024 6:34:12 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Do you think multi ton species have an innate aversion to walking off steep ledges or is that something they develop overtime? Jun 26, 2024 6:17:36 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: Tbh this is my first time hearing of snapping turtle hybrids, and a lot of what I found on the Internet is limited to social media and YouTube. Jun 8, 2024 9:01:41 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Also found some info on alligator skin according to one source, an alligator osteoderm was 15mm thick. The size of the animal wasn;t mentioned. Sun, C.-Y., & Chen, P.-Y. (2013). Structural design and mechanical behavior of alligator Jun 8, 2024 8:27:58 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Are hybrid snapping turtles legit? I thought they were in different genus but Clint from clint's reptile who has a PHD in zoology once stated he thinks they exist in one of his videos? Jun 8, 2024 8:21:22 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: As for the crocodilian skin thickness question, the most I found so far was a study analyzing three small saltie individuals (the biggest one was 1.93 m). It's called "Histological determination of skin thickness in farmed Australian Crocodylus porosus". Jun 7, 2024 7:20:33 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: I think that's possible. According to Mark Witton, prey animals have been recorded trying to escape predators by going into water, but it often fails. We're not sure why they do this. Jun 7, 2024 7:18:54 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Do you think some theropods would have opportunistically attacked sauropods while they were swimming and their necks easier to reach or is that idea too farfetched to be common? Jun 7, 2024 7:01:00 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Anyone know how thick a large alligator/crocodiles skin is? Despite how common alligator leather is, couldn't find much. A lot of sites say its only a little more than 1 mm thick but I think that was belly skin and I don't know how large the animals were. Jun 5, 2024 22:59:06 GMT 5
Supercommunist: I figured that was the case but every once in awhile you come across a weird animal that breaks the normal rules. Jun 4, 2024 22:10:29 GMT 5
Infinity Blade: Isn't the primary point of scales to prevent moisture loss? I feel like they'd be antithetical to permitting sweating. Jun 4, 2024 16:08:15 GMT 5
Supercommunist: Would it be possible for a scaled animal to develop sweat glands or does that require mammalian like skin? Jun 4, 2024 7:10:13 GMT 5
Shout as:
Refresh
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Strikethrough
  • Link
  • Insert Smiley
0/256 Send Cancel