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Ashere In reply to Orionide5 [2012-12-12 01:46:56 +0000 UTC]

Go for it, man. Can't wait to see them.

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Orionide5 In reply to Ashere [2012-12-16 06:56:24 +0000 UTC]

Just published a rough painting of the first of my ideas: a new feeding method for Tanystropheus. It's not quite a living fishing pole anymore.

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Ashere In reply to buitreraptor314 [2012-12-11 15:17:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'm trying to imagine weird scenarios for dinosaurs. Trying to break myself out of a rut.

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JD-man In reply to geekspace [2013-02-10 01:56:03 +0000 UTC]

"Troodon formosus playing cuckoo to the detriment (and future disembowelment) of its Ordroremus bunkmates?"

Actually, I think they're generic species. It would't make sense for them to be Troodon & Orodromeus, given the evidence (See the Horner quote).

Quoting Horner ( [link] ): "Data from Egg Mountain and Egg Island now provide extensive evidence to hypothesize the nesting behaviors of Troodon and the paleoecology of its nesting ground. The animals nested in colonies, used used the nesting ground on at least three different occasions, constructed nests with rimmed borders, arranged their eggs in neat, circular clutches, brooded their eggs by direct body contact, and, apparently brought the carcasses of Orodromeus to the nesting area for their hatchlings to feed on. The hatchlings left their respective nests, but may have stayed in the nesting area for a short period of time before following the adults out of the nesting ground."

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geekspace In reply to JD-man [2013-02-10 08:19:29 +0000 UTC]

Ah, so T. formosus chicks in particular received the sort of initial parental care which contraindicates the cuckoo strategy. Thanks for the excerpt.

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JD-man In reply to geekspace [2013-02-10 15:22:46 +0000 UTC]

Anytime.

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Ashere In reply to geekspace [2012-12-11 05:22:49 +0000 UTC]

It makes a lot of sense. Many animals we consider classically herbivorous supplement their diet with protein now and again, and a nesting herbivore would want her hatchlings to grow up big and strong, wouldn't she?

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geekspace In reply to Ashere [2012-12-11 06:09:23 +0000 UTC]

I do indeed recall a portion of some Animal Planet(C) feature which focused on Scottish deer making a midnight snack of some ground-nesting bird type. Plus, if I were expected to dodge maniraptorans from the egg up, I'd damn well want the energy.

...and now I'm wondering if those kid-munching Parasaurolophus from Topps' old Dinosaurs Attack! card series weren't on to something. Duckbill teeth were certainly rugged enough to mash up bite-sized bits o' meat...

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Ashere In reply to geekspace [2012-12-11 13:14:03 +0000 UTC]

To say nothing of ceratopsians, which seem supremely well adapted for eating anything they damn well feel like. I can imagine a group of Triceratops chasing a T.Rex off a carcass.

Hmmm. That might make a good illustration.

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geekspace In reply to Ashere [2012-12-11 15:30:11 +0000 UTC]

Ah, yes, elephant-scale rhino-boars with snapping-turtle beaks. Suddenly Mr. Trike & Cousins seem a great deal less cuddly than most popular media would have one believe.

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Ashere In reply to Fragillimus335 [2012-12-10 23:52:30 +0000 UTC]

So many ways that could go, right?

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