New giant Raptor discovered in the Hell Creek Formation
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This broke a few days ago, the discovery of a new Dromaeosaurid in the Hell Creek Formation has just been announced. The paper is open for viewing and there's quite a bit of art out already, including one from [Url=http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rjpalmer_dakotaraptor_conceptart_001_by_arvalis-d9ev6iw.jpg]Saurian[/Url] as well as the official art from Emily Willoughby seen below and in the paper.
[url]http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/2015/11/01/gigantic-raptor-coexisted-tyrannosaurus/[/url]
[quote]Most dromaeosaurids were small- to medium-sized cursorial, scansorial, and arboreal, sometimes volant predators, but a comparatively small percentage grew to gigantic proportions. Only two such giant “raptors” have been described from North America. Here, we describe a new giant dromaeosaurid, Dakotaraptor steini gen. et sp. nov., from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. The discovery represents the first giant dromaeosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, and the most recent in the fossil record worldwide. A row of prominent ulnar papilli or “quill knobs” on the ulna is our first clear evidence for feather quills on a large dromaeosaurid forearm and impacts evolutionary reconstructions and functional morphology of such derived, typically flight-related features. The presence of this new predator expands our record of theropod diversity in latest Cretaceous Laramidia, and radically changes paleoecological reconstructions of the Hell Creek Formation.[/quote]
You can view the whole paper Here:
[url]https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/18764[/url]
Basically it's a 5-6m (Utahraptor-size) animal that lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops and the much smaller Acheroraptor, up until now all we've had on these guys is a few teeth that suggested that giant Dromaeosaurs lived in Hell Creek.
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So its bigger than a man with a cowboy hat and a shovel...
Interesting!
Still heart broken after JP lied to me about awesome looking raptors.
Seriously those things look like giant murderous pigeons.
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;49033087]Still heart broken after JP lied to me about awesome looking raptors.
Seriously those things look like giant murderous pigeons.[/QUOTE]
I think they look pretty fucking sweet, both iterations. Birds are some of the sleekest/beautiful animals out there in my opinion
This is definitely something interesting.
I wonder how much this thing weighed when it got to full size
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;49033087]Still heart broken after JP lied to me about awesome looking raptors.
Seriously those things look like giant murderous pigeons.[/QUOTE]
I think the first book addresses this; the genetic engineers made them featherless to fit the park goers expectations
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49033250]This is definitely something interesting.
I wonder how much this thing weighed when it got to full size[/QUOTE]
Probably in the 400-500lb (180-220kg) range. They probably weren't heavily built animals like T. rex but the preserved material shows they definitely had large wings.
Could this be the ancestor of the chicken, I wonder?
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;49034769]Could this be the ancestor of the chicken, I wonder?[/QUOTE]
I have a chicken, and I swear that fucking thing is related to one. the sounds it makes, it's feet, their behaviour.
[QUOTE=kweh;49033037]So its bigger than a man with a cowboy hat and a shovel...
Interesting![/QUOTE]
Well now we know that raptors dwarf your generic Australian male
If only we know that raptors shout "ya cunt" whenever it gets mildly mad
[QUOTE=cr2142;49034846]Well now we know that raptors dwarf your generic Australian male[/QUOTE]
I doubt that, we have a lot of big things here. spiders, people and animals.
those claws look like backwards feet
Meanwhile, Mesozoica is under hot water for releasing a model of Dakotaraptor a month earlier without permission from the scientists and paleontologists that they obtained the knowledge about Dakotaraptor strides before it was released to the public. Saurian definitely handled this better.
Do people seriously have a problem with dinosaurs having feathers? In other words, reality.
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;49035492]Do people seriously have a problem with dinosaurs having feathers? In other words, reality.[/QUOTE]
It's just people who associate birds with what they eat. Anyone who has ever met a live bird, not just seen one, knows what kind of monsters they can be. I'd feel safer in a pen with a komodo dragon than with a cassowary or several canadian geese. Every lizard I've ever met has been peaceful and gives no shits, every bird I've met from a chick to an emu has had a mean temper
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49035753]It's just people who associate birds with what they eat. Anyone who has ever met a live bird, not just seen one, knows what kind of monsters they can be. I'd feel safer in a pen with a komodo dragon than with a cassowary or several canadian geese. Every lizard I've ever met has been peaceful and gives no shits, every bird I've met from a chick to an emu has had a mean temper[/QUOTE]
I don't know, alligators and crocodiles seem to have a mean temper then again they are the reptiles that are closely related to birds.
I have an Emu, he's probably the friendliest bird you'll ever meet yet most people find him to be pretty intimidating the first time they meet him and while he's a very strong, potentially dangerous animal he doesn't have the sharp, serrated teeth or grasping forelimbs of his ancient cousins, something a lot of people forget when they see modern reconstructions of extinct Dinosaurs with full body plumage. That and if you've read anything about Raptor Prey Restraint, or seen videos of modern birds of prey using the same strategy then you'd know that being attacked by a Dromaeosaurid of decent size, especially one pushing 500lbs is probably going to result in an extremely torturous death that you won't be able to do anything about.
Man that thing looks so dumb, look at it's dumb bird body.
Even if that thing was tearing into my flesh and eating my innards i'd still just be sitting there with my arms crossed disappointed with how dumb it looked.
My opinion may be dumb, but it's silly face is dumber.
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;49033087]Still heart broken after JP lied to me about awesome looking raptors.
Seriously those things look like giant murderous pigeons.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes, The Cowboy; the standard paleontologic unit of length!
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;49033087]Still heart broken after JP lied to me about awesome looking raptors.
Seriously those things look like giant murderous pigeons.[/QUOTE]
People would probably say the same thing about discovering fur on lions, bears and tigers if they disappeared before history and were presented for decades in media as naked abominations. Pretty sure they're still considered intimidating and awesome despite being fuzzy, just like how hawks and eagles are still awesome and badass.
Dunno what you guys are talking about, looks like an 8-foot-tall eagle-monster to me. If that's not threatening enough for you I don't know what is.
[QUOTE=IliekBoxes;49033265]I think the first book addresses this; the genetic engineers made them featherless to fit the park goers expectations[/QUOTE]
Yeah Jurassic World made the same statement, they designed the dinosaurs based off what people expected to see, not what actually existed. People think of dinosaurs as giant reptiles rather than giant birds.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;49037374]People think of dinosaurs as giant reptiles rather than giant birds.[/QUOTE]
They're all related anyway.
Christ how much shit are they gonna find in Hell Creek?
[QUOTE=yellowoboe;49037436]Christ how much shit are they gonna find in Hell Creek?[/QUOTE]
everything that's bad because its Hell Creek
[QUOTE=kweh;49033037]So its bigger than a man with a cowboy hat and a shovel...
Interesting![/QUOTE]
And the hat is bent up on one side!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/GUFOJZi.jpg[/img]
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