Comments on: A Dinosaur’s Pterosaur Lunch http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/03/a-dinosaurs-pterosaur-lunch/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: gary helps http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/03/a-dinosaurs-pterosaur-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-6472 gary helps Wed, 30 May 2012 05:14:46 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7414#comment-6472 I still do allot of up to date info on the fighting dinosaur fossil found in 1971 in mongolia the GI10025 specimen in ullan battar museum i know so much detail on that fossil its allmost complete.also check out the fossil of rahonavis from madagascar its the size of a raven & has a big claw on its feet just like velociraptor very cool.ps after that fossil was found & made availible to the public i saw that,I said i bet velociraptor had feathers sure enough they found evidence of that quill knobs along the forearms. I still do allot of up to date info on the fighting dinosaur fossil found in 1971 in mongolia the GI10025 specimen in ullan battar museum i know so much detail on that fossil its allmost complete.also check out the fossil of rahonavis from madagascar its the size of a raven & has a big claw on its feet just like velociraptor very cool.ps after that fossil was found & made availible to the public i saw that,I said i bet velociraptor had feathers sure enough they found evidence of that quill knobs along the forearms.

]]> By: gary helps http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/03/a-dinosaurs-pterosaur-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-6471 gary helps Wed, 30 May 2012 04:58:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7414#comment-6471 I was wondering what type of pterosaur that was thank you. I was wondering what type of pterosaur that was thank you.

]]> By: gary helps http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/03/a-dinosaurs-pterosaur-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-6469 gary helps Tue, 29 May 2012 04:19:55 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7414#comment-6469 Any predator will scavenge when it gets the oppurtunity to.We allready know about velociraptor vs protoceratops i"ve looked at so many photos of fossil its very cool.I 1rst saw that photo back in 1978 natianal geographic mag.still got the magazine.I allways liked the smaller long arm big claws carnivore dinos.!!!!!! Any predator will scavenge when it gets the oppurtunity to.We allready know about velociraptor vs protoceratops i”ve looked at so many photos of fossil its very cool.I 1rst saw that photo back in 1978 natianal geographic mag.still got the magazine.I allways liked the smaller long arm big claws carnivore dinos.!!!!!!

]]> By: David Peters http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/03/a-dinosaurs-pterosaur-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-5985 David Peters Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:23:24 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7414#comment-5985 The bone appears to be the central portion of a radius, which would have had some meat on it.The pterosaur that most closely matches in size and chronology is Zhejiangopterus. More on this in pterosaurheresies.com later today. The bone appears to be the central portion of a radius, which would have had some meat on it.The pterosaur that most closely matches in size and chronology is Zhejiangopterus.

More on this in pterosaurheresies.com later today.

]]> By: Robert Sloan http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/03/a-dinosaurs-pterosaur-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-5984 Robert Sloan Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:49:56 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7414#comment-5984 Scavenging, stealing prey from other hunters and killing are part of the repertory of every active predator I know of that's living today. It makes sense that the most active, most effective predators of the Cretaceous wouldn't turn down a free lunch either or be above stealing someone else's kill. Scavenging, stealing prey from other hunters and killing are part of the repertory of every active predator I know of that’s living today. It makes sense that the most active, most effective predators of the Cretaceous wouldn’t turn down a free lunch either or be above stealing someone else’s kill.

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