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Post by Hardcastle on Dec 14, 2022 18:56:50 GMT
Post any you make or any you see that you like. I just made this one for a Quora answer-  Interesting one from wikipedia-  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2022 17:30:47 GMT
I thought this one was pretty cool-  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2022 17:32:46 GMT
Next chart was too big, had to split it in half to upload:   |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2022 20:39:33 GMT
Is that a Fossa in your profile picture? Those guys don't get enough love or attention. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2022 2:53:55 GMT
Is that a Fossa in your profile picture? Those guys don't get enough love or attention. Yeah, I think they’re pretty badass. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 16:34:11 GMT
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Post by Hardcastle on Dec 31, 2022 17:22:49 GMT
One of the more interesting facts for me is how all dinosaurs actually descend from bipedal dinosaurs. So even massive sauropods could easily stand up on their hind legs, BUT on the other side none of the fast dinosaurs could gallop quickly on four legs. All of them were kind of like us being down on all-fours, like it wasn't a comfortable thing where they could move quickly. Sadly this means I don't really like any dinosaurs, because I don't know why but galloping on 4 legs is what makes me like animals. Any dinosaur worth anything needed to run on it's hind legs only. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 17:30:06 GMT
One of the more interesting facts for me is how all dinosaurs actually descend from bipedal dinosaurs. So even massive sauropods could easily stand up on their hind legs, BUT on the other side none of the fast dinosaurs could gallop quickly on four legs. All of them were kind of like us being down on all-fours, like it wasn't a comfortable thing where they could move quickly. Sadly this means I don't really like any dinosaurs, because I don't know why but galloping on 4 legs is what makes me like animals. Any dinosaur worth anything needed to run on it's hind legs only. Some ceratopsians and hadrosaurs were decently fast. Actually, scratch that. I’m pretty sure hadrosaurs also ran on two legs. |
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Post by Hardcastle on Dec 31, 2022 17:32:16 GMT
I know that ceratopsians are always the ones I think of that somewhat contradict my idea that dinosaurs need to run on two legs to be fast, but realistically they weren't THAT fast. If the fastest quadrupedal dinosaur is MAYBE rhino speed... that kind of sucks. And I believe that's best case scenario for ceratopsians.
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Post by Hardcastle on Jan 23, 2023 22:27:45 GMT
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Post by Hardcastle on Apr 4, 2023 13:45:37 GMT
Remade chart for caninae, this time way more accurate with way WAY more research put into it.  |
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Post by ophio on Apr 6, 2023 22:15:07 GMT
Remade chart for caninae, this time way more accurate with way WAY more research put into it. Interesting, what makes basenjis different than other dogs, would love to get some reading on it. |
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Post by Hardcastle on Apr 7, 2023 7:45:40 GMT
Remade chart for caninae, this time way more accurate with way WAY more research put into it. Interesting, what makes basenjis different than other dogs, would love to get some reading on it. You can read a little about it here, though this article doesn't mention the basenji specifically- linkIt talks about prehistoric dog migration, the title is misleading "Did dogs domesticate twice?", no they didn't. BUT what happened is dogs arose in Asia and spread west, inhabiting all of europe and some of North Africa by at least 16 000 years ago. Possibly much longer, but they have the remains of a dog from 16 000 years ago in Germany. That dog's genes, however were different to MOST modern dogs (hence why they thought maybe dogs domesticated twice). Even other dogs remains from thousands of years ago in Europe were closer to modern dogs and dogs in china than those 16 000 year old remains in germany. What happened was another migration of dogs came from the east and displaced the original dogs, some time after 14 000 years ago. That same wave would go on to populate america and australia (making the dingo) and really remove all of the original dogs from Eurasia, BUT the Basenji down in central africa was isolated, and actually is closer related to that german dog from 16 000 years ago. That's why it sticks out like a sore thumb in phylogenetic charts. See here-  Over in grey, between wolves and other dogs. Even the dingo would actually place up in the yellow with huskies, but the basenji is different. It got cut off from the dingo displacement.   ^ Extremely over-simplified, but you get the gist. |
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Post by Hardcastle on Apr 7, 2023 7:50:49 GMT
Annoyingly made a mistake in my phylogenetic chart, Armbrusteri should actually be somewhere totally different.
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Post by Hardcastle on Apr 11, 2023 4:04:36 GMT
Fixed phylogenetic chart and then went a little crazy and made this.  |
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