Why don't parents teach their kids not to bully
Its not that hard to teach your kids not to bully but yet somehow parents don't teach their kids not to bully. Is this laziness or something else.
Its not that hard to teach your kids not to bully but yet somehow parents don't teach their kids not to bully. Is this laziness or something else.
A Hatzegopteryx has made its way to to Hell Creek far away from it's native habitat in Europe. A Steller's Sea Eagle, a bird normally found in Asia, made it all the way in Maine in 2022 and since we know that Hatzegopteryx's flight capabilities ment it wasn't restricted to just Hatzeg Island, I think it can be possible that Hatzegopteryx could have flown all the way Hell Creek though rarely.
looks like a Hatzegopteryx came to Hell Creek today. I would like to say hello but I don’t think he’s in the mood today. But at least I get to see a Hatzegopteryx.
In their last episode they portrayed our environment as a dying, volcanic land when thats far from the truth. They put Dromaeosaurus in Hell Creek which Dromaeosaurus didn't live there didn't live there. And to top it all off, they had a T.Rex that dose not look like a T.Rex. I still love Walking With Dinosaurs though and I know that it's an outdated documentary.
This sounds impossible but what if, in some alternate universe, basal, non pygostylian avialans survived the KPG extinction and pygostylians went extinct? Would the basal avialans get better at flight with their long, bony tails, or would they have competed with some of the early mammals like Propalaeotherium or Mesonyx.
Unfortunately since this got removed from r/Paleoart, I had to post it here. Anyways, this picture depicts a Velociraptor killing President Trump. This is a sketch so I didn't color in anything except the blood. I also dont condone murdering people.
Note that this is a joke, its an impossible situation not ment to be taken literally.
Here's are some drawings by me comparing a real raptor vs a fake movie monster both based on Deinonychus.
The real raptor is the most accurate raptor. Here are its qualities
Bird-like eyes.
Folded wings with flexible wrist though the wrist aren't as flexible as modern birds.
A long, stiff tail that counterbalances the body when running like the tail of a Roadrunner. The tail is flexible at the base though based on one Velociraptor specimen, the tail can flex from side to side.
Possibly the thighs might have been hidden underneath the feathering giving a "backwards knee" look like in birds.
Possibly long leg feathers considering Anchiornis had leg feathers that extended down to the ankle and Anchiornis was mostly ground dwelling.
Fake Raptor is a movie monster. Here are its qualities
Head is way too lizard-like.
Eyes are either too crocodillian or just straight up cat-like.
Sparse quills on its arms rather than full wings and full body feathering.
A tail thats way to straight.
A tail thats way too thick being more comparable to the tails of non-maniraptorans such as Allosaurus or Dillophosaurus when in fact, the caudofemoralis muscle in dromaeosaurs was reduced.
These drawings are basically a comparison between two raptor depictions in media with one being accurate and the other a Hollywood movie monster made to entertain people and is very outdated. Hope y’all like it.
I came up with some ways to draw the wings of Dromaeosaurs and other maniraptorans. Hope y’all like it.
Image 1 is the most proper wing and most accurate. Not only dose it look like an actual wing, it takes inspiration from the wings of modern birds like eagles with primary and secondary coverts, no alula feathers unless it’s microraptor because most Dromaeosaurs were flightless, Scalpuar, primaries, secondaries and even tertials.
Image is not even a wing just some arm with feathers attached to it. Its usually drawn for people who want to embrace the dino to bird connection without having to dump outdated reconstructions and it’s overall just a bad wing design.
Image 3 is just a ratite wing and would be good for ornithomimusaurs and basal maniraptorans but in more derived maniraptorans like Oviraptorids, Dromaeosaurs and troodontids, these shouldn’t be drawn.
anyways, y’all like my wing drawings
in some paleoart, artist draw dromaeosaurs with small wings. While I think it's curtainly possible and its pretty fun speculation, here's why I think dromaeosaurs could have had big wings.
I think dromaeosaurs could have had big wings because we found a flightless dromaeosaur, Zhenyuanlong, with massive wings and Velociraptor and potentially dubious Dakotaraptor have been found with quill knobs but that dosen't seem like much proof for big wings but I think having big wings could be advantageous for raptors especially considering the fact that they could be used as sort of aerial parachutes when going down steep drops sorta how a kakapo uses its wings to get down trees and they can be useful in doing some sort of glide thats not true gliding flight. Plus, big wings would be useful for Wing Assisted Incline Running or WAIR. Also, big wings could be useful for hiding things like stolen caracass where the wings could be used as covers to hide the dromaeosaur's stolen food like how eagles sometimes do when they steal food to not get caught by the owner.
Also, big wings can be useful for display to attract mates, allowing for more cover for nest, and, in cases when the dromaeosaur feels threatened, big wings can make the dromaeosaur appear larger to scare predators and they use them to do a "broken wing display" to distract predators from chicks. Some can say that big wing feathers wont be advantageous as dromaeosaurs still did use their arms to grab things and big wing feathers get in the way of grabbing things with their arms but I personally disagree since studies have shown that having big wing feathers wont get in the way of grabbing things plus its not like they didnt have giant foot claws and strong jaws along with their hands so that argument is toast
Now this doesnt mean all dromaeosaurs had big wings. Halszkaraptorines likely didnt considering their closest analogue is the merganser and most flightless ducks and water birds except penguins don't have relatively big wings and wing feathers but all in all, I think big wings are not just possible for dromaeosaurs to have had big wings but it can also be advantageous.
What if you were somehow able to land on Proxima Centauri B's surface. What would you see and how would it feel. Me personally I think I could potentially see some alien lifeforms if I'm lucky but I think it would definitely feel different from Earth's conditions plus the fact I'll be exposed to dimmer light form Proxima Centauri.
something rather unfortunate happened, a Velociraptor has murdered President Trump. Although I dont condone or celebrate murder, one could think Trump might have got what was coming to him
Note: this is just a sketch, thats why Trump isnt colored in to be orange and thats why velociraptor isn't also colored in either. The only thing colored is obviously the blood so anyone could know that this was bloody.
Archeroraptor thought he could get an easy meal so he attacked Leptoceratops by little did he know he was about to get instant karma as Leptoceratops would throw him of her back and beat up the Archeroraptor till Archeroraptor died which was unfortunate for Archeroraptor. Anyways, y'all like it.
I like Haast Eagle simply because that thing could literally take down a human if given the chance. My other favorites are Argentavis and Phorusrhacos the Terror Bird as they're all bigger than today's predatory birds but they're also all monsterous and Terror Birds were even capable of taking down some of the mammals in their habitat
If we somehow dumped Donald Trump into Hell Creek, would he be able to survive Hell Creek just for one day without getting eaten by a dinosaur or killed
Here’s something you don’t see too often in paleoart, Rahonavis actually hunting Falcatakely when Rahonavis is usually portrayed as not hunting something the size of Falcatakely. I decided to show Rahonavis hunt Falcatakely because with the Raptor Prey Restraint model or RPR, Rahonavis could be able to take down Falcatakely and not just be restricted to eating small vertebrates and insects.
I was made to do a presentation about dinosaurs up in front of my class as my group chose dinosaurs and I was gonna convince the whole class birds are dinosaurs. I pulled up a picture of the feet of T Rex and the feet of a cassowary and the whole class was pretty muched convinced. Yeah, so thats how I convinced my class theat birds are dinosaurs.
Two Haast Eagles are shown playing with their prey, a Kiwi. Today, modern birds of prey often do play with their food as juveniles to help them learn important lessons about hunting. Although we don’t know how social Haast Eagle was it’s not hard to imagine them playing with their food sometimes to either strengthen bonds or teach their young how to hunt.
A mother terror bird is chasing an Argentavis away from a chick, except, the chick actually belongs to the Argentavis. Although it seems unlikely that a bird is that stupid enough to make a mistake like this, there was one incident of a Penguin who taught a Petrel chick was her’s so she chased away the Petrel who was actually the chick’s mom.
Here Buitreraptor is shown taking flight but this time we actually have evidence for flight in Buitreraptor. A study in 2025 suggested that Buitreraptor was potentially capable of powered flight. Though Im not saying Buitreraptor was capable of long distance flight I thought it would be fun showing it take a short flight. Plus people don’t often show Buitreraptor flying.