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Nintendo, Konami, & Sega; Locked until further notice.
Topic Started: Nov 16 2009, 08:25 PM (5,274 Views)
Kamidio
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This is a topic on all the worlds of Nintendo, Konami, and Sega. We will look at the biology, evolutionary history, and then post drawings of possible real-life versions of these characters. This is in the Habitable Zone, because alot of these characters are aliens.
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Dec 15 2009, 06:10 PM
omnivorous, featherless dinosaur, you say? How about a heterodontosaur?
We need a carnivore that occasionally had to eat rotten fruit eventually leading it to eat fresh fruit.
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Here's the thing If we do it with a Carnivore we get feathered Yoshi's which pose a problem. If we start with a Herbivore then we don't have to worry about feathers as much(and no feathered Yoshi's does not work). Also why was the rotten fruit set in stone is there not other options?
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omnivorous, featherless dinosaur, you say? How about a heterodontosaur?
Actually a proto-feathered Heterodontosaur was discovered this year (Tianyulong confuci).

Those proto-feathers might be just the result of convergent evolution, but it could also mean that the ancestors of saurischians and ornithischians (the ancestors of ALL dinosaurs) had proto-feathers, too. Then a scaled Yoshi would probably be impossible to evolve from any dinosaur.
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So a realistic Yoshisaurus would have feathers.
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Or be a different Archosaur which is not a Dinosaur.
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Maybe it could be derived from Crurotarsians? I think there were a few omni- or even herbivorous crocodiles around during the Cretaceous. A crocodile armor would also explain the "saddle" on its back, as no theropod has ever evolved armor (apart from little bony plates in some Abelisaurs).
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Sounds like an interesting idea any particular species in mind?
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I think Notosuchians would be good candidates. There have been lots of rather unusual mesoeucrocodylians in this group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notosuchia

This omnivorous Notosuchian could be a Yoshi ancestor because of its diet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simosuchus

This Notosuchian could be a Yoshi ancestor because of its armadillo-like armor, which could be reduced as the animal becomes bipedal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillosuchus

There might be other, better candidates for Yoshi ancestors, but those are the only ones I can think of.
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Those sound interesting Do have any non-Wikipedia links?

If not I'll find some different ones.
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Another good ancestor would be a flat headed pachycephalosaur, like Homalocephale. Pachycephalosaurs are well-accepted to have been omnivorous, and it's possible that a hypothetical descendant of one might lose its head dome.
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Well if it does not have feathers it could be the ancestor.
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But Yoshi doesn't have beak.
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True Yoshi doesn't have a beak but I don't think all Pachycephalosaurs do?

Also what about those Archosaurs mentioned earlier?
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Well Yoshi is stated as being a dinosaur in the Mario series, which was made when noone thought that dinosaurs had feathers.
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Well your the one who wants to do weird stuff so I doubt Archosaurs(which are closely related to Dinosaurs) will be to much of a problem?
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