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| Ook | Mar 10 2010, 11:13 AM Post #1 |
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Edited by Ook, Jul 14 2010, 07:20 AM.
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| dialforthedevil | Jun 27 2010, 03:09 PM Post #136 |
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Sorry Bexi just a species suggestion 
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| Holben | Jun 27 2010, 03:13 PM Post #137 |
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Ah... i thought i'd forgotten something. Thanks there! Well teratorns blatantly flew, fossil evidence, non-vestigial wings, and their weak legs meant they couldn't get far on ground. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ook | Jun 27 2010, 03:28 PM Post #138 |
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i am open to any ideas 
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| The Dodo | Jun 27 2010, 07:42 PM Post #139 |
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Teratorns could fly, although they didn't fly very often. They probably behaved like storks searching on the ground for prey only flying to escape danger or move to another feeding ground. On the subject of birds how about flightless skuas as predators in Antarctica. |
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| dialforthedevil | Jun 28 2010, 12:16 AM Post #140 |
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Why flightless they do well enough as it is? Are seals still going in this? |
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| The Dodo | Jun 28 2010, 05:11 AM Post #141 |
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If they become flightless they can grow bigger and take on bigger prey. |
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| Ook | Jun 28 2010, 07:36 AM Post #142 |
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yeah,i have few concepts for antarctic and flightless skuas was one of ideas |
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| Cephylus | Jun 29 2010, 10:30 AM Post #143 |
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The largest bird I ever used for my projects was a 2 tonne moa-like animal. Well there's always a chance of birds evolving a different bone structure, better at supporting heavier weights. Since many large herbivores are extinct and that niche is open to exploitation, I think there would be no stopping those birds evolving into large browsers. Just because birds were lightweight before doesn't mean they'll ge bigger. I have an idea: what about weird species of giant chicken from Hawaii with an ugly, deformed look due to millions of years of inbreeding and isolation? I know it would have a very low chance of survival in normal environments, but it would be able to survive in their island habitats because the other animals living on Hawaii are as equally deformed as the giant chicken |
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| Ook | Jun 29 2010, 10:40 AM Post #144 |
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cool,there will be many species of flightless chickens(maybe carnivorous too-chickens are omnivores) at Hawai..that ugly could be at some small and new islands,and will be descendants of one fertilized chicken..
Edited by Ook, Jun 29 2010, 10:42 AM.
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| Pando | Jun 29 2010, 10:43 AM Post #145 |
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...one fertilized chicken? It's doomed then, it needs the entire species. Inbreeding would either cause some very bad effects (like inability to breed), or it will lose the effects in a few million years, and maybe they don't have to inbreed at all. O mean, Hawaii is a small island but animals bigger than a chicken lived there before and they didn't inbreed. |
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| Ook | Jun 29 2010, 10:45 AM Post #146 |
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it could be new subspecies,or isolated population |
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| Ddraig Goch | Jun 30 2010, 12:17 PM Post #147 |
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Unless the population started at a very low number, for example barely a dozen individuals. |
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| Ook | Jul 5 2010, 09:56 AM Post #148 |
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possibility of ostrich like mammals taht are bigger that are actually bigger than jerboa? |
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| Pando | Jul 5 2010, 10:02 AM Post #149 |
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Jerboas can't get too big, I asked the same question in the Postozoic. It's because if they continued hopping their hips would be too narrow for birth. |
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| Ook | Jul 5 2010, 10:38 AM Post #150 |
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i dont say hopping,but ostrich like..and they could be small when they born |
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