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| Maniraptora radiation; speculative forms of maniraptora; are they plausible? | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 26 2010, 09:18 AM (1,291 Views) | |
| Cephylus | Jun 26 2010, 09:18 AM Post #1 |
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Maniraptora are bird-like dinosaurs, as all of you know. They have a lot of chance at surviving and a lot of potential. I'm thinking they'd probably survive the Eocene-Oligocene cooloff and maybe fill niches emptied by extinction? My dinosaur project(on my wikidot site) has a lot of different maniraptora dinosaurs, although they are yet to be written down. I have large quadruped browsers, some tree-climbing ones with a monkey lifestyle, fish eaters and some large carnivorous tyrannosaur-like ones. Well how would maniraptora really evolve with no K-T? I'm open to suggestions |
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| Cephylus | Jul 2 2010, 05:52 AM Post #31 |
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Okay, so I'm double posting now. some species of dromaeosaurs: Kwana Kwanas are terrifying, awesome predators found throughout the jungles of Southeast Asia. They are gigantic dromaeosaurs, apex predators in their habitats. These creatures are heavily built, powerful predators, far more robust and muscular then the regular dromaeosaur shape. These animals are solitary predators, rather like tigers in Home Earth, although lose groups consisting of 3 or individuals sometimes hunt together to take down giant herbivorous browsing oviraptorosaurs. Although Kwana hens are extremely protective of their own young, they are also cannibalistic animals and will often kill smaller Kwanas except for their own offsprings. Kwanas are covered with short, fluffy white-and-black plumage, although their legs and belly are featherless and covered with scales for insulation. These awesome predators can weigh up to 4.3 tonnes. |
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