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Different World
Topic Started: Oct 22 2008, 01:32 PM (8,482 Views)
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I just realized this has some crurotarsians in it, like in TA. Whoops. Soz JF

Aetosauria - Elephant/Pig like forms
Phytosauria - Crocodiles
Prolacertiformes - Small scavengers, except for Shavopteryx descendants, and isolated large creatures
Rauisuchia - Big carnivores, and some gallimimid like forms
Rhynchosauria - Hippo like creatures
Trilophosauria - Ungulate like life forms
Younginiformes - Lizards
Avicephala - Bird like, chameleon like in some forms
Thalattosauria - Sea-lizards
Sphenosuchia - Most non volant arboreal carnivores

I'll get some work started on this soon. If anyoone would like to help, just ask.

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I thought that, but decided no pre-feather dinosaur drawings i have seen had bubble qrap in the modern sense of the word.
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.

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Feb 18 2010, 05:56 AM
Hollow, with air inside them, for insulation?
Exactomundo. Kudos to JF for suggesting it.
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Is this air from the outside, or waste air from within the critter?
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.

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I'm guessing air breathed in that diffuses into the scales. Probably wouldn't work.
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I thought your sig was your post for a moment. :o

It would so long as the epidermal membranes are thin and close to the lungs.
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Diffusing air in from the outside would be much easier, though.
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Feb 20 2010, 02:53 AM
Diffusing air in from the outside would be much easier, though.
Then I shall use that. I'm not too good with the science bits.
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You think they would have good protection and grow back fast as I imagine a lot would be popped.
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Actually, you know what'd work? Make the hollow scales not-quite-airtight. Airtight enough to prevent their contents mixing freely with the air outside, but with enough tiny pores that air could diffuse in while they were growing.

Alternatively: have them be open to the outside air while they're growing, and seal over as they finish growing.
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I'll happily accept both Dodo's and MP's first idea.
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So what animals have these bubble wrap scales? I think you mentioned ostrich-crocs before.
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Most of those with scales. Of course in some areas, they aren't required so have atrophied into relatively normal scales.
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So, are you still continuing this?
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Please do continue, it's a lot of fun.
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Of course I'm continuing this. I just haven't posted much. Doing more drawings. Also got slightly caught up in another, non-Spec project.
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