A collection of pterosaurs I designed for Paleo Pines. (Disclaimer: These designs are concepts and may change in the final game! ) I’m a long time dinosaur enthusiast, and I always adored pterosaurs, but they are certainly unfamiliar territory for me. Their anatomy is unlike anything else, and they were the most challenging to design for Paleo Pines. I wanted to ensure that they were accurate to their true life counterparts, but still cartoony and stylised, with simplified shapes and exaggerated, cute features.
Anurognathidae This small pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China probably filled a similar ecological role as a living swallow: aerial insect hunter.
Dinosaurs are nature’s celebrities. We love them. Many of us, in the near-ubiquitous “dinosaur phase” of our youth, quickly master names like Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, and—the challenge of any young fossil fan—Pachycephalosaurus by the time we start kindergarten. But dinosaurs are changing so fast that the monstrous creatures we imagine in our youth become strangers as […]
Travel back millions of years to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth with these articles, photos, and profiles.
Hatzegopteryx thambema (Late Cretaceous 66 Ma), Life Restoration by Mark Witton
"Stormbringer" by @JuliotheArtist / Twitter
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Readers of Prehistoric Times magazine have voted the CollectA Dimorphodon model the best non-dinosaur prehistoric animal toy of 2017.
Scientists have published a new paper identifying the first pterosaur fossils known from Uruguay. The fossils come from the Tacuarembó Formation.
This German flier was sometimes no bigger than today's smaller birds. Its main claim to fame though, are its teeth, which had evolved into bristles for filtering tiny plankton out of the lagoons.
It’s probably – no, surely – true to say that palaeoart (aka paleoart) is more popular right now that it ever has been, a fact due in equal part to a vibrant, active community of people worldwide, to the instant, ubiquitous reach of the internet and the connectedness we feel via social media, to sel
The only specimen of Beipiaopterus has fossilized wing membranes preserving blood vessels and stiffening fibers.
The very archetype of filter-feeding pterosaur, Pterodaustro is also South America's first pterosaur fossil find. It took its lifestyle to a new extreme as it sifted through Argentine lakes like a flamingo.
A very well-known pterosaur from Jurassic Germany, this small toothy fisherman is also known from some excellent remains preserved in marine limestone.
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