Do any non-azhdarchid animals have heads 3 times the length of the torso?

A few other pterosaurs seem to have, such as Pteranodon:

Among non-pterosaurs, we have, uh, the sword-billed hummingbird:

david “what’s convergent evolution” peters

Anurognathus 

 (art credit to Andrey Atuchin, from pteros.com)

Which is the coolest pterosaur?

rebageling for sake of intrigue.

Have you read Storrs Olson’s diatribe about how cladistics is a cult & paleontologists are deliberately committing fraud so that Big Paleo will pay them off for saying that birds are dinosaurs?

He WHAT

hey op where's the link

Have you read Storrs Olson’s diatribe about how cladistics is a cult & paleontologists are deliberately committing fraud so that Big Paleo will pay them off for saying that birds are dinosaurs?

He WHAT

David Peters what the fuck

Did you see that David Peters has koalas as related to toxodon? (If you haven't, it's the post titled "The Koala joins the LRT")

……………….no way

Where do we even begin…

A group of young Alamosaurus wandering by a sleeping Quetzalcoatlus

I love azhdarchid pterosaurs even though im sure  theyre the reason the power or the universe hurled a giant rock at earth to put an end to their terrifying reign

Intended to be a quetzalcoatlus but i am no expert at pterosaur anatomy (or any extinct creature anatomy).  Definitely inspired somewhat by Howard Pyle’s 1909 painting, Marooned. 

Paintstorm Studio

More #PterosaurPtuesday goodness from @paleeoguy! —————— Time for #PterosaurPtuesday!

Here is a reconstruction of #Tapejara, an Early Cretaceous crested #pterosaur genus from Brazil’s Romualdo Formation. This slab is about 1 m (3 ft) in height. Currently on display @goCMNH!

If giraffes were predators they would look both hilarious and terrifying while sneaking up on their prey

Eopteranodon lii

By Franz Anthony, on @franzanth, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.

A reminder that we will not be able to do every pterosaur until we reach $240 in donations on our patreon, so please donate even a dollar if you can. 

Name: Eopteranodon lii

Name Meaning: Dawn Toothless Wing

First Described: 2005

Described By: Lü & Zhang

Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Eupterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiroidea, Azhdarchoidea, Neoazhdarchia, Neopterodactyloidea, Chaoyangopteridae

Eopteranodon is an Azhdarchoid perviously thought to be a Tapejarid - hence its position in the Pterosaur Ptuesday lineup - but now is thought to be a Chaoyangopterid, another group of crested, long-jawed pterosaurs, except more like the Azhdarchids in general behavior, with similarly long legs and necks, just smaller bodies. They were probably highly specialized as well, given that they all lived in similar locations while Azhdarchids lived in multiple different locations. Eopteranodon in particular lived in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, living about 124.6 million years ago, in the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous. It is known from multiple specimens, and had a wingspan of about 1.1 meters. It is one of the earliest known toothless pterosaurs, hence the name, and not really closely related to Pteranodon at all. It was a strong flier, and it probably ate fish and small animals in its forested environment. 

Sources: 

http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/eopteranodon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoyangopteridae 

http://www.pteros.com/families/chaoyangopteridae.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eopteranodon

O hai thank you for putting up with my recent string of shitposts, here take an Australian dragon as my token of gratitude for sticking around. Read more about this fella on Pteros.

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So you’ve heard rumors of a pterosaur preserved in Burmese amber over the past week? Likewise. I know a lot about it and wrote a little about it. Comments welcome.

im fucking pissing

Jiufotang pterosaurs

Artwork by Franz Anthony / @franzanth

In this swampy environment of Early Cretaceous China, multiple kinds of pterosaurs coexisted. Among them were the fisher Guidraco and the terrestrial hunter Chaoyangopterus.

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Toucans are pretty weird, right?

I mean look at them, they’re all fucking beak.

But they get weirder.

Have you ever seen a toucan skull?

I MEAN LOOK AT THIS THING THEIR BEAK IS TALLER THAN THEIR ENTIRE FUCKING SKULL