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Azhdarchidae

up to 10 m wingspan, hunting on ground, weird beasts.
>> Anonymous
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Azhdarchidae

Flying creatures, taller than giraffes.
>> Anonymous
I do believe you are making up animals here, good sir.
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Hatzegopteryx, the biggest fucking flying thing ever.

I wonder who's bright idea it was these things should all have unpronouncable impossible to remember names?
>> Anonymous
>>254528

Nope. Azhdarchidae is a real family. Quetzalcoatlus is probably the most famous of them, but Arambourgiania and Hatzegopteryx have the longest wingspans.
>> Anonymous
Holy crap. This has piqued my interest.
>> Anonymous
>>254538I wonder who's bright idea it was these things should all have unpronouncable impossible to remember names?

We should come up with new names.

Biscuit.
>> Anonymous
We name them like that in case we ever find a colony of people who still speak pure Latin. Then we'll be all like, "Omg we did this for you" and they'll be like "K."

Most of these things have common English names, but no one uses them because Giant Fucking Pterosaur is too ambiguous.

If they don't have common names, then no one cares enough.
>> Anonymous
Holy fucking shit awesome
>> Anonymous
>>254553
There's no reason you couldn't come up with an easy Latin name like Tyrannosaurus (which I guess is actually pure Greek, but anyway...) What is wrong with neat names like Megadactylus or Ultranodon? Not only would they be easier to learn but also make the animals sound more awesome too.
>> Anonymous
>>254560

Paleontologists have their reasons. Some of them are weird reasons. Some simple enough like a translation of a phrase (eg Hatzegopteryx = Ha?eg basin wing). They're a strange bunch.

There's a dinosaur called Crichtonsaurus. Also Micropachycephalosaurus.
>> Anonymous
Oh yeah, and all of these names are easy to pronounce if you know extremely basic latin rules and take more than 2 seconds to look at the name.
>> Anonymous
>>254566

Ahh, micropachycephalosaurus, my favourite word when playing hangman back when I was a kid. No one wanted to play me though... ;_;
>> Anonymous
>>254566
Most paleontologists are terribly uncreative. Mostly all they come up with is just location+saurus or location+body part. Actually, I think it may be more laziness than lack of creativity.

But there are some pretty good ones out there too, like the nodosaur Animantarx (living fortress) and funny ones like Eucritta melanolimnetes (Creature from the Black Lagoon). And Quetzalcoatlus isn't all that bad either, even though it was more of a hairy hang glider than a feathered serpent.

Too bad they apparently didn't approve of Urinator...
>> Anonymous
>>254538
how does it take off off the ground? It's legs are attached to it's wings
>> Demyx's Landmaster !!LRYbbMT7F9I
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You want weird dinosaur names?

Dracorex hogwartsia, "Dragon king from Hogwarts"
>> Anonymous
>>254642
Suppose it climbs to a high point and just drops.
>> Anonymous
jumping from a cliff?
>> Anonymous
>>254538
Let's make our own names then.
Would Camelopteron be okay? (That's supposed to mean camel-wing or giraffe-wing, I'm terrible with latin. Help me out here /an/.)
>> Anonymous
>>254676
I think you mean Giraffapteryx.
>> Anonymous
>>254575
That's a pretty shitty hangman word. It has too many different letters in it.
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