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Dromaeosaurs on air (again) by Inmyarmsinmyarms, literature

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Dromaeosaurs on air (again)

I've previously written extensively about the flight capacities of dromaeosaurs. I also posited on the role of hindwings in early paravians. Recently, a study seems to have vindicated me in some areas and forced me to reconsider. This study showcases the trackways of what might possibly be a microraptorine, which are widely spaced. If taken to be normal footprints, it would indicate a land speed superior to that of cheetahs. So the people behind this paper proposed a more logical solution: that the trackways were made by an animal occasionally taking flight and landing, like wing assisted jumps. This solidifies aerial behaviour in some non-bird theropods as well as indicate that the microraptorines not only could take off from the ground but that their hindwings likely contributed to this wing-assisted means of running. As always, new discoveries show that dinosaur flight predates birds and that it was present in a variety of behaviours with no clear modern analogue.

TLH: Prehistoric Planet Episode 1: Coasts by TyThom1999, literature

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TLH: Prehistoric Planet Episode 1: Coasts

Hello Everyone, this is my new story which is my crossover of Prehistoric Planet starring the Characters of The Loud House and there will be references and quotes from their series. This is inspired Bvega42 version, the crossover images found on Deviantart, and the Time Trapped Episode. Enjoy! An Apple Original A BBC Studios Production In the Natural History Museum of London, in one of its halls, stood a model skeleton of the greatest predator ever known to leave its footprint on history. 40 feet long, and over 12 feet tall, it was the meanest and scariest of them all. It was the most ferocious predator of all time. "Surely one of the most remarkable animals that has ever existed, and certainly one of the famous, is a dinosaur." Said famed Naturalist David Attenborough and gestured to the great predator's skeleton. "Tyrannosaurus Rex. An animal to spark the imagination for all of us. What kind of an animal was it? What did it look like? How did it live? Now, scientific research