#archosaur — Public Fediverse posts
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has anybody mentioned SMOC is very similar to Smok, the polish word for "dragon", also used to name this carnivorous late triassic archosaur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smok_wawelski
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On 08/20/2023 (last year) During a 2nd dry summer at BBSP an alligator was moving through mud in a drying 40 Acre Lake. It would move a bit, then rest. Why did the alligator move in this direction? Did it see water? Did it remember water? Birds moved easily on the mud. This gator met 2 others chased out of a deeper spot by *another* gator. Gators talked later. 90 minutes condensed into 10 minute video: http://www.rickubis.com/rick/gators_mud082023.mp4 #Ichnology #Alligators #Archosaur
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New, small, ancient #crocodile-like #reptile described in Brazil https://phys.org/news/2024-06-small-ancient-crocodile-reptile-brazil.html
A new small-sized predatory #pseudosuchian #archosaur from the Middle-Late Triassic https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63313-3
"Prior to the dominance of the #dinosaurs, #pseudosuchians were a common form of quadruped reptile during the #Triassic (252—201 million years ago), with some species among the largest #carnivores of the time. Smaller pseudosuchians known as #gracilisuchids lived alongside these apex predators"
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04/06/2024 A young Bald Eagle was on the electrical tower at Fiorenza Park. It left the tower then circled back and landed on a small island. I moved to the tower to watch the young Eagle. An adult Eagle landed above me on the tower! I moved away a bit so I could watch it. It swallowed the fish's tail then dropped the last bit of fish. Then it "cleaned its beak" by rubbing it on the tower. During all of this, the young Eagle was still on the island. #Raptor #Eagle #Birds #Wildlife #Archosaur
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@markwitton I watched this mom gator and pod for weeks. It was a great example of how a mother alligator (that was probably blind) cared for a pod from multiple hatchlings. The pictured event happened after the heron stalked around the pod for hours that day. Video is here: http://www.rickubis.com/rick/herongator_100823.mp4 The full story (up to end of 2023) is here: https://www.rickubis.com/rick/gatr5k.html She's still in the area, but haven't seen the pod for a while. #Alligator #Archosaur
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Noah’s Heart is sunsetting April 29 as Archosaur diverts players to Dragon Raja
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2024/03/29/noahs-heart-is-sunsetting-april-29-as-archosaur-diverts-players-to-dragon-raja
#NoahsHeart #DragonRaja #Archosaur -
some people say
it's a dinosaur
other people say
it's actually
a non-dinosaur
dinosauriform
or a non-dinosauriform
dinosauromorph
or a pterosauromorph
or maybe even a
non-archosaur
archosauriform
or a non-archosauriform
archosauromorph
why
just the other day
I was sure
it was a dinosaur
or at least
somewhere near
the base
of the dinosaur tree
but keeps gettin' further
and further away it seems -
05/29/2023 At Fiorenza Park North. An Osprey was on a branch hanging over the water. I watched this one eat a fish, then wash its face by rubbing it against a branch. There is video here: https://www.rickubis.com/rick/osprey052923.mp4 and more on my Osprey page: https://www.rickubis.com/rick/brazbird2c.html #Birds #Raptors #Osprey #Archosaur #Wildlife
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I love the fact that all #birds and all #crocodiles share a recent common ancestor.
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10/08/2023 Brazos Bend State Park This mom gator and pod had been in this spot for weeks. A G.B. Heron that had already visited appeared. For an hour, the Heron stalked the area, looking for the babies that
were chirping. Mom gator chased it, but it paced around the tree. It snatched a baby from under the tree and flew off. Mom lunged out, but too late. Video: https://www.rickubis.com/rick/herongator_100823.mp4
For weeks of observations: https://www.rickubis.com/rick/gatr5k.html #Alligator #Heron #Archosaur #Wildlife #Crocodilian -
8/20/2023 at BBSP, a 4-foot long gator crossed Spillway Trail into the plants on the North side. A minute later there was commotion and the small gator hurried back across the trail. When I carefully approached where the small gator had fled, I found a mom gator down in the water with new baby gators. She was about 100 yards East from 2 hatched nest mounds. Water is evaporating & every week the levels are dropping. But there's still some activity there. #Alligator #Archosaur #Wildlife
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New #archosaur species shows that precursor of #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs was armored https://phys.org/news/2023-07-archosaur-species-precursor-dinosaurs-pterosaurs.html
The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm-bearing taxon from the #Triassic of #Madagascar https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad038/7231066
"this fossil reveals that armor was a boomerang trait in the story of #dinosaur and #pterosaur #evolution: the group's ancestors were armored, but this was lost and then independently re-evolved multiple times"
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06/11/2023 at Brazos Bend State Park, I saw 2 alligator nests on the Spillway Trail. The first was about 50 steps from the East end of the Spillway bridge; and two alligators were near it! The 2nd nest was about 50 yards further East, near bird box #18. It also had an alligator directly in front of it. Water levels near Pilant Lake look ok now, but I hope the water is still there by the end of August--when the eggs usually hatch. #ichnology #Alligator #Archosaur #crocodilian #reptiles
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04/15/2023 I was at Fiorenza Park North at 9:30am. Bald Eagle was perched on a favored spot on the high-tension tower at the South edge of the park. The Eagle seemed to be watching the retainment pond, so I waited to see if it would hunt. It TOOK OFF and hunted! The event took a few seconds. 3 images are frames from this video: http://www.rickubis.com/rick/baldeagle04152023.mp4 More eagle stuff on page: https://www.rickubis.com/rick/brazbird2b.html #BaldEagle #Archosaur #Birds #Birdphotography #Urbanwildlife #Raptor
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04/09/2023 Brazos Bend State Park, Pilant Lake. I heard alligators bellowing but I couldn't find them.
When the distant bellowing started again the gators near me started to bellow. Maybe 2 males and at least 2 females. The males were submerged deeper than usual, so there was limited "water-dancing" over them making visual I.D. difficult. Wonderful way to spend 20 minutes! The video is at this link: http://www.rickubis.com/rick/gatorbellow04092023.mp4 #alligator #archosaur #wildlife #animalbehavior #crocodilian -
Hello, I don't yet have much energy to post original content here, but I'll make an #Introduction to help me build toward that.
My research asks how animals move (mainly on land, mainly #Tetrapod #Vertebrate ones, with appendages) AND how locomotion has evolved across major transitions of #Evolution . So I am an evolutionary biomechanist.
I've studied, for example:
#Biomechanics #Simulation #Muscle #Paleo #Dinosaurs #DAWNDINOS #Crocodiles #Elephants #Archosaur #Giraffe #Rhino #Pangolin -
Hello, I don't yet have much energy to post original content here, but I'll make an #Introduction to help me build toward that.
My research asks how animals move (mainly on land, mainly #Tetrapod #Vertebrate ones, with appendages) AND how locomotion has evolved across major transitions of #Evolution . So I am an evolutionary biomechanist.
I've studied, for example:
#Biomechanics #Simulation #Muscle #Paleo #Dinosaurs #DAWNDINOS #Crocodiles #Elephants #Archosaur #Giraffe #Rhino #Pangolin -
Hello, I don't yet have much energy to post original content here, but I'll make an #Introduction to help me build toward that.
My research asks how animals move (mainly on land, mainly #Tetrapod #Vertebrate ones, with appendages) AND how locomotion has evolved across major transitions of #Evolution . So I am an evolutionary biomechanist.
I've studied, for example:
#Biomechanics #Simulation #Muscle #Paleo #Dinosaurs #DAWNDINOS #Crocodiles #Elephants #Archosaur #Giraffe #Rhino #Pangolin -
Hello, I don't yet have much energy to post original content here, but I'll make an #Introduction to help me build toward that.
My research asks how animals move (mainly on land, mainly #Tetrapod #Vertebrate ones, with appendages) AND how locomotion has evolved across major transitions of #Evolution . So I am an evolutionary biomechanist.
I've studied, for example:
#Biomechanics #Simulation #Muscle #Paleo #Dinosaurs #DAWNDINOS #Crocodiles #Elephants #Archosaur #Giraffe #Rhino #Pangolin -
Hello, I don't yet have much energy to post original content here, but I'll make an #Introduction to help me build toward that.
My research asks how animals move (mainly on land, mainly #Tetrapod #Vertebrate ones, with appendages) AND how locomotion has evolved across major transitions of #Evolution . So I am an evolutionary biomechanist.
I've studied, for example:
#Biomechanics #Simulation #Muscle #Paleo #Dinosaurs #DAWNDINOS #Crocodiles #Elephants #Archosaur #Giraffe #Rhino #Pangolin