What do y’all think about Yi qi a feathered dinosaur with batlike wings

[Brightmoon]

It’s a theropod dinosaur with feathered bat like wings . The strut holding the featherless skin is made of mainly cartilage and it’s a sort of wrist” bone”

 

[Brightmoon]

Yi qi

 

[Brightmoon]

These are other feathered dinosaurs. this is some of the evidence for why birds are considered to be dinosaurs

 

[Brightmoon]

I could haven entitled this thread better. Oh well

 

[Tone]

Cool illustrations!

 

[Michie]

I could haven entitled this thread better. Oh well

I think they are beautiful but look very dangerous. Lol! I can see the evolution there. I often look at birds today and think of this.

Anyway, you can go to thread tools on the top of your op and fix the title if you wish.

 

[Sketcher]

Probably spread some interesting viruses.

 

[Brightmoon]

Probably spread some interesting viruses.

so do people . The other great apes can catch colds from us

 

[Brightmoon]

This website has more picture of dino-birds and extinct birds

as usual because I can’t link , this is a photo and you’ll have to google

 

[Lost4words]

None of my ancestors had feathers!

 

[Brightmoon]

None of my ancestors had feathers!

mine either . They sound like they’d be fun though. Wasnt there a Buck Rogers character who was a Birdman

 

[Tom 1]

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Yi qi

Some of those look like the mythical griffin.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

It’s a theropod dinosaur with feathered bat like wings . The strut holding the featherless skin is made of mainly cartilage and it’s a sort of wrist” bone”

Reminds me of a north american folk legend prior to colonization.

I Like it, thanks for sharing.

 

[Brightmoon]

Some of those look like the mythical griffin.

just keep in mind that these are paintings of fossil species. In most cases ( but not all) we don’t know what color they were but we can see the feather imprints around the bones . Which is why we know microraptor had 4 wings instead of 2 wings and legs , for example

 

[Tone]

just keep in mind that these are paintings of fossil species. In most cases ( but not all) we don’t know what color they were but we can see the feather imprints around the bones . Which is why we know microraptor had 4 wings instead of 2 wings and legs , for example

I think they had bioluminescent neon colored wings.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

It’s a theropod dinosaur with feathered bat like wings . The strut holding the featherless skin is made of mainly cartilage and it’s a sort of wrist” bone”

Coo! It sounds more like a pterosaur, some of which also had feathers... Presumably it was an evolutionary branch that died out.

 

[Gene2memE]

Interesting.

I wonder if this is yet another example of an independent line of evolutionary wing development, or if it is a modification of an existing line?

Last time I looked, the idea was that wings/gliding structures had evolved independently somewhere between 25 and 35 times across evolutionary history.

 

[Strathos]

Looks tasty.

 

[Brightmoon]

Coo! It sounds more like a pterosaur, some of which also had feathers... Presumably it was an evolutionary branch that died out.

it’s a theropod . Pterosaurs wings were formed by a long finger and elongated wrist bones along with normal arm bones. If you look at a fossil pterosaur, you can see this. The animal looks like it has 2 forearms because of those elongated wrist bones.

Yi qi has a cartilage strut formed from the wrist bones . Maybe if the lineage had survived longer it would have eventually become bony


Pterosaurs and dinosaurs are related but one didn’t evolve from the other

 

[Tone]

Looks tasty.

Haven't we learned about not eating unclean beasts?