The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: Jrd89 on July 17, 2010, 12:25:55 PM
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Today, I got something better than that silly "Pterano battle"
I found a picture.. of a rhamphorhynchus exhibit.. and it's got a real-life model of a rhamphorhynchus (in addition to a few fossils, too)
here.. have a look.... pretty amazing.. eh..?
It's Rinkus for REAL! :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...nchus_model.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Rhamphorhynchus_model.jpg)
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When I saw that picture, I immediately thought of this (http://pterosaur-net.blogspot.com/2010/06/london-pterosaur-extravaganza1-in-full.html): the “Pterosaurs: Dragons of the Air” exhibition in London (It's closed now, sadly; :cry hopefully it will be set up again someplace else). It was an exhibit focused entirely on flyers, with models of five azhdarchids (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HTBE5qgMqks/TCSQ5-YvjuI/AAAAAAAAAFE/2PG-GTOBClA/s1600/DSCF5854.JPG) (the same type of pterosaur as the giant flyer that helped carry the gang away from Threehorn Peak in LBT VI): three in the air and two on the ground (one of them (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HTBE5qgMqks/TCSOBJCdLBI/AAAAAAAAAE8/cl601AjamW8/s1600/DSCF5852.JPG) devouring a dinosaur hatchling :blink:); a life-sized picture of a Pteranodon (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HTBE5qgMqks/TCSNAKGhzGI/AAAAAAAAAE0/jNw-zfZlDbc/s1600/DSCF5851.JPG) (yup, that's how big Pterano would have been in real life :wow); a wall featuring model heads (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HTBE5qgMqks/TCSSh87AtWI/AAAAAAAAAFU/o2IS99Wh4xs/s1600/DSCF5876.JPG) of various pterosaur species, to showcase their diversity (I do believe the small one in the middle of this picture (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/wall-motley-resized_July-2010.jpg) is a Rhamphorhynchus); and a couple of models of smaller pterosaurs (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/Meerman-Dimorphodon-ornithocheirid-models-resized_July-2010.jpg) (Anhanguera [top] and Dimorphodon [bottom], to be precise). All of the models were life-sized. :o
Oh, how I would have loved to see that exhibit. :rolleyes: (You can find more information on it here (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/07/giant_pterosaurs_invade_london.php) and here (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/07/pterosaurs_err_indoors.php), and a video showing how it was set up here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10322177).)
Flyer fans, is that cool or what? :wow