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pencil 2009,Some 49 million years ago. Human-sized flighless bird Gastornis sarasini is causing trouble for Eurotamandua joresi.
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Yeah, but Gastornis isn't actually a Terror Bird, it's a duck relative
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Actually Gastornis is a Species of Terror Bird. Lets just say it was the very first species and it was possibly the ancestor to all Terror Birds. It was a carnivore that hunted Eohippus. Eohippus was a dog sized ancestor to all horses and Was the most primitive of all horses also. It also had paw-like hooves. Gastonis Was about the size of a basketball player and is had a powerful beak used to stab its prey and powerful legs used for running and for giving a fatal kick towards its prey also. Terror birds went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene and where one of the most successful bird species of all time. They were also extremely intelligent. I love studying prehistoric animals. You learn something new everyday.
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No, it really is an anseriform. Apparently you haven't read the up-to-date taxonomic classifications.
Also, it has been proven to be a strict herbivore.
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The multiple books I've read and the documentaries I've watched said this animal was a species of terror bird and was a carnivore that preyed upon small herbivores such as Eohippus. Also this animal's beak is curved like that of a hook which means that it was used for tearing flesh similar to that of raptors or commonly known as birds of prey.
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It was long thought to be a gruiform, but by the late 1980s a phylogenetic analysis proved it to be an anseriform.
As for the diet, it was indeed long thought that it was either a carnivorous or omnivorous predator, ambushing smaller animals like Eohippus. But recent evidence in the late 2000s/early 2010s suggests that it was likely a true herbivore, studies of the calcium isotopes in the bones of specimens of Gastornis showed no evidence that it had meat in its diet. The geochemical analysis further revealed that its dietary habits were similar to those of both herbivorous non-avian dinosaurs and herbivorous mammals when it was compared to known fossil carnivores, such as Tyrannosaurus, leaving phorusrhacids as the only major carnivorous flightless birds.
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You need to look at modern science. Consult eartharchives.org and phenomena.nationalgeographic.com
Seriously, recent studies have shown it is a herbivorous anseriform.
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I reaserch this animal more thanks fo the Info
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I know Gastornis isn't a Terror Bird.
But ı've no idea it related to Ducks ! A walking duck... With a Beak
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....ducks already can walk and have beaks.....
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Lol ! I know
But please compare this: vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/w…
www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/83035.jp…
To THIS ! :
l.rgbimg.com/cache1rKqTG/users…
everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.c…
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Well, they may bear little resemblance to one another, but they are still of the same order.
Another similar phenomenon of this is Bears and Raccoons looking different but still being in the same order.
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True !
Wow... Rackoons & Bears ? I newly learned that !
Then bears aren't only related to canines
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Yeah, Canids, Bears and Raccoons are in the order Carnivora, which also includes Felines, Mongooses, seals, Hyenas, Weasels (find out more if you'd like)
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No... Not carnivora. I meant the mighty Caniformia !
Here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caniform…
All raccoons, bears & canines were relatives.... This excludes especially felines
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What I mean is that both Caniformia and Feliformia are of Carnivora
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True. But they were different genera\clade of animals who made from 'more closely' related species. Both of the genera's were relatives; yes; but they are more far related.
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Wow! Is that a Gastornis is going to hunt an anteater for dinner? I like that drawing. It looks nice.
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That's not an Anteater, that's a similar-looking Mammal called Eurotamandua
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Oh, ok, so that kinda looks like and anteater.
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Didn't know we already had anteaters back then. Great work, it looks very lifelike
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That's not an Anteater, that's a similar-looking Mammal called Eurotamandua
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Yes "we" did.
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This looks really if you would sit there and drew it when you watched it
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The Phorusrhacids were distant cousins to the cranes and rails, but who was Gaston more closely related too?
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Actually, the Phorusrhacids' closest living relatives are the Seriemas
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Actually, the Phorusrhacids' closest living relative is the Seriama
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Dodo! <3
No joo, tiedän ettei ole, mutta se oli ensimmäinen ajatus ja dodot on yksi hassuimmista otuksista ikinä kiiwien ohella. Tietysti se on luultavasti vähemmän hassu heti sellaisena ihmisen kokoisena ja lihaa syövänä....
Mutta, söpö silti.
Ja muurahaiskarhu. <3
Todella mukava lyijykynätekstuuri tässä, varsinkin linnun höyhenissä.
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Excellent perspective in this, good "energy" to work.
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great work
I can't imagine these scenes of Messel... I don't know very well the characteristics of these animals. I need to read more... I only know that in Germany there are ever new specimens to collect and study.
well.. amazing job my friend
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Gastornis, a great bird, this inspier me to do more killer-birds.
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Of course the "true killerbirds" were the Phorusrhacids of South America, but I liked the idea of Gastornis (or Diatryma), the biggest carnivore on land in its time, the bird that ate horses
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Except it was a herbivore.
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No, a herbivore. The isotope analysis proves that.
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Well, just because that study says something, it doesn't mean that it's necessarily true. Life is full of mysteries and surprises, and I for one like to think beyond what is already known.
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Actually yes it true, an istope analisises is definitive about an animals diet. Even before the 2013 study many paleontologist assumed that Gastornis was a pure herbivore do to its lack of sharp talons and a hooked beak, and now they`ve been proven right.
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Not even any stomach contents to suggest it might have scavenged instead of hunted, as well as plant matter?
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No,like I said the istope analisises already showed that it was purely herbivorous and isotopes don`t lie, finding stomach would only comfirm what`s already comfirmed.
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Well, I suppose that's reasonable.
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Yes, I have read about the recent evidence swinging into that conclusion (I drew this in 2009, when it was considered just plausible). As for the pic itself, we can assume it just hates anteaters
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The worst inaccuracy error in the whole WW series.
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Good grief, can you give it a rest?!
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