![]() ![]() It's just getting started, so this is the perfect time to hop aboard.ĭarren Naish (of the absolutely essential Tetrapod Zoology blog) and John Conway (of the equally essential John Conway's artwork) have been turning out the TetZoo Podcast since February, having released episode 17 today. Thanks to Albertonykus and John Turmelle, there is now an Adventure Time/ Tetrapod Zoology Podcast mashup called TetZoo Time. TetZoo Time logo by John Turmelle, via his DeviantArt gallery. Having fur, they must have been warm-blooded animals and therefore have belonged to a completely different group of animals that could fly."But of course. This means that pterosaurs were not, as previously thought, flying reptiles. ![]() Then a complete fossilised pterosaur discovered in 1971 showed that these creatures were covered in fur. "All dinosaurs were thought to be reptiles, which are cold-blooded animals. The finder was a twelve-year-old British girl, Mary Anning, and the skeleton was that of an ichthyosaur.In later years, she found the first complete skeletons of two more dinosaurs, a plesiosaur and a pterodactyl."While acknowledging new ideas on dinosaurian metabolism and lifestyles, Riley also falls foul of the contemporary fondness for Linnaean taxonomy: "The first complete skeleton of a dinosaur was found in 1811. Hence, the rather charming illustration of Little Miss Mary (above) is accompanied by the following facepalm-inducing text: For you see, in the world of Riley, ichthyosaurs are dinosaurs. ![]()
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