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Published: 2016-12-22 06:58:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 2014; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 9
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Remarkably effective mimetic camouflage in the arboreal titanosaurs.Lanternfly Zanna chinensis:
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I've been telling people that for years!
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Mammals just never listen
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They have such a short attention span!
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So do they spring away to escape predators? Fantastic idea!
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Also to reproduce!
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Arboreal titanosaurs? We need bigger trees! Yggdrasil might be large enough....And bigger claws. Massive claws with titanic musculature and huge bone anchor points. And legs designed to wrap around the trunk, and hold the body close to the tree. And, like tree climbing spikes, any tree they climb will likely be so damaged by the holes in the bark that it dies shortly after being used as a makeshift ladder. Although I suppose if the feet were very large in surface area and more along the lines of a gecko's feet, there might be enough van der waals forces to hold up the several dozen metric tons of titanosaur without turning the tree into kindling....The bonus here is that those gecko feet would work on cliff faces, as well as trees, although I am thinking that those feet would be a very large proportion of the body's total mass. Really big feet, teeny tiny body (relatively)!
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Maybe they live in comet forests or some other such low-g environment where weight isn't an issue:
www.jonlomberg.com/images/digi…
Those are all really cool ideas, though...From what you're describing I kind of envision a drepanosaur on steroids.
palaeos.com/vertebrates/archos…
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Huge trees. And sap-eating birds that follow them as they climb.
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Redwoods would be fitting.
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A highly interesting idea, plus makes sense, now I wonder how big it is.
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