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Hello! I'm here because I'm interested in paleoart and speculative evolution, and what better place to learn than from the fossil finders themselves! I grew up in urban Florida, so I've never really had the opportunity to go looking for fossils. I don't think I've even seen a fossil out in the "wild" (except maybe a time I saw some shell imprints in a piece of rock on display at a spring), and I've honestly barely even seen rock out here. So, as you can probably tell, I don't know the first thing about fossils. I'm honestly just here to learn, maybe about anatomy, preservation, etc, things that can help me with my quest to reconstruct lost worlds. Who knows, maybe you guys could even point me in the direction of good fossil-finding places, and teach me techniques for recovery.

7 ft tall Three toed tracks Walks flat on its feet, not on the sides of its feet Three fingered claw marks Osteoderms in skin Ancestor of cloepus, not bradypus Found in North America (do any known ground sloths have a smaller tail or even no tail at all?)

Hello guys. I want your opinion on some thing, it's a paleoart idea I call Therizinopteros brazilienensis from the Santana Formation in Brazil. It's part of a late surviving group of Wukongopteroid pterosaurs that survived way into the Early Cretaceous. It was the last and most advanced member, a super predator, a hunter of other, bigger pterosaurs. It went after giants like Tapejara, Anhanguera, even the giant Thalassodromeus! This thing was a monster, and yet it only had a six foot wingspan. The reason why it can take down prey 5 times its size is because its killing method was brutal. There's a reason why it's name means scythe wing from Brazil. It was very fast and maneuverable and could stoop like a falcon. Males had a large aerodynamic crest that was colorful and could be used used for display purposes to attract a mate or to frighten a rival. They ha sharp teeth and large claws, the largest being their thumb claw, or their "killing claw". This claw was their most effective weapon. What they would do, they would fly up to the pterosaur or dive at them, extend their claws, then rip them open. If they killed over the ocean, they would dive in and pull the pterosaur back to shore to eat. they were strong swimmers, comparable to modern seabirds. This pterosaur was a very effective hunter. It's certainly not a friendly animal, but it sure is interesting. I will be posting my paleoart in a day or two when I finish. It's going to be awesome! I hope you guys like it.