FfFfFfFF 58,136 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 George RR Martin is celebrating after a palaeontologist, who named a new genus of pterosaur after the dragons of House Targaryen, agreed with him that dragons should have two, rather than four, legs. The fossilised bones of Targaryendraco wiedenrothi, which lived 130m years ago, were discovered by Kurt Wiedenroth in 1984 in northern Germany. The specimen was originally classified within the Ornithocheirus group of pterosaurs, as Ornithocheirus wiedenrothi, but the toothy pterosaur has now been reassigned to the new genus Targaryendraco. “All these species are from shallow coastal environments and probably fed on fish,” study leader Rodrigo Pêgas, a palaeontologist at Federal University of ABC in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, told National Geographic. “The slenderness of jaw is the main feature they share … it’s the most extreme slenderness in the jaws of any toothed pterosaurs.” The wings, he added, “were elongate and narrow, and this shape is specific for modern birds and bats that fish on the wing”. Pêgas and his co-authors chose the name because the oddly dark fossils reminded them of the black bones of the dragons from Martin’s fantasy series, and because “pterosaurs have inspired some biological aspects of the dragons”, they write. Dragons are often depicted with four legs and two wings – “but this doesn’t make any biological sense,” Pêgas told National Geographic – whereas Martin’s versions have two hind legs and two wings. “I always thought this was very nice, especially because I work on pterosaurs,” said Pêgas, adding that he was “a big nerd and a big fan of Game of Thrones”. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/26/game-of-thrones-honoured-in-new-classification-of-pterosaur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTPOPe 10,169 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 House Targaryen... ... the only house that matters ... the only house that will get a spin-off ... the only house to have a genus named after them We love to see it, Perzys Ānogār, bitches existing in the context of all in which I live and what came before me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanWinchester 41,390 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 1 hour ago, FfFfFfFF said: agreed with him that dragons should have two, rather than four, legs Those are wyverns Flyin' like a 1000 Doves Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanWinchester 41,390 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Flyin' like a 1000 Doves Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorno Giovanna 3,178 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, DeanWinchester said: so according to this picture, chickens are wyvern?!?!! 11!!1!1 shook omfg, all my life I've been eating wyvern nuggets このジョルノジョヴァンナ夢がある Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer 12,526 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Targaryens just keep on winning D&D who? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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