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Dragonthunders β The big but light Torasoft
Published: 2018-06-11 22:22:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 18465; Favourites: 336; Downloads: 31
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The next animal to be redesigned was the Toraton, this version I made is a bit more sauropod and with a soft shell turtle look.This Toraton is the result of millions of years of radiation that the turtles have passed, in this case is part of a variety of uprigth, herbivorous long necked titans, in a new time era of diversity after a severe mass extinction a few tens of millions of years ago that wiped out most of the dominant groups of tetrapods, leaving vacant niches to these animals to evolve. With an enormous size of almost 5 meters in height and a weight of 7 to 9 tons, it is one of the largest terrestrial animals in 100 million years in the future.
The lack of predators alongside with their enormous size has made these giants to lose the basic shell armor plates, instead they have a thick skin covering. They fed using its beak similar to that of the hadrosaurs, which is covered by the lips.
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I think this is a more realistic size for the Toraton than what is presented in the documentary itself. Now, I have no doubt that they could evolve to be bigger than Megalochelys Atlas or today's mammals if conditions allowed it. After all, they do lay eggs and don't generate as much heat as mammals since they are cold blooded. However, tortoises do not have air sacs to make them proportionately lighter like sauropods. So I am more leaning towards your estimated weight of a Toraton (7-9 tons) than the documentary's 120 ton estimate.Β
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Yeah,Β At the time I was planning the design of this I wanted to take into account the size limitations that had no pneumatic boned animals and I saw that even with an erect posture limbs and being herbivorous they would be quite small of the exaggerated 120 tons, the largest non-sauropod land animals varied in size from 16 tons to the limit of more than 20 tons, so I considered that this toraton would be in an middle bar alongside the lines of the average biggest mammals alive.
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I agree, even if it had to lose part of its shell to reduce its weight.Β
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Bruh I can hear him say: "DEEZ NUTZ" all the way from here
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I didnβt like βthe Future is Wildβ as much as Dixonβs original βZoology of the Futureβ, which struck me as much more optimistic, and better thought out.
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Wasnβt the βPoggleβ the last mammal? And SPIDER cattle?
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I love this design, especially the weirdness of the head.
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Well, no back to back mating i guess then...
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The design in general is excellent and looks much more realistic. Only I would exclude the lips of his beak.
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That animal is bigger than 7-9 tones, id wager.
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That's quite possible.
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Indeed it is. I think
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I am thoroughly confused why the Bengal swamp (And the rest of the 100 ma in the future world) didn't have any more huge reptiles. I would expect immense crocodylomorphs and hell, even snakes, maybe more turtles, predatory and herbivorous lizards etc to have taken over many of the land mammal niches. Them and birds of course. I could see flightless birds existing nicely alongside very large chelonians and squamatans as primary. herbivores
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Well, considering the limited number of species that each ecosystem has, it was expected that they did not expand in other creatures, but if they were able to put more species, I think you would be rigth into adding more reptiles, it would not be weird if squamatas managed to reach prominent positions in megafauna niches,Β although I also feel that for turtles to have developed upright posture and have emerged into a megafauna size like a sauropod, they would probably have had time and space to evolve, with niches free of any much more flexible amniota that could easilly take the megafauna niches, implying that the mass extinction event could have ended with much of the squamates and other reptiles, maybe with some handful of species left, but without having been able to recover and take prominent niches.
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Funny, I don't see many squamates going extinct. They're pretty adaptable and ubiquitous in their own right
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I only suppose based on what TFIW proposes (I mean, they proposed that mammals became extinct in 100 m.y. with only one species left), in a way I doubt enough that squamates would be brought to the brink of extinction without a truly severe mass extinction that could have decimated much of the terrestrial fauna including most of the tetrapod, probably a most plausible scenario is that squamatas are in the domain of megafauna in other regions of the planet or in other areas of the Bengal swamp and never appeared in the show.
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I'd expect avian megafaunal niches too. There are plenty of birds in the episode.Β
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I remember them saying it would be 120 tonnes... Crazy shit. Nice work!
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Huh, I remember that as well, even when they were half the size of the length of the sauropods thatΒ such measures were inferred,Β is like the neutron star of the animals, an animal so small but too heavy
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Heck... based on a GalΓ‘pagos tortoise, I got 100+ tonnes as well. Maybe their estimate wasn't that off.
Consider the following statements:
1- Sauropod's body mass is mostly located in the torso, which is vastly heavier than tail and neck put together. Sauropod's advantage in length wouldn't make much difference because tail and neck aren't that heavy.Β
2- The largest titanosaur may have been in the range of 70 - 80 tons, its torso was around ~6.5m tall (shoulder)/~7m long (not the dorsal series)/maybe ~3.6m wide.
3- This Toraton's body -> www.google.com.br/search?q=tor⦠: is taller and wider than the torso of any known sauropod that can at least be roughly estimated, implying that it would dwarf even sauropods in weight.
4- The animal appears to be a lot stockier and more compact than sauropods, making its torso even bigger.
However, if that image is not official, you can pretty much throw all I just said in the garbage.
Also, 12 - 16 tonnes seems more plausible for your Torasoft.
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The original seems reasonable to me, but I like your spin on it.
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In italian itβs called βRocciasauroβ, translated word for word is βRocksaurusβ...
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