The Fauna of Hateg Island

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Hateg Island was a truly fascinating environment on life on earth. A key example of insular dwarfism and the lengths life can go to adapt to their environment, many unique animals called the island home, and many of which were surely some of the most unique animals to have lived during the Mesozoic. Background music: Ether Oar Bright Idea - Geographer Make sure to like and subscribe to learn more about our wonderful world! Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018210003196?dgcid=raven_sd_recommender_email https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/franz-nopcsa-the-dashing-baron-who-discovered-dwarf-dinosaurs.html http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/hatzegopteryx-transylvania-s-dinosaur-hunter/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1017/S1477201903001032 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxes https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-Hateg-Island-region-present-day-Transylvania-Romania-The-contemporaneous_fig1_299364804 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/late-cretaceous-animals-of-romania-s-hateg-island-a-more-complex-view/ https://peerj.com/articles/1032/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/new-azhdarchid-pterosaur-eurazhdarcho/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018210000386 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018210000428?via%3Dihub https://peerj.com/articles/2908/ https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2010/02/23/4463863.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C8%9Beg_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodaposuchus https://peerj.com/articles/1171.pdf https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115837&type=printable https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216724583_A_revision_of_the_crocodyliform_Allodaposuchus_precedens_from_the_Upper_Cretaceous_of_the_Hateg_Basin_Romania_Its_relevance_in_the_phylogeny_of_Eusuchia https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234072017_A_Complete_Skull_of_Allodaposuchus_precedens_Nopcsa_1928_Eusuchia_and_a_Reassessment_of_the_Morphology_of_the_Taxon_Based_on_the_Romanian_Remains https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297589/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatzegopteryx https://web.archive.org/web/20160406020702/http://svpca.org/abstracts/abstract.php?abstID=00000001864&prog=on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981443/ http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-paper-when-short-necked-giant.html https://peerj.com/articles/2908/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhdarchidae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struthiosaurinae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdodontidae https://web.archive.org/web/20110710130307/http://www.dinochecker.com/papers/dwarf_%20dinos_of_hateg_island_BENTON_et_al_2010.pdf https://www.smh.com.au/national/study-on-crocodile-snouts-covers-the-long-and-the-short-of-it-20130122-2d5d4.html https://www.inverse.com/article/33199-biggest-flying-animal-ever-pterosaur-azhdarchid-quetzalcoatlus https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/11/pterosaurs-weirdest-wonders-on-wings/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/game content is recorded and edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary and social