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Published: 2013-01-18 00:03:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 26617; Favourites: 463; Downloads: 124
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For the All Yestersays contest , ft. Diabloceratops, Nephila and generic Enantiornithines.It is very speculative for sure, but not a so-crazy-concept after all. Today we have oxpeckers, we have spiders that eat birds, and spiders that build their webs on impalas' antlers.
Combine all these three variables, drag them to the Mesozoic and you get something like this: A dinosaur eaten by a spider* which lives on a dinosaur.
*This Nephila acts mainly as an 'insecticide' around the ceratopsian's head, but it won't refuse an occasional gargantuan feast...
Another interesting concept of a dinosaur-killing spider: [link]
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If I were a dinosaur, I would never let a spider live on me.
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Reminds be of the Styracosaurus pet seller in the Good Dinosaur.
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What a happy pair of mutualist symbionts!
Did this make it to the book?
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On a negative note, oxpeckers are now considered ectoparasites.
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No, they are carriers and vectors of ectoparasites, not ectoparasites themselves. They and their symbiotic hosts both suffer from them together, but without them, the ox would suffer from far more other kinds of pests.
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Studies have repeatedly shown that oxpeckers are a) uninterested in ectoparasites except when desperate, and b) bloodsuckers.
academic.oup.com/beheco/articlβ¦
scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzooloβ¦
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-nβ¦
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Yeah. Turns out the reason they eat ticks (...which they usually donβt like doing) is to imbibe the blood inside the ticks.
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Is this based on the Styracosaurus from "The Good Dinosaur"
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NOPE. This is a few years older that that movie.
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Wow either film makers stole this or your a time travelerΒ
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Giant Spiders... And Dinosaurs... WORKING TOGETHER? WE'RE DOOOOOMED!
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BEST. COMMENT. EVER.
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Glad you enjoyed it.
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Wow! That was really creative and I would have never expected spiders to do that.
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HOLY SHIT! KILLITKILLITKILLIT!!!!! DX< *Hates spiders*
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I knew it was symbiosis before i saw the name, but your idea is pretty kool.
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No reason this could not have happened. Great image!Β
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Heh like shooting somebody's arm and them getting mad that you ripped their shirt
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not hard it was more like sliding the paper across his face.
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U M GEEEEE Y U SO STOOPID BIRDS DONT LIVE DURING DINOSAUR AGES! Don't u no that dinosaurs don't fave no feathers! And the velociraptors were super smert. Also any points you bring up against me I will ignore and pretend you said something else morun! (Argument I had with an individual who was rather lacking with dinosaur knowledge and used arguments that had to do nothing with the brought up points.) Β
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Thats Always a nice conversation. I once smacked a guy with the flat side of paper and he was mad at me because he thought he had a papercut.
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i can honestly say i never would have thought of this. i knew of the spiders but i didnt think of them living on another animal.
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This is an interesting concept. I like it!
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super weird!Β
thanks
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D: Poor bird. Awesome art, though O.O My goodness, that dinosaur's skin looks so artistically complicated. Bravo!
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that is good illustration plus that have actually happened with horned dino
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great work - love it, your idea is brilliant, it made me smile...
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Ah, those wicked birds on Diablo's back, don't caring for their companion trapped by the spider!
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That's a pretty clever, imaginative concept!
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