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Nyancackee (Pteranodon longiceps)
“ A large, graceful pterosaur that hunted fish. ”
– Walking With Dinosaurs
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Pterosauria
Family: †Pteranodontidae
Genius: †Pteranodon
Species: †Pteranodon longiceps
Descendant: †Pteranodontid
Named by: Othniel Charles Marsh
Year Described: 1876
Size: 7 meters (23 feet), 6.25 m (20.5 ft) in wingspan
Type(s):
Reptiles (Pterosaurs)
Title(s):
Toothless Pterosaur
Skyrunner
Pantheon(s):
Terran/Gaian 🇺🇳
Time Period: 86–84.5 million years BC
Alignment: Skittish
Threat Level: ★★★
Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🐟
Element(s): Air 🌬️
Inflict(s): Airblight 🌬️
Weakness(es): Rock (50% immune) 🪨, Electric ⚡, Ice 🧊
Casualties: ???
Based On: itself
Conservation Status:
Earth: Extinct (EX) – IUCN Red List
Berbania: Endangered (EN) – IUCN Red List
Reinachos: Least Concern (LC) – IUCN Red List
Delphia: Least Concern (LC) – IUCN Red List
Sawintir: Endangered (EN) – IUCN Red List
The Nyancackee (Pteranodon longiceps, Algonquian: Nyankaki) is a specues of pterosaur that is a largest known Pteranodontidae family. It was an important part of the animal community in the Western Interior Seaway; was introduced in Elf's Heritage.
It from Greek πτερόν pteron means "wing", and ἀνόδων anodon means "toothless" or "without tooth"
Pteranodon longiceps has a long head crest that is probably used to help counter and represent male individuals, narrow hips, and very large crests, which were probably for display. Due to its counterweight in nature, it balances the weight of its massive beak, which it uses to capture fish and other aquatic animals. The size of the pelvic canal probably allowed the laying of eggs, indicating that these smaller adults are females.
Pteranodon longiceps swoops and grabs the enemy with their feet or beak to fly on air. Sometimes, Pteranodon longiceps breathes medium-powered wind energy to blow up. Pteranodon longiceps were known to attack and subdue large animals such as humans and others (such as tigers, rhinos, hippos, dogs, leopards, horses, antelopes, elephants, and others, including fish), then rip their torsos open and devour their internal organs or eat fish whole.
While still clearly pterosaurian, Pteranodon was undoubtedly a great soarer, able to cover great distances, and highly effective in windy marine conditions. Its broad lifestyle was probably comparable to that of contemporary albatrosses, frigatebirds, and pelicans. It most likely rode sea and coastal winds, circled the Western Interior Seaway, looked for fish visually, and then descended to feed close to the surface. Pteranodon probably did less "hovering like a helicopter," acrobatic forest weaving, and constant flapping like a gull. This was not a death-beaked hummingbird, but rather a large-winged glider.
Its wide eyes imply good vision, which is probably essential for identifying prey over water. Many pterosaurs launched quadrupedally, using both front and hind limbs like a spring-loaded vault rather than a bird-style running takeoff, according to current pterosaur studies. That is crucial from a biomechanical standpoint. Imagine that Pteranodon was more like a "folded gargoyle into an explosive pole-vault into the sky" than a "bird run and now flap."
Pteranodon longiceps are going to hunt at their shore, where the sea is home to marine life and their rivals since Pteranodon is polygynous and can breed for their nesting in offshore areas where they are away from land-based species. The locomotion of Pteranodon was quadrupedal while walking slowly, but they could fly when flapping their wings like modern-day bats. Most of their weight was centered towards the front, causing them to walk on all fours.
The predators of Pteranodon longiceps were theropods, mammals, mosasaurs, sharks, giant squids or giant octopuses, and others in terrestrial or aquatic contact.
Although there isn't a perfect "Pteranodon family documentary," pterosaur reproduction as a whole provides us with a solid framework. Pteranodon most likely deposited eggs, produced young that would have been highly precocial (relatively capable early in life), nested in colonies or at least repeatedly visited good breeding areas, and had relatively soft-shelled or parchment-like eggs, as is typical of pterosaurs. According to pterosaur research, some pterosaur groups' hatchlings may have been able to fly much earlier than young birds of comparable size. This suggests that young pterosaurs would have been remarkably self-sufficient.
This suggests that Pteranodon chicks were not helpless fuzzy nest potatoes for very long, that juveniles may have inhabited slightly different ecological niches than adults, and that although they presumably did not behave like full-sized sky frigates right away, they were probably more adept than popular culture believes.
Breeding season: Late spring to late summer
Nest: Does build its own nests on ground
Clutch size: 1–5 eggs
Incubation: ~50–80 days
Fledging: About 7–20 weeks after hatching
Both parents care for the hatchlings.
Pteranodon longiceps is skittish and not aggressive whatsoever to humans or animals, and will fly away when attacked. However, if an egg is stolen from a female Pteranodon, it will become aggressive. Some lonely individuals were fiercely defensive of their nests and territory, attacking any intruders, including humans, elves, or any animals, that entered or even came near their nests.
Pteranodon longiceps would probably be inquisitive from a distance, driven by food, protective over nests, and deadly if cornered if they survived into the current period. Pteranodon may develop accustomed to their caretakers, identify consistent handlers, endure feeding schedules, and exhibit site fidelity and decreased fear, but only in a very restricted sense. However, it would still be a large-beaked flying predator/scavenger that is extremely challenging to control properly, physically delicate in some aspects, and dangerous in others. Since a horrible day with a goose is already unforgettable, the practical solution is definitely not for casual ownership. Increase that to a seven-meter flying spear-face.
Although Pteranodon longiceps vanished well before the end of the Cretaceous, pterosaurs as a whole eventually perished by the end-Cretaceous extinction event, which occurred roughly 66 million years ago. Changing sea levels, fluctuating marine ecosystems, altered prey, competition within evolving Late Cretaceous faunas, general environmental turnover, and potentially an asteroid hit at the end of the Late Cretaceous are all possible causes of Pteranodon's extinction.
The asteroid impact, disruption of the global temperature, collapse of food webs, and ecosystem instability toward the end of the Cretaceous are some of the reasons why pterosaurs as a whole went extinct. Following that, birds began to take on many of the more bizarre and cooler aerial duties previously inhabited by pterosaurs.
Pteranodon longiceps lived in the Western Interior Seaway, where the home of their prehistoric creatures played an important ecological role in their homeland in the Late Cretaceous period.
Movement Pattern: Full Migrant
Individual Type: Solo
Population Trend:
Earth (Late Cretaceous): Unspecific
Earth (Paleocene–Holocene): Stable
Berbania: Increased
Reinachos: Decreased
Population:
Earth (Late Cretaceous): 60,000
Earth (Paleocene–Holocene): 0
Berbania: 4,000
Reinachos: 10,000-12,000
Locomotion: Airborne
Habitat: Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Mountain; Sky; Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Volcano; Warm Ghost Town; Cold Ghost Town; Ruined Skyscraper.
Earth:
Extinct: Canada; Mexico; United States
Pteranodon can be immobilized and captured with a captured net or bolas, depending on its use for tangling. For some use, only tranquilizing bullets, arrows, and darts make them unconscious for feeding. But be cautious with your knockout method; nearby predatory animals attack you, and recommend allies move unconscious Nyankaki away. Feeding this animal with non-poisonous and very fresh fish
Before going extinct due to climate change rather than an asteroid striking Earth, Pteranodon were native to the Cretaceous shores of North America. Prior to becoming an Isu Temple in the Late Pleistocene, the DNA of either the Fomorian or Reptilian Humanoid race during the Mesozoic era was preserved inside unbreakable, extinction-proof temples.
Due to an undiscovered wired bore from continent to seafloor created by both Isu and Eternals, some successful individuals in the Pleistocene or Bereshit period constructed the Isu Collider Gateway in Siberia and Mongolia, which is connected to the Global Aurora Borealis Device in New York state several thousand miles away.
Even though the colliders themselves produce radioactive byproducts from their fuel, this device, when fully operational, would provide clean energy that could be used for both conventional energy uses and the production of nonradioactive nuclear bombs. The Sundrop Flower, Moonstone Opal, and Elemental gemstones from Everrealm needed their fuel.
Additionally, the colliders include a backup feature that, if properly damaged, can generate wormholes that allow animals from the past to enter. Desmond Miles was devastated when Clay Kaczmarek, in the 2010s-set No Way to Seaway series, died at the end of an episode by touching the Magical Pedestal in the Grand Temple to save Earth from a solar flare and teleporting most people trapped in the Late Cretaceous Earth universe, sacrificing his life to free Juno, now known as Padre Salvi.
Why anomalies occur or what triggers their opening. Since they accompany the Earth into the Inner Core rather than being abandoned in space like a traditional wormhole may be, they must undoubtedly be connected to Clay Kaczmarek's soul. Kaczmarek followed Juno's advice and accepted this fate in order to save the world, even though she was partially responsible for his demise. When Ronaldo Kealani and his companions arrived at the New York Grand Temple in 2012, he was horrified to learn that Kaczmarek was a sacrifice rather than Miles, which led to his defeat and escape because Miles had violated their three tenets: "Never compromise the Brotherhood."
As of January 2013, animals from the Mesozoic era coexist and hunt with humans and creatures from the Holocene worldwide. The future will be reshaped by this delicate balance, which will ultimately decide whether humans will continue to be the Holocene apex predators, Guardians, or Elder Dragons on a planet they now share with Juno or Hera, history's most formidable adversary. Ronaldo Kealani and Marianne Jorpassadal, the most recent surviving reincarnations of Eros and Psyche that most kind allies and world leaders need to save from Hera's wrath, have souls that are intact despite the fact that both died long ago.
Pteranodon is the emblem that may be seen on the banners of the native Arising Algoquian and the New Italian Mafia Legion. The New Italian Mafia Legion's and Arising Algonquian's banners bear noticeable differences from the standard Roman legion and Algonquian banner designs.
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