Answer by John for Scaling up the bat wing: still a good alternative for a...
You're fineFirst bat wings are more efficient wings than birds, so switching to bat like wings just makes your creature more likely not less.Second switching to a bird cardiovascular system increases...
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Answer by Len for Scaling up the bat wing: still a good alternative for a...
If you want to retain your Earth like world (in other words not drop gravity or raise atmospheric pressure) then your creature can only get as big as Quetzalcoatlus Northropi. Look it up for details,...
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Square-qube law says... It's possible up to a certain pointThere's a very good reason why larger creatures are the thing of legend and distant past, especially ones capable of flight. The larger the...
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Probably not with the specific trio of ‘modern-day earth-like atmosphere’, ‘vertical takeoff’, and ‘bird/pterosaur respiratory/bone structure’.However, if you were willing to relax one or two of those,...
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My creature is an alien roughly 3 meters tall while standing (roughly 2,5 meters at the shoulders, with arms that can touch the ground while standing upright) and weights roughly 220 kg (roughly 485...
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