'Vampire' pterosaur fed on dinosaur blood ?

"Jurassic Chupacabra?"

Precursor of the Vampire Bat by the looks of it - I don't see why it would be improbable, mosquitos, leeches and bats drink blood today after all.

Precursor of the Vampire Bat by the looks of it - I don't see why it would be improbable, mosquitos, leeches and bats drink blood today after all. You left money lenders out of that list ? Yeah, I think it sounds like an analogy to the Vampire Bat, it is a well established principle in biology that evolution pushes sometimes quite different creatures into a very similar ways of 'making a living'. Funny though, that the marsupials produced the Kangaroo and its extraordinary ( and very efficient) means of getting around, and the mammals and reptiles, seemingly did not replicate it.

I wonder if it sparkled LOL Now that is scary...

David Peters, the individual who came up with the vampire hypothesis, is not a paleontologist. He is an artist whose wild "theories" on pterosaurs are laughed at by pretty much all serious experts on pterosaurs. Look this guy up, he's a nut!

I wonder if it's related to the vampire bat? Or actual vampires (not the sissies that sparkle)

I suppose anything is possible. We can look at fossils and to some degree of accuracy, give an assumption, but we will never know all there is to know because we dont really have anything to compare dinosaurs with today, other than perhaps birds.. This guy might well be a 'nut' as another poster suggested, but who is to say he isnt right? Paleantologists are forever coming up with new information which quite often debunks previous assessments and rewrites the books.

I wonder if it sparkled only in the sunlight.....but not in part 4 during the honeymoon on the tropical island,for some odd reason.

Interesting read,but I too am dubious to its vampire label.Hard to prove.

I wonder if it sparkled Might have been. Can be quite useful when there's a power out and all the lamps go out. Though from the build I wouldn't say it could have flown up to any dinosaur's neck to for a quick bite. by deadmine on deviantart Oh wait, that's it actually: from the article, obviously