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That's right, we are no longer exclusively dinosaurian and have welcomed their other fuzzy mesozoic archosaurian brethren into the mix.

We now have a gallery folder for Pterosauria. Members feel free to submit artwork of accurately pycnofibred pterosaurs as such. Other feathered and fuzzy or pycnofibred non-dinosaurian ornithodirans are also welcome, and can be submitted to the 'Hypothetical' folder.
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~ForgottenDemigod Jan 4, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
But what about Magpies?
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:icontomozaurus:
~Tomozaurus Jan 4, 2013  Student General Artist
They aren't Mesozoic ;)
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:iconewilloughby:
Eheh, that is a good point. There is no logical phylogenetically-based reason for why we exclude modern birds from the group, but from a practical perspective, the intention is to use the group as an educational tool to show people how extinct archosaurs would have/could have looked decked out in accurate feathers and fuzz. Everyone knows that modern birds are feathery, so they'd be kind of... redundant, I suppose, in the group. However, I'm not entirely sure why we don't allow extinct Mesozoic birds here. I guess the idea is "if someone out there doubts it had feathers, it belongs here!"
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:iconalbertonykus:
We do allow Mesozoic birds. =p
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:iconewilloughby:
Oh good! I can't remember having seen any in the group but I could be misremembering.
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:iconalbertonykus:
Not that many have been submitted/accepted, but we do have a folder for them.
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:iconewilloughby:
Ahah, some of my own stuff is in it, too. /fail
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~ForgottenDemigod Jan 4, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Having birds in a dinosaur group, would educate people that dinosaurs didn't go extinct, though.
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