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Devil's Footprints Fit Shape Of Male Giant Dragonfly Clasper

The footprints were not all identical, nor were they the same distance apart, which indicates several different animals. The one thing they all had in common was a rain fall in the area followed by a freeze which would've changed the footprints of various common animals into something different.
 
shemp said:
He's right! Can't you fools see that this is a genetically-engineered cross between a Bigfoot and a dragonfly? It's Bigfly!
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The way it uses its clasper to walk, a more apt name may be Dragonfoot.
 
Ersby said:
The footprints were not all identical, nor were they the same distance apart, which indicates several different animals. The one thing they all had in common was a rain fall in the area followed by a freeze which would've changed the footprints of various common animals into something different.
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^This.

Any use of partially melted snowprints as "evidence" says more about the claimer than the claim.
 
Sorry if I missed it but how large would this dragonfly need to be for it to make tracks that large?

Dragonflies make a lot of noise when they fly so wouldn't this monster make an incredible amount of racket?
 
GT/CS said:
Sorry if I missed it but how large would this dragonfly need to be for it to make tracks that large?

Dragonflies make a lot of noise when they fly so wouldn't this monster make an incredible amount of racket?
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Three and four foot wingspans have been reported. I'm proposing that the wings aren't used for flight in the way that an everyday dragonfly does. I'm proposing that they carry blood from their prey in the thick veins in order to increase oxygen uptake. I'm proposing that they fly effortlessly and silently by an evolved air-propulsion system of the their all-the-way-through trachea tubes.
 
Mudcat said:
Here are our choices:

  1. It was Satan that made the tracks.
  2. It was a new species, undocumented before or since, that made the tracks.
  3. It was a known animal that made the tracks.
  4. It was a prank that made the tracks.

I think we can safely rule out number one, since Satan doesn't exist. We can rule out number two because the proposed creature is a giant insect that supposedly travels using a mode of travel seen in no other creature anywhere else in the world. And unless someone comes forward admitting to making the tracks we can rule out number four. Which leaves us with number three.
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Okay, thanks for the sensible post. You now need to identify a UK animal which leaves horseshoe concave tracks in the snow which measure around "four inches long, three inches across".

P.S. the tracks have also been found in soft earth and sand which refutes the suggestion that the snow has deformed the size and shape.
 
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Alan Lowey said:
Three and four foot wingspans have been reported. I'm proposing that the wings aren't used for flight in the way that an everyday dragonfly does. I'm proposing that they carry blood from their prey in the thick veins in order to increase oxygen uptake. I'm proposing that they fly effortlessly and silently by an evolved air-propulsion system of the their all-the-way-through trachea tubes.
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More makey-uppy stuff? DO you have any evidence at all for this idea of a predator using blood taken from its victims as an oxygen transporter? Any analogue in reality, at all?

Any evidence for Anishoptera's effortless, silent, air-propulsion flight system?
 
Slowvehicle said:
More makey-uppy stuff? DO you have any evidence at all for this idea of a predator using blood taken from its victims as an oxygen transporter? Any analogue in reality, at all?

Any evidence for Anishoptera's effortless, silent, air-propulsion flight system?
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It's called making a hypothesis. Something that is just about possible which fits all the available evidence.
 
I do not think an air-propulsion system of the type you hypothesize is actually possible.

There are many insects which have evolved not to use their wings but still have wings - however, these always turn out to be vestigial, much smaller than wings on related species that still use them. It seems unlikely that, given this other type of propulsion, the giant dragonflies would retain large wings similar in proportion and shape to those of dragonflies that use their wings. It also seems highly unlikely that an insect species would evolve an independent method of flight when it already started out with perfectly functional wings that get the job done.

The notion of the dragonflies storing food-blood in its wing-veins presents a problem I've already explained - no other insect, including those with vestigial wings, stores food outside of their digestive system - nor do blood-feeding insects use the eaten blood for oxygen delivery. Insects, including those that feed on animal blood, have their own special blood-like substance called hemolymph which performs these functions. Hemolymph fills the insect's exoskeleton (and those wing-veins), and is kept circulating slowly through the body using a series of tiny pumps.
 
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