Major revelation: If you're flying in the swamp, wear a ghillie suit to not get you and your flier immediately get spotted and targeted. (only works when the wild rhynio is currently attacking something, don't randomly go up to a stationary rhynio and not expect to get chased)

This is similar to bug repellant but it also benefits your flier too.

The ghillie suit makes you not have to worry about 2 major dangers of the rhynio:

Its massive aggro range

&

Prioritization of you over other creatures (similar to a Rex but way worse)

Obviously, if you and another creature are in its aggro range and you are closer to it, there's a chance it might attack you first, but overall if you're wearing a ghillie suit, you don't have to worry about flying high above the swamps anymore to evade the rhynios.

They can carry tree platforms..... I accidentally discovered this when I went to my sap refillin station an accidentally swiped down... Then it carried the tree platform.... I then swiped down again and itchange camer angle... Like it wants to place it.... Swiped down again and it put it back ...... Now I use it to trans fer platforms from different trees to harvest sap..... Must have resin in inventory btw to work(tested that as well)....

Have not tested other structures yet....

To get a tamed rhyniognatha, you first need to kill a male rhynio and get its pheromone. Then you get 2 high level brontos and have them breed, because the one you select as a host will die. Why brontos specifically? Because the drag weight of the host matters for the rhynio's quality (idk any better synonyms), and brontos are the easiest 100% quality host to tame. Once you have a worthy bronto to sacrifice, you isolate it, put the pheromone in its inventory and lure high level female rhynio to it. I believe you need to get it to 20% health for it to impregnate the bronto.

It will then crave.. like, anything. From hesperornis eggs to gasoline and ELEMENT. If you dont have those, the level will take a big hit. If you dont mind a lil cheating, you can make a backup before having the bronto be impregnated to restart if it craves something absurd early.

This thing killed all my flying mounts early game when i was looking for an argy. They are relatively rare and spawn in/around the redwoods. They are like thylas, dont fly too close to the redwoods or your flyers will be dead RIP. full story of how i lost my otter on otter tips i think

Want to hunt for swamp creatures on the Island but don’t want to deal with these guys? The “Gulch of Lamentation”— the easternmost swamp region by the coast— has no Rhynio spawns! This also applies to the swamp area around the green obelisk, along with the thin strip of swamp river immediately north. Generally speaking, you’ll be safely Rhynio-free if you stay east of that obelisk.

Okay, so I’ll relate my taming experience!

I really want a rhynio, and I didn’t need a super high level at first, so I pretty much just trapped the first female I could find: a light brown level 10 female.

I used the trapping method used by CobraGaming on YouTube… 4x stone foundation, stone double doorways and stone ceilings, effectively funneling the Rhynio into the giant fly trap. I impregnated a level 101 bronto and then just sat it for 45 minutes until it died… with no rhynio.

I did a backup save and went sixteen minutes back into the incubation period and after a bit of research, I realized it was because my bronto had no food, so I forcefed my bronto for the next fifteen minutes until the rhynio emerged, this time. I met zero cravings, since I don’t have the resources, and I came out with a level two male. The one great thing is how unbelievably pretty this bug is… bright pink and purple stripes with salmon legs, and red and black striped wings… weird, cause it’s mom was brown and it’s “dad” (male Rhynio I got the pheromone from) was light blue.

I did all this with a high level argy and spino on watch, since the swamps are NOT safe, so bring strong tames that will protect you, you incubator dino, and your new super-mosquito baby.

I plan to create a higher level baby soon, but this is what I’ve got as a first try! Im excited to try this bug out. It’s funny, I hate these things when they’re wild so much, but I’m totally happy to have one for myself.😂

Say hello, to the only flying tame, you will ever need if it's on the map you're playing on

Yes, it's a pain to tame.However, you do not need to have it a certain birth level EVER.

At level twenty and maybe two points into health.This thing can take two consecutive lava baths on the island and survive.

When wild this thing can and will target megalodons but it can't go in water so it will either wait until the megalodon swims high enough to melee attack it, or it will start shooting resin at it until it dies, so this proves that megalodons are inferior to carnos and similar to sabertooths and raptors in the predator and prey hierarchy. And since nothing attacks each other in the ocean, this also proves that mosasaurs and plesiosaurs are similar to the megalodon so in theory they can be aggroed on by any rex, giga, carcharo, yuty, allo, megatherium, or rhynio.