Yes they are faster than your pteranodon... Once they spot you there is no going back to your base with your dino and loot. And I strongly suggest not to do that... If you manage to keep yourself safe and you lead them to your base... Then its time to reset and start a new world.

Yes I know turn your noise full and listen for the buzz of the wings

Don’t try to outrun on a pteranodon! You will die very VERY fast!

Don't worry if they don't impregnate your sacrificial lamb even if they are under the 10% or less health. What you should try to do is sit on your sacrificial lamb and move it here and there and eventually it will impregnate it

For some reason my rhynignatha decided to stop flying mid flight high up, and well of course lost al his hp and died. I think it was a bug but now I need to get another one. I got my first one cuz the female was stuck in a rock. I hope this tim helped you be more careful with your rhynignatha.

Beware: these living combat helicopters are extremely common in the Swamps, especially the southern part of the Redwoods in Ark mobile(ultimate mobile edition). If you want to go to the Redwoods but doesn't want to deal with them, enter from the northern part of the Redwoods.

If you plan to fly through the swamp with something like a Pterandon or an Argy, I'd highly suggest to gain altitude and fly at that height until you've crossed the swamp because these things are not only strong as heck, they're also FAST, so fast that they can catch up to Pterandons. I've lost about two tames on it.

If you are struggling to tame one and you don't have a net projectile, then just knock one out lower it's hp below 10% and get you tame to sacrifice. Also a stego is better then a trike for getting a better one but it's easyer with the trike.I hope this tip helped you tame one.

Why tf do these things shoot fireballs. I lost my first pterodactyl to this thing and then I died to fall damage. Safe to say that I deleted that world and will never go to the swamp ever again unless I have something with an ungodly amount of health and damage.

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Killing these are actually much easier than you think

All you need is a decent journeyman crossbow loaded with like 10 trank arrows

Dismount and just start shooting it (make sure to not stand still)

They are very easy to knockout and then just kill it

But make sure your mount has more than 800-1000

Hp

Just found out the hard way not too fly at pt through the swamps, i was goin too redwoods too try and find a decent level argy too tame when one of these started shootin freakin lazers at me scared me out my draws i didnt even know they where there killed me and my pt and i lost the only decent loot i had 10/10 do not recommend bumping into this as a low level

Whoever is saying, you can’t use an elixir on them after they’re born is wrong. I’ve used them on several without any issue.

Idk what the devs were thinking when they made up the taming process on this thing 😭

I was chasing after an otter in the swamps west of the Redwoods, then started searching the trees on my Argy and wound up face-to-face with a Rhynio. It scared the absolute sh*t out of me, these are by far one of, if not the scariest creature in the game because they stay hidden and laying in wait in the trees to ambush you. Of course I flew off and it started chasing us, but thankfully I read another tip on here that said if you fly under a Paracer, it will lose the chase! It worked and me and Rufio are still alive to tell the tale. Flyer beware.

I can not recommend to grab and tame megatheriums with it.

(Don’t try this) me and my tek raptor tekey were rubbish through the swamp because one just killed my pelagornis and I got jumped my two of them both level 12 and somehow my tek raptor level 77 killed them both and then I died💀

On ark mobile ultimate. Upon continues taming trying to get a high level. I have come up to a conclusion that levels and cravings matter. I used a lvl224 bronto around 30k health then impregnate it with a lvl130 rhynio. My baby rhynio(evil orange) comes out to be LEVEL 176.

1st craving : ammonite bile

2nd craving : absorbent substrate (i think,can't remember the name that well)

3rd craving : golden hesperornis egg

4th craving : extraordinary kibble

5th craving : another absorbent substrate

Hope this helps.

~ MdpnLOIS

If your on the lost island you can possibly find one in swamp areas. If your on the island probably check redwoods or swamps. If your taming one kill a male since the females don’t drop pheromones, find a female, use a harpoon gun ( put the net ammo in ) use something to get the female low. Get a dinosaur ( I recommend giga or carcha to get higher chance of it inheriting the stats ) feed it to your dinosaur . And let the female to impregnate your dinosaur. And there you have it a rhyniognatha. Just don’t cryo your Dino or you lose the rhy.

On new mobile they don't seem to de-aggro if ur on a flyer, they just chase u across the whole map till u die. I aggroed one near redwood it chased my argue all the way to red ob where it died in the water. THEN, the Rhynio stayed underwater and killed me several times while trying to retrieve my loot. THEY FIGHT JUST AS WELL UNDERWATER AS IN THE AIR!!!

If you’re taming it on ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition (or new ark mobile), its spawn rate is bugged and instead of being as rare as intended, it’s EVERYWHERE. If you play on that version, fly extra high above the swamps when you travel.