The Featherhead Sharpteeth are the secondary antagonists in The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave.
Their vocal sound effects were most likely provided by Frank Welker.
Biography[]
The Featherhead Sharpteeth appear during the kids' quest to the Fire Mountain. After entering the Land of the Featherhead Sharpteeth and hearing the roars of the two Sharptooth, the children hatch a plan to lose their interest by coating themselves in foul smelling vegetation. This plan works, though it nearly ends in failure due to the noise of Petrie (the Featherhead Sharpteeth have very good hearing as well), they decides to chase after a small mammal.
Later, however, the Featherheads pick up on the kids' scent after they accidentally wash away the stink while playing in a pond. The pale green one signals his smaller subordinate to follow him. The Featherheads easily sniff them out and chases the gang for a while. While the kids run into a small cave, the Featherhead Sharpteeth breaks through the cave and continue the chase. They smashes a series of rock pillars and reach an incline while attempting to kill the kids for food, but they are halted by the edge of a cliff.
The Featherheads reaches the top and the pale green Sharptooth slowly approaches Littlefoot towards the cliff. The pale green Sharptooth is tripped on a vine pulled by the rest of Littlefoot's friends and falls down the cliff. The pale green sharptooth recovers from the fall, but het can't climb back up. The olive Sharptooth reaches the top while the kids celebrate. Cera isn't scared and pushes a bunch of rocks off the edge, sending the olive sharptooth back down the hill who retreats from the scene.
During the night time, Wild Arms hears the roars of one of the Featherheads and tries to come up with an excuse to not go with Grandpa Longneck and Daddy Topps, but it doesn't work. They do not come across the Featherhead Sharpteeth later on, now joined by Chomper and Ruby. It is also night, a time when the Featherheads would be most active.
Appearance[]
The two dinosaurs sport shades of dull green and olive proto-feathers. They sport cyan crests on their snouts, dull red skin around their eyes, and a layer of teal fuzz forming a mane down their necks and to the tips of their tails, with fluffy "sideburns" sprouting from the sides of their heads.
Unlike most of the Sharpteeth, they appear to sport feathered eyebrows, and highly visible antorbital fenestra (the dark patch between their nose and their eyes).
The eyes of the pair are red, with yellow sclera and no pupils.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly, it is one of the few large Sharpteeth in the series that lacks proper lips, along with the Sail-Backed Sharptooth, the Hookthumb Sharpteeth, and, also from XIV, the Horned Sharptooth.
- Similarly, to date, the Featherheads, alongside the Horned Sharptooth, are the only Sharpteeth in the franchise to have visible antorbital fenestrae (the depression between the orbit and naris present in archosaurs, the group of which crocodilians and dinosaurs are included).
- If the Featherheads are mates, this gives even more similarities between the two sharpteeth.
- The Featherhead Sharpteeth seem to have much better hearing and a much better sense of smell than most other sharpteeth in the franchise. They both hear Petrie from a small distance away after he was talking quietly, and the pale green Featherhead sniffed out the gang from far away after the stinkweed fell off of them.
- Some people have believed that the Featherhead Sharpteeth aren't villains, although they were villains because they're actually sentient predators. Most of the sharpteeth are sentient predators which they are not normal animals at all.