Large pterosaurs like Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus were typically not taking off every five seconds. They would likely only take off every so often and only when traveling massive distances. For shorter distances, they would just gallop. A common misconception is that pterosaurs were clumsy on the ground like some bats. Footprints showed that Pterosaurs were instead perfectly capable of running/galloping and walking comfortably on the ground. In fact, for the massive Azhdarchids, the current accepted theory amongst paleontologists is that this giant creatures would hunt on the ground regularly and run down and swallow prey whole. Large flying birds like condors are much less efficient at taking off compared to pterosaurs because they only use their hindlimbs. Pterosaurs (and some bats) used all four of their limbs to take off, meaning that the flight muscles directly come into play in launching. This is a big part of why the largest pterosaurs could still fly.
@@Scion3SevensWell back then we thought that sauropods were too heavy to walk. But they could. Most evidence points towards them being able to fly. Why would they have such well developed wings if they couldn’t fly? Flightless birds today do not have very well developed wings. That’s like saying that whales can’t float because they are too heavy. The whole “bees shouldn’t be able to fly” thing has been proven false because the guy that came up with it miscalculated at a certain point. “Too heavy” is not enough. I need much more substantial evidence than “Too heavy” the only reason those wings could still be there without flight capabilities would be for display.
@user-ek4iy5wp4h I reckon they could use the wind and had explosive fast twitch muscles for taking off. They probably would only flap for take of and perhaps to control landing but otherwise soared when they flew so those fast twitch muscles wouldn't have used too much energy having been at rest during flight.
Just when you thought modern paleontologists were taking away your childhood’s 80 foot Liopleurodon, and 9 meter Big Al. They publish a cessna spanning, dino devouring, two story terrestrial pterosaur to pterrorize your dreams.
island drawfism is pretty common in modern times and had been observed quite well, theres the dwarf hippo which went extinct recently in cyprus, dwarf elephants from crete, and modern day channel island foxes, however the discovery of europasaurus from the jurssic, and of course both paludititan and magyarosaurus from maastrichtian europe are the first recorded evidence of insular dwarfism among dinosaurs
See, I was initially scared of the Quetzlcoatlus because of its size, thinking that I could have been its prey if I traveled back in time (I know, silly fear). Then, I realized that Azhdharkids' throats were probably too small to swallow a human, like a blue whale. I became at peace with their former existence. Now you're telling me that they wouldn't have swallowed me in one gulp, but stabbed me and tortured me before I died and became chunks of meat for the Hatzegopteryx. Back to square one.
Its normal to be scared of large predators, in fact its probably the most normal fear in existence. It may be illogical, due to a long extinct predator not being able to harm you in any physical way, but most fears are somewhat illogical (i mean, hey, im scared of spiders, and the dark to an extent). Basically my point is your fear is valid and in no way more embarrassing than any other fear just because its somewhat unique
All animals in the animal kingdom are usually afraid of a larger opponent. It’s why most animals flare up and stand high widening their arms/wings/body. It’s a vain attempt to scare off a potential threat. Being scared of larger predators is a natural instinct
In the case of these animals in particular the fear is even more compounded by their stature. They weren't just big, they were outright towering over most other animals. If you look directly up to see a gigantic head looming over you and then descending upon you, that is much more unsettling than the thought of a T.rex running you down.@@jc_art_
Scientists do say that they could have been flightless due to their massive size and hunting on the ground BUT scientists also think they flew to get around faster even though they spent most of their time on land
One reason is because we have absolutely no evidence they could not fly. All evidence we have from every group of pterosaur known flew. So why would we assume just because these ones were huge they could not fly.
I’ve asked so many people (usually as an ice breaker) what time period on earth they’d like to be sent back to just to observe. It’s a great way to immediately get a sense of someone’s interests and even their values. Some have said the 1920s, the 1950s, Ancient Greece, Rome, or Egypt. Then I come along and say “Right before they K-Pg extinction so I can witness the biggest things that have ever walked, flown, and swam.”
The only problem with time travel would be what is known as the butterfly effect. We would have to be extremely careful so as to not harm any animal. As it could have profound unknown effects on history itself.
@@marcusking332 gotta look at it with dragon ball z physics ... you going back would create a new fork in the time stream, and so you wouldn't affect your own timeline its a common fantasy to want to travel back & mogg hitler or john wilkes booth or etc, but at the same time, you wouldn't want to if it would cause you to not be born
These animals were terrifying. There's something so uncanny about these larger pterosaurs. The fact that their head is so big and neck so long while still being able to fly looks something straight out of a horror fiction. They are just amazing! Thank you for the video!
One thing I just wondered was this. If we lived in an anachronistic fantasy world like “Primal”, and one of our environments had Hatzegopteryx and dwarf elephants existing on the same island, then it would be the closest thing to having the Roc’s folklore acted out by prehistoric animals. The Roc was a mythical giant bird-like monster from the Middle-East, which was often depicted being able to carry off and devour elephants.
Of all the prehistoric animals, these flying behemoths strike me as some of the most fascinating. Early hypotheses were that these flying reptiles needed to launch themselves from cliffs, which I always thought was ridiculous. Oh, and that they were only capable of soaring, which I also thought was very unlikely. I’ve come to believe that these animals were capable of flying through use of musculature within their wings that allowed them to modify their shape in ways unlike any flying creature before or after. They had to be a magnificent sight… so long as you could watch from hiding! Great episode on an animal I had not heard of before. Thx for posting.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive They were reptiles though. Pterosaurs are part of the archosaurs, and are therefore reptiles, just as dinosaurs, another group of archosaurs, are.
You’re right about the method of launch being unique as pterosaurs used a push-up method to launch themselves. This means that the same muscles used to launch were the same ones used for flight and meant that all pterosaurs could fly no matter how big they got. Birds on the other hand use their legs to launch and their wings for flight. The downside for this method of launch is that the powerful leg muscles are dead weight in the sky. This means that there’s a cap on how large birds could get and still fly and that there was evolutionary pressure to lose the ability to fly given the chance (read elephant or terror birds). The upside to the way birds fly is that they can use those leg muscles to grab prey mid flight, something that birds can’t do.
@@absalomdraconisBats fly the same way, but they don’t launch themselves into the air the same. They have to drop down from a height to fly for the most part. The vampire bat is one notable exception though since it does the push up method too.
It also doesnt help much, as neither animal are depicted in a 'normal' position, and also no scale is present in the image, we dont know how tall either animal is from this image alone. Overall its more "an art peice in the style of a scale chart" than it is an actual scale chart lol
If you like Pterosaurs and ever visit Karlsruhe in Germany, pay the Natural History Museum a visit. They have a full size model of a Pterosaur in flight, hanging off the ceiling where the stairs lead to the upper floor. It's quite impressive. Edit: Grammar.
Best parts about dinosaurs is they probably dont look like what we're constantly seeing them as. Until a safe time travel is possible, we will never know.
@tatumergo3931 how awesome would it be to have a pair of binoculars that you can set a date and just look around at what was there. Probably see some things you wish you didn't
@@tatumergo3931we'd have to travel light years away from earth for that though, since by this point, to be able get light from millions of years ago we'd have to catch up to them.
@@pessien8474 . Maybe not using the light as the source but the shadow print left behind by the radiation. Ofcourse this is all Sci-fi, the idea came from a sci-fi novella I read a long time ago, while I was stationed in Germany. It's not like we all already know that to travel back in time, we need that damn flux-capacitor to work right..... but for some reason it keeps getting out of whack!
@@pessien8474 we would have to travel faster than light because if the images of their existence are leaving at light speed then we would have to get to that point of projection, and as we all know nothing travels faster than light, not even the effect of gravity, you would have to travel through a 4th dimension or use a black hole to somehow transport yourself ~60ish million light years in 1 direction and then somehow have the ability to look that far to earth
Thank you for your courage. Quetza fans are sometimes aggressive, for example when I presented years ago on Reddit that Quetzalcoatlus was not the only big pterosaur, but for example Hatzegopteryx was just as big as this, people got angry and argued that Hatzegopteryx is not even half the size of Quetzalcoatlus or that Hatzegopteryx cannot be counted because it lived in Europe unlike the American Quetza. I haven't discussed it since then, but I'm glad to see that Hatzegopteryx is slowly getting recognition.
Azhdarchids were to the sky what tyrannosaurs were to the land and mosasaurs to the sea. Being hunted by one sounds like a some terrifying story out of mythology.
I think the proportions (huge head, relatively tiny limbs) just set off that uncanny valley reflex hard. Like...your senses are telling you that this thing shouldn't be able to move with those proportions, but it clearly is.
Just a correction, it was the tallest, but not largest, size is truly dependent on weight, which Hatzegopteryx, was more heavily built than Quetzalcoatlus, which requires more weight, this makes Hatzegopteryx the largest. Edit: The video has now been corrected and this comment is pointless
@@megaraptoran1990 It's mostly from the fact it was the apex predator of its environment, hunting prey that was probably way larger than Quetzal hunted. Which would require it to be more heavily built
@@megaraptoran1990 because you're literally going for larger prey? how would it kill a magyarosaurus when it is as light as a quetzal, or lighter. This is different from carcharodontosaurs because they're using beaks to kill, which means there needs to be force put into it
This channel is so undersized and deserves so many more subs. Perfectly fills the adult need for information while satisfying our childhood fascination with prehistoric creatures. Please keep up the great work!
Quetzalcoatlus Northropi was bigger at 33- 40 ft wingspan and 18-20 ft tall, but that could be outdated due to the ever-changing field of paleontology, thx for the video none the less!
The size in paleontology is measured by weight. Thats why Blue whale is said to be the biggest animal that ever lived even while Patagotitan was longer than it. Patagotitan was said to weight 71.000 KG while Bluewhale weighs 150.000 KG there for Bluewhale is still said to be bigger even tho its lenght doesent beat Patagotitans lenght.
I think this video makes the case for Hatzegopteryx being flightless more strongly than it makes the case that it could fly. Many of today's flightless birds found on islands also have wings that aren't fully reduced, and the skeletal remains of Hatzegopteryx leave plenty of room for uncertainty about the size and function of its wings.
@@coledavidson5630 yeah there are alot of words to use here, but 'largest' is perhaps not a good one because 'largest' is dependent on a second variable, like "largest height" or "largest weight" so just saying "largest" is very vague. Something could have the "largest density" and still be "the smallest" of a given category lol
Reminds me of those giant crows in Caelid in Elden Ring. I know it's a fantasy game but that's kind of how I would imagine a massive flying creature like this to act.
That huge Wing Monster reminds of something someone said to me one time when we saw a bird drop its load on someone’s head. They said, “Good thing elephants don’t fly.” That Wing Monster could possibly fit that saying as if it were like an elephant with wings. Being that it’s so big, its droppings probably were too.
THose badasses were HUGE! So cool! And thanks for the vid! As a side note the name Quetzalcoatlus, derived from Quetzalcoatl, is the Spanish spelling for the original Nahuatl name, and is pronounced "kehtzal kwatl" rather than "kwetzal kowatel"
It's entire head was a giant pick axe supported by a powerful neck, the horror of that thing impaling and hacking at the dwarf sauropods on the island is quite obscene, it may have just swallowed things whole but the sheer size of it's head and the robustness of it's neck might indicate something more horrifying in terms of taking down larger prey.
Yea but its also funny that a thing with a head as huge as that also can have issues in its throat most of the time given the difference between the size of its head and its stomach.
When I look at the geometry of the animals I wonder at their ability to fly at all, the mass of the head well out in front of the wings makes me wonder if the proposed reconstructions are close to what they would have been.
I'm starting to think that they could have flown with their necks bent in a similar way to pelicans or marabou storks. It seems to me that birds with large heads and beaks do not usually fly with their necks in a linear position
This video made me wonder if they could've essentially been penguins- i.e. underwater, would explain the long neck and large head. Probably wrong, but an interesting concept! I love that they could fly though, and agree feels like they hold head back over body during flight, would make more sense.
@@crestedargo4663 swans and geese do for example. The neck vertebrae are very long and stiff, it looks like they were unable to bent their neck to a greater degree.
@@mrfischkopf4946It's true that swans and geese fly with their necks straight, , but personally I find that they have pretty little heads and beaks/bills. For me birds with long necks and large heads are: storks, marabou storks, pelicans and shoebills (these are the first that come to my mind), not swans and geese. So I'm not surprised that these two species fly with their necks straight, because they don't have a lot of weight due to their neck and especially their head. Azhdarchidae looks to me especially similar to pelicans, in regards to head's, beak's and neck's proportions
currently Quetzalcoatlus is the largest, because it weighs more. Azhdarchid weights are hard to accurately get because of their highly fragmentary nature, both Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx are inferred from relatives. Though there are two unpublished GDI for Quetzalcoatlus that placed it at around 360 kilos.
The largest estimated weight is around 250kg. Hatzegopteryx remains, as mentioned in the Video, were noticeably more robust suggesting a higher weight than that of Quetzalcoatlus.
@@megaraptoran1990 all azhdarchids remains are incomplete. The remains that are available, suggests a bigger size for hatzegopteryx. I have not heard of a publication that has disproven the current understanding.
If i had to guess pterosaurs probably acted more like terrorbirds that could fly for short distances to escape even larger, heavier threats. You could even think of them as giraffe sized pelicans that could gallop similar to a horse… terrifying to think about actually.
It's amazing to me that such a big, heavy animal could ever fly. I know they say that they could "jump" into the air to take off, but even jumping should be difficult, I would think, for such a heavy animal. Amazing.
Wow…very curious about how much it may have weighed, as well as the evolutionary pressures that led to that crazy neck and skull. Thank you for making this eye-opening video. Nice job!
hatzegopterix was named after the city where I live and it is called Hațeg, a city with great history and tradition in Romania, here you can also find the pyroraptor fossils from the raptor family
this island really seems to havve made some of the most interesting animals of the era, if im not wrong i remember the balaur had some gliding skills and the small titanosaurs sound so interestning
These are probably the single most scariest creatures that walked the earth. Imagine what our society would be like if they were still around, probably extinct 😅 idk what it is about these monsters that unsettles me so. Their sheer size, combined with their freaky not quite bird-like looks. Awesome, but terrifying.
Between a trex that can smell you from miles away and home in on you easily like a polar bear and these thing that you might not even hear coming before they drop on you.. yeah... trex would actually be easier to avoid if you could find a place with terrain they can't climb. But with these things you would have to live underground like a rat just to survive.
@@CampaignerSC If we even survived those times we would have evolved so differently. Probably our nightvision would be excellent. Or maybe we would have develloped other ways of 'seeing'
@@Gloriousturtlechan i think its much more useful to imagine a "jurrasic park" like scenario, where these creatures are brought back to live in the modern day. How life would change or not change with these creatures around, not the strange concept of "what if these creatures survived extinction and lived all the way to the modern day" because in that scenario too much time is given for things to change, like the animal to evolve to be completely different, or differences in human development, that all stray from the point of the thought in the first place, of "what would you do if these creatures existed today"
Where did you think people in the middle ages got the idea of Giant flying reptiles from? Okay, so far I know it's not confirmed, but I really think they found bones of a Tyrannosaur and some big wings, and made a dragon of it, not completely understanding what they found.
True in description but I've been studying evidence of dragons worldwide. And evidence suggests these beings are actually sea-serpents. These beings are somewhat of a mist. Almost transparent, and and produce and electrical charge like lightning. The sea is their home but, they can fly because of their mist/smokey form. So even if they're there in the clouds you might not noticed. They're perfectly camouflaged. There's more beings like them in the sea I just don't know exactly what they are. There was one spotted in the Japanese tsunami video. And I saw another on a news coverage in that same incident. The news footage was later taken down. I know this because I saved it in my playlist. You can find that footage again. But you can find the first if you look it up. The government sectors knows about these things. They're trying to keep these things classified. Because they're doing experiments on them.
We visited the museum in Phoenix and one of this is in display... it is just incredible. seeing these creatures alive is a wish which will never come true
9:05 I think that Bradycneme is pronounced as “bradickneem.” Also you missed a syllable in Paludititan. Overall fantastic video, I appreciate the research you put into it
Since these animals lived in an archipelago, perhaps they didn't need to soar but instead glide along the water (and beach) using the ground effect? That would take a lot less energy to accomplish, which would help make such a huge frame feasible. The ground effect kicks in at roughly one wingspan of altitude for fixed-wing aircraft. That's plenty of space for Hatzegopteryx to occasionally flap, and glide swiftly from one island to the next. Such behavior might also contribute to their massive size, as gliding in the open like this presents no evolutionary pressure on wingspan since there's nothing to run into.
This is a very interesting hypothesis. I'd love to see something like this researched further. Personally, I'm mixed on the 2022 study abt Quetzalcoatlus' soaring ability. The paper didn't state that giant azhdarchids COULDN'T soar, but that their soaring ability was considerably worse than modern soaring birds. But considering that some man-made glider planes need wider circling radii for thermals and higher sink rates compared to soaring birds but still soar just fine, I wonder if Quetzalcoatlus could soar as well, perhaps in more limited conditions than modern birds.
@@megaraptoran1990 A majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been substantially higher, around 200-250 kg (440-550 lb). In 2021, Kevin Padian which was very recent, while the Hatzegopteryx is only 500 too possibly 550 so in reality these two creatures could of been the same weight but different height!
Not even close, a modern MBT weights around 50 to 60 tons. That thing couldn't possibly weight more than 2,638lbs or 1,835 lbs. As for who built it? Definitely some crazy naughty engineer, it has all the makings of it....
Interesting, an over developed neck durability suggests that it could use a totally different hunting style then other Pterrosaurs like ramming victims with the beak while flying and absorbing the impact with the neck. Any other reasons why it would need a neck that strong? As for flying, I think it's safe to assume it could at the very least manage to fly around the archipelago and not just the main island as not being limited to the island is the reason why it's a giant instead of a island dwarf.
@@jidk6565 The question is why it's neck needs to be 10 times as strong for it's size as other Pterrosaurs meaning if that is needed then no other Pterrosaur can do it. 1. Can none other look around when flying? 2. Why would it need to carry around prey 10 times as large as usual, do you expect it to fly around with a giant dinosaur in it's beak? Why not just eat it at the spot? It was the local apex predator meaning there would be no need for it to carry food around to hide it. 3. It's assumed most Pterrosaurs pecked at prey, but I guess you mean that it used mega massive pecks smashing any defenses and killing large prey in one hit. The main argument against that is that there was no really large prey around where it lived making giant smashing pecks a bit redundant.
These giant winged dinosaurs seem to be playing a more important roll in actual predation instead of scavenger. Could it be possible that the diverse designs of ankylosaurids were to protect from this massive attack from the sky but also helped with land predators as well?
If you can't figure out what I meant about giant winged Blank after a video about them then I can't help you. I simply asked a question wasn't looking for a right fighter. I guess it's easier to correct me than answer the question even if you knew what I meant and I didn't have time to type out Qualtzelawhateveritscalled at the time of asking. God bless you
I actually thought of common name for the creature. Originally I was going for Dracula’s Beast or Dracula’s Dragon. But since it’s remains like others in the area were first found and described by Nopscha I think Nopscha’s Dragon would actually be a better choice.
Question: If these animals extinct millions of years ago and we discovering them only in the recent history, where to all the stories about giants and dragons and titan monsters come from ? Why thousands of years ago people drew pictures of them ? How ? Imagination or witness ? in the recent history, knights fight dragons to save a princess. Seriously ? Almost every part of the world has that same story about some dragon. It seems like these titans are NOT a history of millions of years ago but few hundred years to maybe few thausand years back when humans were around to memorize and portrait them in several ways.
"Wait, so Quetzalcoatlus wasn't the ultimate sky king? 🦅 Mind blown! 🤯 Just when I thought a giraffe-sized flying reptile couldn’t be topped, you hit me with this. The fact that there were even bigger creatures soaring above is both terrifying and awesome. Imagine looking up and seeing something like that-makes birds today seem like tiny drones! Great video, learned something new and had a good laugh too. 🦖✈️"
Just imagine seeing that thing walking on the ground for the first time. Absolutely huge head with a little, weirdly shaped body and wings. They're so unique looking.
I really doubt this beast could jump high enough to take off, considering most big birds today can't to that. The biggest one I can think of is the pigeon and it needs so big muscles the entire animal is rounded, they also overheat immediatly doing that so it's limited to a few seconds, and it's only for 360g. Here it's a predator that has no reason to escape that quickly, so I imagine it's more logical to just take off from a high ground as it's easier to reach that highground when you are very tall.
this video was really informative and well put together, i appreciate the effort! however, i have to say that i find it hard to believe that something could be larger than Quetzalcoatlus as the biggest flying animal. it just seems so iconic and hard to top, don't you think?
Large pterosaurs like Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus were typically not taking off every five seconds. They would likely only take off every so often and only when traveling massive distances. For shorter distances, they would just gallop. A common misconception is that pterosaurs were clumsy on the ground like some bats. Footprints showed that Pterosaurs were instead perfectly capable of running/galloping and walking comfortably on the ground. In fact, for the massive Azhdarchids, the current accepted theory amongst paleontologists is that this giant creatures would hunt on the ground regularly and run down and swallow prey whole.
Large flying birds like condors are much less efficient at taking off compared to pterosaurs because they only use their hindlimbs. Pterosaurs (and some bats) used all four of their limbs to take off, meaning that the flight muscles directly come into play in launching. This is a big part of why the largest pterosaurs could still fly.
Not proven adults could take off at all. Too heavy.
@@Scion3SevensWell back then we thought that sauropods were too heavy to walk. But they could. Most evidence points towards them being able to fly. Why would they have such well developed wings if they couldn’t fly? Flightless birds today do not have very well developed wings. That’s like saying that whales can’t float because they are too heavy. The whole “bees shouldn’t be able to fly” thing has been proven false because the guy that came up with it miscalculated at a certain point. “Too heavy” is not enough. I need much more substantial evidence than “Too heavy” the only reason those wings could still be there without flight capabilities would be for display.
@user-ek4iy5wp4h I reckon they could use the wind and had explosive fast twitch muscles for taking off. They probably would only flap for take of and perhaps to control landing but otherwise soared when they flew so those fast twitch muscles wouldn't have used too much energy having been at rest during flight.
@@Scion3Sevens Actually, most evidence supports the idea that adults COULD take off.
@@kade-qt1zu NOPE. Just the models used by paleo's with pre-conceived bias.
Just when you thought modern paleontologists were taking away your childhood’s 80 foot Liopleurodon, and 9 meter Big Al. They publish a cessna spanning, dino devouring, two story terrestrial pterosaur to pterrorize your dreams.
pterrorise your dreams, yes indeed! XD
🙂
I was so sad about Liopleurodon when I found out
Its OK; theyre long dead.
wait how large is big al?
even then we still upper estimates of saurophaganax
A dwarf titanosaur is such an oxymoron
True XD
island drawfism is pretty common in modern times and had been observed quite well, theres the dwarf hippo which went extinct recently in cyprus, dwarf elephants from crete, and modern day channel island foxes, however the discovery of europasaurus from the jurssic, and of course both paludititan and magyarosaurus from maastrichtian europe are the first recorded evidence of insular dwarfism among dinosaurs
True, they should just call them osaurs
Jumbo Shrimp...Military Intelligence lol
No body knows...
"And an un-named snake."
Allow me... I hereby proclaim this snake's name to be Jeff. You can thank me later.
your contribution to science will be remembered in history books
I know a Jeff. He’s more of a dink
Jeffoboa
i thought of jeff the killer
@@alexandrejeankonghpps582So simple, yet so funny loool
Quetzalcoatlus if it didn't skip Neck Day
idk how this dosent have more likes xD
Bro what the heck is neck day 😂
@@noobiek.o4792 IDFK, Lifting shit in your mouth? I'm sure it's a lot more impactful if you have a neck like that, though.
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 yea true
And everything day actually
See, I was initially scared of the Quetzlcoatlus because of its size, thinking that I could have been its prey if I traveled back in time (I know, silly fear). Then, I realized that Azhdharkids' throats were probably too small to swallow a human, like a blue whale. I became at peace with their former existence. Now you're telling me that they wouldn't have swallowed me in one gulp, but stabbed me and tortured me before I died and became chunks of meat for the Hatzegopteryx. Back to square one.
Its normal to be scared of large predators, in fact its probably the most normal fear in existence. It may be illogical, due to a long extinct predator not being able to harm you in any physical way, but most fears are somewhat illogical (i mean, hey, im scared of spiders, and the dark to an extent).
Basically my point is your fear is valid and in no way more embarrassing than any other fear just because its somewhat unique
All animals in the animal kingdom are usually afraid of a larger opponent. It’s why most animals flare up and stand high widening their arms/wings/body. It’s a vain attempt to scare off a potential threat. Being scared of larger predators is a natural instinct
In the case of these animals in particular the fear is even more compounded by their stature. They weren't just big, they were outright towering over most other animals. If you look directly up to see a gigantic head looming over you and then descending upon you, that is much more unsettling than the thought of a T.rex running you down.@@jc_art_
Nah they could swallow you whole. Blue whales eat krill, Quetzlcoatlus eats above human sized prey.
sweet dreams😆
Some birds evolved to be flightless. Could this happen to Pterosaurs?
That's what I've been wondering, would explain its robustness, also flightless birds on islands are common I would assume the same for pterosaurs.
Scientists do say that they could have been flightless due to their massive size and hunting on the ground BUT scientists also think they flew to get around faster even though they spent most of their time on land
One reason is because we have absolutely no evidence they could not fly. All evidence we have from every group of pterosaur known flew. So why would we assume just because these ones were huge they could not fly.
@@mhdfrb9971 true but they didn’t just have big robust wings for a big robust body for no reason
I bet, had the KPG extinction event never happened, there would be a lineage of flightless pterosaurs.
Kinda like the Strank from The New Dinosaurs.
It would be so cool to be a biologist sent back in time to do field research on Hatzeg Island. Cool, and terrifying.
I’ve asked so many people (usually as an ice breaker) what time period on earth they’d like to be sent back to just to observe. It’s a great way to immediately get a sense of someone’s interests and even their values.
Some have said the 1920s, the 1950s, Ancient Greece, Rome, or Egypt. Then I come along and say “Right before they K-Pg extinction so I can witness the biggest things that have ever walked, flown, and swam.”
The only problem with time travel would be what is known as the butterfly effect. We would have to be extremely careful so as to not harm any animal. As it could have profound unknown effects on history itself.
Definitely
@@marcusking332 gotta look at it with dragon ball z physics ... you going back would create a new fork in the time stream, and so you wouldn't affect your own timeline
its a common fantasy to want to travel back & mogg hitler or john wilkes booth or etc, but at the same time, you wouldn't want to if it would cause you to not be born
what if you can't turn back? i hope you have hunting skills
These animals were terrifying. There's something so uncanny about these larger pterosaurs. The fact that their head is so big and neck so long while still being able to fly looks something straight out of a horror fiction. They are just amazing! Thank you for the video!
This is absolutely stunning! It's geometry alone is like nothing else I've ever seen.
Can we just stop and consider how wild it is to think an animal as fantastical as this actually existed?
may have existed
Pterosaurs as a rule are so ungainly looking (compared to modern birds) I suppose even nature makes awkward creatures occasionally.
One thing I just wondered was this. If we lived in an anachronistic fantasy world like “Primal”, and one of our environments had Hatzegopteryx and dwarf elephants existing on the same island, then it would be the closest thing to having the Roc’s folklore acted out by prehistoric animals. The Roc was a mythical giant bird-like monster from the Middle-East, which was often depicted being able to carry off and devour elephants.
yeah and now we are on this planet they once ruled thinking about them
@@BruceAlarieI'm curious about what you mean by this. Care to elaborate?
Of all the prehistoric animals, these flying behemoths strike me as some of the most fascinating. Early hypotheses were that these flying reptiles needed to launch themselves from cliffs, which I always thought was ridiculous. Oh, and that they were only capable of soaring, which I also thought was very unlikely. I’ve come to believe that these animals were capable of flying through use of musculature within their wings that allowed them to modify their shape in ways unlike any flying creature before or after. They had to be a magnificent sight… so long as you could watch from hiding!
Great episode on an animal I had not heard of before. Thx for posting.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive They were reptiles though. Pterosaurs are part of the archosaurs, and are therefore reptiles, just as dinosaurs, another group of archosaurs, are.
You’re right about the method of launch being unique as pterosaurs used a push-up method to launch themselves. This means that the same muscles used to launch were the same ones used for flight and meant that all pterosaurs could fly no matter how big they got. Birds on the other hand use their legs to launch and their wings for flight. The downside for this method of launch is that the powerful leg muscles are dead weight in the sky. This means that there’s a cap on how large birds could get and still fly and that there was evolutionary pressure to lose the ability to fly given the chance (read elephant or terror birds). The upside to the way birds fly is that they can use those leg muscles to grab prey mid flight, something that birds can’t do.
Bats may fly the same way the pterosaurs did.
I'm wondering if they were capable of _dynamic_ soaring, like the Albatross. That would certainly extend their range for island-hopping.
@@absalomdraconisBats fly the same way, but they don’t launch themselves into the air the same. They have to drop down from a height to fly for the most part. The vampire bat is one notable exception though since it does the push up method too.
That thing having a bowl movement while flying overhead would have been terrifying enough.
🍜🌌lends a WHOLE NEW MEANING TO "OH SHIT"!!! 😅
"Bombs away!"
An organic B-52.
Poor creatures underneath. 😂
Little birdie in the sky
Drops a turdie in my eye
I'm a big boy, I won't cry
I'm just glad that cows don't fly
The artwork for these is terrifying
The largest animal to ever fly... That we know of...
Lindsay is proud my friend
3:13 Well, that's a terrifying way of demonstrating size
It also doesnt help much, as neither animal are depicted in a 'normal' position, and also no scale is present in the image, we dont know how tall either animal is from this image alone. Overall its more "an art peice in the style of a scale chart" than it is an actual scale chart lol
3:27 is a much more useful depiction, and in my opinion it makes it feel much more threatening than the art peice did
im cryin its so funny
@@jc_art_cease your incoherent babbling.
@@BrocomeON.NOW. huh?
If you like Pterosaurs and ever visit Karlsruhe in Germany, pay the Natural History Museum a visit. They have a full size model of a Pterosaur in flight, hanging off the ceiling where the stairs lead to the upper floor. It's quite impressive.
Edit: Grammar.
🍜🌌 I have only seen photos but it's still impressive!
Ah yes, the once great country known as Germany. Now known as new Somalia
@@CaptainPupu i hope you will never visit us :)
Its funny…T-rex’s and sabertooths don’t scare me much. But this thing…the fact it once existed gives me a severe case of the creeps
It could just look down at you, landing, and gallop just to eat you.
I agree. It's definitely on my better extinct list, and don't forget the "p" is silent.
Flying Carnivorous Murder Giraffe
Those ancient ape genes kicking in…
@@agorman1341 Us to it, wouldn't even be classified as a snack oO five of us combined, would be more like a hors d'oeuvre.
Best parts about dinosaurs is they probably dont look like what we're constantly seeing them as. Until a safe time travel is possible, we will never know.
We might not have to travel in time, just be able to look into the past. Like with some sort of device that could capture images from long ago.
@tatumergo3931 how awesome would it be to have a pair of binoculars that you can set a date and just look around at what was there. Probably see some things you wish you didn't
@@tatumergo3931we'd have to travel light years away from earth for that though, since by this point, to be able get light from millions of years ago we'd have to catch up to them.
@@pessien8474 . Maybe not using the light as the source but the shadow print left behind by the radiation.
Ofcourse this is all Sci-fi, the idea came from a sci-fi novella I read a long time ago, while I was stationed in Germany.
It's not like we all already know that to travel back in time, we need that damn flux-capacitor to work right..... but for some reason it keeps getting out of whack!
@@pessien8474 we would have to travel faster than light because if the images of their existence are leaving at light speed then we would have to get to that point of projection, and as we all know nothing travels faster than light, not even the effect of gravity, you would have to travel through a 4th dimension or use a black hole to somehow transport yourself ~60ish million light years in 1 direction and then somehow have the ability to look that far to earth
Seeing that thing walk looks so eerie... it must have been such a terrifying sight to behold.
Thank you for your courage. Quetza fans are sometimes aggressive, for example when I presented years ago on Reddit that Quetzalcoatlus was not the only big pterosaur, but for example Hatzegopteryx was just as big as this, people got angry and argued that Hatzegopteryx is not even half the size of Quetzalcoatlus or that Hatzegopteryx cannot be counted because it lived in Europe unlike the American Quetza. I haven't discussed it since then, but I'm glad to see that Hatzegopteryx is slowly getting recognition.
Aren't people strange?
@@tom7471 It made me chuckle thinking that there are fan groups arguing over dinosaurs sizes
"If it ain't Murcan it don't count!"
Reddit being toxic is not surprising
@@carsandsports123 That is quite literally all it is good for.
Azhdarchids were to the sky what tyrannosaurs were to the land and mosasaurs to the sea.
Being hunted by one sounds like a some terrifying story out of mythology.
They also hunted on the land, but yes your metaphor is cool
Nothing beats crocosaurus. Except, of course, megashark.
Don't forget to include Deinosuchus hatcheri semi aquatic.
3:19 something about this picture terrifies me. I think it’s down to the fact its legs are so noticeable, it adds a level of the uncanny valley to it.
Imagine that thing chasing u
I think the proportions (huge head, relatively tiny limbs) just set off that uncanny valley reflex hard. Like...your senses are telling you that this thing shouldn't be able to move with those proportions, but it clearly is.
This was true until Lizzo bought a private jet
This the funniest thing I’ve ever seen😂
😄😃😀😆😅😂😘
😂😂😂😂
She’s still got more fame than you.
@@dakotadotta716 And more sexual harassment cases
That beak combined with neck muscles bring a whole new meaning to the words "pecking order."
Just a correction, it was the tallest, but not largest, size is truly dependent on weight, which Hatzegopteryx, was more heavily built than Quetzalcoatlus, which requires more weight, this makes Hatzegopteryx the largest. Edit: The video has now been corrected and this comment is pointless
Nah, your comment was not in vain. Thank you for adding value
I don't get where people take that from. There's no evidence Hatzegopteryx was more heavily build due to how fragmentary it is.
@@megaraptoran1990 It's mostly from the fact it was the apex predator of its environment, hunting prey that was probably way larger than Quetzal hunted. Which would require it to be more heavily built
@@strydertallini and how would that require for it to be more heavily built?
@@megaraptoran1990 because you're literally going for larger prey? how would it kill a magyarosaurus when it is as light as a quetzal, or lighter. This is different from carcharodontosaurs because they're using beaks to kill, which means there needs to be force put into it
This channel is so undersized and deserves so many more subs. Perfectly fills the adult need for information while satisfying our childhood fascination with prehistoric creatures. Please keep up the great work!
They provide indeed always very interesting information!
Quetzalcoatlus Northropi was bigger at 33- 40 ft wingspan and 18-20 ft tall, but that could be outdated due to the ever-changing field of paleontology, thx for the video none the less!
The size in paleontology is measured by weight. Thats why Blue whale is said to be the biggest animal that ever lived even while Patagotitan was longer than it. Patagotitan was said to weight 71.000 KG while Bluewhale weighs 150.000 KG there for Bluewhale is still said to be bigger even tho its lenght doesent beat Patagotitans lenght.
I think this video makes the case for Hatzegopteryx being flightless more strongly than it makes the case that it could fly. Many of today's flightless birds found on islands also have wings that aren't fully reduced, and the skeletal remains of Hatzegopteryx leave plenty of room for uncertainty about the size and function of its wings.
This was a 10 minute video and you made it feel way longer 👏🏻💪 good work
Wow, I'd never even heard of this one! Always thought Quetzalcoatlus was the largest. Fascinating!
Quetzal was like the Giga of the azhdarchids while Hatzeg was like the T rex
Balaenognathus maeuseri is essentally a smaller, less weird spinosaurus
Quetzal is still the "largest" in height, just not in mass. Kinda weird
@@coledavidson5630 yeah there are alot of words to use here, but 'largest' is perhaps not a good one because 'largest' is dependent on a second variable, like "largest height" or "largest weight" so just saying "largest" is very vague. Something could have the "largest density" and still be "the smallest" of a given category lol
I don't get where people take this information from. There's no evidence Hatzegopteryx was more heavily build than Quetzalcoatlus.
Pterosaurs are the most fascinating creatures . Thanks for sharing !
Reminds me of those giant crows in Caelid in Elden Ring. I know it's a fantasy game but that's kind of how I would imagine a massive flying creature like this to act.
9:34 The Hatej Azhdarchids image is terrifying
I like how the scale human at 3:12 was too terrified of the thing to pose with it and instead cowered in fear. 😆
That huge Wing Monster reminds of something someone said to me one time when we saw a bird drop its load on someone’s head. They said, “Good thing elephants don’t fly.” That Wing Monster could possibly fit that saying as if it were like an elephant with wings. Being that it’s so big, its droppings probably were too.
Just found your channel and im already starting to binge it lol, glad I found it so far and keep up the great work!
THose badasses were HUGE! So cool! And thanks for the vid!
As a side note the name Quetzalcoatlus, derived from Quetzalcoatl, is the Spanish spelling for the original Nahuatl name, and is pronounced "kehtzal kwatl" rather than "kwetzal kowatel"
Traveling back to prehistoric times would be fascinating and terrifying. You’d be a tasty snack for everything
That one hatzegopteryx that dug its beak into the dinosaur’s eye is wild 💀
Just discovered this channel. Congrats on its success. Mike from Prehistoric Magazine
It's entire head was a giant pick axe supported by a powerful neck, the horror of that thing impaling and hacking at the dwarf sauropods on the island is quite obscene, it may have just swallowed things whole but the sheer size of it's head and the robustness of it's neck might indicate something more horrifying in terms of taking down larger prey.
Yea but its also funny that a thing with a head as huge as that also can have issues in its throat most of the time given the difference between the size of its head and its stomach.
6:14 *clears throat* "Well hello muthaphuka, time to whine and dine"😈
🤣🤣
Light snack, light snack
Obviously the largest animal to fly was the sperm whale in hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
6:21 Can we talk abt how SCARY these mfers were?! Imagine being swallowed alive by that thing 💀
🫵😐
When I look at the geometry of the animals I wonder at their ability to fly at all, the mass of the head well out in front of the wings makes me wonder if the proposed reconstructions are close to what they would have been.
I'm starting to think that they could have flown with their necks bent in a similar way to pelicans or marabou storks. It seems to me that birds with large heads and beaks do not usually fly with their necks in a linear position
It's explained at the 7 min mark
This video made me wonder if they could've essentially been penguins- i.e. underwater, would explain the long neck and large head. Probably wrong, but an interesting concept!
I love that they could fly though, and agree feels like they hold head back over body during flight, would make more sense.
@@crestedargo4663 swans and geese do for example. The neck vertebrae are very long and stiff, it looks like they were unable to bent their neck to a greater degree.
@@mrfischkopf4946It's true that swans and geese fly with their necks straight, , but personally I find that they have pretty little heads and beaks/bills. For me birds with long necks and large heads are: storks, marabou storks, pelicans and shoebills (these are the first that come to my mind), not swans and geese. So I'm not surprised that these two species fly with their necks straight, because they don't have a lot of weight due to their neck and especially their head. Azhdarchidae looks to me especially similar to pelicans, in regards to head's, beak's and neck's proportions
currently Quetzalcoatlus is the largest, because it weighs more. Azhdarchid weights are hard to accurately get because of their highly fragmentary nature, both Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx are inferred from relatives. Though there are two unpublished GDI for Quetzalcoatlus that placed it at around 360 kilos.
The largest estimated weight is around 250kg. Hatzegopteryx remains, as mentioned in the Video, were noticeably more robust suggesting a higher weight than that of Quetzalcoatlus.
@@mrfischkopf4946 GDI places Quetzalcoatlus at 360 kg.
@@mrfischkopf4946There is no evidence that Hatzegopteryx was more robust than Quetzalcoatlus
@@mrfischkopf4946 which material? Half of a humerus, an incomplete femur, a cervical, skull fragments or other fragments
@@megaraptoran1990 all azhdarchids remains are incomplete. The remains that are available, suggests a bigger size for hatzegopteryx. I have not heard of a publication that has disproven the current understanding.
Imagining a Hatzegopteryx to run or gallop is on the same level of nightmare fuel as a cockroach going into butterfly mode!
Running into prehistoric roaches wouldn't be any fun. They were big.
THE PATH OF TITANS SCREENSHOT LMAOOOO 1:27
If i had to guess pterosaurs probably acted more like terrorbirds that could fly for short distances to escape even larger, heavier threats. You could even think of them as giraffe sized pelicans that could gallop similar to a horse… terrifying to think about actually.
It's amazing to me that such a big, heavy animal could ever fly. I know they say that they could "jump" into the air to take off, but even jumping should be difficult, I would think, for such a heavy animal. Amazing.
Yeah amazing that these beasts flew around in the sky! Imagine seeing a Q. in the sky!
Wow…very curious about how much it may have weighed, as well as the evolutionary pressures that led to that crazy neck and skull.
Thank you for making this eye-opening video. Nice job!
Neck is probs aerodynamic
🍜🌌I think he said about the size of a tiger.
One of my favourite creatuers ever, and the art at around 1:56 is some of my fav dino art ever ^^
Found it on pinterest years ago, awesome art
hatzegopterix was named after the city where I live and it is called Hațeg, a city with great history and tradition in Romania, here you can also find the pyroraptor fossils from the raptor family
this island really seems to havve made some of the most interesting animals of the era, if im not wrong i remember the balaur had some gliding skills and the small titanosaurs sound so interestning
These are probably the single most scariest creatures that walked the earth. Imagine what our society would be like if they were still around, probably extinct 😅
idk what it is about these monsters that unsettles me so. Their sheer size, combined with their freaky not quite bird-like looks. Awesome, but terrifying.
Between a trex that can smell you from miles away and home in on you easily like a polar bear and these thing that you might not even hear coming before they drop on you.. yeah... trex would actually be easier to avoid if you could find a place with terrain they can't climb. But with these things you would have to live underground like a rat just to survive.
@@CampaignerSC If we even survived those times we would have evolved so differently. Probably our nightvision would be excellent. Or maybe we would have develloped other ways of 'seeing'
@@Gloriousturtlechan i think its much more useful to imagine a "jurrasic park" like scenario, where these creatures are brought back to live in the modern day. How life would change or not change with these creatures around, not the strange concept of "what if these creatures survived extinction and lived all the way to the modern day" because in that scenario too much time is given for things to change, like the animal to evolve to be completely different, or differences in human development, that all stray from the point of the thought in the first place, of "what would you do if these creatures existed today"
@@jc_art_ The pterosaurs probably had the highest kill count in jurassic world, at least in the first movie
@@ATEG8374 ok
the media used is really great. awesome video overall
Those are dragons as far as I'm concerned 😲
Where did you think people in the middle ages got the idea of Giant flying reptiles from?
Okay, so far I know it's not confirmed, but I really think they found bones of a Tyrannosaur and some big wings, and made a dragon of it, not completely understanding what they found.
True in description but I've been studying evidence of dragons worldwide. And evidence suggests these beings are actually sea-serpents.
These beings are somewhat of a mist. Almost transparent, and and produce and electrical charge like lightning.
The sea is their home but, they can fly because of their mist/smokey form.
So even if they're there in the clouds you might not noticed. They're perfectly camouflaged. There's more beings like them in the sea I just don't know exactly what they are.
There was one spotted in the Japanese tsunami video. And I saw another on a news coverage in that same incident.
The news footage was later taken down. I know this because I saved it in my playlist. You can find that footage again. But you can find the first if you look it up.
The government sectors knows about these things. They're trying to keep these things classified. Because they're doing experiments on them.
Amazing that an animal that big could fly.
Consider that oxygen in the atmosphere was higher so everything was bigger
I love that we still have basically no idea what dinosaurs actually looked like.
After reading the title my first thought was "Did your mom go skydiving or something?"
It looks like it was designed by Picasso
So nobody gonna talk about the to-scale-human silhouette laying on the floor cowering in fear of the azdarkid silhouette at 3:16.
Instead of a static human to scale,I think they decided to add in the horror movie character
Look, I got distracted by how curvey the legs were, like a ballet dancer. A pterrifying ballet dancer of death
We visited the museum in Phoenix and one of this is in display... it is just incredible. seeing these creatures alive is a wish which will never come true
I love these animals for how alien they look, amazing beasts
9:05 I think that Bradycneme is pronounced as “bradickneem.” Also you missed a syllable in Paludititan. Overall fantastic video, I appreciate the research you put into it
They mis-pronounce *alot* of words in this video
@@jc_art_ "a lot". Two words. And "mispronounce" has no hyphen. And your sentence needs a period.
Me when I see my art at 8:00 : 😍🥺
Awesome video!!
So... NOT awesome if it didn't have your art?
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc Do you need glasses because your read my message wrong 🧐 😛
1:08 nightmare fuel
Just imagine this, you fly on a plane, looking in the window, and you see this flying besides the plane. Scary.
Hatzegopteryxs: "No time for losers, we are the champions of the world!"
Meteor: "Hello Earth!"
These things freak me out when they walk. 😮
And you wonder where the old legends of dragons came from. . .
Erm … no human has ever seen the old dinosaurs.
No but they did see the bones/fossils. @@futuristica1710
That fact is not cool for quetzalcoatlus lovers i think
Since these animals lived in an archipelago, perhaps they didn't need to soar but instead glide along the water (and beach) using the ground effect? That would take a lot less energy to accomplish, which would help make such a huge frame feasible. The ground effect kicks in at roughly one wingspan of altitude for fixed-wing aircraft. That's plenty of space for Hatzegopteryx to occasionally flap, and glide swiftly from one island to the next. Such behavior might also contribute to their massive size, as gliding in the open like this presents no evolutionary pressure on wingspan since there's nothing to run into.
This is a very interesting hypothesis. I'd love to see something like this researched further.
Personally, I'm mixed on the 2022 study abt Quetzalcoatlus' soaring ability.
The paper didn't state that giant azhdarchids COULDN'T soar, but that their soaring ability was considerably worse than modern soaring birds.
But considering that some man-made glider planes need wider circling radii for thermals and higher sink rates compared to soaring birds but still soar just fine, I wonder if Quetzalcoatlus could soar as well, perhaps in more limited conditions than modern birds.
So this was basically the closest we'll get to a real life, prehistoric dragon. Christ alive this is such a terrifying animal.
The largest animal to every fly was a whale, it just didn't do so under its own power.
9:28 unnamed snake 😭
If only Jim Henson knew this when creating Sesame street... 🤔
We all know the largest animal to fly was your mom when I paid her flight to come see me.
Hatzegopteryx is easily my favourite creature of all time. They're just so fascinating and bizarre.
I think that, while Quetzalcoatlus is still the King of the Azhdarchids, Hatzegopteryx was the big brute of the family.
Cryodrakon.
Well new estimates in 2021 shows that the quetz was two times bigger then a hatze, if you want I can show you the estimates! 😊
@@williammoreno-pp1og show them then
@@megaraptoran1990 A majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been substantially higher, around 200-250 kg (440-550 lb). In 2021, Kevin Padian which was very recent, while the Hatzegopteryx is only 500 too possibly 550 so in reality these two creatures could of been the same weight but different height!
@@williammoreno-pp1og Quetzalcoatlus is about 360 kg going by the skeletal by Henrique Paes.
The title is correct. The largest animal to ever fly is your mom, when she took that flight to Florida last year.
Ayo wtf?
Your mom is so big, she couldn’t fit in a C5 Galaxy. They tried but the doors wouldn’t close
Your mom is big and fat, that everyone calls her the Big Fat Lady
Lmao
3:00 Build like a tank? Who build it then.
Not even close, a modern MBT weights around 50 to 60 tons. That thing couldn't possibly weight more than 2,638lbs or 1,835 lbs.
As for who built it? Definitely some crazy naughty engineer, it has all the makings of it....
God did
@@ajaxjacksonEvolution
@@rocbot9479 go learn more about evolution to see that it doesn't make sense
@rocbot9479 also learn more about Islam u will thank me
I love the use of Path of Titans for images!
the meta back then was crazy
Interesting, an over developed neck durability suggests that it could use a totally different hunting style then other Pterrosaurs like ramming victims with the beak while flying and absorbing the impact with the neck. Any other reasons why it would need a neck that strong?
As for flying, I think it's safe to assume it could at the very least manage to fly around the archipelago and not just the main island as not being limited to the island is the reason why it's a giant instead of a island dwarf.
1: to easily look around with it's heavy head while flying
2: to pick up heavier prey it could be eating
3: to Peck at things WHILE ON THE GROUND
@@jidk6565 The question is why it's neck needs to be 10 times as strong for it's size as other Pterrosaurs meaning if that is needed then no other Pterrosaur can do it.
1. Can none other look around when flying?
2. Why would it need to carry around prey 10 times as large as usual, do you expect it to fly around with a giant dinosaur in it's beak? Why not just eat it at the spot? It was the local apex predator meaning there would be no need for it to carry food around to hide it.
3. It's assumed most Pterrosaurs pecked at prey, but I guess you mean that it used mega massive pecks smashing any defenses and killing large prey in one hit. The main argument against that is that there was no really large prey around where it lived making giant smashing pecks a bit redundant.
These giant winged dinosaurs seem to be playing a more important roll in actual predation instead of scavenger. Could it be possible that the diverse designs of ankylosaurids were to protect from this massive attack from the sky but also helped with land predators as well?
- not dinosaurs
- role
Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.
If you can't figure out what I meant about giant winged Blank after a video about them then I can't help you. I simply asked a question wasn't looking for a right fighter. I guess it's easier to correct me than answer the question even if you knew what I meant and I didn't have time to type out Qualtzelawhateveritscalled at the time of asking. God bless you
It’s just a correction, you don’t have to be offended by it!
So glad you noticed and proved my point 👍it was a correction without the positivity of an answer. That's exactly what I was saying. Good job 👏
guys whats the name of the show at 0:09 secs ?? ive been searching for it forever ha
Walking with dinosaurs and prehistoric Planet(the sauropod).
I actually thought of common name for the creature.
Originally I was going for Dracula’s Beast or Dracula’s Dragon.
But since it’s remains like others in the area were first found and described by Nopscha I think Nopscha’s Dragon would actually be a better choice.
10:04 That is Just Picture Perfect.......❤❤💯💯😭😭😭
Question: If these animals extinct millions of years ago and we discovering them only in the recent history, where to all the stories about giants and dragons and titan monsters come from ? Why thousands of years ago people drew pictures of them ? How ? Imagination or witness ?
in the recent history, knights fight dragons to save a princess. Seriously ? Almost every part of the world has that same story about some dragon.
It seems like these titans are NOT a history of millions of years ago but few hundred years to maybe few thausand years back when humans were around to memorize and portrait them in several ways.
Reptiles & avian creatures have always existed. Coming up with the combination of winged reptilians isn't as otherworldly as one would think.
It's yo momma.
Evolved to steal wallets
move out the way Vlad the Impaler, Hatzegopterous has arrived
Give me your wallet
"Wait, so Quetzalcoatlus wasn't the ultimate sky king? 🦅 Mind blown! 🤯 Just when I thought a giraffe-sized flying reptile couldn’t be topped, you hit me with this. The fact that there were even bigger creatures soaring above is both terrifying and awesome. Imagine looking up and seeing something like that-makes birds today seem like tiny drones! Great video, learned something new and had a good laugh too. 🦖✈️"
Just imagine seeing that thing walking on the ground for the first time. Absolutely huge head with a little, weirdly shaped body and wings. They're so unique looking.
"The largest animal to ever fly wasn't Quetzalcoatlus" it was your mother 💀
@LondonLabs ..... bro what, I was making a joke. What does ur statement even mean lol
Got em
That first small clip of WWD brought back so many memories...
I really doubt this beast could jump high enough to take off, considering most big birds today can't to that. The biggest one I can think of is the pigeon and it needs so big muscles the entire animal is rounded, they also overheat immediatly doing that so it's limited to a few seconds, and it's only for 360g. Here it's a predator that has no reason to escape that quickly, so I imagine it's more logical to just take off from a high ground as it's easier to reach that highground when you are very tall.
People today: "NO! THIS IS BIGGER THAN THAT!" "NO THIS IS!"
Hatzeg and Quetzal Millions o years ago: "mm yes, fish and meat"
this video was really informative and well put together, i appreciate the effort! however, i have to say that i find it hard to believe that something could be larger than Quetzalcoatlus as the biggest flying animal. it just seems so iconic and hard to top, don't you think?