Quetzalcoatlus: The Largest Flying Animal EVER to Live | Dinosaur Documentary
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- Around sixty-eight million years ago, something massive was patrolling the vast open plains and wide skylines of America. Over the heads of mighty titanosaurs flew the titanosaur equivalent of a pterosaur, the colossal Quetzalcoatlus. This is an animal almost incomparable to anything alive in the twenty-first century, with its long, snaking neck, giant wings and long, sharp beak. It ultimately survived to the end of the Mesozoic Era, around the time the end Cretaceous extinction marked the end of all the non-avian dinosaurs the world over. It would go on to surrender the skies to the birds of the Cenozoic Era, where it was succeeded by the giant pelagornids and teratorns, huge birds with wingspans larger still than anything alive today. As big as these huge birds were able to grow, none of them could match the sheer size of Quetzalcoatlus - the largest flying animal ever to exist on Planet Earth.
In today's video, we will be exploring the life of this colossal pterosaur - everything from the way it lived and how it looked, right up to the point it was discovered and described over sixty million years later. We will take a look at the environment in which Quetzalcoatlus lived, the different species within the genus, and the controversies surrounding its discovery. Sit back and relax as we take flight with a true giant of the skies.
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Best idea ever l!!!
You win my internet vote for today!
Thank you!
Best idea ever l!!!
You win my internet vote for today!
Thank you!
OMG thank you! This guy's voice is excruciating
Nah this is great for sleeping
Love the narrator's voice!! Perfect for falling asleep to.😊
It's AI.
The California Condor is making quite a comeback due to human created breeding programs. While still endangered they are actually in a slow recovery process. So far, a major, but far from incomplete, success.
Fascinating. Quetzalcoatlus would have been an amazing sight to see in the air. Thank you for featuring this amazing pterosaur.
That megafinger just blows my mind. How beautiful and horrifying it would be to see such a majestic creature. Amazing nature never managed to produce another flying reptile after all this time.
This is Gonna be a great watch :) keep up the great work.
Great video! Love the long-form documentary style. And a perfect subject. Giant Azhdarchids are definitely in my top 3 for prehistoric animals i'd want to see.
Quetzalcoatlus, a flying reptile.
I hate AI robot voices.
I always thought it was a real voice
@@AngryChineseWomanme too...
1.25x speed makes it much better
Ai will destroy youtube in the future people don't put anny work in a video ai does everything pleas report youtube channel like this
Impressive creatures.
I love your videos. Thanks for teaching me about Quetzalcoatlus.
Quetzalcoatl means Feathered Snake.
You have a very beautiful voice
Should one of these hungry behemoths even bother eyeballing a puny human, just like you've seen birds and lizards do, the animal would snatch you up alike the Robin's breakfast-earthworm and effortless swallow you whole.
Swallow my what?
I must question the aerodynamics of carrying its heavy skull and huge beak outstretched in flight, that just wouldnt work, with no back end much, it would be diving down with that posture. More likely, like the pelican with its huge beak, it flew with its neck snaked back and tucked into its shoulders, except for if it was seizing prey.Just my opinion. Hopefully more fossils will be found to clarify this.
Fantastic video as always
It's interesting (for want of a better word) that you mentioned Jurassic World Evolution 2, because I listen to your content while playing it. I love your content, it always makes my day hearing about dinosaurs!
Love the video, but I think I prefer no music every thing else 👍
英語苦手なので、聞き取りやすくて非常に助かります。(*´ω｀*)
Their home range would have been, the whole world.
For a flying animal the size of a giraffe 🦒 being 250 miles from the sea is like a stork making a nest on the side of a lake just a few flaps of its 11 meter wings
I love looking at the amazing art recreations of the dinosaurs. You should only show the animals and not humans. Your voice is great.
Awesome video
Northropi was named after the aircraft designer Jack Northrop, in case you're wondering (he had a thing about tailess aircraft, but they didn't work so well until they had computers to give them artificial stability).
i'd like to know more about post-cretaceous animals. could you do a vid on that, please?
Great Video
Can you imagine how long it must have taken for a creature like this to evolve? The Earth is so old, its mind blowing.
fantastic video!
Who knows? Maybe another specimen or species can show up in the fossil record!!
You can bet that this definitely will happen.
I’d simply LOVE to see them today ❤🎉
Too bad they would eat our pets & children.
People might not taste good just as orcas don’t like to eat people
They have a life size replica at the field museum in Chicago. It is pretty humbling to stand underneath it.
Ignore the troll/hate comments. Great video as ever 😊
Interesting the dubious logic scientist use to say the animal with the longest wingspan ever couldn't fly! They must be the same scientists who determined with all their software and expertise that bees can't fly either!
There is massive inconsistency in the neck length and neck girth in the pictures that accompany this narrative. One should be quite sceptical about the giraffe-length necks depicted, especially where of much more slender girth. Giraffes swallow only chewed leaves and fruit. These massive flying carnivores would have been limited to pretty small prey items if they weren't to choke or suffocate themselves.
Wow 5 minutes in and all that's been said is that it is huge. Come on!
Nice narration
This make Dinotopia seem like such an awesome idea. What would it be like to fly on one of these things. It's crazy that thing ever got into the air and it sucks we never got to ride it.
Hatzegopteryx: hold my tethyshadros
Speeding the narration up to 1.25 makes the AI voice a little more real but not quite there yet. But imagine seeing a bird the size of a small plane. Wow!
If they were still around we would be on the menu, we would be just the right size for a quick bite.
Must've been quite a sight.
Listen to this if you can’t fall asleep？
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Quetzalcoatlus the largest Pterosaur? Or did Hatsegopteryx have a greater wingspan?
It's unknown which is overall larger. Quetzalcoatlus seemed to be longer, but with a slimmer build.
Hatzegopteryx with mass
Hatzegopteryx was the largest thing to fly. Quetzalcoatlus was 2nd.
Like listening to a poem..
Was very excited to start this documentary until I heard the narrator. What in the actual hell
The voice has a rhythm to it that never changes. When you hear it, you'll never unhear it.
I knew they were large, but had no idea they were as tall as giraffes.
See I knew dragons did exist at one point LOL
Did they fly in slow motion as well.
The castle coatless👀 subtitles tried😂
Great ai voice.
Looks like a Klingon Bird of Prey Yo!!!
My favorite dinosaur 🦕
Can this be recorded again with another narrator??
_Hatzegopteryx_ was an even larger pterosaur than _Quetzalcoatlus_ so probably the largest flying animal EVER to live..?
Riding a Quetzalcoatlus and becoming a "dragon" knight is the best excuse to clone such an animal!!!! KkkkKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Largest as we know currently. Must be humble...
"Not a piscivor, therefore it must have eaten carrion"
Where is the reasoning behind such a statement? I don't like fish, but neither do I like carrion. I eat many other things.
Sometimes I think some people lack brains.
imagine a bird big enough you could ride on
Oh I can't stay awake
the video is great but the music you used for the background is anxiety-inducing
Interesting topic, excellent images,BUT few details, and those given were redundantly repeated. Yawn!!
Natrator budget was low I guess
Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs, so they are, therefore, not birds.
Somebody says they saw one back in the 1800s
Interesting subject but this video is so hard to get through. Narration is so boring with zero inflection. Lots of completely unrelated cut scenes makes me thing this is all just geared to get a few extra minutes of play time.
00:12 just wanted to point out a little “detail”, but it’s not a big deal-I’m just ocd… you say “over the heads of the titanosaurs flew the titanosaur equivalent of a pterosaur,” but it should be the other way around. To say there was a “titanosaur equivalent of a pterosaur” implies that there is a winged, airborne titanosaur, if you think about it. Lol.
It sounds more logical to say it like, “…flying above the titanosaurs, there was the _pterosaur_ equivalent of a _titanosaur_ ...”, because you’re saying there was the flying version of something big on the ground, right? That the titanosaurs had a giant counterpart in the sky. So… yeah. Lol. Just noticed that. 🤣
The narrator sounds like he's about to fall asleep. I'm off
It’s an incredibly LAZY and lame A.I. voice like those horrible tik-tok videos voices
The most boring narrator ever!
Bahahahaha
AI voiceover. Just as in any video you can hear some word weirdly pronounced, its AI. Not 20.000 new narrators with speech impediments..
You send in a script, pay, and get your script narrated.
I can not fathom how people dont understand that🤦🏻.
If a channel has a high number of followers but the narrative AI voice sucks, it means that the creator of that channel is to cheap to pay more for a AI voiceover.
Unless English isn't a native language to the creators, I can think of no reason why they'd use AI narration. I watch lots of content in English where the creator isn't a native English speaker. In most every case, I have no difficulty understanding even heavily accented English
Sorry but I do not agree with your assessment of the Azhdarchids flight. Not only were they good flyers but routinely migrated across oceans.
Something doesn't look right about it, the wings are too far back, it would be nose heavy
You could say the same for modern toucans, hornbills, and cranes, but they manage.
Was Hatzegopteryx not bigger?
Why would it have wings if it couldn't fly?
definitely seems like a transition species but seriously, it had to have flown and it looks like a soarer... just my admittedly laymans opinion.
so isnt the mayan God named after this bird.
What if this bird was actually alive at that time.
And dinosaurs realky are from the flood as some people claim.
There have been figurines of people riding horned dinosaurs found somewhere and cave paintings of longnecks also
I totally lost interest when the JP Spitter picture came up.
Planeten Untersuchungen mit Drohnen & Böden Roboters jähren länger brauchen.........? Wie Sind die Kosten Aufwands der Menschlichen ?
.............that we know of
The thumbnail incorrectly calls Quetzalcoatlus a dinosaur.
you must be seeing a different thumbnail than I am... cuz it clearly says animal... 🤷🏻
Everyone loves a pedantic peanut gallery!
Thank goodness for your blinding erudition.
I, for one, would never be the same without your much needed input.
Not the thumbnail but the title
@@rickrudd What are you talking about?
@@celiacomeau1 I believe they fixed it.
Looks like the avatar birds bruh
Flightless. First flightless at 5-6 feet tall, then gigantic, odd proportions, as in giant flightless birds. Wings could still produce thrust, so Q would have been speedy on the ground. And frantically flapping wings keep predators away. Google: “Why we think giant pterosaurs could fly” (…NOT!)" for details.
Unfortunately Dr Habib was new to paleontology when he first came up with the quad-launch method and he cheated pterosaur morphology to achieve his poorly conceived hypothesis. This is also covered in the above blogpost link.
Play at .75X, it’s funny.
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flying???..., or gliding!
i think such an animal , with the zise and weight of quetzalcoatlus, needed a good bit of wind.., and i highly doubt it could take of from the ground..., it probably took of from a kliff! or against the wind, and a good bit of wind!
greetings bibia
Quetzalcoatlus did not weigh all that much, it is likely they would've taken off by first-off curling up into a crouch-like position, then leaping upwards, where then they would've flied, however its believed they couldn't fly for long, like all pterosaurs, they had hollow bones, which allowed their body to be light-enough to fly.
@@strydertallini Donald M. Henderson did make a compelling case..., see : Royal Tyrrel Museum Speakers (it's on the tube) "over the heads of dinosaurs: pterosaurs"
Greetings bibia.
Ps EDIT: pterodactylus sounds better imo 😂so what do I know...
@bibia666 - Nature does not let animals keep big, expensive structures, like huge wings, unless they provide a compelling competitive advantage. An animal with the largest wingspan ever could certainly make good use of its wings.
@@michaelcox1071 Like gliding 😉
i wish it was real again:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((99 or something even larger than them
black hawk
could do without the robot...........
Set playback speed to x1.25
Found this really interesting, but the narrator made me think again. Absolutely horrible.
We would have been delicious.
Do yourselves a favor and get hold of the BBC 6 parter, actually called Walking With Dinosaurs. Way more informative by Attenborough without being padded with stock footage of irrelevence. Plus the added attraction of the narrator not deciding half way through to weirdly emulate Jeff Goldblum.
and saying the same thing over and over. in a voice that quickly became irritating. Cut the superlatives and give us facts.
Actually, hatzegopteryx was probably bigger. Just sayin'.
The hard part of understanding any of it is time spans. We never consider the unthinkable amounts of time. Time to evolve into super size creatures. Its hard to imagine time never ending it looks like infinity.
OK text it seems but as there is much AI generated / chosen content none of which can be trusted, including the many generated images and vids.
The narration is an absolute crime. I could do a better job myself and would be happy to do it without payment!
Commentator talks too slowly. big non event.
Its AI voice
Ai ruins this ...
Dragons were bigger.... See Mud Fossil University...
These AI voices are so bad..
Was this creature a bird or reptile?
Birds are technically also reptiles in terms of the clade they're in, but this creature is not a bird. It is a reptile.
Sorry to be a know it all but hatzigopterex was larger.
As long as you don't say that thing took a flying dump and it was the ancestors of a pigeon , 15 to 21 meter ( 3 feet , 3 inches = one meter ) wingspan . That thing could swoop down and pick you and fly off with you for lunch or supper, no joke , makes you glad man didn't live then , ( poor caveman )😮
The earliest evidence of humans is from about 250k years ago and the earliest theories go back as far as a about a million years ago and the queztal lived 68 millions years ago so cavemen never interacted with these animals.
And no human lived with them uldk anything quetz lived 66 million years ago cave men 10 000 years ago
@@pierre-samuelroux9364 cave men at least 500k years ago
@@spontaneousbootay and?It still way after giant pterosaurs extinct
@@pierre-samuelroux9364 and get your facts straight. Isnt learning fun?
I thought, they were found, in South America, that were it got it's name, after a Inca God??
Liar! Hatzegopteryx was bigger.
Please use a real human narrator🙏 I just won’t listen to AI voices,