I thought at first that was Natalia Jagielska that discovered the specimen given how obviously excited and proud she it of it, but it was another women, Amelia Penny, a PHD student, that discovered it in 2-17. Careers are made this way and this specimen looks to be pretty important not just for the individual discovery but also for its role in moving the clock back. Very exciting.
this size probably did not perch on trees, pterosaurs were quadrupeds adapted to walk on all fours on the ground, traces of that have been found. the popular image of a pterosaur perching like a bird you find in fantasy books is based on fantasy.
@@kamion53 There were small pterosaurs as well. They showed a typical size of those reptiles early at about 2:16, the head of which is about as big as a raven or an eagle; or smaller even. There were also these cute looking snub-nosed pterosaurs, with big button eyes. These were also small In short, a lot of pterosaurs perched on trees. This was one that may have not perched on trees in the Jurassic era, and rather may have lived on cliffs just and Albatross and Condors and Eagles do. And more larger came about in the Cretaceous period; some much larger than this one. Those giants may have not perched on trees either, but many small ones did.
@@sj-wn3vk provably bogus , the horizon is over 20 miles away when it should be 3 at six feet eye level above the ocean I have it on film it's indisputable , it's bogus old world science that needs binning
And I've heard people wonder aloud about how the stories of dragons came about. Makes sense to me that someone uncovered one or more of those guys back in the more recent past (1,500 to 6,500 years ago) and then became reeeaaaaaally paranoid of the sky. I can see a group of kids finding something like that in 3,500 bce and it giving them all a severe form of ptsd, except, of course, the one who liked to carve things into the walls of his parents' cave because AC/DC posters hadn't been printed yet.
I'm not sure people thousands (or even hundreds) of years ago would understand what a fossil is or the larger significance of a find like this. I'm not sure they would even be able to recognize this as a flying creature.
Imagining Scotland being subtropical is hard enough without adding a pterosaur but the visuals help! Amazing discovery and findings! So these winged dinos were bigger than initially thought.
People knew thousands of years back the fossils, and the idea was presented by creating through different art ; pottery, sculpture, painting,.... These domains are not only one expression.
What dinosaur? It’s a flying reptile that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs….it’s like calling a mosasaur a dinosaur(dinosaurs were the biggest land animals of all time, they didn’t come in flying and fishy versions).
Pterosaurs were only 'reptiles' in the same classificatory sense that birds are reptiles. Pterosaurs were closely related to dinosaurs, including birds, were warm blooded, covered in feathery-fuzz and possibly feathers according to some scientists based on fossil evidence, and had relatively large brains.
Right. Pterosaurs would not actually fit in the traditional sense of "reptile". You need to have scales and be cold-blooded in order to be one. But in the cladistic sense, which is just consistent, includes both pterosaurs and birds as reptiles since they came from reptiles as much as other groups. Noone is excused.
The link to the scientific paper of this fossil specimen is here published on Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00135-X?fbclid=IwAR1L84HX88f05spKvgfQwRaUtiMoXzptOfnFkbyxYID5A4_7sV1KTB_SyeQ
For everyone thinking that this is the biggest Pterosaur ever; it's not. They have mentioned time and again in this video that it's the largest one from the Jurassic period, not all the Mesozoic periods. It's actual size is just about the same size as large condors, albatross, and bald eagles; which have large wingspans. This is something that the Professor acknowledges at 3:30. So try to not get carried away with wild fantasies. It's not the biggest Pterosaur discovered. There were much larger ones during the Cretaceous period. It's only the largest one from the Jurassic period, which is as large as some of the biggest flying birds today.
"They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous". * But y'know, nice one for it not being created into a fossil fuel on it's part! *Forgive me, I was under the assumption that they thought that they only existed in the Jurassic Period
pterosaur remains are found in layers dating from the late Triassic till the end of the Cretaceus, this specimen dates from the Jurassic a period that has abondunt smaller sizes pterosaur remains.
After Spielberg’s epic A.I. reproach to the future, it is a shock to discover that the news host had the fossil in her bare hands, most common wise people who think on the barrier of preservation and Jurassic therapoda remnants realize that we could learn a bit more about cycles and historical mechanisms that say birds 🦅 may be the most important part of dinosaurs.
As a palaeontology enthusiast i really love the passion that this reporter is putting into this story, it’s rare that news channels even get palaeontological finds right, let alone have any passion for it
@@user-hy4xz1qt9h Really? Do you have ANY IDEA what this is about? Have YOU ever found a fossil of... ANYTHING?? Obviously not. I dunno where you live but I will bet that there is a cliff face somewhere around you that has at least fossilized PLANT remains in it. And you can go there and find them... INSIDE the ROCK!
For birds that size to fly was the atmosphere thicker? I think at that time the continents were far closer with the Americas joined onto Africa and Europe. Presumably the centre was extremely hot and there may have been strong winds and monsoon like rains blowing into the continent from the sea. Perhaps the flying dinos used these winds to fly.
Not sure about that, they did have very light and hollow bones though, even the biggest pterosaurs to ever exist were very light, another reason why they could get so bug conpared to birds is the fact that they could also use their wings along with their legs to give them the thrust they need to get out of the ground, birds cant use their wings like that so its a bit harder for larger birds to get off from the ground
None of that's correct. Firstly, pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, they're separate animals. Dinosaurs did evolve into birds though. This particular pterosaur was large, yes, but still the same size as the biggest birds today. Some did get bigger than birds though. Firstly, pterosaur membrane wings are more efficient than feather wings. Secondly, like birds, they had hollow bones, saving weight. Like birds, they also had air sacs in their lungs and elsewhere, making them lighter and their breathing more efficient. The largest pterosaurs had more of these than birds do. It's also thought that unlike birds they could use their forelimbs to help launch themselves into the air - even the biggest birds today, such as the wandering albatross, need a run-up and need to launch themselves. Finally, it's thought the largest ones, such as quetzalcoatlus, were more gliders than flappers and tended to launch themselves, say, from high cliffs, similar to large albatrosses today. Hope this was interesting :)
exactly, i'm very jealous for the ancient Scottish dinosaurs, us here in Scotland need to travel half way around the world to get the same experience they got right in their home XD
It’s thought dinosaurs evolved into birds but there are three probable things about dinosaurs which suggest to me they could have evolved from already flying creatures. The first is they probably had modern day bird like lungs which are more efficient which aids flying, the second is they had lighter modern bird like bones again an aid to flying and these bones are what allowed the gigantic sizes of some dinosaurs and the third is they may have had bird like tighter more efficient neurones again reducing weight and the reason why some birds are quite intelligent despite small brains.
This brings up such an awesome point! If u were to travel back to the dino era, or be able to look thru a window or something, u probably wouldn’t recognize half or more, of the animals u see, cause all the species we know for fossils, isn’t even CLOSE to all the animals around at those times. In some places u wouldn’t recognize a single species! Some would probably look VERY similar to ones we know, and possibly u wouldn’t even KNOW they were a new species, but in some cases they would be absolutely crazy looking new animals! I mean, imagine Therizinosaurus....SO unique and crazy looking.....there were DEFINITELY other animals around that were as unique, and wacky looking as the Theri was from anything else around!
My friend - let me help you out here - point one, the earths magnetic field is deteriorating 2nd law of thermodynamics It has a half life of 1400 yrs In 2000 yrs life won’t exist Reverse engineer and 10,000 yrs ago life COULDN’T have existed The global flood created most of the fossils they dig up - hence collagen & red blood cells that they brush under the carpet Trilobite hasn’t changed in 350 million yrs 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣🤣 There is no proven mechanism to assist evolution Dawkins is a clown who has been owned more times than a hooker Darwin even questioned his racist theory 🤷🏻♂️ His finches have been disproven - it’s all about denying God You cut your finger - it heals - it scabs - it repairs itself - that’s intelligence But you/we, ALL die because we disobeyed God Wages of sin is death (Romans) But we have a way to make the afterlife - read the gospel - stop listening to pseudo science 350 evidences prove a young earth - nothing proves an old earth 4000 yr old trees Upright amid layers of rocks they say are 150 million years old 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣
0:02 Wasn't Quetzalcoatl much much larger than this though? (it had a wingspan of 10 to 11 meters ffs!) Or is it not considered because that Pterosaur only lived in the late Cretaceous period, whereas this is a much earlier fossil? 🤔
The video description states "world's largest *Jurassic* pterosaur", and the video does explain that they didn't know they got that big that early, so yes.
Quetzalcoatl is not a Pterosaur. Quetzalcoatl is the Mesoamerican deity that the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus gets its name from. Quetzalcoatlus is part of a family of Pterosaurs known as Azdarchids, which were all giant, stork-like animals, which could fly for very long distances using air currents for lift, and of course flapping, but using these currents would be more energy-efficient. Quetzalcoatlus is indeed very large, but one of its close cousins, the romanian Hatzegopteryx, is bulkier and larger than it.
@@nanuqo2006 Oh ffs - you do realize Quetzalcoatlus is named after the Mesoamerican deity and is just the latinization of exactly the same Nahuatl name, right? Me just forgetting to put the "-us" suffix at the end is no need to start a semantics debate... That said, I'm actually Romanian myself (born in the same county as the town of Hateg, from which Hatzegopteryx gets its name) and I did not know it was larger than Quetzalcoatlus - thank you for this information! I knew the Carpathian mountains of Romania were an island Archipelago during most of the late Mezozoic, and that most of those islands had tiny land dinosaurs and much larger Pterosaurs, but not that Hatzegopteryx was that large... Thanks again and have a good evening!
They didn't. It was FOUND by a young student. Who told of the find, and then the actual paleontologists went and looked at it, and THEN came back with the right equipment to excavate it.
Hello. There's no such thing as "millions of years", they've simply never happened. Godless 'scientists' advised directly by the fallen angels just made all of it up so people would forget about the fact that there's the Creator, that there'll be the inevitable Last Judgment. Repent, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, become a member of the Orthodox Church. This is the only way you can be saved from the eternal damnation for your sins. Help you God!
@@mhdfrb9971 No, they're reptiles. But John isn't exactly correct, either. Pterosaurs FAR predate birds, and birds did not evolve from them. They evolved from cousins of Pterosaurs, the more well-known Theropod Dinosaurs.
This phenomenon is known as Convergent Evolution. Two different, unrelated (for the most part) animals developing similar adaptations. Like the membranous wings, for example. They share the same basic function and makeup, but looking deeper into the anatomy reveals vastly unique wing structure and shape. Really amazing how all of this is able to happen, even over so many millions of years
@@nanuqo2006 unrelated in that the critters don't have a common ancestor with the requisite features of the two. So they must have evolved to that state separately
I thought at first that was Natalia Jagielska that discovered the specimen given how obviously excited and proud she it of it, but it was another women, Amelia Penny, a PHD student, that discovered it in 2-17. Careers are made this way and this specimen looks to be pretty important not just for the individual discovery but also for its role in moving the clock back. Very exciting.
Imagine the size of the tree to be able to perch a pterosaur like that.
Things that make you go hmm 🤔
this size probably did not perch on trees, pterosaurs were quadrupeds adapted to walk on all fours on the ground, traces of that have been found.
the popular image of a pterosaur perching like a bird you find in fantasy books is based on fantasy.
@@kamion53 he exaggerated about the size, not a real scientist more of a paleo pimp
@@cyberak419 MORON!
@@kamion53 There were small pterosaurs as well. They showed a typical size of those reptiles early at about 2:16, the head of which is about as big as a raven or an eagle; or smaller even. There were also these cute looking snub-nosed pterosaurs, with big button eyes. These were also small
In short, a lot of pterosaurs perched on trees. This was one that may have not perched on trees in the Jurassic era, and rather may have lived on cliffs just and Albatross and Condors and Eagles do. And more larger came about in the Cretaceous period; some much larger than this one. Those giants may have not perched on trees either, but many small ones did.
Nice to see the team so proud with the pterosaur.
I love all of these paleontological discoveries happening every week!
Congratulations to Natalia and The University of Edinburgh! Looking forward to reading Natalie’s PHd in the future to fathom the remarkable find.
Why? She didn't find it. The bbc just added her in because she's confused, no relevance otherwise.
@@slypork5030 that’s naughty, naughty!
she looks like mr bean
Natalia’s delight was so infectious.
How much of these cool fossils would the common layman have thrown back into the water or crushed or looked over while strolling along the beach
well thats exactly what makes those discoveries special I assume
(that it has been preserved that good anyways is really lucky itself)
A lot of early archaeologists blew up fossils to collect them, ancient chinese would put ground up "dragon bones" in tea, etc
Gratulacje dla Natalii!
Biggest congrats Natalia and Amelia!! a really Great discover
Never will anyone ever be this excited over a stuffed toy, ever.
I thought she was a male just before she talked 😳😵💫
@@KentinoSvenska only she thinks she is.
This is lovely. Please more reports like this, BBC.
What an amazing find!!! Priceless!!!
Agreed! This is incredible!
not that old though millions and billions of years is like nasa science which is provably bogus
@@outerlands3382 what
@@sj-wn3vk provably bogus , the horizon is over 20 miles away when it should be 3 at six feet eye level above the ocean I have it on film it's indisputable , it's bogus old world science that needs binning
also animals don't turn into other animals evolution also bogus , bbc science
And I've heard people wonder aloud about how the stories of dragons came about. Makes sense to me that someone uncovered one or more of those guys back in the more recent past (1,500 to 6,500 years ago) and then became reeeaaaaaally paranoid of the sky. I can see a group of kids finding something like that in 3,500 bce and it giving them all a severe form of ptsd, except, of course, the one who liked to carve things into the walls of his parents' cave because AC/DC posters hadn't been printed yet.
I'm not sure people thousands (or even hundreds) of years ago would understand what a fossil is or the larger significance of a find like this. I'm not sure they would even be able to recognize this as a flying creature.
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Slight correction: I'm pretty sure AC DC started in the late Stone Age, well before 3500 BCE.
Why ya gotta be draggin AC/DC into the conversation for anyway?
Nah, jk. That was a funny one..
@@lancetennenbaum2509 - obviously they didnt know what they were, hence the comment about the origins of dragon myths derp
Pokemon dev: Write this down! Write this down!
Imagining Scotland being subtropical is hard enough without adding a pterosaur but the visuals help! Amazing discovery and findings! So these winged dinos were bigger than initially thought.
People knew thousands of years back the fossils, and the idea was presented by creating through different art ; pottery, sculpture, painting,.... These domains are not only one expression.
Gibberish.
01:26 - I want one. (A Dearc sgiathanac, that is. Not a paleontologist. I gather the latter is high maintenance, and expensive to feed.)
Each of these ancient organisms who's fossils have been found must be some of the luckiest living things alive
This wasn't a dinosaur btw
What dinosaur? It’s a flying reptile that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs….it’s like calling a mosasaur a dinosaur(dinosaurs were the biggest land animals of all time, they didn’t come in flying and fishy versions).
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How comes only wyt people find these things.
@@user-hy4xz1qt9h can you not bring race into this
Extraordinary discovery. Kudos to everyone from Kansas, USA!🤗
You don't need to tell us where you're from
Americans...... GIMME A K, GIMME AN A, GIMME a - oh F*** off
@@jonnyting71 ak is Russian weapon tho lmao. You should’ve said a shotgun or AR15 or something
@@darthnihilus4880 I was spelling KANSAS but I get your point ;)
Hello back from Kansas!
Finaly somthing nice to watch on the news 👍
You said it perfectly. 🤗
Finally a positive comment section on a bbc video
Pterosaurs were only 'reptiles' in the same classificatory sense that birds are reptiles. Pterosaurs were closely related to dinosaurs, including birds, were warm blooded, covered in feathery-fuzz and possibly feathers according to some scientists based on fossil evidence, and had relatively large brains.
That doesn't make them less reptilian
Right. Pterosaurs would not actually fit in the traditional sense of "reptile". You need to have scales and be cold-blooded in order to be one. But in the cladistic sense, which is just consistent, includes both pterosaurs and birds as reptiles since they came from reptiles as much as other groups. Noone is excused.
@@archive2500 you're just making crap up now.
@@Popebug Which "crap" are you talking about?
I like Natalia and how passionate she is about her field of work.
Great find for Scotland!
The link to the scientific paper of this fossil specimen is here published on Current Biology:
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00135-X?fbclid=IwAR1L84HX88f05spKvgfQwRaUtiMoXzptOfnFkbyxYID5A4_7sV1KTB_SyeQ
For everyone thinking that this is the biggest Pterosaur ever; it's not. They have mentioned time and again in this video that it's the largest one from the Jurassic period, not all the Mesozoic periods. It's actual size is just about the same size as large condors, albatross, and bald eagles; which have large wingspans. This is something that the Professor acknowledges at 3:30. So try to not get carried away with wild fantasies. It's not the biggest Pterosaur discovered. There were much larger ones during the Cretaceous period. It's only the largest one from the Jurassic period, which is as large as some of the biggest flying birds today.
At last some news that isnt Covid or war related....how refreshing! ;-)
Yes! It's nice to have a break.
Until you brought them up! 🤐
I had a close encounter with a Bald eagle last summer when It swooped down to my Kayak ro snatch a fish.
It was huge and terrifying.
binder dundat too!
This is so COOL...i hope they name it after the STUDENT that discovered it.
this should of been front page news so cool
"They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous". *
But y'know, nice one for it not being created into a fossil fuel on it's part!
*Forgive me, I was under the assumption that they thought that they only existed in the Jurassic Period
pterosaur remains are found in layers dating from the late Triassic till the end of the Cretaceus, this specimen dates from the Jurassic a period that has abondunt smaller sizes pterosaur remains.
fossil fuels are NOT created from dinosaurs. common non-science misconception
@@rickkwitkoski1976 ... Oh THAT'S how bad my pun was!
Love that they’re using it for education before it’s displayed to the public.
After Spielberg’s epic A.I. reproach to the future, it is a shock to discover that the news host had the fossil in her bare hands, most common wise people who think on the barrier of preservation and Jurassic therapoda remnants realize that we could learn a bit more about cycles and historical mechanisms that say birds 🦅 may be the most important part of dinosaurs.
I have no idea what you even thought you were saying
It reminds me of Ross Geller from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 😂
The woman carrying that replica coming from the same era of turasurs
As a palaeontology enthusiast i really love the passion that this reporter is putting into this story, it’s rare that news channels even get palaeontological finds right, let alone have any passion for it
Aw darn i was hoping it was gonna say student finds skeleton of 170 million year old winged bird at Scottish bus stop.
Congratulations! Fabulous find.
That's like a dream find! Awesome
Imagine a Jurassic beach and cliff full of such huge pterosaurs.
Did you contact Ross? He might be able to give more insight.
It's taken the BBC 5 years to report this?
What do you mean?
Oh yes 2017 what the hell
Because fossil preperation and research takes a long time espically when describing a new species.
Takes time to prepare the fabrications
Like the dead Sea scrolls
@@user-hy4xz1qt9h Really? Do you have ANY IDEA what this is about? Have YOU ever found a fossil of... ANYTHING?? Obviously not. I dunno where you live but I will bet that there is a cliff face somewhere around you that has at least fossilized PLANT remains in it. And you can go there and find them... INSIDE the ROCK!
Finding 170 million years old fossils but unable to find Russians standing in your backyard
I'm still waiting for aliens to land..
the thumbnail 💀
Lol
She’s enthusiastic, wonder what she said
I've just been dug
From the Isle of Skye
I'm sorta big and I'm awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
Dearc, where's your troosers?
Slainte, I can vouch that Skye still has its mysteries.
Tenure guaranteed!
Young Earth Creationists DEBUNKED! 🤓
At first i thought that girl or guy in the suit was doing a mr bean impression
Amazing that a direct descendant is now running Scotland
Alas, poor Dearc.
Thank you and hearty congratulations on finding this big boy or girl. Were pterosaurs all over the same places with other big dinos? Oakland Ca 2022
For birds that size to fly was the atmosphere thicker? I think at that time the continents were far closer with the Americas joined onto Africa and Europe. Presumably the centre was extremely hot and there may have been strong winds and monsoon like rains blowing into the continent from the sea. Perhaps the flying dinos used these winds to fly.
Not sure about that, they did have very light and hollow bones though, even the biggest pterosaurs to ever exist were very light, another reason why they could get so bug conpared to birds is the fact that they could also use their wings along with their legs to give them the thrust they need to get out of the ground, birds cant use their wings like that so its a bit harder for larger birds to get off from the ground
None of that's correct. Firstly, pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, they're separate animals. Dinosaurs did evolve into birds though. This particular pterosaur was large, yes, but still the same size as the biggest birds today. Some did get bigger than birds though. Firstly, pterosaur membrane wings are more efficient than feather wings. Secondly, like birds, they had hollow bones, saving weight. Like birds, they also had air sacs in their lungs and elsewhere, making them lighter and their breathing more efficient. The largest pterosaurs had more of these than birds do. It's also thought that unlike birds they could use their forelimbs to help launch themselves into the air - even the biggest birds today, such as the wandering albatross, need a run-up and need to launch themselves. Finally, it's thought the largest ones, such as quetzalcoatlus, were more gliders than flappers and tended to launch themselves, say, from high cliffs, similar to large albatrosses today. Hope this was interesting :)
I just want to imagine a steryotipical Scottish bird now
Falling out both her dress and the kebab shop, burping and guzzling irn bru.
🦄
It looks like they found the fossil of a pokemon...
Seeing them excited makes me happy :)
Next week it will be 1905 billion years old. Just a fish that died last week.
Awesome find💯😎
Another piece of the puzzle… love it!
flying dragon or flying squirrel? haha - so amazing - love this
All I took from this was Scotland used to be tropical.
exactly, i'm very jealous for the ancient Scottish dinosaurs, us here in Scotland need to travel half way around the world to get the same experience they got right in their home XD
Brussate is a total amateur, be broke the pterosaur head to scan it which is ridiculous totally second rate paleo
It’s thought dinosaurs evolved into birds but there are three probable things about dinosaurs which suggest to me they could have evolved from already flying creatures. The first is they probably had modern day bird like lungs which are more efficient which aids flying, the second is they had lighter modern bird like bones again an aid to flying and these bones are what allowed the gigantic sizes of some dinosaurs and the third is they may have had bird like tighter more efficient neurones again reducing weight and the reason why some birds are quite intelligent despite small brains.
"They've named Jacques Skenark"
Me: ...wait, John Cena?
"Gaelic for winged reptile."
Me: Ooh...
It's spelled Dearc lol
@@nanuqo2006 sorry, I was going with what the captions have out
This brings up such an awesome point! If u were to travel back to the dino era, or be able to look thru a window or something, u probably wouldn’t recognize half or more, of the animals u see, cause all the species we know for fossils, isn’t even CLOSE to all the animals around at those times. In some places u wouldn’t recognize a single species! Some would probably look VERY similar to ones we know, and possibly u wouldn’t even KNOW they were a new species, but in some cases they would be absolutely crazy looking new animals! I mean, imagine Therizinosaurus....SO unique and crazy looking.....there were DEFINITELY other animals around that were as unique, and wacky looking as the Theri was from anything else around!
6000 yrs ago then 🤷🏻♂️
Yep, that’s what the truth says
I don't believe evolution is possible in the way that it has been claimed.
@@CosmicCanvas666
Good, it’s the greatest lie ever sold 👍🏼
My friend - let me help you out here - point one, the earths magnetic field is deteriorating
2nd law of thermodynamics
It has a half life of 1400 yrs
In 2000 yrs life won’t exist
Reverse engineer and 10,000 yrs ago life COULDN’T have existed
The global flood created most of the fossils they dig up - hence collagen & red blood cells that they brush under the carpet
Trilobite hasn’t changed in 350 million yrs 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣🤣
There is no proven mechanism to assist evolution
Dawkins is a clown who has been owned more times than a hooker
Darwin even questioned his racist theory 🤷🏻♂️
His finches have been disproven - it’s all about denying God
You cut your finger - it heals - it scabs - it repairs itself - that’s intelligence
But you/we, ALL die because we disobeyed God
Wages of sin is death (Romans)
But we have a way to make the afterlife - read the gospel - stop listening to pseudo science
350 evidences prove a young earth - nothing proves an old earth
4000 yr old trees Upright amid layers of rocks they say are 150 million years old 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣
@@Unique_Monk where is Jesus when you need him? Also, which one out of the thousands of Christian denominations is correct?
nice discovery but the thumbnail was a bit misleading.
How so? It's a reconstruction of the same animal.
That’s called a dragon! It’s little
Scottsh island?
Isle of Skye
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Great Discovery of a year 👌
@@CantHandleThisCanYa it means isle of Mist.
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Fantastic discovery ❤
1700 year old .
What's the name of this reporter?
It is amizing find!!!!
0:02 Wasn't Quetzalcoatl much much larger than this though? (it had a wingspan of 10 to 11 meters ffs!) Or is it not considered because that Pterosaur only lived in the late Cretaceous period, whereas this is a much earlier fossil? 🤔
The video description states "world's largest *Jurassic* pterosaur", and the video does explain that they didn't know they got that big that early, so yes.
Quetzalcoatl is not a Pterosaur. Quetzalcoatl is the Mesoamerican deity that the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus gets its name from.
Quetzalcoatlus is part of a family of Pterosaurs known as Azdarchids, which were all giant, stork-like animals, which could fly for very long distances using air currents for lift, and of course flapping, but using these currents would be more energy-efficient.
Quetzalcoatlus is indeed very large, but one of its close cousins, the romanian Hatzegopteryx, is bulkier and larger than it.
@@nanuqo2006 Oh ffs - you do realize Quetzalcoatlus is named after the Mesoamerican deity and is just the latinization of exactly the same Nahuatl name, right? Me just forgetting to put the "-us" suffix at the end is no need to start a semantics debate...
That said, I'm actually Romanian myself (born in the same county as the town of Hateg, from which Hatzegopteryx gets its name) and I did not know it was larger than Quetzalcoatlus - thank you for this information! I knew the Carpathian mountains of Romania were an island Archipelago during most of the late Mezozoic, and that most of those islands had tiny land dinosaurs and much larger Pterosaurs, but not that Hatzegopteryx was that large...
Thanks again and have a good evening!
@@Vict0r1984 It was important for him/her to outline the name so as to prevent others from running with it
Quetzalcoatl wasn't a pterosaur. It was an imaginary beast of the Aztecs. (or Mayans?)
Thank god they had a saw with them when they found the fossile.
They didn't. It was FOUND by a young student. Who told of the find, and then the actual paleontologists went and looked at it, and THEN came back with the right equipment to excavate it.
He did such a great job, so well spoken! Thanks for your discovery.
reporter: talking about big flying reptile fossil
also reporter: holding tiny fossil skull
😭😭😭😭
They should have given at least a 30 second mention to the student dude or dudette who actually discovered it. Not cool BBC!
170 million years ago is just insane. It really seems like history continues to surprise us with what was doing what and when.
You actually believe in this utter rubbish.
@@lastdays806 cry me a river
@@TheFreshSpam 🤣
Look up in the sky and find the andromeda galaxy. You are now literally looking at 2.5 million years ago.
Hello. There's no such thing as "millions of years", they've simply never happened. Godless 'scientists' advised directly by the fallen angels just made all of it up so people would forget about the fact that there's the Creator, that there'll be the inevitable Last Judgment. Repent, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, become a member of the Orthodox Church. This is the only way you can be saved from the eternal damnation for your sins. Help you God!
Wow, finaly some news that isn't scaremongering.
Well done BBC, could we have more news items like this and less sport.
Scottsh!?
Turns out was nicola sturgeon
Lol, the head looks like a Pengwing from Subnautica: Below Zero
Amazing found it see what it look like years ago..
170 million year old... Amazing...
ruclips.net/video/rN55-aamkOA/видео.html
Great Discovery of a year 👌
Welp birds are reptiles sooo ...
Birds descended from it but they're not reptile
@@mhdfrb9971 No, they're reptiles. But John isn't exactly correct, either. Pterosaurs FAR predate birds, and birds did not evolve from them. They evolved from cousins of Pterosaurs, the more well-known Theropod Dinosaurs.
@@nanuqo2006 imagine doing DNA analysis on a chicken and find T Rex DNA in it's genetic makeup XD
Where can i get that life size model😱
Took an America to find this
How much does she get
Excellent 👌
Nice suit
It was found next to the bones of another dinosaur
The BBC
it was just a pelican
Discovering a 170 Million Year-old winged Scottish Reptile is not impressive - most of us have been aware of Nicola Sturgeon for a while now.
Jo Biden
Och nooo Banshees!
good find
Looks like a bat, like one of those flying foxes with a tail and bigger jaw.
This phenomenon is known as Convergent Evolution. Two different, unrelated (for the most part) animals developing similar adaptations. Like the membranous wings, for example. They share the same basic function and makeup, but looking deeper into the anatomy reveals vastly unique wing structure and shape. Really amazing how all of this is able to happen, even over so many millions of years
@@nanuqo2006 unrelated in that the critters don't have a common ancestor with the requisite features of the two. So they must have evolved to that state separately
@@rickkwitkoski1976 Yes, but they are still related, distantly, as they are both tetrapods. Hence "for the most part."
Straight outta Harry Potter novel..........
Yup
Passionate .
I found a large teeth when I was swimming what was it
It was a gulliblasaurus