Student finds fossil of 170-million-year-old winged reptile on Scottsh island - BBC News

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025

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  • @Raptorman0909
    @Raptorman0909 2 года назад +28

    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.

  • @sutats
    @sutats 2 года назад +69

    Imagine the size of the tree to be able to perch a pterosaur like that.

    • @dapz7763
      @dapz7763 2 года назад +6

      Things that make you go hmm 🤔

    • @kamion53
      @kamion53 2 года назад +5

      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.

    • @cyberak419
      @cyberak419 2 года назад

      @@kamion53 he exaggerated about the size, not a real scientist more of a paleo pimp

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

      @@cyberak419 MORON!

    • @skorpione10
      @skorpione10 2 года назад +2

      @@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.

  • @sutats
    @sutats 2 года назад +24

    Nice to see the team so proud with the pterosaur.

  • @sarahlynn4798
    @sarahlynn4798 2 года назад +31

    I love all of these paleontological discoveries happening every week!

  • @lokichakra
    @lokichakra 2 года назад +77

    Congratulations to Natalia and The University of Edinburgh! Looking forward to reading Natalie’s PHd in the future to fathom the remarkable find.

    • @slypork5030
      @slypork5030 2 года назад +1

      Why? She didn't find it. The bbc just added her in because she's confused, no relevance otherwise.

    • @lokichakra
      @lokichakra 2 года назад +1

      @@slypork5030 that’s naughty, naughty!

    • @bonysminiatures3123
      @bonysminiatures3123 2 года назад

      she looks like mr bean

  • @jmpattillo
    @jmpattillo 2 года назад +3

    Natalia’s delight was so infectious.

  • @AinzWoolGown
    @AinzWoolGown 2 года назад +18

    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

    • @goose_memes
      @goose_memes 2 года назад +4

      well thats exactly what makes those discoveries special I assume

    • @goose_memes
      @goose_memes 2 года назад +2

      (that it has been preserved that good anyways is really lucky itself)

    • @Sernival
      @Sernival 2 года назад +2

      A lot of early archaeologists blew up fossils to collect them, ancient chinese would put ground up "dragon bones" in tea, etc

  • @jakubkubalski4093
    @jakubkubalski4093 2 года назад +7

    Gratulacje dla Natalii!

  • @bigmacsavage4709
    @bigmacsavage4709 2 года назад +1

    Biggest congrats Natalia and Amelia!! a really Great discover

  • @vitaliyjuterbog8912
    @vitaliyjuterbog8912 2 года назад +8

    Never will anyone ever be this excited over a stuffed toy, ever.

    • @KentinoSvenska
      @KentinoSvenska 2 года назад

      I thought she was a male just before she talked 😳😵‍💫

    • @areyouavinalaff
      @areyouavinalaff 2 года назад +1

      @@KentinoSvenska only she thinks she is.

  • @George-sc4yh
    @George-sc4yh 2 года назад +11

    This is lovely. Please more reports like this, BBC.

  • @b.visconti1765
    @b.visconti1765 2 года назад +20

    What an amazing find!!! Priceless!!!

    • @jenlovesjesus
      @jenlovesjesus 2 года назад +3

      Agreed! This is incredible!

    • @outerlands3382
      @outerlands3382 2 года назад

      not that old though millions and billions of years is like nasa science which is provably bogus

    • @sj-wn3vk
      @sj-wn3vk 2 года назад +7

      @@outerlands3382 what

    • @outerlands3382
      @outerlands3382 2 года назад

      @@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

    • @outerlands3382
      @outerlands3382 2 года назад

      also animals don't turn into other animals evolution also bogus , bbc science

  • @tasteapiana
    @tasteapiana 2 года назад +29

    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.

    • @lancetennenbaum2509
      @lancetennenbaum2509 2 года назад +5

      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.

    • @bonpaoi4736
      @bonpaoi4736 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/lo6ZCiUZ3Ew/видео.html

    • @eljanrimsa5843
      @eljanrimsa5843 2 года назад +1

      Slight correction: I'm pretty sure AC DC started in the late Stone Age, well before 3500 BCE.

    • @69mag
      @69mag 2 года назад

      Why ya gotta be draggin AC/DC into the conversation for anyway?
      Nah, jk. That was a funny one..

    • @danidejaneiro8378
      @danidejaneiro8378 2 года назад

      @@lancetennenbaum2509 - obviously they didnt know what they were, hence the comment about the origins of dragon myths derp

  • @iheartlofi
    @iheartlofi 2 года назад +1

    Pokemon dev: Write this down! Write this down!

  • @maestoso47
    @maestoso47 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @izharfatima5295
    @izharfatima5295 2 года назад +3

    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.

    • @Popebug
      @Popebug 2 года назад +1

      Gibberish.

  • @TruculentSheep
    @TruculentSheep 2 года назад +3

    01:26 - I want one. (A Dearc sgiathanac, that is. Not a paleontologist. I gather the latter is high maintenance, and expensive to feed.)

  • @samueldsouza8797
    @samueldsouza8797 2 года назад +36

    Each of these ancient organisms who's fossils have been found must be some of the luckiest living things alive

    • @GimbalosMorkinar
      @GimbalosMorkinar 2 года назад +2

      This wasn't a dinosaur btw

    • @andrewobrien8325
      @andrewobrien8325 2 года назад +4

      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).

    • @bonpaoi4736
      @bonpaoi4736 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/lo6ZCiUZ3Ew/видео.html

    • @user-hy4xz1qt9h
      @user-hy4xz1qt9h 2 года назад +1

      How comes only wyt people find these things.

    • @anglegrinderlover994
      @anglegrinderlover994 2 года назад +1

      @@user-hy4xz1qt9h can you not bring race into this

  • @gailhasler8435
    @gailhasler8435 2 года назад +28

    Extraordinary discovery. Kudos to everyone from Kansas, USA!🤗

    • @bills7595
      @bills7595 2 года назад +10

      You don't need to tell us where you're from

    • @jonnyting71
      @jonnyting71 2 года назад +3

      Americans...... GIMME A K, GIMME AN A, GIMME a - oh F*** off

    • @darthnihilus4880
      @darthnihilus4880 2 года назад

      @@jonnyting71 ak is Russian weapon tho lmao. You should’ve said a shotgun or AR15 or something

    • @jonnyting71
      @jonnyting71 2 года назад +1

      @@darthnihilus4880 I was spelling KANSAS but I get your point ;)

    • @frasersgirl4383
      @frasersgirl4383 2 года назад +5

      Hello back from Kansas!

  • @sam7687-i9b
    @sam7687-i9b 2 года назад +9

    Finaly somthing nice to watch on the news 👍

    • @gailhasler8435
      @gailhasler8435 2 года назад +3

      You said it perfectly. 🤗

    • @darthnihilus4880
      @darthnihilus4880 2 года назад +2

      Finally a positive comment section on a bbc video

  • @AngelEarth2011
    @AngelEarth2011 2 года назад +5

    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.

    • @wrfg8025
      @wrfg8025 2 года назад +3

      That doesn't make them less reptilian

    • @archive2500
      @archive2500 2 года назад +2

      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.

    • @Popebug
      @Popebug 2 года назад

      @@archive2500 you're just making crap up now.

    • @archive2500
      @archive2500 2 года назад +1

      @@Popebug Which "crap" are you talking about?

  • @madasahatter5514
    @madasahatter5514 2 года назад

    I like Natalia and how passionate she is about her field of work.
    Great find for Scotland!

  • @EmpireOfLuciferSatanson666
    @EmpireOfLuciferSatanson666 2 года назад +21

    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

  • @skorpione10
    @skorpione10 2 года назад

    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.

  • @tentimetex
    @tentimetex 2 года назад +16

    At last some news that isnt Covid or war related....how refreshing! ;-)

  • @e4t662
    @e4t662 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @marianlincoln9008
    @marianlincoln9008 2 года назад +1

    This is so COOL...i hope they name it after the STUDENT that discovered it.

  • @buchan448
    @buchan448 2 года назад

    this should of been front page news so cool

  • @sywrexile3078
    @sywrexile3078 2 года назад +4

    "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

    • @kamion53
      @kamion53 2 года назад +2

      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.

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

      fossil fuels are NOT created from dinosaurs. common non-science misconception

    • @sywrexile3078
      @sywrexile3078 2 года назад

      @@rickkwitkoski1976 ... Oh THAT'S how bad my pun was!

  • @jonathanmacneil4359
    @jonathanmacneil4359 2 года назад +1

    Love that they’re using it for education before it’s displayed to the public.

  • @mattyounce2486
    @mattyounce2486 2 года назад +2

    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.

    • @Popebug
      @Popebug 2 года назад

      I have no idea what you even thought you were saying

  • @BforBFMV
    @BforBFMV 2 года назад +2

    It reminds me of Ross Geller from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 😂

  • @brightdz2403
    @brightdz2403 2 года назад

    The woman carrying that replica coming from the same era of turasurs

  • @a.m11558
    @a.m11558 2 года назад +2

    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

  • @craffte
    @craffte 2 года назад

    Aw darn i was hoping it was gonna say student finds skeleton of 170 million year old winged bird at Scottish bus stop.

  • @thelaughingtiger146
    @thelaughingtiger146 2 года назад

    Congratulations! Fabulous find.

  • @JB-rl8ki
    @JB-rl8ki 2 года назад +1

    That's like a dream find! Awesome

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 2 года назад

    Imagine a Jurassic beach and cliff full of such huge pterosaurs.

  • @petergriffin513
    @petergriffin513 2 года назад

    Did you contact Ross? He might be able to give more insight.

  • @casteretpollux
    @casteretpollux 2 года назад +1

    It's taken the BBC 5 years to report this?

    • @jordwest5029
      @jordwest5029 2 года назад

      What do you mean?

    • @jordwest5029
      @jordwest5029 2 года назад +1

      Oh yes 2017 what the hell

    • @TeitokuSoiree
      @TeitokuSoiree 2 года назад +1

      Because fossil preperation and research takes a long time espically when describing a new species.

    • @user-hy4xz1qt9h
      @user-hy4xz1qt9h 2 года назад

      Takes time to prepare the fabrications
      Like the dead Sea scrolls

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

      @@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!

  • @ithinkthereforeiam1799
    @ithinkthereforeiam1799 2 года назад +1

    Finding 170 million years old fossils but unable to find Russians standing in your backyard

  • @binkie8576
    @binkie8576 2 года назад

    I'm still waiting for aliens to land..

  • @ci3xx
    @ci3xx 2 года назад +1

    the thumbnail 💀

  • @mr.y.mysterious.video1
    @mr.y.mysterious.video1 2 года назад

    She’s enthusiastic, wonder what she said

  • @LittleLordFancyLad
    @LittleLordFancyLad 2 года назад +1

    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?

  • @thomasbernecky2078
    @thomasbernecky2078 2 года назад

    Slainte, I can vouch that Skye still has its mysteries.

  • @DonSSanders
    @DonSSanders 2 года назад +1

    Tenure guaranteed!

  • @karlosjeffers4791
    @karlosjeffers4791 2 года назад +4

    Young Earth Creationists DEBUNKED! 🤓

  • @bonysminiatures3123
    @bonysminiatures3123 2 года назад

    At first i thought that girl or guy in the suit was doing a mr bean impression

  • @michaelstevens3479
    @michaelstevens3479 2 года назад

    Amazing that a direct descendant is now running Scotland

  • @chiptankgirl
    @chiptankgirl 2 года назад

    Alas, poor Dearc.

  • @sandramorey2529
    @sandramorey2529 2 года назад

    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

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 2 года назад +2

    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.

    • @dvdb304
      @dvdb304 2 года назад +1

      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

    • @tuathaigh-aa
      @tuathaigh-aa 4 месяца назад

      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 :)

  • @zinc_ave
    @zinc_ave 2 года назад +4

    I just want to imagine a steryotipical Scottish bird now

    • @jonnyting71
      @jonnyting71 2 года назад +1

      Falling out both her dress and the kebab shop, burping and guzzling irn bru.

    • @crashingdown6924
      @crashingdown6924 2 года назад

      🦄

  • @ដេវីត-ថ2ខ
    @ដេវីត-ថ2ខ 2 года назад

    It looks like they found the fossil of a pokemon...

  • @Cee-Mo
    @Cee-Mo 2 года назад

    Seeing them excited makes me happy :)

  • @bigsur1355
    @bigsur1355 2 года назад

    Next week it will be 1905 billion years old. Just a fish that died last week.

  • @jeremywilson2878
    @jeremywilson2878 2 года назад

    Awesome find💯😎

  • @TheJunglecrab
    @TheJunglecrab 2 года назад

    Another piece of the puzzle… love it!

  • @debrawithdogs
    @debrawithdogs 2 года назад

    flying dragon or flying squirrel? haha - so amazing - love this

  • @PKP1
    @PKP1 2 года назад

    All I took from this was Scotland used to be tropical.

    • @MrChalmers99
      @MrChalmers99 2 года назад

      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

  • @cyberak419
    @cyberak419 2 года назад +1

    Brussate is a total amateur, be broke the pterosaur head to scan it which is ridiculous totally second rate paleo

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @Yesnog05
    @Yesnog05 2 года назад +6

    "They've named Jacques Skenark"
    Me: ...wait, John Cena?
    "Gaelic for winged reptile."
    Me: Ooh...

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 года назад

      It's spelled Dearc lol

    • @Yesnog05
      @Yesnog05 2 года назад

      @@nanuqo2006 sorry, I was going with what the captions have out

  • @andrewpaige1194
    @andrewpaige1194 2 года назад +1

    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!

    • @Unique_Monk
      @Unique_Monk 2 года назад

      6000 yrs ago then 🤷🏻‍♂️
      Yep, that’s what the truth says

    • @CosmicCanvas666
      @CosmicCanvas666 2 года назад

      I don't believe evolution is possible in the way that it has been claimed.

    • @Unique_Monk
      @Unique_Monk 2 года назад

      @@CosmicCanvas666
      Good, it’s the greatest lie ever sold 👍🏼

    • @Unique_Monk
      @Unique_Monk 2 года назад

      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 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

    • @CosmicCanvas666
      @CosmicCanvas666 2 года назад

      @@Unique_Monk where is Jesus when you need him? Also, which one out of the thousands of Christian denominations is correct?

  • @syrailoren9751
    @syrailoren9751 2 года назад

    nice discovery but the thumbnail was a bit misleading.

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 года назад +2

      How so? It's a reconstruction of the same animal.

  • @Blitznstitch2
    @Blitznstitch2 2 года назад

    That’s called a dragon! It’s little

  • @joelthomas4508
    @joelthomas4508 2 года назад +2

    Scottsh island?

    • @CantHandleThisCanYa
      @CantHandleThisCanYa 2 года назад +2

      Isle of Skye

    • @heybuddy964
      @heybuddy964 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/rN55-aamkOA/видео.html
      Great Discovery of a year 👌

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 2 года назад

      @@CantHandleThisCanYa it means isle of Mist.

    • @druunderwood5602
      @druunderwood5602 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/_c4--Pf8xy0/видео.html

  • @outdoorsy01
    @outdoorsy01 Год назад

    Fantastic discovery ❤

  • @yousefjos_hotmailcom
    @yousefjos_hotmailcom 2 года назад +1

    1700 year old .

  • @Suman-i2v7r
    @Suman-i2v7r 2 года назад

    What's the name of this reporter?

  • @MohammedMohammed-sr4hn
    @MohammedMohammed-sr4hn 2 года назад

    It is amizing find!!!!

  • @Vict0r1984
    @Vict0r1984 2 года назад

    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? 🤔

    • @scotmark
      @scotmark 2 года назад +6

      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.

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 года назад +4

      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.

    • @Vict0r1984
      @Vict0r1984 2 года назад

      @@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!

    • @lightsoda7445
      @lightsoda7445 2 года назад +1

      @@Vict0r1984 It was important for him/her to outline the name so as to prevent others from running with it

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

      Quetzalcoatl wasn't a pterosaur. It was an imaginary beast of the Aztecs. (or Mayans?)

  • @dutchman8129
    @dutchman8129 2 года назад

    Thank god they had a saw with them when they found the fossile.

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

      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.

  • @TechedCanvas
    @TechedCanvas 2 года назад +6

    He did such a great job, so well spoken! Thanks for your discovery.

  • @danarthur771
    @danarthur771 2 года назад +2

    reporter: talking about big flying reptile fossil
    also reporter: holding tiny fossil skull

  • @Jaysteez7
    @Jaysteez7 2 года назад

    They should have given at least a 30 second mention to the student dude or dudette who actually discovered it. Not cool BBC!

  • @skipeveryday7282
    @skipeveryday7282 2 года назад +26

    170 million years ago is just insane. It really seems like history continues to surprise us with what was doing what and when.

    • @lastdays806
      @lastdays806 2 года назад +3

      You actually believe in this utter rubbish.

    • @TheFreshSpam
      @TheFreshSpam 2 года назад +16

      @@lastdays806 cry me a river

    • @lastdays806
      @lastdays806 2 года назад

      @@TheFreshSpam 🤣

    • @kencur9690
      @kencur9690 2 года назад +5

      Look up in the sky and find the andromeda galaxy. You are now literally looking at 2.5 million years ago.

    • @Roman_ROCMP
      @Roman_ROCMP 2 года назад +2

      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!

  • @The_Cooks_Farm
    @The_Cooks_Farm 2 года назад

    Wow, finaly some news that isn't scaremongering.

  • @catherinegrimes2308
    @catherinegrimes2308 2 года назад +2

    Well done BBC, could we have more news items like this and less sport.

  • @dogg631
    @dogg631 2 года назад

    Scottsh!?

  • @mattstevensms60
    @mattstevensms60 2 года назад

    Turns out was nicola sturgeon

  • @abmong
    @abmong 2 года назад

    Lol, the head looks like a Pengwing from Subnautica: Below Zero

  • @sarahngo8096
    @sarahngo8096 2 года назад

    Amazing found it see what it look like years ago..

  • @soberossack6610
    @soberossack6610 2 года назад +4

    170 million year old... Amazing...

    • @heybuddy964
      @heybuddy964 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/rN55-aamkOA/видео.html
      Great Discovery of a year 👌

  • @john_clevername
    @john_clevername 2 года назад +1

    Welp birds are reptiles sooo ...

    • @mhdfrb9971
      @mhdfrb9971 2 года назад

      Birds descended from it but they're not reptile

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 года назад

      @@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.

    • @MrChalmers99
      @MrChalmers99 2 года назад

      @@nanuqo2006 imagine doing DNA analysis on a chicken and find T Rex DNA in it's genetic makeup XD

  • @kanahbis3236
    @kanahbis3236 2 года назад

    Where can i get that life size model😱

  • @SpoonyJeffUK
    @SpoonyJeffUK 2 года назад

    Took an America to find this

  • @lieutenantcolombo1758
    @lieutenantcolombo1758 2 года назад

    How much does she get

  • @cvisuali
    @cvisuali 2 года назад

    Excellent 👌

  • @arcticdragon104
    @arcticdragon104 2 года назад +1

    Nice suit

  • @robertschofield1560
    @robertschofield1560 2 года назад

    It was found next to the bones of another dinosaur
    The BBC

  • @seanhardman1964
    @seanhardman1964 2 года назад

    it was just a pelican

  • @dantheman5434
    @dantheman5434 2 года назад +41

    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.

  • @productsplusmore6947
    @productsplusmore6947 2 года назад

    good find

  • @999Giustina
    @999Giustina 2 года назад +1

    Looks like a bat, like one of those flying foxes with a tail and bigger jaw.

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 года назад +1

      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

    • @rickkwitkoski1976
      @rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

      @@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

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 года назад

      @@rickkwitkoski1976 Yes, but they are still related, distantly, as they are both tetrapods. Hence "for the most part."

  • @beamerUSA
    @beamerUSA 2 года назад

    Straight outta Harry Potter novel..........

  • @nathanstinson4621
    @nathanstinson4621 2 года назад +1

    Yup

  • @alios222
    @alios222 2 года назад

    Passionate .

  • @k3xa1300
    @k3xa1300 2 года назад

    I found a large teeth when I was swimming what was it