The Biggest Flying Animal To Ever Exist | Quetzalcoatlus
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2023
- Welcome back to our channel! Today, we're diving into the fascinating world of dinosaurs and exploring one of the most incredible creatures to have ever roamed the Earth - the Quetzalcoatlus.
The biggest flying animal
The biggest flying dinosaur
The biggest flying bird
The biggest flying bird to ever live
The biggest flying reptile
The biggest flying animal to ever live
The biggest flying bird to ever existed
The biggest flying animal to ever existed
Quetzalcoatlus
Dinosaurs
#prehistoric #prehistoricanimals #quetzalcoatlus #dinosaur #dinosaurus #animals #animalfacts #animalshorts #youtubeshorts #shorts #shortsvideo #shortsviral #flying #birds
![Hatzegopteryx Hunting Tethyshadros [Prehistoric Planet]](/img/1.gif)
Basically a flying predatory giraffe stork thing which would target human sized prey.
You put that together well my friend
More or less human sized. We’re in its range. Also it hunted on the ground. Imagine having the most overpowered ability but not even bothering to use it to hunt.
Humans were giants then. History has lied significantly to us on purpose mostly.
This guy...
@@DreadEnderimagine the flying perk your species unlocked is bugged and barely works, but your lineage gets the patch.
Not going to lie that is way scarier than any t rex
A t-rex is much harder to hide from.
T.rex would have probably left us alone because we wouldn't be worth hunting. Quetzalcoatlus hunted things our size, so absolutely scarier than a T.rex.
@@AgroAcro Took the words right out of my mouth
@@AgroAcro there are some theories, though, that said that q. northropi were scavengers.
@@firstletterofthealphabet7308 I feel like there are always scavenger theories. There were theories about T.rex being a scavenger when it definitely wasn't. I could be wrong but I'm always cautious when seeing things like that, especially when we already know that Hatzegopteryx was an Apex predator.
Imagine something the size of a giraffe just take flight before your very eyes.
Still blows my mind that this thing could fly 🤯
I’m not surprised, just look at the bumblebee. Now that thing shouldn’t be able to fly.
@@cedricnicholson7446they did prove that a bumblebee bee was able to fly. I’m not a physicist but I remember the reason they originally said that is because they used the wrong method for calculating flight, the bumblebee bee used a different form of flying that what the study used as reference to calculate.
It was very large but also very light. It's bones were hollow if I remember correctly.
Not every animal with wings flies or flies well.
@@binxbolling correct me if im wrong but apparently these giant prehistoric storks could travel continent to continent without resting at all
Can you imagine seeing the shadow and hearing the sound of these flying over you? O would absolutely love to time travel to see the dinosaurs.....but only if i couldn't get eaten.
Look up worst place for a time traveller. Almost every site says the same thing.
The Kem Kem.
To see the dinosaurs? What about the big Quetzal flying over you. It's not a dinosaur but it deserves your attention😉
Sorry. I can't help myself from geeking out and grandstanding.😅 Quetzalcoatlus is a pterosaur not a dinosaur But I think you already know that😅
I was thinking the Exact same thing 😅
@@roddo1955I see you are a person of culture
Hey, I think this somewhat could be achieved. It could be a VR title which would run on the quest platform. VR is getting better and better each day, I hope one day they have a title where you can time travel to see the dinosaur.
Speaks of wingspan: 2-3 meters
Speaks of height: 20 feet
☠️
Yep, 95.2% of the world's population uses metric.
The small bird has 2-3 meter wings, the big bird has 40ft wings which is 12meters.
@@Himathyyy u ok bro? It says 20 ft, imagine finding a 12 meter bird lol
the guy standing by the model really makes it hit home it's insane
Hatzegopteryx:
Quetz is currently the largest flying animal, hatze is still up for debate because there are not a lot of remains to concur whether its bigger or not
the giant neck and head on the small body just makes me cackle 😭😭
Until you see it flying overhead and diving straight down to your direction
Hatzegopteryx breakdancing in the corner:🗿
It’s not the largest just the biggest meaning heaviest.
@@williammoreno-pp1ogwell I would say it's the largest in bulk where the quetz is taller
@@Pancake_Drawss that’s true but if you search up the mass of the quetzal it’s almsot the same!
@@williammoreno-pp1ogit's not hatz is 50-100 kg heavier and since hatz is only around 300 kg that's a pretty big difference
@@-.__.447 I understand that but when you search up the mass of the two flying creatures there pretty much the same!
Man!
It looks like it would eat people like seagulls eat French fries!😮
This is what a scientifically accurate “air whale” looks like
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
Yes, that's a good meme
Though saying it here make you sound like a creationist xD
@@Hotchpotchsoup Or like a hitchhiker
IT'S A LIVING FUCKING PLANE!
Ah yes, my favorite dinosaur
^
How to make anyone who knows anything about extinct creatures internally rage
It's my favorite not actually a dinosaur too.
@@ladykoiwolfe I just explained to my grandma how pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs and I see this reply, perfect timing LOL
@@RavenIsAnArtist when talking about favorite dinosaurs, I point out that my favorite dinosaur is the American Robin. That really throws some people for a loop. But if they want something older it's Archaeopteryx.
@@ladykoiwolfe I love Anurognathus ammoni because it's so small and some of the depictions are so cute and fuzzy and makes me want one as a pet 🙏
I wish I had a favorite bird, I do have a favorite duck though, I think Mandarin Ducks are cool. But I love to say I love eating dinosaurs. But then I wonder what non-avian dinosaurs would've tasted like and then I get sad lol.
Edit: I found out that it's a pterosaur, so my favorite dinosaur is Archaeopteryx 😭
@@RavenIsAnArtistwidgeon and wood ducks tho🥹🥹🥹
2.5- 3.5 meter wingspan is crazy, that bird doesn't look that big damn
They're really big, trust me. Atleast for a flighted bird.
Yeah they don’t look that big when you see them flying, but when you stand next to one or hold one those things are absolutely massive
Quetzalcoatlus isn’t even the biggest, hatzegopteryx was bigger
@@Vbuck_samuel 1. This comment wasn't related to quetzalcoatlus, he was referring to albatrosses.
2. Hatzegopteryx was heavier, but their wingspan was about the same.
@@BOTB_RBLX ik and only quetzalcoatlus northropi got to that size, whilst all hatz got to the large size
**Hatzegopterix left the chat**
Hatzegopteryxl was abit smaller i think
@@nobodynobody8646 N O
Hatzegopteryix was much bigger
@@slavabilic7175 Well never know
@@slavabilic7175they’re estimated to be of similar sizes, both about 18 feet tall whilst on the ground with 30-something foot wingspans
@@nobodynobody8646 it was much heavier than quetz
Most horrible way I've ever heard it pronounced.
It's probably one of the better approximations if you've heard reconstructions of other Aztec words.
But also i think this is a text to speech bot
It's a bot
Struggled with Albatross...
Cheap text to speech bot. The one I have can’t distinguish between the hard g and soft g.
Bro just summoned the Ark community
It’s just another quetzel
Preeeetty syre Hatzegopteryx is the largest flier. Sure quetz is taller, but hatz is heavier/bulkier, making it technically thr biggest if we're going by weight.
flawless spelling
@@dibble1331 darn, you pointed it out. Now I can't correct myself oof
@@DarkDiamond-jx2gx i mean you can, i can delete my reply
@@dibble1331lmao the edit is so funny
He specifically mentioned height in the short, as well as wingspan length, and "biggest" in context like this almost always means height, not weight.
I’ve often wondered why so many ancient cultures have images of dragons.
Humans never met this creature
@@LizardManeNo, we haven’t. But maybe we will.
For real. Who knows if some of these made it longer like into the Dark Ages.
Dinosaur and Pterosaur fossils.
No Pterosaurs and non-avian Dinosaurs survived past the Cretaceous.
They found fossils of them, didn't know extinction was a thing, and thought there are dragons out there. The Chinese drawings of dragons are the oldest Dinosaur reconstructions.
@@evonne315I know that I believe it was in New Zealand there was a massive predatory bird big enough that it targeted human children regularly. The natives hunted them all to extinction. Not proximally destroying their habitat or anything like that; purposely ended them all, not that I blame them. It was a baby snatching hell bird. It needed to go lol.
Imagine that flying towards you with its thunderous wings
Like a nightmare , unimaginable
Now imagine it *running* at you
Zig zag! But if it's running towards you: just give up
I love Queztalcoatlus, but the Hatzegopteryx is now believed to have been taller, heavier, stronger, and to have a bigger wingspan.
not taller but heavier
Depending on how you define what’s bigger, the Hatzegopteryx was probably bigger. It was heavier and bigger and mass, though slightly shorter. But experts in paleontology do lead with which animal has more mass to determine which animal is bigger. Then again, it can all depend on your perception of the two. They are both very similar in size.
Friendly reminder that has been discovered that quetzalcoatlus could run up to abt 40 km/h
Way faster than a t-rex!?
@pawonmbakophie7362 trex is estimated on 16 - 40 km/h so either faster or same speed
That's one BIG Turkey !!!👍💪🦃
Umm, ackshually it was a reptile, not a bird :nerd:
@@Nic-ye2yzbirds are reptiles but pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs and aren’t birds they are more related to monitor lizards then dinosaurs
@@Mr.ankylo345So yes.. it was a reptile..
@@smallmanz no i was saying that pterosaurs are less related to birds
@@Mr.ankylo345He was also saying that..
The biggest flying animal to ever live was Hatzegopteryx thambema. It was discovered in the 1970's in Romania. It's from the same family as the Quetzalcoatlus.
"That's not a animal okay" 😂 👍
"It has a beak"
Seen how a pelican can swallow a full grown seagull makes these birds scary.
Hatzegopteryx thambema is taller than Quetzalqcoatlus
Fun fact:
The earliest examples of Dragonflies and spiders in the fossil record are older than trees.
The earliest example of sharks in the fossil record existed before the North Star (Polaris) had begun to form.
Began to appear above earth's horizon. That star had already been formed.
Megarachne wasn't a spider, it was a sea scorpion, and you are closer to the Meganeura being a dragonfly, but it was actually a griffinfly.
But yeah, the shark one is correct, they're here even longer than the rings of saturn.
This bird was a living Warthog A-10...
If you hear it's war cry "Brrrrrrrt", then you weren't the target.
Flying giraffes
Toruk Mato, I will fly with you
Loool! I was looking for this.
"Make the bond!"
The Hatzegopteryx is now believed to be even bigger, especially in weight and it also hunted bigger prey compared to the more fragile Quetzalcoatlus.
Laughs in Ancalagon...
So the albatross is in metric but Quetzal is in imperial? Huh?
Yeah, they were from different sides of the Atlantic. 😂😉
I want to ride it….. that would be so cool to have as a pet…. It could fly me everywhere.
good luck taking care of it lol
What would you feed it
It is possible in ark survival evolved 😂😂😂
It's funny that I got to this short via a video about how Quetzalcoatlus was not the the biggest pterasaur.
This thing is scarier than t rex 😂 straight up demon
THAT BIRD COULD KILL A T-REX WITH ONE PEC IN THE EYE SWOOPING DOWN FROM THE SKY.. THAT IS THE DRAGON THAT EVERY BODY WITNESSED IN HYSTERICAL MID EVIL STORIES.
Not a bird, pterosaur. And while quetzelcoatlus was unquestionably terrifying, it would still have no chance fighting a tyrannosaurus. Quetzcoatlus weighed around 250 pounds, maybe a bit more. Tyrannosaurus weighed upwards of 10 tons. Quetz has no chance
@@sapphhere283 that is very true.... Yet have you seen the video of the hawk that swoops from the sky and pokes the goose in the eye..
quetz would break its neck if it did that@@vullerseris5372
@@vullerseris5372 That's a rough comparison, more a stork (Quetz) and a jaguar (T-rex). If it got bit once, it'll quite literally get folded.
@@handman360Meh, A quetz could still intimidate a rex and get a few good hits in, two is enough to kill a rex, however If it did try to swoop down and kill a rex via pecking in the eye, both of us know the force would cause serious damage to its neck, most likely disabling and or killing it.
California condor is actually bigger and has a larger wingspan than any albatross
Not even close.. the first Condor on the list is the Andean Condor at number 6. Meaning there are 5 birds with wingspans larger than the Andean Condor. The California Condor is 14th.
at least the actually existed
@@almadeunrebel what does that even mean
Argentavis*
@@almadeunrebelhm?
Hatzegopteryx: WTF bro🤷🏼♂️
Hatz is bulkier but Quetz is taller.
Ahh quetzalcolatlus and hatzegopteryx, most terrifying not only pterosaurs but also most terrifying dinosaurs that could swallow us easily
but... theyre not dinosaurs but pterosaurs...?
That's like saying Komodo dragons are the biggest lizards and also biggest snakes to ever live lmfao
There's actually a bigger one recently discovered.
And I've forgotten it's name.
Edit: Arambourgiania philadelphiae, it may have a wingspan up to 46 feet. I had to go look it up.
Was that the one found in West Texas?
@@patrickhorvath2684 it looks like parts of it have been found in both Jordan and Tennessee.
Phosphatodraco was found in Morocco.
Quetzalcoatlus is the one discovered in Texas, although I don't know if it was west Texas. It's possible, as they may have also found bones from the same species in the Hell Creek formation despite that being much further north. But with the size of these creatures and their ability to fly, it's definitely a possibility.
Bad enough that the Mayans were nearly killed off by the Spanish, now you gotta butcher the pronounciation of their words?
pretty sure it’s ai
Aztecs* Mayans as a civilization existed 600 years before the Aztecs
The biggest flying animal to ever live was Hatzegopteryx, discovered in 1970 in Romania.
By mass not by height.
Hatzegoperyx go brrr
Quetz may be huge, but Arambourgiania may be slightly larger. Either way, basicqlly every Azdarchid pterosaur is huge.
Hatzegopteryx is the heaviest one
@@lassenker07thats true but in terms of height and wingspan, that's Arambourgiania's specialty
But out of the three; quetzalcoatlus has the coolest name and we've got better vids for them
@@Hotchpotchsoupmeans that queatzal is the most overrated out of the bunch
@@Torvomega Quetzal has the best fossil material and is the most famous, if anything, it's popularity is deserved.
They find the largest one of these in Texas in 1971. It had a wingspan of also 60 feet!! And the head was bigger as well!!😳
source?
@@dibble1331it was revealed to me in a dream
“Oh good, the flying giraffe lizard is here”
…said no one ever.
They need to make a movie with this large flying animal
I'd like and subscribe if you could actually pronounce the animal's name correctly!
The way he says it... So annoying
Fr
Imagine being that big but still tiny compared to to other living creatures at its time
Meters/feet ?
One meter/yard = three feet
i swear that thing did not fly. Sure it could get airborne when the conditions allow for it but a flapping giraffe? no not a chance that thing is just way too front heavy
Except that it was able to fly, your mistake here was imagining pterosaurs as giant birds running in the ground to generate lift, which wasn't true. Birds to this because they are bipedal animals, while Pterosaurs were quadrupedal, and as such, they had a much more efficient and energetic way of lifting flight, which was to jump using their massive forelimbs like a lever, similar to how bats lift flight, but in a larger scale. Also, the head wasn't really heavy, with the skull having huge fenestrae and hollow bones for diminushing it's weight, they would have no more problem flying than a toucan or a pelican have.
This is like a real-life dragon.
Bad news: they may have found a bigger one.
Mind blowing creature. No doubt underrated and the most amazing prehistoric animal ever discovered. RESPECT
In other words, they had Fragile BONES!
Actually, no. The bones had to have sufficient strength to withstand the wing loading of lifting a 250 to 350 kg animal off the ground. Hatzegopteryx was even heavier.
While the wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of all living birds, the largest flying bird on the planet when considering weight and wingspan is the Andean Condor. The andean Condor has a wingspan of 3.3 meters/10-12 feet (slight smaller than that of the wandering albatross, if not equal) weighs 33lbs, and measures 4 ft tall, as opposed to the wandering albatross, which weighs about 16 lbs on average and is about equal in height
Albatross in meters and the Quetzel in feet... Wtf
A fun and games until Hatzegopteryx pulls up to the party
I know it didn’t turn out well for Jurassic World but if I was able to bring any back this is the one I’d want to see first.
You're right in thinking it'd be a hell of a sight to behold but considering they would eat anything that fit in their heads and humans notably fit in their beaks, I'd admire from a distance
And shelter
That's a wonderful model of this incredible flying prehistoric glider.That's literally the size of a fighter Aircraft. That was a magnificent flying reptile? I hope I got that right. I think of it as a giant bird. Beautiful! 👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Wow show cool!!!
Technically it could also be the hatzegopteryx
Honestly.. everyone would love to see rexes, stegos and trikes. I wanna see this big boy fly. it just boggles my mind.
What’s scarier is that we tested its ability to fly using modern air chemistry, back then the air chemistry was “lighter” therefore it allowed for the azhdarchids to fly more efficiently than they would today, though that doesn’t mean they couldn’t fly today, they very-very much still could
Looks up. Poops pants while saying, “Nice birdy!” 💩👻
The biggest is actually the Hatzegopteryx, for those who are wondering.
This is the first time I am hearing of this bird. Cannot imagine coming in contact such a bird. What a nest it must have built. I think it would have to nest on the ground because of it's size.
quetzalcoatlus may not have been the biggest pterosaur, there was another named the hatzegopteryx that likely had a higher mass due to it being stockier and having a massive head, but its possible it could have been taller and had a longer wingspan too, its hard to know for sure since we dont have that many samples and are constantly finding new evidence, its similar to the debate around the size differences of spinosaurus and tyrannosaurus. quetzalcoatlus could well have been the bigger pterosaur but hatzegopteryx deserves to be mentioned too :)
Who else first learned about albatrosses because of “The Rescuers Down Under”
????
lol I so wanted to be that kid, let loose to roam the outback!
Quetz🤓
Hatz🗿
Woulda been cool to see these guys in action as I run for my life 😮... Cool bird
Anyone ever seen a seagull manage to swallow a squirrel whole? This thing would be feasting on us 😳
The largest is actually hatzegorpterix...
Well actually, the largest animal to ever fly was the hatzegopteryx🤓
Chickens also have wings, but don't fly ...
Eh, what's the point?
Dude the way the statue’s eye looking down at you is next level creepy and unsettling..
they look like the flying things off james cameron's avatar
Ngl that thing looks like a child’s drawing of a dinosaur
I'm so excited to see this movie and so happy it's got good reviews already. I hope it comes out around my birthday in August!!! #daffyandporkyrule
Que-tz-ow-colot-Lus💀😂 quetz ah quatalus
Who the fuck compares modern birds to flying dinosaurs? 😂
Quetzalcoatlus is my favourite extinct creature
it looks so weird
Недавно появилась теория о том что взрослые особи не могли взлететь из за габаритов, но подростки и молодые особи могли летать.
That's so sad
Предположим что они жили на островах, где не было крупных хищников, то что они там ели? Как на кого, охотились, если не могли летать? На материке их просто рапторы покромсали бы. Целые направления, целые линии как будто в один момент были вычеркнуты, стёрты, когда замысел переменился.
Forgot the Hax is the biggest flying pterosaur
Hatz is bulkier. Quetz is taller.
Oh yeah is this the one they have at field museum in Chicago? Terrifying
What about the Hatzegopteryx, it had a more bulky head which made it heavier than Quetzalcoatlus which means the title should go to Hatzegopteryx. you also mispronounced Quetzalcoatlus
Now that's a true "Flying Beast"!
🤔Hmmmm.... i would've thought you bring up the California Condor?
We all need a bird that is actually not extinct
Pigeon
Cassowary
Shoebill stork
Ostrich
Hatzegopteryx is heavier which is size in science
Good thing there are no birds big enough today to hunt us
That thing would definitely be eating humans in one gulp
I don't understand why people explain something in metric system and subsequently change into imperial system just for the sake of it.