@@wizard8437 the most toxic game ever made. I alpha'd several times and it makes you power hungry. I quit in that underground update with the giant crabs.
The quetzal is a helpful end-game tame found anywhere on the map with a rare spawn chance, (excluding some other maps if true), the method used to tame the quetzalcoatlus creature is very hard if you arent skilled. The method used is with a flyer, a grapple gun and tranqs of course. Once tamed, the quetzal can be used to transport heavy items. It can also be used as a pvp creature by putting turrets and shooting from its buildable saddle. There are two distinct saddles, the saddles being: Quetz Saddle and Platform Quetz Saddle. They can be used in a multitude of ways.
As interesting as this is, the most mind-blowing fact for me is that giraffes are taller than T-Rexes. I just always thought they towered over everything.
@@rainer999 the tallest giraffes in the world are a little bit taller than the Trex was but go look at some full grown giraffes in the wild they are tall AF!!!
Actually Spinosaurus was much larger than T-Rex. The only reason why there wasn't much information at the time 4 Spinosaurus was that in World War II skeleton found was destroyed in Germany and wasn't rediscovered until many years later by then T-Rex was the most popular dinosaur
One of the craziest things I ever heard was that it takes a fairly specific set of circumstances to make a fossil out of something, and that it's likely that of all the creatures weve found, we probably dont even have a 1% record of the animals and creatures that have lived since the beginning of life on earth. Which blows my mind. I cant even imagine all the strange and wild looking stuff that existed that we will never ever get to see.
Not only that but we haven't found that many species that are alive right now too, it's estimated that its something like 5 million species waiting to be found 😳
that's even before you factor in the five mass extinctions we know about, one of them killed 96% of all life one the planet, and the other four killed at least 50% (because they would have had to killed at least 50% to count as a mass extinction)
@@warmtofu2813 exactly. It's crazy. All the bugs and wild looking sea and land creatures and even plants that we just cant conceive of and will literally never get to see. Makes me sad but also makes me wonder at the complexity and beauty of the world and universe in its entirety. And that's just on ONE PLANET. And there are countless planets out there with wild life will never get to see either. Its madness lol
Lmfao! I was just saying the exact same thing before looking into this forum! Lol... its so true! I'll never understand why anyone would go about making up what they call theories of how things were or how they functioned? Looks like it's a tactic used for many decades even hundreds of thousands of years to propagate misinformation to take the (uh hum) lesser forms that know not, into believing so that they do not think of ideas which would lead to questions that one day will spark a moment that eventually will start a revolution! The George Jetson tactic: Smart enough to push the button Too dumb to ask why he is pushing the button! 🤣🤣🤣
That's because they don't know - it's all essentially guessing. If you really think there's some magical person who can tell you for certain what a creature from 2 million years ago was able to do based on a skull they found, I have ten thousand bridges to sell you.
@@BornIn1500 do you understand what a scientific theory is? It’s the outcome of a set of tests, based on a hypothesis. Scientific Theory is about gathering empirical data and creating datasets, and those datasets either prove or disprove the hypothesis. Theories are backed up by a huge amounts of data. It’s not just people saying “I think depression exists because of a chemical imbalance in the brain” or “psychopaths generally lack the ability to express or feel emotions because I said so”.
@@abnormallynormal8823 so what's the empirical data here? A couple of bone fragments and a weird looking skull? From this we can deduce the size, diet and air velocity of said animal? Absolutely fantasy nonsense.
Fun fact, in the thumbnail the skull is what i can assume is Anhanguera, yes a pterosaur but not nearly ever as large, not even the genus of Anhangueridae are that large! And you might be wondering what Anhanguaridae are, its a family group of early cretaceous pterosaurs from northern south america, mainly brazil. Hope this info helped you understand. Quetz still had an amazing skull but i get why the one with teeth was chose, cause it looked cool lol
Kudos for the nod to this guy! But your dig at history teachers states more about your parents than it does about them! Why didn't they move to someplace with better schools, or put you in a church school, or take the time to help you with your studies? I feel sorry for you!
@@neoconshooter I'm sorry but It's not my parents' fault that my history teachers were incompetent and uninteresting. I won't blame my parents for not moving or paying for a different school after they sent me to the best school for music which was what I wanted. If you throw your kid in a different school everytime one teacher is underperforming I am sorry for them. Life is not all sunshine and rainbows and the fact that I had to study what my history teachers failed to teach me made me much more prepared for university. And finally I would like to ask you where I said my parents did not help my along the way. Your intentions might not be to insult but you are very quick to juge my parents based on a two sentence statement that did not say anything about them.
that's because the world has been and is filled with many interesting things, he just knows how to word them so they don't sound boring and I wish I knew that skill
@@willygracia9348 ah, yeah actually. Sorry to sound like a "Well actually" kinda person, I thought you meant he'd forgotten about "the actual biggest bird being Argentavis" when they're the same. My bad.
By sheer height the quetzal was the largest animal to fly. The biggest animal to fly, however, was hatzegopteryx with it weighing in at 400 pounds compared to Quetzaalcoatluses 200 pounds. It was built like a therepod and despite spending most of its life on the ground, could still fly.
i love how accurate his info is, specifically the fact that he pointed out that pterosaurs were flying lizards or reptiles more so than a dinosaur or bird
@Vanktum Alexander Depends on what kind we're talking. "Dragons" are usually portrayed as having four limbs plus a pair of wings, which would require them to have three pairs of limbs, which would in turn need to have descend from a reptillian ancestor with three pairs of limbs. "Drakes" or "wyverns" that have a pair of wings and legs similar to bats would be more plausible.
@Vanktum Alexander I'm pretty sure dragons were inspired by dino bones ancient people found Dino bone and we're like well this is some kind of giant flying monstrosity
So when will it start losing its way, making things up and stretching the truth to get more viewers. Next week Thoughty2 does "Aliens stole my pyramid while trying to discover diamonds on a hunted boat." obviously that title is subject to change 4 or 5 times just so it's still somewhat the same as it is now while it's still creditable.
@@itarry4 Let’s hope it never happens. I can’t watch the (so called) History Channel since it started incorporating all that bull crap with the Sasquatch and Aliens. It just gets ridiculous! Let’s hope this hottie, with that magnificent mustache, never changes his channel to fit such ridiculousness as the History/Discovery channel.
@@lufie56 absolutely. There's enough history channel clones on RUclips anyway so we definitely don't need to lose a channel that gives us interesting and informative factual topics just to create another Sumarian alien gods made humanity to mine gold one.
first time watching a video of yours, and gotta say... production value, delivery, leadup, details, all of it incredibly well done and interesting. thank you!
Archaeologists are indeed a smart bunch. They generally know the term for a person who works with fossils is a paleontologist, while archaeologists study human remains and artifacts ;)
My goodness! Your channel is like the new History/Discovery channel, without all the BS Sasquatch/Alien/Ghost/and stupid fake treasure dramas, but with that handsome face and MAGNIFICENT MUSTACHE to admire! It’s a dream come true!😄
I think it depends on whether your referring to wingspans volume or weight. Not sure. Like do you classify the biggest human ever as the fattest, or the tallest? Fun fact the tallest human ever was Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was 8 feet 11 inches tall. Or 271.78 centimeters. Wearing shoes he could stand at 9 feet!
@@shaggyspade2468 fun FACT - you and all of the world have been lied to about the real history of this planet. To further the lie of evolution. I can prove this with one fact. There is no evidence man came from monkeys. Yes we might be similar in genetics. But if we were from monkeys there would be skeletons to prove this claim. Funny how we have dinosaurs from supposedly before man existed. But not one skeleton of a 1/4 or 1/2 evolved human. 🤔
@@josephcremeans I think you misunderstand what "proof" is, because that's not proof. That's just pointing out a lack of specific evidence. And we have enough related evidence to make a solid theory. If you want to believe that your big god in the sky made all of us, keep on believing that, I don't really care. But don't claim that you have proof, because you don't. No one does. Just like I can't prove that god doesn't exist.
I’ve got a contender for this position. Say hello to the Cryodrakon Boreas. A massive pterosaur similar to that of Quetzalcoatl. Back when Quetzalcoatl was being discovered, scientists noticed a slight difference between a couple of fossils. This difference was located in the necks of the skeletons, where one was seemingly wider than the other. This find was enough to designate this fossil as separate to that of Quetzalcoatl, and being given a name appropriate to where it was found (Canada), Cryodrakon Boreas, which literally means ‘Ice Dragon’.
If you write these videos alone, genuine props, if not whoever somes up with the writing, is an absolute genius in storytelling and in attention capturing writing
They are still there it's just you simply don't know how to make them happen most likely through fear of the repercussions of failure to comply to the social rules because to make your hopes and dreams you have to break the rules and that I suppose is why those that dare are celebrated.
I remember when Arran didn't have a mustache and wore a suit. Now he's got his own book and videos that are truly fascinating and educational! Man how time flys😅👏👍
That time you froze that dude then shattered him into little pieces was badass , how is scorpion doing, I heard you guys were doing tours of universities talking about how to have a career in MK
@@djimma5080 Well we did want to go on tours and see new places and experience cool things but in MK11 Scorpion dies by D'vorah and I'm like oh shit not again. At this rate Scorpion is looking like the Kenny of MK.💀🤣
I really wish we still had the complex diversity of creatures on this planet. Imagine a combo of time zones eras mixed together. With fungi & crystals the size of trees of course
> Imagine a combo of time zones eras mixed together. With fungi & crystals the size of trees of course A decent look into this is the latest King Kong movie, and why I would never want the primordial horrors of ancient Earth to ever come back.
@@jjcoola998 We also go out of our way to save as many animals as we can... So to make blanket statements like humans are selfish is ridiculous... Also 300 million years you just buy into this non sense... seriously.... 300 million years.... there is simply no possible way they could know anything from 300 million years ago its absurd
You did a very common mistake many people do. Please do not repeat, because as a geologist i take it personally. People who do dig out fossils are not archeologist, they are paleontologists. This is a science located between geology and biology, meanwhile archeology is born from history of arts. Greetings from Sweden which lacks such cretacious giants.
Although hydrogen makes an impressive explosion, the flames go upwards instead of blasting fuel around that lands on people and other objects. If the bags of hydrogen went off at different times, it would also allow it to fall more gently. 30 seconds to fall to the ground is a pretty long time. Hydrogen has gotten a bad rap :)
The argument over how Quetzy may have flown is actually pretty fascinating. There are some scientists who don't believe it could even have flown at all, in part because of it's weight and in part the question of how it could even have taken off. There are a number of theories as to how it worked, if it jumped off cliffs or vaulted using its "hands/wrists" (basically, the midpoint of the wings).
It did not fly. For its bones to be light enough for a creature of that size to fly, it wouldn't have been able to support its own mass. The same is true in a few instances in the dinosaur world.
The idea of Zeppelins is really cool. If only the age of the air ship that they had envisioned had come to pass. It fascinates me that the Empire State Building has an airship mooring at the top of it even if it never was used.
For those wondering because I feel like he didn’t properly cover this topic, the quetzalquatalus ( how ever you spell it) had a wing span of about 34 feet which is honestly smaller than I thought but it’s still pretty big at around the length of a tow truck
@yango Sakurai Well, no they do not! They soar and sleep, eat and digest etcetera, all on the wing! Sometimes WO flapping a wing for hours on end. Neat, if you think about it, more than a little!
That was fantastic. Thank you. I watched an entire documentary about these magnificent creatures a few months ago, but still don't think I really realised just HOW big they were!!
@@robertgiles9124 I don't usually care about spellings or mispronunciations, I can't get English right myself xD. But he said quetzalcoatlus so many times so perfectly, a word I still can't say without getting tongue tide, just thought was a shame to get the humble pterosaur wrong. Plus, even with the comedy, it's still an educational channel :P
I was thinking that when he said they were like storks and cranes. Both groups are not the greatest at takeoff. but something with long thin wings would take forever and be an easy meal.
@@travisevans8742 no they didnt , it would be easier as a juvenile but it could still fly . The quetzal and other azhdarchids used their power of flight to look for dead bodies and other things they could eat .
@@pinkfridge6111 watch "Over the Heads of Dinosaurs: Pterosaurs" from the Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology lecture series. The speaker is Donald M. Henderson, who is an authority on pterosaurs. It is a long lecture, but if you go to around the 37:00 marker he shows the problems with an animal of these proportions being able to take off. Great lecture. I would link it to you but I am inept at such things!
As a geology student I was expecting quite a hot mess based o the thumbnail. The ratio from human to skull. Simply wrong. The fact that that skull never could belong to any Azhdarchid (the family Quetzalcoatlus belongs to and the only family of pterosaurs that reached that extreme sizes) But I was positively surprised that you've made quite a decent video. I got clickbaited, but in a good way. But I would be happier to see a real Quetzalcoatlus skull on the thumbnail. It looks amazing too (even if it is not that toothy)
I love that he covered this and spoke of the Hindenburg... I grew up less than 30 minutes from the military base where the crash occured and since my father worked there I have been not only on the crash site many times but also in the massive hangar (which I'm not sure but I think is illustrated in the drawing at 2:50) that they built to house that beast.... That alone is impossible to describe. The building is so massive it has, like it's own climate or atmosphere (not sure which word applies here). On some days it had clouds (just like in the blue sky that we are all familiar with) forming by the ceiling! Then imagine the size of the Hindenburg.... I can recall being on a ferris wheel at a county fair and being able to see the hangar from the top!!! (Roughly 30 miles...) Anyway... Enough of me. I know this is only the first three minutes of the video but I just love hearing my home state mentioned!!!
Everyone says this shit about "clouds forming cause it has it's own atmosphere" yet there isn't a single picture of it anywhere. Nor does it make any sense.
@@butterphli3z I mean, I've been in the building, and I did say "climate or atmosphere, I'm not sure what word applies here." The former was probably more apropos. But I have actually watched things that look like clouds float through there as a kid. Unless you've spent as much time in there as I did, or more.... your comment is invalid.
@@butterphli3z Homem de pouca fé, you want a picture of clouds in 1936? The cameras were giant things and I'm pretty sure cameras weren't allowed inside the hangar. So, it's hard to have such things like photos, if you don't want to believe the words of someone who has been there, so don't believe, nobody is forcing you to believe or something like that
Made me think that perhaps we have the tech to build safe airships now. After all, we fly around in planes whose wings are full of jet fuel. And they sometimes crash but we don't just give up on them.
You really don't get a good gauge of just how *massive* the Hindenburg was until you stand inside the hangar built to house it in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
I was an archaeologist major in college... Now I know where the "did you dig for dinosaurs?" question comes from... Paleontologists dig for dinosaurs, archaeologists dig for human civilizations.
Quintillion sounds like a number created by a ten year old to win an argument. And Iron Maiden made a song about another airship disaster the R101. Bloody great song.
It was as tall as a Giraffe, but lighter due to hollow bones and being built to fly. Even with that, it would have been heavy and seeing one black out the sky as it flies overhead would be the stuff of nightmares😂
Would it fly so high tho?? With oxygen being limited at that altitude. Temperatures obviously being colder up there with reptiles generally being sensitive to the cold. I dont see it likely it ever flew anywheres near that high. Potentially tho, using the cold to slow its heart rate and conserve energy. The thinner air for less drag. What a beast it would have been to see in person regardless!!
@@larryhouse8358 there's some pretty good evidence that some of those creatures were warm-blooded. I would imagine being able to fly at 4K would dictate that you'd have to be warm blooded. Temperature drops 9° for every 100m in altitude near the surface... At 4k if the temp is 100 at sea level, then the temp is below freezing at altitude with wind chill. Don't forget, with lower body temperature comes lower muscle responsiveness as well. A lizard at altitude is almost guaranteed to die.
It wouldn’t need to be that great actually. I can navigate quite easily with visuals alone at any altitude as a pilot. Just gotta know the area. Now generally I’m using maps/instruments/technology but it can be done with just human eyesight.
Sees thumbnail: "real skull!" Not quite real human, proportionately though. From a serious fan of the Quetzy, my favorite flying reptile. (Yes, I know, not a Quetzalcoatlus skull.)
When I was a child, having watched Jurassic Park at a too young age (I was as old as the girl and my brother was as old as the boy, the similarities were too real) my biggest fear were raptors. I used to be terrified of going out of my bedroom at night to get to the bathroom because I felt a raptor was hiding in the shadows of the stairway. I had to tell myself they all went extinct millions of years ago. It helped.
Quetzalcoatlus has fascinated me ever since I read about it as a kid. As far as diet goes, I'd imagine it may have preyed on smaller pterasaurs (but I'm not a scientist). I'd love for there to be a fossil found one day with actual fossilized stomach contents.
I work in a hydrogen plant and have been very close to multiple hydrogen fires/explosions. I can’t believe that someone thought it was a good idea to fill a balloon with it and fly people around. Probably the most dangerous process in the whole oil refinery with fires in mind. It finds a way to leak very easily and is so flammable that it ignites sometimes with no obvious ignition source.
But even in the First World War under gun fire the Zeppelins did not explode. The Hindenburg was extremely unlucky. And the reason for hydrogen was that Germany had no access to helium and hydrogen provides more lift.
@@dingdong1456 The balloons were fabric envelopes filled with hydrogen gas, whose flammable nature led to the destruction of hundreds of balloons on both sides. Observers manning these observation balloons frequently had to use a parachute to evacuate their balloon when it came under attack. To avoid the potentially flammable consequences of hydrogen, observation balloons after World War I were often filled with non-flammable helium.
Actually zeppelins don't use Hydrogen. They use Helium which is inert and non-flammable. So why did the Hindenburg use Hydrogen on that day? It has to do with the fact that this was the 1930s and Germany was being led by the Nazi party. While the USA was not yet at war with Germany, there was a "cold war" between the countries. At that time, the USA was the world's largest supplier of Helium and refused to trade with Germany. Because of that, Germany did not have enough supply of Helium to fly the zeppelin. So they made the fateful decision to switch to Hydrogen.
Doesn't it just fascinate you that the planet that you are living on right now was once walked by millions of gigantic beasts?
It always does, and it makes you wonder what other creatures that are not yet discovered have already walked this earth
Makes me really wish I could have seen a Gorgonopsid. Lol
Misread that as breasts but I still agree with your point
@@alllowercase4799 aw man now I can't unread it damnit how could you?!
I love it
All the Ark players: “It’s a quetzal! Let’s tame it!”
they been so useless since the flyers nerf :((
not true. people still cheasen bases with that thing
cheesen? you know what i mean
@@adouhoiad they unnerf it in last patch
@@wizard8437 the most toxic game ever made. I alpha'd several times and it makes you power hungry. I quit in that underground update with the giant crabs.
"The largest animal ever to fly, it wasnt a bird, it wasnt *a plane*"
ah yes, the Planeus Flyingus
nice one, mate
Curse you Perry the Planeus Flyingus
@@Momo_Kawashima hahaha
@@Momo_Kawashima 10/10
@@Momo_Kawashima Um AkTuAlLy ItS *"F**K YOU PERRY THE PLANEUS FLYINGUS!"*
The quetzal is a helpful end-game tame found anywhere on the map with a rare spawn chance, (excluding some other maps if true), the method used to tame the quetzalcoatlus creature is very hard if you arent skilled. The method used is with a flyer, a grapple gun and tranqs of course. Once tamed, the quetzal can be used to transport heavy items. It can also be used as a pvp creature by putting turrets and shooting from its buildable saddle. There are two distinct saddles, the saddles being: Quetz Saddle and Platform Quetz Saddle. They can be used in a multitude of ways.
IMO it should be a major target for the next wave of TLC. It needs it bad.
Ark survival evolved reference
It's such a pain to tame single player- though great once you have one
asa should update the quetz
Use rare flowers + snow owl to easily trap it on ground
„Fire and flying have never been a good combo“
Dragons: Are we a joke to you?
I agree
Count me in.
Yeah, they are a joke and a rather fearsome one at that.
fire and flying pokemon: am i a joke to you?
Firefly too
As interesting as this is, the most mind-blowing fact for me is that giraffes are taller than T-Rexes. I just always thought they towered over everything.
Wait are you serious?
@@rainer999 the tallest giraffes in the world are a little bit taller than the Trex was but go look at some full grown giraffes in the wild they are tall AF!!!
Actually Spinosaurus was much larger than T-Rex. The only reason why there wasn't much information at the time 4 Spinosaurus was that in World War II skeleton found was destroyed in Germany and wasn't rediscovered until many years later by then T-Rex was the most popular dinosaur
@@michaeldarkwolf9726 it was not "much larger" at all. It was a bit longer, but nowhere near as heavy
@@andymclafferty600 actually it was, the spinosaurus is the largest predatory land animal humans have ever discovered so far.
One of the craziest things I ever heard was that it takes a fairly specific set of circumstances to make a fossil out of something, and that it's likely that of all the creatures weve found, we probably dont even have a 1% record of the animals and creatures that have lived since the beginning of life on earth. Which blows my mind.
I cant even imagine all the strange and wild looking stuff that existed that we will never ever get to see.
Not only that but we haven't found that many species that are alive right now too, it's estimated that its something like 5 million species waiting to be found 😳
that's even before you factor in the five mass extinctions we know about, one of them killed 96% of all life one the planet, and the other four killed at least 50% (because they would have had to killed at least 50% to count as a mass extinction)
@@littlewillowlinda its wild right
@@warmtofu2813 exactly. It's crazy. All the bugs and wild looking sea and land creatures and even plants that we just cant conceive of and will literally never get to see. Makes me sad but also makes me wonder at the complexity and beauty of the world and universe in its entirety. And that's just on ONE PLANET. And there are countless planets out there with wild life will never get to see either. Its madness lol
So you're telling me dragons and unicorns could have possibly been real creatures. Wild haha
7:56 Albatrosses so well adapted to spending their life in the air that they even sleep while flying
For those wondering, at 3:18, Arran does correctly say "Airbus A380".
It's the image that's incorrectly labelled as "8380".
I had to watch it twice to know if he said 8 instead of A
Same
Yap! Came here for this, I had to listen twice
Thank God I'm not the only aeronautical nerd here
He also pronounced "pterosaur" as "pear-osaur" at 10:16
"We actually don't know much about it" is my favorite science trope after they dump a ton of supposed facts about everything about the subject.
Lmfao! I was just saying the exact same thing before looking into this forum! Lol... its so true!
I'll never understand why anyone would go about making up what they call theories of how things were or how they functioned?
Looks like it's a tactic used for many decades even hundreds of thousands of years to propagate misinformation to take the (uh hum) lesser forms that know not, into believing so that they do not think of ideas which would lead to questions that one day will spark a moment that eventually will start a revolution!
The George Jetson tactic:
Smart enough to push the button
Too dumb to ask why he is pushing the button!
🤣🤣🤣
@@tmilani8253 That's essentially the entire basis of the psuedoscience called "psychology". It's all theories that probably aren't even true.
That's because they don't know - it's all essentially guessing. If you really think there's some magical person who can tell you for certain what a creature from 2 million years ago was able to do based on a skull they found, I have ten thousand bridges to sell you.
@@BornIn1500 do you understand what a scientific theory is? It’s the outcome of a set of tests, based on a hypothesis. Scientific Theory is about gathering empirical data and creating datasets, and those datasets either prove or disprove the hypothesis. Theories are backed up by a huge amounts of data. It’s not just people saying “I think depression exists because of a chemical imbalance in the brain” or “psychopaths generally lack the ability to express or feel emotions because I said so”.
@@abnormallynormal8823 so what's the empirical data here? A couple of bone fragments and a weird looking skull? From this we can deduce the size, diet and air velocity of said animal? Absolutely fantasy nonsense.
“There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
I feel like that's a better description of an orbit
@@brentc2411 A orbit is just Really High Altitude flying. lol.
@@necrosapien1 I read that as "high attitude" flying, which is just flying while being a total bitch.
Douglas Adams! I got it! 🤣🤣😁
Falling with style?
Fun fact, in the thumbnail the skull is what i can assume is Anhanguera, yes a pterosaur but not nearly ever as large, not even the genus of Anhangueridae are that large! And you might be wondering what Anhanguaridae are, its a family group of early cretaceous pterosaurs from northern south america, mainly brazil. Hope this info helped you understand. Quetz still had an amazing skull but i get why the one with teeth was chose, cause it looked cool lol
Kinda lame & click baitish lol
Thank you for the fact I hope you have good day
Jc how it's a fun "fact" if u almost immediately follow this word with "assume".
“Fire and flying have never been a good combo.”
Charizard:
Stleath rocks agree.
Talonflame
*tossed pebbles at Charizard*
Moltress
So hes right, its never been a good combo
15:25 "The largest animal ever to fly wasn't a plane" - Thoughty2 2021
He was doing the superman bit - "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's..."
Well he isn’t wrong
it was the Hindenburg.
The smallest animal to ever be eaten by ants wasn't a blue whale
@@cookingwithmom8081 No this has nothing to do with that Superman quip. He legitimately thought a plane to be a type of animal.
This guy outperformed any history teachers I ever had in the intro. Never thought I would listen to a history lesson by my own freewill! Good stuff!
He really is a contributor to humankind, one of the very few left upon our planet.
Kudos for the nod to this guy! But your dig at history teachers states more about your parents than it does about them! Why didn't they move to someplace with better schools, or put you in a church school, or take the time to help you with your studies? I feel sorry for you!
@@neoconshooter I'm sorry but It's not my parents' fault that my history teachers were incompetent and uninteresting. I won't blame my parents for not moving or paying for a different school after they sent me to the best school for music which was what I wanted. If you throw your kid in a different school everytime one teacher is underperforming I am sorry for them. Life is not all sunshine and rainbows and the fact that I had to study what my history teachers failed to teach me made me much more prepared for university. And finally I would like to ask you where I said my parents did not help my along the way. Your intentions might not be to insult but you are very quick to juge my parents based on a two sentence statement that did not say anything about them.
@@mapledelta147 when you reply under a comment you made 2 months ago..
@@danielmuddasani2194 the fuck are you on bro? Guy replied to my comment yesterday and I got a notification. So I answered?
Title: The Largest Animal to ever fly
*Proceeds to spend the first 4 minutes talking about the Hindenburg and Titanic*
Hearing Thoughty2 say "chunky boi" has made my day
@@jaystreet46 it's a joke, no need to call the grammar police
Yeh he's not a stranger to teh mememes
I heard Chunki Boy
@@jaystreet46 Oh god 🙄 shut UP 🤡 go away 🖕🏽
No wonder, his chunky boi is REALLY chunky
“Fire and flying has never been a great combo”
Rockets: 👀
Jets: 👀
Jetpacks: 👀
Fireflies: 👀
Hot air balloons: 👀
Charizard:👀
@@jsobman2723 Firestorm *input eyes on computer*
lmao fireflys
ICE prop planes. the list goes on. in fact if I didn't know any better I'd have to say that fire & flying has been an extremely successful combo.
But space is void of oxygen so does a rocket even work up there? That always puzzled me. How you using fire in a vacuum, NASA?
"Fire and flying have never been a good combination"
Hot air balloons: "sad noises"
LMAO
Jets: :(
Charizard
Talonflame crying in the corner
@@armanderschreckliche oh damn i forgot talonflame
Albatross has a big wingspan but as of actual mass/weight the Andean Condor is the biggest extant bird that can fly
I do doubt this Thoughty2's sources at times. He even said pterosaur wrong. The 'p' is silent.
Well in the video, he does say “in term of wingspan”
Just imagine how many other extinct species with hollow bones we don´t know about
Just imagine that there was extraterrestrial life but we came alone too late and they’re all dead, leaving barely any traces behind.
He actually made an error in the video, Pelagornis Sandersi is actually the largest flying bird ever with a wingspan of up to 7.5 meters
@@post-leftluddite maybe he can make it up to us by making a video about the Pelagornis sandersi! 😀
Human ancestors have hollow skulls but we still found them.
there are extant species today with hollow skulls...
we call them politicians
The largest animal to ever fly was Thoughty2's mustache onto his upper lip.
I like how you specified his upper lip
Lmao
@@T33K4Y not to be confused with the bottom lip
Actually 42 😁
Must have been a low flyer, because if it had flown any higher it would have been a monobrow 😆
“Long dead sky monster” sounds like a metal band, no cap
I like it 🔥🤣🤣🤣
Nice I'll take it
Long dead= Band name
Sky Monster= Album
@@jaja5. thanks man this is mine now
A close second is Silver Cyanide
This is mine hands off
9:29 dude finally gets to the point
Thanks
i swear this man never runs out of video topics
And I hope he doesn't. I learn so many interesting facts and stories from him at least once a day.
The day that he runs out of topics, *THAT’LL BE HIS NEW TOPIC-*
Let's hope he never does. Lol
I'm here for 4 years now and I can guarantee he's more productive now than he's ever been. It's amazing to see a new video everyday.
that's because the world has been and is filled with many interesting things, he just knows how to word them so they don't sound boring and I wish I knew that skill
"The biggest bird to ever fly is the giant teratorn"
Argentavis: sad argentinian noises.
Lol! Still "magnificent".
dude they're the same bird. Argentavis Magnificence is the giant teratorn's scientific name.
@@easterndragon9339I know, but he didn't use the proper scientific name as for the other animals in the video for some reason.
@@willygracia9348 ah, yeah actually. Sorry to sound like a "Well actually" kinda person, I thought you meant he'd forgotten about "the actual biggest bird being Argentavis" when they're the same. My bad.
Well actually... He's wrong, Pelagornis Sandersi is now known to had had the largest wingspan of 7.5 meters
"What happened to the largest animal to ever fly?"
Dead bruh wtf u think he doin
Chilling
Lmfaoooooooo
Prolly figured out he could fly up, then suffocated
He flew
Sippin tea underground
By sheer height the quetzal was the largest animal to fly. The biggest animal to fly, however, was hatzegopteryx with it weighing in at 400 pounds compared to Quetzaalcoatluses 200 pounds. It was built like a therepod and despite spending most of its life on the ground, could still fly.
i love how accurate his info is, specifically the fact that he pointed out that pterosaurs were flying lizards or reptiles more so than a dinosaur or bird
@Vanktum Alexander about that...
@Vanktum Alexander Depends on what kind we're talking. "Dragons" are usually portrayed as having four limbs plus a pair of wings, which would require them to have three pairs of limbs, which would in turn need to have descend from a reptillian ancestor with three pairs of limbs.
"Drakes" or "wyverns" that have a pair of wings and legs similar to bats would be more plausible.
His info is correct
@Vanktum Alexander I'm pretty sure dragons were inspired by dino bones ancient people found Dino bone and we're like well this is some kind of giant flying monstrosity
Like how he pronounced pterosaur without a silent P?
I’m pretty sure Arran loves to say the word Quetzalcoatlus! Because he says it about 50 damn times in this awesome video.
Wow he liked your comment "YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE"
just 20 times
@@kid206511 good job that's gonna help you later in life 👌🏼
He trained his lips dry to say it correctly so he may damn well say it dozens of times over.
@@John-Doe-Yo Meh. 🤷♂️
This channel is literally the history channel of this generation.
So when will it start losing its way, making things up and stretching the truth to get more viewers. Next week Thoughty2 does "Aliens stole my pyramid while trying to discover diamonds on a hunted boat." obviously that title is subject to change 4 or 5 times just so it's still somewhat the same as it is now while it's still creditable.
@@itarry4
Let’s hope it never happens. I can’t watch the (so called) History Channel since it started incorporating all that bull crap with the Sasquatch and Aliens. It just gets ridiculous!
Let’s hope this hottie, with that magnificent mustache, never changes his channel to fit such ridiculousness as the History/Discovery channel.
Nah. It still has actual information. Maybe more comparable to the science channel
@@lufie56 absolutely. There's enough history channel clones on RUclips anyway so we definitely don't need to lose a channel that gives us interesting and informative factual topics just to create another Sumarian alien gods made humanity to mine gold one.
As if History channel doesn't still exist and kids don't still watch it 😂😂😂
first time watching a video of yours, and gotta say... production value, delivery, leadup, details, all of it incredibly well done and interesting. thank you!
Archaeologists are indeed a smart bunch. They generally know the term for a person who works with fossils is a paleontologist, while archaeologists study human remains and artifacts ;)
Are you Ross from Friends? 🤔
@@280SE obviously, that's Russ...
Not smart enough to accurately date things though.
@John Smith: Thank you. I was wondering who else caught that mistake.
@@randallulrich Exactly! I love Thoughty2 but that ref made the geologist in me positively CRINGE!
"Fire and flying have never been a good combo"
Jet engines and internal combustion engines:Are we a joke to you?
Hot air balloon 😆
Charizard too
Rocket engine
... sad rocket noises.
@@mattBLACKpunk I forgot about dragons XD
My goodness! Your channel is like the new History/Discovery channel, without all the BS Sasquatch/Alien/Ghost/and stupid fake treasure dramas, but with that handsome face and MAGNIFICENT MUSTACHE to admire!
It’s a dream come true!😄
fun fact! that’s not it’s skull in the thumbnail
Yeah that’s a person
0:44 "Fire and flying have never been a great combo."
- A man who doesn't know how jet engines work.
*Aero Piston Engines entered the chat
Or rockets.
Fire onboard here ! I wait for Engine on fire to come .
0:26 why'd i think it was gonna get attacked by a dinosaur 😂😂
Idk😂
"Fire and flying have never been a good combo"
* Dragons want to know your location *
Fire fly: "observe"
2019 Rodan: Hold my lava.
Dracarys
" Rodan" .
@@ezkid9900 Roll Fizzlebeef
If you haven’t got all the time in the world to listen to filler, the actual subject of the title starts at 9:35
"The largest flying bird is the wandering albatross."
* *angry California Condor noises* *
I thought it was the Harpy eagle of South America
@@mikes5637 I saw a thing yesterday that claimed it was the Andean Condor.
I think it depends on whether your referring to wingspans volume or weight. Not sure. Like do you classify the biggest human ever as the fattest, or the tallest? Fun fact the tallest human ever was Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was 8 feet 11 inches tall. Or 271.78 centimeters. Wearing shoes he could stand at 9 feet!
@@shaggyspade2468 fun FACT - you and all of the world have been lied to about the real history of this planet. To further the lie of evolution. I can prove this with one fact. There is no evidence man came from monkeys. Yes we might be similar in genetics. But if we were from monkeys there would be skeletons to prove this claim. Funny how we have dinosaurs from supposedly before man existed. But not one skeleton of a 1/4 or 1/2 evolved human. 🤔
@@josephcremeans I think you misunderstand what "proof" is, because that's not proof. That's just pointing out a lack of specific evidence. And we have enough related evidence to make a solid theory. If you want to believe that your big god in the sky made all of us, keep on believing that, I don't really care. But don't claim that you have proof, because you don't. No one does. Just like I can't prove that god doesn't exist.
I’ve got a contender for this position. Say hello to the Cryodrakon Boreas. A massive pterosaur similar to that of Quetzalcoatl. Back when Quetzalcoatl was being discovered, scientists noticed a slight difference between a couple of fossils. This difference was located in the necks of the skeletons, where one was seemingly wider than the other. This find was enough to designate this fossil as separate to that of Quetzalcoatl, and being given a name appropriate to where it was found (Canada), Cryodrakon Boreas, which literally means ‘Ice Dragon’.
hatzegopteryx was the heaviest of all azhdarchids
@@Alatreon2435 Arambourgiania is a new rival to all of them being taller than the quetzal and heavier than the hatz I think. Don’t quote me.
@@jakobmink1786 arambourgiana wasn't heavier than hatzeg
@@Alatreon2435 that’s why i said don’t quote me. But I do know it was the tallest
@@Alatreon2435 no
So when I was a kid thinking “I’ll just jump at the last second and survive an airplane crash” I wasn’t totally wrong!!??
Unless you're over the ocean
No you'd still carry all the momentum from the plane so you'd die. Same with an elevator
@@xxnoobxx1900 it was a joke lol
@@xxnoobxx1900 then how did they survive?
well too bad planes don't have enough resistance while falling down. So you'll die anyways
Me after 1 min into the video: is this the right video I have just clicked?
"Fire and flyng have never been a good combination"
Rodan: *sad kaiju noises*
charizard lmoa
@@_sandy_ I was about to comment that too 😂
😢
Fire Rodan: bRo what
“Quetzacoatlus was a Perosaur”.~ oof that pronounciation hurt my soul.
It was all going so damn well.
So sad
If you write these videos alone, genuine props, if not whoever somes up with the writing, is an absolute genius in storytelling and in attention capturing writing
The largest thing to ever fly to the endless sky are my hopes and dreams.
theyre also gone just like the quetzalcoatlus
came back down to earth like the Hindenberg
They are still there it's just you simply don't know how to make them happen most likely through fear of the repercussions of failure to comply to the social rules because to make your hopes and dreams you have to break the rules and that I suppose is why those that dare are celebrated.
Crnge
"Fire and Flying have never been a great combo."
Charizard fans- "Am I a joke to you?"
To be fair, it is a really bad Pokemon type combo
So hes correct it really was never a good combo
@@kempbrown4402 Sthu its a good combo
Cope it sucks
@@PolishMan597 *laughs in stealth rocks*
As a former teacher of air and flight to elementary school kids, this is well researched, accurate and fascinating.
lmao no
I can imagine having the time of my life riding up in the sky on this absolute beast.
Til it gets a bit hungry
Ark
"OH, THE HUMANITY!" - Best quote from a news reporter EVER.
If you, like myself, enjoy listening to Thoughty2, his audio book is 13 hours of pure knowledge and joy! This is not a paid advertisement 😁
Your gay
Bet and that dude 👆🏽is jus a closeted gay
@@MaekarManastorm you're
@@mitchellmackinnon6019 uranus
@@MaekarManastorm uranusyeyebshebjsh*
His voice is dope for story telling
fire and flying are never a good combo
Charizard: *SWEATING BULLETS*
13:49 archeologists deal in HUMAN remains and relics. Paleontologists are the ones that dig up ancient animals
it's such a shame that those ancient groups of creatures like pterosaurs & plesiosaurs, etc are now extinct :(
We have pigeons and turtles now instead. Both amazing in their own rights. We should try to keep them from going extinct.
@@newmemer8070 indeed :)
What do you want? The kids at the local kindergarten to get eaten by these flying bastards?
@@auhsojacosta1672 not all pterosaurs were big and it sucks that not even the small ones survived
@@bludclone I’m saying that if pterosaurs were brought back suddenly, then kindergarteners would get eaten, or any other small mammal for that matter
I remember when Arran didn't have a mustache and wore a suit. Now he's got his own book and videos that are truly fascinating and educational! Man how time flys😅👏👍
That time you froze that dude then shattered him into little pieces was badass , how is scorpion doing, I heard you guys were doing tours of universities talking about how to have a career in MK
@@djimma5080 Well we did want to go on tours and see new places and experience cool things but in MK11 Scorpion dies by D'vorah and I'm like oh shit not again. At this rate Scorpion is looking like the Kenny of MK.💀🤣
@@ThatSubZeroGamer 😆🤣😂 good job he is just a skeleton
@@djimma5080 He is just a skeleton now but he's a damn smart skeleton. His new nickname should be Bone Daddy💀🤣
Maybe I’ll grow a mustache, except I’m a woman and not an Italian one.....
who here plays ARK and guessed Argenetavis for the biggest bird Quetz for biggest flyer and the Magneura for the biggest insect
I really wish we still had the complex diversity of creatures on this planet. Imagine a combo of time zones eras mixed together. With fungi & crystals the size of trees of course
> Imagine a combo of time zones eras mixed together. With fungi & crystals the size of trees of course
A decent look into this is the latest King Kong movie, and why I would never want the primordial horrors of ancient Earth to ever come back.
Well we are discovering tons of new species in the jungles all the time
Unfortunately humans are selfish and we’re causing another mass extinction
@@jjcoola998 We also go out of our way to save as many animals as we can... So to make blanket statements like humans are selfish is ridiculous... Also 300 million years you just buy into this non sense... seriously.... 300 million years.... there is simply no possible way they could know anything from 300 million years ago its absurd
I would really prefer not to share the planet at the same time as gigantic carnivorous dragonflies
There's no way we would live (as relatively defenseless humans). But perhaps the type of human would've evolved too
Nazis: what should we build next?
Hitler: a giant floating wicker man.
Or rather (German accent) "... giant vicker mahn."
So are you saying that Nazis hosted the first Burning Man?
They only used hydrogen because some country put an embargo on selling Helium to Germany. I wonder who? They had their own Nazi party, too.
@4tran imagine what's going through his mind right now as he feverishly defends the actual nazis...
@@doge8726 ow, the edge
Quetzalcoatlus really unlocked the whole map 🤔
Aramobourgiania and Hatzegopteryx sad noises not being mentioned at all
@@djoniamman5318 just searched up images for the aramo, and holy shit, thats a big ass bird bruh. dayum
You did a very common mistake many people do. Please do not repeat, because as a geologist i take it personally. People who do dig out fossils are not archeologist, they are paleontologists. This is a science located between geology and biology, meanwhile archeology is born from history of arts.
Greetings from Sweden which lacks such cretacious giants.
The fact that there were passengers ON the Hindenburg who SURVIVED is honestly unbelievable.
Although hydrogen makes an impressive explosion, the flames go upwards instead of blasting fuel around that lands on people and other objects. If the bags of hydrogen went off at different times, it would also allow it to fall more gently. 30 seconds to fall to the ground is a pretty long time. Hydrogen has gotten a bad rap :)
that is why it is hard to deny that God exists.
@@MrNajibrazak💤💤💤
@@MrNajibrazakTake Me To Church best wholesome Christian song ong
@@MrNajibrazaknot really it will most likely to be possible to survive most accidents
Dude don’t forget when you find one of those things you gotta really pin it down and jam your ponytail in there...then you own it.
The argument over how Quetzy may have flown is actually pretty fascinating. There are some scientists who don't believe it could even have flown at all, in part because of it's weight and in part the question of how it could even have taken off. There are a number of theories as to how it worked, if it jumped off cliffs or vaulted using its "hands/wrists" (basically, the midpoint of the wings).
It may have also used rising warm air columns to stay aloft similar to the condors of today.
If it’s bones where hollow it could have flown fine, but if it wasn’t they might have glided like a squirrel
It did not fly. For its bones to be light enough for a creature of that size to fly, it wouldn't have been able to support its own mass. The same is true in a few instances in the dinosaur world.
@@beerious8392 would it have glided at least?
@@pj4999 they most likely could fly
I enjoy your content and your voice, and it never ceases to amaze me how LITTLE we actually know about the earth and history
The idea of Zeppelins is really cool. If only the age of the air ship that they had envisioned had come to pass. It fascinates me that the Empire State Building has an airship mooring at the top of it even if it never was used.
No imagine if those Zeppelins had Lead on them. 🙃
"Did you see the size of that chicken?" (Young Guns, 1988)
"Fire and flying have never been a great combo"
*sad hot air balloon noises*
Oh my god this one takes the cake 😂
For those wondering because I feel like he didn’t properly cover this topic, the quetzalquatalus ( how ever you spell it) had a wing span of about 34 feet which is honestly smaller than I thought but it’s still pretty big at around the length of a tow truck
"fire and flying have never been a great combo"
-only 3 weaknesses
-1 immunity
-6 resistances
idk it seems pretty good
Stealth rocks does 1/2 HP damage.
@@alzef1375 ah shoot u right
We just found a bird that never wanders. Let's call it the wandering Albatross!
He said them mfs don't land for 6 years after their first flight. That's a metric shit ton of wandering
You have to be german mate 😂
@@yangosakurai7505 they do land on the water, gotta sleep sometime, also after a big feed
@yango Sakurai Well, no they do not! They soar and sleep, eat and digest etcetera, all on the wing! Sometimes WO flapping a wing for hours on end. Neat, if you think about it, more than a little!
This comment had me so confused 😭😭😭 I rewatched that part like 6 times trying to see if I understood it correctly 🥲😅😂
Fun fact: the newscaster there reporting the iconic "oh the humanity" actually had a deep voice. That whole broadcast is sped up.
I was confused as to why the first 4 minutes were about the Hindenburg 🤣
That was fantastic. Thank you.
I watched an entire documentary about these magnificent creatures a few months ago, but still don't think I really realised just HOW big they were!!
Why didn't pterodactyls make a sound when they urinated?
Because the "P" is silent.
But I pronounce the p...
@@wiidlbeetle3857 well then you’re doing it wrong
He said perasoar. Not pterosoar
@@cillianwilliamson16 and?
@@cillianwilliamson16 He pronounced it wrong: the "P" is silent not the "T".
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I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN SO LONG. IM GLAD I MADE IT BACK TO THIS SIDE OF RUclips.
Maybe subscribe?
You should subscribe! Turn that bell on!
Hello, He is always on just look at the uploads.✌️
He’s been uploading a couple times a week mate
Fishin for hearts are ya
4 minutes in I honestly forgot I was watching a video about a flying animal.
Every time I hear about an albatross I hear Bruce Dickinson belting out "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Hell yeah! "The mariner killed the bird of good omen"
@@williamdunning613 his shipmates cry against what he's done.
that was a nightmarish poem for the sailors.
My favourite line was "Unhand me, fool!"
Albatrosses are remarkable birds that I really admire.
Pterosaur has a silent P, my magnificent moustachioed friend. :)
Is the P in pedantic also silent? Asking for a friend.
@@robertgiles9124 I don't usually care about spellings or mispronunciations, I can't get English right myself xD. But he said quetzalcoatlus so many times so perfectly, a word I still can't say without getting tongue tide, just thought was a shame to get the humble pterosaur wrong. Plus, even with the comedy, it's still an educational channel :P
And that's why you don't hear it going to the bathroom!
Can I have a P please Bob?
@@TinglyShoopASMR , well played.
The Quetzalcoatlus; a prehistoric flying lizard so adapted to flight, we aren't sure how it took off or landed.
It flapped it wings bud, and its used its own drag to land safely.
I was thinking that when he said they were like storks and cranes. Both groups are not the greatest at takeoff. but something with long thin wings would take forever and be an easy meal.
I think they were able to fly as juveniles, but as they grew they became completely terrestrial as adults.
@@travisevans8742 no they didnt , it would be easier as a juvenile but it could still fly . The quetzal and other azhdarchids used their power of flight to look for dead bodies and other things they could eat .
@@pinkfridge6111 watch "Over the Heads of Dinosaurs: Pterosaurs" from the Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology lecture series. The speaker is Donald M. Henderson, who is an authority on pterosaurs. It is a long lecture, but if you go to around the 37:00 marker he shows the problems with an animal of these proportions being able to take off. Great lecture. I would link it to you but I am inept at such things!
As a geology student I was expecting quite a hot mess based o the thumbnail. The ratio from human to skull. Simply wrong. The fact that that skull never could belong to any Azhdarchid (the family Quetzalcoatlus belongs to and the only family of pterosaurs that reached that extreme sizes)
But I was positively surprised that you've made quite a decent video. I got clickbaited, but in a good way.
But I would be happier to see a real Quetzalcoatlus skull on the thumbnail. It looks amazing too (even if it is not that toothy)
That’s Toruk Makto right there boys and girls
Ah yes, another Avatar fan
“That’s from the original movie!”
“Yes it is”
YESS
I love that he covered this and spoke of the Hindenburg... I grew up less than 30 minutes from the military base where the crash occured and since my father worked there I have been not only on the crash site many times but also in the massive hangar (which I'm not sure but I think is illustrated in the drawing at 2:50) that they built to house that beast....
That alone is impossible to describe. The building is so massive it has, like it's own climate or atmosphere (not sure which word applies here).
On some days it had clouds (just like in the blue sky that we are all familiar with) forming by the ceiling! Then imagine the size of the Hindenburg....
I can recall being on a ferris wheel at a county fair and being able to see the hangar from the top!!! (Roughly 30 miles...)
Anyway... Enough of me. I know this is only the first three minutes of the video but I just love hearing my home state mentioned!!!
Everyone says this shit about "clouds forming cause it has it's own atmosphere" yet there isn't a single picture of it anywhere. Nor does it make any sense.
@@butterphli3z I mean, I've been in the building, and I did say "climate or atmosphere, I'm not sure what word applies here." The former was probably more apropos.
But I have actually watched things that look like clouds float through there as a kid. Unless you've spent as much time in there as I did, or more.... your comment is invalid.
@@southpawpicker There's literally not a single picture or video evidence anywhere. So I find it hard to believe.
@@butterphli3z Homem de pouca fé, you want a picture of clouds in 1936? The cameras were giant things and I'm pretty sure cameras weren't allowed inside the hangar. So, it's hard to have such things like photos, if you don't want to believe the words of someone who has been there, so don't believe, nobody is forcing you to believe or something like that
Made me think that perhaps we have the tech to build safe airships now. After all, we fly around in planes whose wings are full of jet fuel. And they sometimes crash but we don't just give up on them.
You really don't get a good gauge of just how *massive* the Hindenburg was until you stand inside the hangar built to house it in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
I was an archaeologist major in college... Now I know where the "did you dig for dinosaurs?" question comes from... Paleontologists dig for dinosaurs, archaeologists dig for human civilizations.
Quintillion sounds like a number created by a ten year old to win an argument.
And Iron Maiden made a song about another airship disaster the R101. Bloody great song.
The way he pronounced pterosaur almost had me dying
I Find it so funny that it was found in Texas, because everything is bigger in Texas!
mass-wise it's actually smaller than the related Hatzegopteryx from Romania.
Yee, though to be fair it would LOOK bigger side by side due to sheer power of lonk
Imagine how big it could have gotten if it was found in Alaska. 🤠
It was as tall as a Giraffe, but lighter due to hollow bones and being built to fly. Even with that, it would have been heavy and seeing one black out the sky as it flies overhead would be the stuff of nightmares😂
Imagine how good it's eyes were considering it could fly 4k meters high
Would it fly so high tho?? With oxygen being limited at that altitude. Temperatures obviously being colder up there with reptiles generally being sensitive to the cold. I dont see it likely it ever flew anywheres near that high. Potentially tho, using the cold to slow its heart rate and conserve energy. The thinner air for less drag. What a beast it would have been to see in person regardless!!
@@larryhouse8358 there's some pretty good evidence that some of those creatures were warm-blooded. I would imagine being able to fly at 4K would dictate that you'd have to be warm blooded. Temperature drops 9° for every 100m in altitude near the surface... At 4k if the temp is 100 at sea level, then the temp is below freezing at altitude with wind chill. Don't forget, with lower body temperature comes lower muscle responsiveness as well. A lizard at altitude is almost guaranteed to die.
And I am sure there was nothing to eat that high up there.
maybe the facts will change some time in the future
It wouldn’t need to be that great actually.
I can navigate quite easily with visuals alone at any altitude as a pilot. Just gotta know the area.
Now generally I’m using maps/instruments/technology but it can be done with just human eyesight.
"...dwarfed even the most obese of albatrosses" that cracked me up hahaha
Sees thumbnail: "real skull!"
Not quite real human, proportionately though. From a serious fan of the Quetzy, my favorite flying reptile.
(Yes, I know, not a Quetzalcoatlus skull.)
What's sad is so many story's will never be known nor will the lost animals stories get told. But what survives teaches us much.
To this day, quetzalcoatlus is in my top 3 biggest fears of all time. Even if they're all extinct
When I was a child, having watched Jurassic Park at a too young age (I was as old as the girl and my brother was as old as the boy, the similarities were too real) my biggest fear were raptors. I used to be terrified of going out of my bedroom at night to get to the bathroom because I felt a raptor was hiding in the shadows of the stairway.
I had to tell myself they all went extinct millions of years ago. It helped.
@@mikoto7693 wake up, Alan
I just want to ride on one
Quetzalcoatlus has fascinated me ever since I read about it as a kid. As far as diet goes, I'd imagine it may have preyed on smaller pterasaurs (but I'm not a scientist). I'd love for there to be a fossil found one day with actual fossilized stomach contents.
Quetzalcoatlus likely fed on terrestrial animals, like mammals and smaller dinosaurs. Any Azhdarchid Pterosaur would be horrifying to see in reality
Smaller pterosaurs were extinct by then, it probably would have preyed on small animals
I work in a hydrogen plant and have been very close to multiple hydrogen fires/explosions. I can’t believe that someone thought it was a good idea to fill a balloon with it and fly people around. Probably the most dangerous process in the whole oil refinery with fires in mind. It finds a way to leak very easily and is so flammable that it ignites sometimes with no obvious ignition source.
But even in the First World War under gun fire the Zeppelins did not explode. The Hindenburg was extremely unlucky.
And the reason for hydrogen was that Germany had no access to helium and hydrogen provides more lift.
@@dingdong1456 The balloons were fabric envelopes filled with hydrogen gas, whose flammable nature led to the destruction of hundreds of balloons on both sides. Observers manning these observation balloons frequently had to use a parachute to evacuate their balloon when it came under attack. To avoid the potentially flammable consequences of hydrogen, observation balloons after World War I were often filled with non-flammable helium.
We use hydrogen to cool turbines in the power plants.
Actually zeppelins don't use Hydrogen. They use Helium which is inert and non-flammable. So why did the Hindenburg use Hydrogen on that day? It has to do with the fact that this was the 1930s and Germany was being led by the Nazi party.
While the USA was not yet at war with Germany, there was a "cold war" between the countries. At that time, the USA was the world's largest supplier of Helium and refused to trade with Germany. Because of that, Germany did not have enough supply of Helium to fly the zeppelin. So they made the fateful decision to switch to Hydrogen.
when i was a child, i saw its photo/drawing in a comic book, her impression is permanent on my brain, will bury along in grave.
Cant believe he called it a Parosaur. The P in Pterosaur is silent it's pronounced Terosaur.
Ptero from Greek "wing" it's not silent.
Maybe in French. Those people don't pronounce half of the letters.
@@Κασσάνηρ In English it is.
Yeah I've never heard it pronounced that way before.
As much research that is in this video I'm sure he looked up how to pronounce a word bro