Wait... I just thought of something! A quetzal, on another quetzals platfom saddle, on another quetzals platform saddle, on another quetzals platform saddle... ect
@@SimonWoodburyForget Ark survival evolved is a game in which you have to survive on a foreign island filled with dinosaurs and other ancient creatures. The point of the game is to build up your base and try to get cool tek stuff. On pc, xbox, and ps4, you can complete the tek cave to beat the game.
Da Dragon Durp not really this video said they weighed a quarter of a giraffe putting heavy objects on it would of killed it Also where are these I can't find one anywhere and when I do I can't catch up to it
Giant flying animals like this are equally terrifying and fascinating to me. Being able to see one flying through the air must have been an amazing sight, but I'd be terrified of that thing spotting me
Why don't these things exist today?! Imagine, you're just gazing out the window when BAM, out of the blue, a giant freaking giraffe-pterosaur landing on your lawn. The possibilities...
Bruh they would just go extinct if they were around because of us humans who destroy animal habitats and ecosystems, humans will do anything to build their cities with houses and roads just so they can live comfortably, doesnt matter how big the animal is, well find a way to kill it and destroy its habitat. Just like all the pleistocene mammals who got extinct and all the wild animals that will probably go extinct in the near future too.
They'd still probably go extinct because of humans, but maybe small pterosaurs like Geosternbergia and Anurognathus would be used as pets or transportation
@@tnapeepeelu not transportation. Their bones are hollow and weaker than mammal bones, and they already stretched the limit of flight, so they probably couldn't carry any heavy thing.
Yeah...it's probably better for you to be getting palaeofacts from videos like this instead of ark. For instance, Quetzalcoatlus most certainly _could not_ carry a house or a wooly mammoth.
I had heard about Quetzl's size, but this is the first I'm hearing about its insane flight range. It is strange to imagine there was ever an animal capable of flying across so much territory. World travelers, indeed.
I really enjoyed this episode and I adore the gorgeous and vibrant recreation of the quetz! But I am just wondering why you guys never brought attention to the massive most likely elastic like ligament that ran the course of quetzalcoatlus wings. These massive tendons could have possibly help the animal into the air by using the quad launch method that you mentioned. This elastic ligament could have been pulled very tight than released to release enough energy to propel the huge animal into the air. They could have basically used this like a slingshot to catapult themselves airborne. It's fine that you guys didn't get to it this is just something I would have liked to see you guys explain in depth. This episode was probably my favorite so far honestly but that's just because I'm a sucker for the massive pterosaurs haha.
Biggest giant pterosaur skulls were anywhere from 3-5 meters long based on scaling the skulls of smaller taxa up, and even though the upper estimates are extremely unlikely, the lowest numbers still makes its head twice as long as a T. rex skull and just as wide. This makes their skulls among the longest of any land animals, rivaling the biggest ceratopsid dinosaur skulls. (Do note that it wouldn't weigh as much though, given the weight-saving features in pterosaur heads. You might even be able to easily pick their head up it's so light.)
I think that's an Anurognathus! It's a tiny, forest-dwelling pterosaur whose anatomy indicates a nocturnal, batlike lifestyle, flying around catching insects at night. And yes, based on what we've found of it, it's super cute! ^_^
Watching these videos has made me change my plan for the unlikely occasion that time travel will ever be possible. Even if it kills me, I want to see that thing.
The presenter has great choreography and the music is perfect ambiance for the subject. I am so happy I found Eons, the next great distraction from my actual schoolwork!
Pedro why did you think he meant real life, "pal"? That would also have been historically impossible, "pal", since turrets and dinos didn't really co-exist either, let alone humans and dinos.
All they have to do is give measurements in both metric AND SAE like some of the other science channels. They should keep in mind that America has the world's greatest economy.
I think you should have also mentioned Hatzegopteryx (a Romanian azhdarchid), it's approximately the same size as Quetzalcoatlus. Scientific criticisms aside, this is a great video! I was wondering whether you could do a video on the opalised fossils of Australia, it's a fascinating topic.
@@KissEmGn Scientists have found that the Arambourginia is in-between 9 and 15 metres in wing span. Therefore, we can't have an accurate size, but if it is 15 metres in wing span, then that will be the number 1 largest flying thing. However, I just needs to take more time and discovering before we make an accurate measurement
We’re talking about three forms of ancient, flying, carnivorous lizard-giraffes, two that went for reach, one that chose to bulk up, and all of them capable of eating Dwayne Johnson. Adds new meaning to the phrase, “mad respect.”
Could you give a source to the cruising speed/height/range estimates you gave? I'd be very interested in reading more about it. And thanks for the great video! It doesn't tell the whole story on how pterosaurs were amazingly efficient flyers, like controlling the shape of their wings, but for a 5 minute video it's very informative.
During the mesozoic era its believed the atmosphere pressure was greater now than it is today - perhaps 3 to 4 times. A thicker atmosphere allowed for larger animals to fly whereas it would be impossible for them today.
Is it possible that the animal wasn't capable of flying throughout their entire lifespans? Maybe they flew around as smaller adolescents, then entered a terrestrial life phase when they found a spot that seemed like a good place to settle in and breed.
Wouldn't that be kind of risky? Those pterosaurs don't look like they were good walkers and they must have been very fragile with all those airsacks. So if they encountered big predators or natural disasters they would have had a hard time to escape. But it is an interesting theory. If they had a similar sence of navigation like turtles or salmon the risk of not finding a partner would be rather slim and a colony of those guys would be a sight to behold...
While I personally doubt they'd be flightless at any stage of their lives (not even as babies--the fossil record shows that baby pterosaurs were very clearly built for flight even at birth), I'll admit, this is a pretty interesting idea; azhdarchid pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus were very well-adapted to terrestrial life, and it is worth noting that flying isn't as easy as one might think. It requires a lot of energy and many flying animals today will opt not to do it if they can help it. Therefore, I don't think it'd be unreasonable to assume that at least some Quetzalcoatlus would stop flying when they reach a certain age or size, not because they were rendered physically flightless, but because they no longer need to travel and are big enough to no longer worry about predators (at that size, they could easily intimidate potential enemies, and of course they could still fly away if that doesn't work).
Fossil evidence pretty much disproves that, since the bones that were dug up obviously came from a fully-grown adult yet they didn't have diminished airsacks, thickened walls, and other features you'd expect a flying animal to develop as it grew into a flightless form. Besides, most simulations show that these animals were excellent gliders and could easily gain altitude by either riding updrafts or doing short burts of powerful anaerobic wing flapping. If you want to read up more on this, look up Mark Witton's work. He's a reputable paleobiologist whose studies have been quoted a lot by other people. He also makes some of his stuff available through his blog, meaning it shouldn't be hard for you to look him up.
Because they evolved from land animals that went back to the oceans to live...So their spines were naturally inclined to be more flexible...and better muscled in the horizontal plane ( Think of how something like a cheetah uses its spine to help it run) So...Different evolutionary adaptations. :)
well, if you look at the way their tail fluke pans out horizontally rather than vertically (like a shark's would), it'd be extremely impractical to attempt to thrust forward with a tail that just slices through the water.
Because dolphins evolved from land dwelling, 4 legged, carnivorous mammals. Since land mammals have their legs directly beneath their bodies perpendicular to the ground (instead of out to the sides like reptiles), the vertebral column naturally has to flex up and down when they walk, instead of side to side, hence why marine mammals move their tails up and down.
+PIM's a Whovian Don't you think they evolved an horizontal tail fluke *because* they have a vertically flexible spine and not the other way round ?? Lmfao.
Atletico Wanka yup. Spend 2weeks grinding ark straight 24/7, think you’re getting built up nicely just to log on to being wiped like it was nothing to them. Get mad, swear off ark (only last 2 days) and repeat the process. It a vicious cycle
@@yrg795 i gotta give it to wildcard though, they make the trailer look like it's the greatest game in existence with all the nice bases and everyone cooperating when in reality it's nothing like that😂😂
If it were alive today: The Aztecs would have used it as an advantage over the Spaniards and the latter will remember it as the "flying snakehorse". The first air cavalry units would be formed by the USA because of this. Dixie ranchers would use this as a guiding animal, like a shepherd's dog, to guide oxen and other animals. This reptile would also be used as passenger planes of today.
That's a really cool idea (I'm actually working on stories with things like this, or at least, kinda). That said, this would all depend on how trainable Quetzalcoatlus would be. Especially since they'd almost certainly see humans as food.
My neighbor kid strapped on on a couple of big blankets and said “ look at me a queztzaqutal” . He only fell about 10 feet. It was a spectacular sight to see. Thanks
It may not have needed to launch itself into the air. If you have ever been to the tropics, you would realise that you get a strong shoreward wind on the beach due to convection currents during the day and a strong seaward wind during the night. At the time of the dinosaurs the earth was hotter and drier, so the convection current winds would have been much stronger. If these creatures are fish (which seems to have been the case from their beaks), all they would have had to do to take off from the beach or sea would be to stretch their wings out. Maybe that is why they died out - without strong winds, they may not have been able to get airborne if they landed on the beach or in the sea.
Possibility Then you would have to ask why it retained flight adaptations. Flightless birds today have small or vestigial wings and many have heavier, solid bones. Apparently, Quetzalcoatlus had developed wing bones, which would also suggest that the wing membrane might have been intact (why have the elongated finger bone otherwise?). The former is a strange thing to have if you're walking around full time, and the latter might have even been inconvenient for terrestrial locomotion. So for the trade-off to be worth it, the wings must have been used in some way. Ostriches use their wings for display and courtship, so that's a possibility, but that wouldn't explain why Q's wings were fully developed.
Hi, paleo-worker here. Quetz and other giant pterosaurs known as azhdarchids show fully-developed adaptations for flight. They have large broad wings which help them stay airborne, their forelimbs are heavily muscled to help launch, and their proportions are exactly what is seen in smaller azhdarchid pterosaurs that we definately know flew. They do not show the underdeveloped wings of things like kiwis or ostriches either, so there's no reason why they couldn't fly, and when placed in digital models they fly just as well (or better than) other pterosaurs and modern birds. There's really no reason to think they could not fly, even taking their huge size into account.
Pterosaurs were actually better runners than you might think. Azhdarchids like Quetzalcoatlus in particular were likely very good striders and gallopers. They might not have been _graceful,_ mind you, but they were very likely capable runners.
I do imagine that such a creature would have a hard time taking flight and gaining height, but that it would be a very efficient flyer once it gained enough height. Those wings were probably really great at catching wind currents.
Can confirm it flies , it transported around 1200 metal ingots for me yesterday.
By far the funniest comment here lol
mas.k unknown lol when you play ark
mas.k unknown omfg man beat comment ive seen today
best*
Lol
You forgot that the devs nerfed it and could no longer have turrets in the platform saddle
The_PRDrill using it to raid is still broken tho.
Right
Man, I already knew what this was. 😂🤣😂
forgot ARK existed for a minute there and thought you came here from TierZoo
You can still bomb with them
So... what I’m getting is Ark: Survival Evolved seriously needs to buff the in-game Quetzal’s movement speed and stamina stats...
JakoborRazor THEY DO it’s way to slow
@@highaunt9679 use wyverns
Yea it's way too slow now. Wyverns and Argys are much better at pretty much everything now..
They really need to fix the hatch frame glitch
Lol EXACTLY what I was thinking!
*”Find a high place then just jump”*
*Such a way with words*
*Ima try*
William Smith wait no
@@williamsmith9946 are you ok? :[
@@williamsmith9946 and he was never seen again
🤣
"And even some snakes [can glide through the air]."
Excuse me whilst I suffer horrifying nightmares.
luckily those danger noodles have no venom *whew*
“Flying” tree snakes actually have venom, but its not fatal to humans
Let those dreams glide into your mind...
I actually think snakes are fascinating though :p
So this is how snakes on a pane came to be a thing.
The name of Quetzalcoatlus was an amazing choice. Truly appropriate for such a stupendous creature.
I thought it was the Hatzegopteryx
@@ABJ4684 heavy yes but In height no not exactly
@@ABJ4684 that's another species of pterosaur
@@ABJ4684 wb arambourgiania
Some pterosaurs sound pterrifying.
that was a pterrible joke😂
@@troyami No, it's actually pterrific!
Get out
@@mrmrcoconut4888 you can't ptell them what pto do!
p pike phose pokes
Translated
i like those jokes
Reason why they travel very far because players level up their stamina.
awesome117unsc damn you stole my idea xD
They're a pain to tame though
awesome117unsc It ain’t ark
But they are a pain to tame in ark
Ark Players: "Just like the simulations."
Spyrotic nah this basically says that quetzals in ark need buff
Im a tree LOOOOOOOOL they need a nerf you can easily wipe a base w these bois without soaking any turrets
YUPPPPP
joe vin depends on which ark youre playing cuz i was talking about mobile ark
Dude that game has been alive for years lol
The thought of a 4 m tall bird soaring through the sky at 130 km/h is terrifying
Pterosaurs aren't birds, but I suppose the comparison fits.
Felixkeeg Detective Conan!!!
i can chase that with my la 5
with my luck it would crap on me.
Here's an American thought! just imagine a 13 foot tall bird flying and 80 mph!!!!
she failed to mention the extremely long tame time
szivalj and that you first need a rex for the kibble and 140 darts cuz damn 13.000km its a lot of stamina levels
bruh she also didnt mention the platform saddle
More ARK references
Two dang hours with prime meat
szivalj and the extreme procces of knocking Ine out
So, a dragon like animal is possible. Minus the magic, and flame breath.
Indeed it is.
@@trvth1s i bet When Yi-Qi could have Evolved, they where Something like Dragons but without Fire
Curtis Whyte You’re correct .
Curtis Whyte
The bombadier beetle might be a more direct comparison
@@JcLazy1 show me that despiction
I want to put a platform saddle on it.
BleedRainbows good luck grinding
Careful, you might fall!
Wait... I just thought of something! A quetzal, on another quetzals platfom saddle, on another quetzals platform saddle, on another quetzals platform saddle... ect
Dragonett quetzal flying apartment complex?
Dragonett
Oof.. Complex of Quetzals
Love how the comments are raided with Ark players
@@SimonWoodburyForget Game with extinct things
@@SimonWoodburyForget Ark survival evolved is a game in which you have to survive on a foreign island filled with dinosaurs and other ancient creatures. The point of the game is to build up your base and try to get cool tek stuff. On pc, xbox, and ps4, you can complete the tek cave to beat the game.
Yep no wonder we can build bases on these guys in ARK.....
Enzona Never seen hum before.
Da Dragon Durp wish it could go 130 km an hour
Vincent Bokan set a ridiculous high tame affinity for speed.
But why is the ark version not 130kmh fast and why cant it fly a week long? :(
Da Dragon Durp not really this video said they weighed a quarter of a giraffe putting heavy objects on it would of killed it
Also where are these I can't find one anywhere and when I do I can't catch up to it
“But How Did Quetzals Take Off?” Me: Saddle.
Hehe, Ark
or whistle follow
I am absolutely obsessed with your channel! I've been binge watching the passed two days.
Wow quad launch theory sounds really interesting. Loving the feed of knowledge I'm getting from this channel! Keep it up:)
Never skips leg day
Giant flying animals like this are equally terrifying and fascinating to me. Being able to see one flying through the air must have been an amazing sight, but I'd be terrified of that thing spotting me
I’ve watched this 3 times and it still blows my mind
I guess you could call pterisaurs. Pterrifying
Pterrible!
Pterriflying
But Pterry wasn't terrifying, he was rather lovable.
Ralph Ize ptake those puns and leave
Ralph Ize that's the most amazingly awful thing
Such a beautiful video with beautiful music.
Wan Sueanoi basically you like the girl
Avisek Ganguly What a pick up line
Maybe asteroids are just flaming Quetzalcoatlus turds from the sky.
Lmao
Boi this is old
Damn Sorabh you here??
@@chocolate05081 kyon pbs eons tere baap ka area hain kya? Saurabh kahin bhi aa sakta hain
Maja nahi aaya hutiye tere comment main,dase mat, stand up kharab karta hain toh kaam se kaam comment toh acche kar...
Why don't these things exist today?! Imagine, you're just gazing out the window when BAM, out of the blue, a giant freaking giraffe-pterosaur landing on your lawn. The possibilities...
Bruh they would just go extinct if they were around because of us humans who destroy animal habitats and ecosystems, humans will do anything to build their cities with houses and roads just so they can live comfortably, doesnt matter how big the animal is, well find a way to kill it and destroy its habitat. Just like all the pleistocene mammals who got extinct and all the wild animals that will probably go extinct in the near future too.
Cuz metoer
They'd still probably go extinct because of humans, but maybe small pterosaurs like Geosternbergia and Anurognathus would be used as pets or transportation
@@tnapeepeelu not transportation. Their bones are hollow and weaker than mammal bones, and they already stretched the limit of flight, so they probably couldn't carry any heavy thing.
We would shoot them out of the skies
Who's here from ark? Cuz you saw the thumbnail and knew exactly it was the quetzal
Yup
24k sloth yee
Yeah...it's probably better for you to be getting palaeofacts from videos like this instead of ark. For instance, Quetzalcoatlus most certainly _could not_ carry a house or a wooly mammoth.
24k sloth check out saurian, way better representation of these animals. Ark is like... Jarrasic park when it comes to accuracy
Who says the dinos in ark are from our prehistory. The overseers could have found alien creatures that resemble dinos or engineered them.
I had heard about Quetzl's size, but this is the first I'm hearing about its insane flight range. It is strange to imagine there was ever an animal capable of flying across so much territory. World travelers, indeed.
I saw a skeleton of a quetzal in Arizona, it is insane to stand right next to one and get a real feel for how large it is
Do a video about prehistoric turtles
and tortoises
Jeb, we know it's you. Calm down with the turtles man.
Evi1M4chine land-shield-toad and sea-shield-toad.
You mean Pturtles?
Yaaaaa!!!!😃🐢🐢
That would be amazing if it was lvl 150 perfect tame 👌
Ohh but what about 174 tek quetz perfect tame
I really enjoyed this episode and I adore the gorgeous and vibrant recreation of the quetz! But I am just wondering why you guys never brought attention to the massive most likely elastic like ligament that ran the course of quetzalcoatlus wings. These massive tendons could have possibly help the animal into the air by using the quad launch method that you mentioned. This elastic ligament could have been pulled very tight than released to release enough energy to propel the huge animal into the air. They could have basically used this like a slingshot to catapult themselves airborne. It's fine that you guys didn't get to it this is just something I would have liked to see you guys explain in depth. This episode was probably my favorite so far honestly but that's just because I'm a sucker for the massive pterosaurs haha.
Ark taught me so well. How laggy these things are
3:47 wish it could move that fast in ARK
Its dang slow in Ark
Wīñgś Øf Pöwērż well still a moving house
3:45*
truly my favorite because it makes taming so much easier
I really appreciate your embracing of SI units.
140/km? That has to be on a player dedicated server right?
But.... why is its... head... so big....?
To swallow prey whole.
The better to eat you with, my dear...
Biggest giant pterosaur skulls were anywhere from 3-5 meters long based on scaling the skulls of smaller taxa up, and even though the upper estimates are extremely unlikely, the lowest numbers still makes its head twice as long as a T. rex skull and just as wide. This makes their skulls among the longest of any land animals, rivaling the biggest ceratopsid dinosaur skulls.
(Do note that it wouldn't weigh as much though, given the weight-saving features in pterosaur heads. You might even be able to easily pick their head up it's so light.)
Tristan Stock be doling out palaeo-facts like woah. I love it!
Alexandra Lee if you had an 11 meter wingspan, you'd have an inflated opinion of yourself too. ;)
It was very BIG. Saw it on the red obelisk and tamed it with Rex Kibble :P
Mhm
Quetz: Im the biggest thing to ever fly!
Airplanes: *No*
Homo Sapiens: ooga booga, metal stick go wooosh!
Hindenburg: *N O*
Good point, but I think they mean biotic creatures, not abiotic creations.
And I am very sorry if that reply came out a little mean, that's not what I intended at all!
Bethia Prosser you are stupid
0:47 can anybody imagine that bird eating the girl
I wanted to shout "BE CAREFUL, IT'S BEHIND YOU"
0:44 this is the cutest thing i have ever seen :0
I think that's an Anurognathus! It's a tiny, forest-dwelling pterosaur whose anatomy indicates a nocturnal, batlike lifestyle, flying around catching insects at night. And yes, based on what we've found of it, it's super cute! ^_^
Im the cutest thing you ever seen
@@thecutestthingyoueverseen3690 yeah u have that name not the bat xD
Nemicolopterus: *I'm cuter*
@@cheekibreekiivdamke6750 cap
I'd really appreciate a playlist of the PBS Eons videos in chronological order of the subject of the video.
Watching these videos has made me change my plan for the unlikely occasion that time travel will ever be possible. Even if it kills me, I want to see that thing.
The presenter has great choreography and the music is perfect ambiance for the subject. I am so happy I found Eons, the next great distraction from my actual schoolwork!
Ark: Survival Envovled. My Quetz has turrets on it lol
That's physically impossible in real life pal
Mine had a "sky cage" built on its back to trap other, wild Quetzals in the air xD
Man, ARK is awesome
Pedro why did you think he meant real life, "pal"? That would also have been historically impossible, "pal", since turrets and dinos didn't really co-exist either, let alone humans and dinos.
@@mezo4010 what a fuckwit
Not anymore
I can't begin to express how much I LOVE THEM!!! THEY'RE DRAGONS FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!💛
They're my favorite!
I love this group of videos. I may be 53 but I still love all things prehistoric
Videos like this make me hate the lack of metric system education in the US
I hate this "Feet, inches, yards, ounces, gallon" bull. I wish we just used metric like everyone else in the world
Austin Escobedo Same
@@austin526515 too much money to convert everything plus reteaching everyone. it's not plausible.
I mean I used the metric system in my science classes...
All they have to do is give measurements in both metric AND SAE like some of the other science channels. They should keep in mind that America has the world's greatest economy.
This video exists:
Every ark player ever: H E L O
Impulse you mean hello not helo
Robsah Games
Stop ur ruining the meme
Jersey The Hybrid no
Robsah Games shut up
Impulse why, i was correcting your mistake
Great video as always.
I love this channel!
The animals, images, stories and music make this very enjoyable to watch and listen to.
Two words
Flying giraffe
We’re screwed
FirmFiction
*lol*
2020 : *WRITE THAT DOWN ' WRITE THAT DOWN*
Or rodan the fire demon
Dali missed that one. He only had burning giraffes.
I like how we're normalizing metric through media. It's probably our only hope.
Science ALWAYS uses metric. This isn't an autobiography mate.
i just ask my alexa
When she said cruising speed of 130km/ hr I didn’t know how fast that was and still don’t know.
I was lost with meters and k/hr but I'll get the hang of it.
60 m/h is same as 100km/h. Metric is just much easier
I think you should have also mentioned Hatzegopteryx (a Romanian azhdarchid), it's approximately the same size as Quetzalcoatlus. Scientific criticisms aside, this is a great video!
I was wondering whether you could do a video on the opalised fossils of Australia, it's a fascinating topic.
Christian V-H That's what I was thinking.
what about arambourgiania
@@KissEmGn Scientists have found that the Arambourginia is in-between 9 and 15 metres in wing span. Therefore, we can't have an accurate size, but if it is 15 metres in wing span, then that will be the number 1 largest flying thing. However, I just needs to take more time and discovering before we make an accurate measurement
We’re talking about three forms of ancient, flying, carnivorous lizard-giraffes, two that went for reach, one that chose to bulk up, and all of them capable of eating Dwayne Johnson. Adds new meaning to the phrase, “mad respect.”
Thank you for keeping it real. Metric units ftw!
Could you give a source to the cruising speed/height/range estimates you gave? I'd be very interested in reading more about it.
And thanks for the great video! It doesn't tell the whole story on how pterosaurs were amazingly efficient flyers, like controlling the shape of their wings, but for a 5 minute video it's very informative.
Pretty amazing. I’d LOVE to see one, from the safety of my time machine.
During the mesozoic era its believed the atmosphere pressure was greater now than it is today - perhaps 3 to 4 times. A thicker atmosphere allowed for larger animals to fly whereas it would be impossible for them today.
Love this series! Thank you for all your hard work!
In my opinion this is the best episode of Eons so far!
RUclips: wanna see big birdo
Me: heckle shmekle dude
This needs moremlikes
You're describing a dragon. I knew it.
Big pterosaurs ate dinosaurs and fishes while the small ones spent their time flying while eating insects like bats and insectivore birds.
0:06 Perfectly cut
Absolutely fascinating! So many amazing things Nature produced, nurtured and then discarded!
We too might just be a passing species!
Probably. And the only one to consciously choose its own self-extinction.
amazon is reviving one of these in vitro, said they needed it to replace their defunct drone service
Is it possible that the animal wasn't capable of flying throughout their entire lifespans? Maybe they flew around as smaller adolescents, then entered a terrestrial life phase when they found a spot that seemed like a good place to settle in and breed.
Wouldn't that be kind of risky? Those pterosaurs don't look like they were good walkers and they must have been very fragile with all those airsacks. So if they encountered big predators or natural disasters they would have had a hard time to escape. But it is an interesting theory. If they had a similar sence of navigation like turtles or salmon the risk of not finding a partner would be rather slim and a colony of those guys would be a sight to behold...
While I personally doubt they'd be flightless at any stage of their lives (not even as babies--the fossil record shows that baby pterosaurs were very clearly built for flight even at birth), I'll admit, this is a pretty interesting idea; azhdarchid pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus were very well-adapted to terrestrial life, and it is worth noting that flying isn't as easy as one might think. It requires a lot of energy and many flying animals today will opt not to do it if they can help it. Therefore, I don't think it'd be unreasonable to assume that at least some Quetzalcoatlus would stop flying when they reach a certain age or size, not because they were rendered physically flightless, but because they no longer need to travel and are big enough to no longer worry about predators (at that size, they could easily intimidate potential enemies, and of course they could still fly away if that doesn't work).
Fossil evidence pretty much disproves that, since the bones that were dug up obviously came from a fully-grown adult yet they didn't have diminished airsacks, thickened walls, and other features you'd expect a flying animal to develop as it grew into a flightless form. Besides, most simulations show that these animals were excellent gliders and could easily gain altitude by either riding updrafts or doing short burts of powerful anaerobic wing flapping.
If you want to read up more on this, look up Mark Witton's work. He's a reputable paleobiologist whose studies have been quoted a lot by other people. He also makes some of his stuff available through his blog, meaning it shouldn't be hard for you to look him up.
thats not how life works joseph....
Pelican: There is no way that this thing looks like me...
Big birds with big head: I dont think so...
Again... Hatzegopteryx punching the air rn
Imagine beinf shat on by one of these dragons from 4.5 km above! Its poo could crush a human being i bet!
Nah, it would disintegrate in the atmosphere
Lol
Yeah I think one giant splat from that thing on yr head would be quite something lol.
It probably has a light weight poo
Why do dolphins move their tail up and down rather than left and right
Because they're related to us, their bone structure is remarkably similar to other mammals, and our legs move up and down.
Because they evolved from land animals that went back to the oceans to live...So their spines were naturally inclined to be more flexible...and better muscled in the horizontal plane ( Think of how something like a cheetah uses its spine to help it run) So...Different evolutionary adaptations. :)
well, if you look at the way their tail fluke pans out horizontally rather than vertically (like a shark's would), it'd be extremely impractical to attempt to thrust forward with a tail that just slices through the water.
Because dolphins evolved from land dwelling, 4 legged, carnivorous mammals. Since land mammals have their legs directly beneath their bodies perpendicular to the ground (instead of out to the sides like reptiles), the vertebral column naturally has to flex up and down when they walk, instead of side to side, hence why marine mammals move their tails up and down.
+PIM's a Whovian
Don't you think they evolved an horizontal tail fluke *because* they have a vertically flexible spine and not the other way round ?? Lmfao.
Hategopteryx was the biggest.
HICCUP : *We have dragons!!!*
as someone who just started playing ark 2 weeks ago, im really loving these comments lol
Jorx welcome to ark, the greatest game of all time.
Joshua Beckford and the most toxic community of all time
ShadyXV and the biggest time waster if you play pvp
Atletico Wanka yup. Spend 2weeks grinding ark straight 24/7, think you’re getting built up nicely just to log on to being wiped like it was nothing to them. Get mad, swear off ark (only last 2 days) and repeat the process. It a vicious cycle
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U forgot that theres an even bigger flying dinosaur. Its name is Hatzegoperix . Found in Roumania and was bigger than Quetzalcoatl. 😊
isn't planes a "thing"?
I guess it should've been titled "biggest LIVING thing".
Geez. Imagine a gigantic bird flying overhead. I so wish I could have been there when dinos roamed. It must have been quite a sight.
It not bird not even dinosaur just pterosaur
The hardest part is knocking it unconscious with 2 people
When dragons once existed
dragons did exist
Dibyojyoti Bhattacharya in your dreams it did.
Magma MoDz 10% of land is unexplored and 95% of oceans so how can u be so sure that dragons did or does not exist
Dibyojyoti Bhattacharya because dragons did NOT exist, they're only stories.
Dibyojyoti Bhattacharya don't tell me you believe in dragons?
Quetz: I’m largest flying reptile
Hatzegopteryx & Cryodrakon: Sorry did you say something?
It is disappointing that no one mentions Hatzegopteryx here
My kids and I loved watching! Also, totally digging the Queen Elsa hair from the host! :) Thanks for another great show!
Me:*an ark player*
Girl:It’s really big
Me: Yea and it takes about 30 Minutes to tame if you don’t have Soothing balm Jesussssss
StillLordz what’s a soothing balm I’ve played ark before never heard of it before though
NotZeroXPO BRUH it’s the thing that makes you tame faster
StillLordz I play Xbox dedi and official and never heard of it
NotZeroXPO OHHHH well it’s only Available on Mobile me too I play on xbox and mobile but You can only get soothing balm on MOBILE
@@prsdh1285 I wish soothing balm was on pc the first time I tamed a ptera on pc it took me like 1 hour
I love the makeover. You look fabulous.
Flying reptiles...
HERE BE DRAGONS!!
Absolutely beautiful.
They are good for transporting my rex army
What about _Hatzegopteryx_ ?
Vampyricon ikr
Vampyricon not as tall but yeah why.z
Hatzegopteryx was shorter, but it was also heftier and more terrifying.
These animals are crazy. I’d love to see their fossils in person btw I love your pin! 😄
3:20 "very light" Proceeds to say it was 300 pounds
It's light for an animal its height. Usually a terrestrial animal that tall could easily weigh two tons at least.
@@dodymmawsjx ik ik
If it were alive today:
The Aztecs would have used it as an advantage over the Spaniards and the latter will remember it as the "flying snakehorse".
The first air cavalry units would be formed by the USA because of this.
Dixie ranchers would use this as a guiding animal, like a shepherd's dog, to guide oxen and other animals.
This reptile would also be used as passenger planes of today.
That's a really cool idea (I'm actually working on stories with things like this, or at least, kinda). That said, this would all depend on how trainable Quetzalcoatlus would be. Especially since they'd almost certainly see humans as food.
Quetzalcoatlus was not strong enough to carry a human, sorry to pop the bubble but... No it couldn't carry a person.
You have failed to mention Arambourgiana or Hatzegopteryx. I'm sad.
Should be "The Biggest Living Thing That Ever Flew", "The Biggest Organism That Ever Flew" or "The Biggest Animal That Ever Flew"
Could you make something on the lines of Monsters we've met, the really bizzare creatures that humans may have actual contact with in the past.
What?
My neighbor kid strapped on on a couple of big blankets and said “ look at me a queztzaqutal” . He only fell about 10 feet. It was a spectacular sight to see. Thanks
It may not have needed to launch itself into the air. If you have ever been to the tropics, you would realise that you get a strong shoreward wind on the beach due to convection currents during the day and a strong seaward wind during the night. At the time of the dinosaurs the earth was hotter and drier, so the convection current winds would have been much stronger. If these creatures are fish (which seems to have been the case from their beaks), all they would have had to do to take off from the beach or sea would be to stretch their wings out. Maybe that is why they died out - without strong winds, they may not have been able to get airborne if they landed on the beach or in the sea.
Did they find the fossil remains of a pterosaur and is that where dragons come from?
The real questions
What if it just can't? There are flightless birds. What about flightless pterosaurs. However if it did fly that would be amazing
Possibility
Then you would have to ask why it retained flight adaptations. Flightless birds today have small or vestigial wings and many have heavier, solid bones. Apparently, Quetzalcoatlus had developed wing bones, which would also suggest that the wing membrane might have been intact (why have the elongated finger bone otherwise?). The former is a strange thing to have if you're walking around full time, and the latter might have even been inconvenient for terrestrial locomotion. So for the trade-off to be worth it, the wings must have been used in some way.
Ostriches use their wings for display and courtship, so that's a possibility, but that wouldn't explain why Q's wings were fully developed.
Hi, paleo-worker here.
Quetz and other giant pterosaurs known as azhdarchids show fully-developed adaptations for flight. They have large broad wings which help them stay airborne, their forelimbs are heavily muscled to help launch, and their proportions are exactly what is seen in smaller azhdarchid pterosaurs that we definately know flew. They do not show the underdeveloped wings of things like kiwis or ostriches either, so there's no reason why they couldn't fly, and when placed in digital models they fly just as well (or better than) other pterosaurs and modern birds.
There's really no reason to think they could not fly, even taking their huge size into account.
Thanks, Tristan Stock!
Also, pterosaurs are not built to run with their short legs and membranes connected to their wings.
Pterosaurs were actually better runners than you might think. Azhdarchids like Quetzalcoatlus in particular were likely very good striders and gallopers. They might not have been _graceful,_ mind you, but they were very likely capable runners.
I do imagine that such a creature would have a hard time taking flight and gaining height, but that it would be a very efficient flyer once it gained enough height. Those wings were probably really great at catching wind currents.
1:15 that mf made me fail my history test
I think i know where the idea of the flying dragon is coming from.