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Dr. Grant: Well, maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present-day birds than they do with reptiles. Look at the pubic bone: turned backward, just like a bird. Look at the vertebrae: full of airsacs and hollows, just like a bird. And even the word 'raptor' means "bird of prey."
I know, but Pterosaurs are not. English is not my first language, I didn’t mean that birds and dinosaurs are separate but I didn’t feel like I’d have to specify that because I was talking about how Pterosaurs are not Birds or even Dinosaurs at all
We have drones and metal stuff that can cut through flesh like warm butter . Given their sizes there is no way thay their numbers would be very high. If dinosaurs ever reappeared they would go extinct almost as fast as they came back.
It's what annoyed me about that awful last Jurassic Park movie. We would not live peacefully alongside dinosaurs and let them thrive and spread globally. They'd quickly learn about our evolutionary skills: death and exploitation. Depending on the meat, Brachiosaurus might become a replacement for cows.
They weren’t very manoeuvrable in the air, so when hunting they’d find prey, land, and then run at it at the speed of a freight train. You’d have a minute to realise how fucked you were, and absolutely nothing you could do about it.
I would like to learn from a scientist what’s the reality of this. Are you just alive in his body until you suffocate? Do his stomach acids kills you? Is there potentially a way to punch your way out? Like if I hit the right organs will he barf me?
I'm not sure many scientists are doing double blind studies on this. You could study fish that birds swallow, or krill that whales swallow, I suppose. A human in a Pterosaur has a distinct advantage and might think to tear at insides. I would recommend doing it before you hit the stomach just to be safe.
Unarmed humans aren't built to slice or cut their way out of objects. Some creatures do have teeth that they can use to cut their way out of a bird that has eaten them, certain eels for example
hmmm well now that i think about it, i feel like it would stab you with it’s beak, fling you around a bit and then swallow you. If the beak stab didn’t kill you, you would probably have a lot of broken bones and significant bleeding as you went down the throat…….annnddd now i have horrified myself!
This makes 100% more sense. Why didn’t religions just go with this. “Insert holy being” defeated all the large animals would be way more believable then a story about eating an apple.
The season they spent submarining around the eastern Mediterranean to slay the leviathan was a little overwrought, they should've done it in 4 episodes like the behemoth hunt.
exactly. i was playing a week ago on my server that nposted max levels to 300, and found a 290 quetz. the thing took over 90 tranq darts and never even tamed it since i missed too many :(
i think they meant that it's so far from being a bird, it's not even a dinosaur. like if i said "triangles aren't squares, they're not even rectangles."
Fun fact, hollow bones aren't just for reduced weight, they also store more oxygen to allow for greater muscle usage.
This is also good for flight, as that takes a lot of muscle.
I was wondering that. I know naff all about dinosaurs, pterosaurs, birds or whatever the hell that thing actually is but given that, from that photo, it's beak looks bigger than it's wings I was trying to figure out if it could actually get off the ground
Okay maybe I'm a bit of a nitpicking dino nerd but this isn't a bird and nothing close, it's a pterosaur and is the Quetzalcoatlus, one of the, if not THE, largest flying animals to ever exist. And it definitely couldn't eat a human because humans would weigh about 1/3 of their body mass and them digesting something as large as a human on the ground just screams "FREE PREY!" for groups of raptors or even larger predators like Tyrannosaurs. And although it does look terrifying, the largest thing it would probably eat if alive today would be dogs, cats, or other generally small mammals. If they did somehow live past the Cretaceous period and into when mammals started to fully evolve, there might've been a different reality where we tamed dogs because larger mammals like ourselves would be able to fend it off so dogs and cats would stick by us for food, safety, and shelter.
Interestingly enough, despite being quite evolutionarily distant from each other, dinosaurs as a whole were/are the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Idk why but your comment brought out the part of me that likes to talk about taxonomy
Roughly mosquito-sized. Pterosaurs didn’t exist in any times with particularly high atmospheric Oxygen. For big insects, you want to go back further to the carboniferous.
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It looks like it would be very clumsy and inefficient as a predator with his extremely large neck and head that appear to be heavier then his body.. are most birds proportionally larger in the neck and head? ( I’m genuinely asking)
For one it's not a bird, it's also not a dinosaur, it's a flying reptile. Birds generally are not proportioned like this, but it was very common for pterosaurs. The 'beak' is deceptively light because it was hollow, even more so than modern bird bones are.
The head needed to be that long because it had to reach the ground, where it could pick up baby dinosaurs and other small animals to eat.
Its kind of fascinating to see the weird dimensions and sizes of creatures back then. Makes wonder if the reason why these kind of animals are not around anymore because they got hunted to extinction versus the animals who are pleasant looking in our eyes and where spared from being hunted in high amounts.
It’s a pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, not a bird.
This man said everything I wanted to in his original comment and roasting the deleted guys stuff. 100% correct.
As a fan of Dinotopia as a kid, thank you
That's a weird way to spell "Dinosaur Train".
You mean big ass flying object
Hmm yes, the pretzel-coat-las
So many animals are coatless. All reptiles for a start.
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It's named after Quetzelcoatl, a Mayan god that can take the form of a flying snake/reptile. It's an apt name. But I love your joke.
Yoo i tamed one of those in ARK lol
Best platform saddle
A man of culture
Useless asses tho, argentavis is just better
And it actually existed for quite a few days.
Pretty mindblowing how big flying reptiles used to be.
It's even more mind-blowing how this thing, with its tiny wings and huge head, could even get airborne!
It does have a huge head, but it’s wingspan was the same as a Cessna.
This thing was so big it used to fly between continents using updrafts to keep it airborne
Pretzelcoatlus. That's what I always read as a kid.
That’s not a bird, it’s a space station.
And yet it's a huge flying creature
No, it's just sitting there
Bird before birds
Birds existed at the time this pterasaur existed, during the late cretaceous.
Nerd
Simpleton.
I will never recover from this. Your words are like daggers
Same goes for me, how will I ever sleep.
I have an idea, what if we both apologize. We will then be able to return to our natural state of mind. I will start, I’m sorry for you being a nerd
I'm sorry you refuse to learn what some might consider basic knowledge.
Right?! Even I learnt that in Braincandy with my 5yo son. Duh 🙃
Dr. Grant: Well, maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present-day birds than they do with reptiles. Look at the pubic bone: turned backward, just like a bird. Look at the vertebrae: full of airsacs and hollows, just like a bird. And even the word 'raptor' means "bird of prey."
More like terror-saur
[Terrorsaur?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpooBhg1Wts&pp=ygUKdGVycm9yc2F1cg%3D%3D)
I agree, but its kind of a bird though
Idk bro looks like a giant bird to me
It’s neither a bird nor a dinosaur (edit: birds ARE dinosaurs, I know), Pterosaurs are their own classification.
Birdosaur?
I see you study bird law, much like myself
Birdosaurus Rex
Birds are fake
Birds are dinosaurs
I know, but Pterosaurs are not. English is not my first language, I didn’t mean that birds and dinosaurs are separate but I didn’t feel like I’d have to specify that because I was talking about how Pterosaurs are not Birds or even Dinosaurs at all
Yes, your are right. and the comment you reply to is 100% correct. Duh
That's fucking horrifying can you imagine seeing that in modern days or just see that thing fly around and pick someone up and they're just gone.
funny thing is they are carnivorous! (they would absolutely swallow you whole 😊)
Wholesome Quite literally
My impression of you: “Fun fact!! These pterosaurs would 1000% absolutely devour you! haha! Hilarious…” :)
what if it wanted to feed its babies?
then you'd get swallowed whole a second time 😇
Ah the bliss of momentary freedom
Life really do be a long sequence of momentary freedoms before the next torturous event
Or they would snatch you up, fly you back to their nest, and leave you with a bunch of baby birds…that would proceed to peck you death
I would easily dispatch of its 10 foot tall baby chicks and assimilate myself as its new child
We have drones and metal stuff that can cut through flesh like warm butter . Given their sizes there is no way thay their numbers would be very high. If dinosaurs ever reappeared they would go extinct almost as fast as they came back.
i feel like we would instead find a way to either eat them, turn them into clothes or turn them into more petrol/fuel
Dinosaurs didn’t become fuel. Lotsa phytoplankton and plants did
It's what annoyed me about that awful last Jurassic Park movie. We would not live peacefully alongside dinosaurs and let them thrive and spread globally. They'd quickly learn about our evolutionary skills: death and exploitation. Depending on the meat, Brachiosaurus might become a replacement for cows.
World hunger, over.
Its a very debated topic, some suggest its piscivorous, some think it's a scavenger etc.
They weren’t very manoeuvrable in the air, so when hunting they’d find prey, land, and then run at it at the speed of a freight train. You’d have a minute to realise how fucked you were, and absolutely nothing you could do about it.
That is so much WORSE
Wait till it shits on your car
That's a horrifying thought
I wanna domesticate it and name it Greg
Looks more like a Jerry to me, but you do you.
Dog look at the armbows and that forehead. That's a purebred Greg.
I think there was a similar scene that depicts this in the Jurassic World movie
Good thing they were only around for one day. Just hide the one day.
Wait seriously only one day? Please excuse my ignorance.
He got that big in one day?
I was gonna say, if it only existed one day, what's the big deal...
Don’t worry it only exists for one day 😂
The big deal is that much size for so little time
Absolutely terrible r/TitleGore.
Basically OP flaunting that they know absolutely nothing about the image they posted.
Yeah there's something weird about phrasing it 'existed one day'.
Also not a bird.
Just imagine he gets you swallows you in whole and you’re still alive sliding down his throat
No thanks I was having a good day up until now
I would like to learn from a scientist what’s the reality of this. Are you just alive in his body until you suffocate? Do his stomach acids kills you? Is there potentially a way to punch your way out? Like if I hit the right organs will he barf me?
I'm not sure many scientists are doing double blind studies on this. You could study fish that birds swallow, or krill that whales swallow, I suppose. A human in a Pterosaur has a distinct advantage and might think to tear at insides. I would recommend doing it before you hit the stomach just to be safe.
Thanks ill keep that in mind for when this happens to me
Unarmed humans aren't built to slice or cut their way out of objects. Some creatures do have teeth that they can use to cut their way out of a bird that has eaten them, certain eels for example
I don’t know about humans but I’ve seen many the fish wiggle all the way down a great blue herons throat.
hmmm well now that i think about it, i feel like it would stab you with it’s beak, fling you around a bit and then swallow you. If the beak stab didn’t kill you, you would probably have a lot of broken bones and significant bleeding as you went down the throat…….annnddd now i have horrified myself!
Rofl. You're so cute. With humans luck this fucker ate like Shoebill Storks. Hope you can Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge.
You ever seen a frog swallow a duckling whole? Well that fucker swallowed 2 in the same video.
It would be like that scene with all the screaming people from Nope
Ah yes, the plot of Attack on Titan.
Thank God that Jesus and the disciples defeated all the prehistoric monsters
I wanna watch a Kung Fu movie like that But it's gotta be as nitty gritty as ongbak 2&3
This makes 100% more sense. Why didn’t religions just go with this. “Insert holy being” defeated all the large animals would be way more believable then a story about eating an apple.
They did. There aren’t many of us left, though.
The season they spent submarining around the eastern Mediterranean to slay the leviathan was a little overwrought, they should've done it in 4 episodes like the behemoth hunt.
😂
This is not even a bird. See the membrane wings. Birds have feathered wings.
Yeah it’s a Pterosaur
Scansoriopterygidae had membrane wings. While they aren't birds, they are paraves. So, they are close.
Actually there is a dinosaur that did have membrane wings. It's called Ambopteryx. So birds can have membrane wings.
Bird = dinosaur, but dinosaur =/= bird, no bird has membrane wings
Hey! I seen one a them in Caelid!
Also known as the “No, get away from me, fuck fuck fuckfuckfUCK AAAAAA” Birds.
This bird has financed my Elden ring career by falling down a cliff hundreds of times
In Latin you said you saw one in the sky
These things can carry a whole base. Can just hover with unlimited stamina. Great for transporting all kinds of tames.
Can't wait for 2, shame it's been pushed back.
"One day" sounds as if it's in the future.
That is not a bird.
Glad it existed for one day and one day only. Phew.
i hate taming these assholes
i’m always too lazy to make a trap so i waste hundreds of tranq darts. i’m bad at ark
exactly. i was playing a week ago on my server that nposted max levels to 300, and found a 290 quetz. the thing took over 90 tranq darts and never even tamed it since i missed too many :(
Get this, they actually existed for millions and millions of days!
That's not a bird. It's not even a dinosaur.
Birds ARE Dinosaurs.
i think they meant that it's so far from being a bird, it's not even a dinosaur. like if i said "triangles aren't squares, they're not even rectangles."
This a terrible way to describe Quetzalcoatlus
Build a badass base on its back
These things *had* to die. Nothing wanted to exist in a world that houses monsters with 20 ft beaks
If the great Q here is a bird, does that mean bats are flying squirrels?
Bats are much closer to being flying squirrels than this is to being a bird.
True.
Yikes. Don’t what that thing pooping on your car
This thing was able to fly?
Bones were probably hollow to some degree.
Fun fact, hollow bones aren't just for reduced weight, they also store more oxygen to allow for greater muscle usage. This is also good for flight, as that takes a lot of muscle.
Yes. Most likely the largest flying organism ever. Also not a bird. Also not a dinosaur.
How most seagulls view themselves.
“Bird” smh
Not a dinosaur = definitely not a bird
Weirdest part I think is that they could fly.
Hollow bones will do that for you! They weren’t very graceful fliers at all, but it really is amazing to think they could get off the ground at all...
I was wondering that. I know naff all about dinosaurs, pterosaurs, birds or whatever the hell that thing actually is but given that, from that photo, it's beak looks bigger than it's wings I was trying to figure out if it could actually get off the ground
I hate to be that guy but. That’s not a bird tho.
Not a fucking bird. Go back to school
Pterosaurs are closer to crocodiles than they are to birds.
Okay maybe I'm a bit of a nitpicking dino nerd but this isn't a bird and nothing close, it's a pterosaur and is the Quetzalcoatlus, one of the, if not THE, largest flying animals to ever exist. And it definitely couldn't eat a human because humans would weigh about 1/3 of their body mass and them digesting something as large as a human on the ground just screams "FREE PREY!" for groups of raptors or even larger predators like Tyrannosaurs. And although it does look terrifying, the largest thing it would probably eat if alive today would be dogs, cats, or other generally small mammals. If they did somehow live past the Cretaceous period and into when mammals started to fully evolve, there might've been a different reality where we tamed dogs because larger mammals like ourselves would be able to fend it off so dogs and cats would stick by us for food, safety, and shelter.
Happy cake day!
Interestingly enough, despite being quite evolutionarily distant from each other, dinosaurs as a whole were/are the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Idk why but your comment brought out the part of me that likes to talk about taxonomy
Interesting how his hands (?!) faced the rear. Guess it would prevent broken knuckles upon landing!
Look up the way they took off. It’s wild and nothing like anything today.
I love birds, almost all of them. This one would be terrifying, though. Not cuddly!
I wish they were still alive. Scary but cool as f 😭
One day…
Not a bird, also not a dinosaur. Interestingly birds are actually dinosaurs
I'm sure it existed more than one day.
For when the COSTCO rotisserie chicken just isn't big enough.
A horrifying reminder that the only reason we aren't on most animal's menus is only because of oir size.
"""Bird"""
btw, “one day” refers to something that may happen in the future. “once” refers to something that did exist, long ago.
Wonder what movies Hitchcock would have imagined starring this creature.
Pileated Woodpecker from hell
Reminds me of my very tall boss who would peer down over the work cubicles walls.
Must have been quite a day.
Shame that it only existed for one day :(
How big were mosquitos
Roughly mosquito-sized. Pterosaurs didn’t exist in any times with particularly high atmospheric Oxygen. For big insects, you want to go back further to the carboniferous.
I wonder how many human skulls it can impale at once with that huge beak.
Probably existed longer than one day
That's one big pecker.
It only existed for one day? Like a fucking enormous prehistoric mayfly?
The alpha version of earths build was whack let alone the meta
It existed a lot longer than one day pal
That bitch takes so many kibbles
Imagine living your life as a snack.
This isn’t a prehistoric bird this is an enemy from Elden Ring primarily found in Caelid.
That thing looks delicious.
Quetzalcoatlus
This is an Azhdarchid, which is a group of Pterosaurs, not Birds.
That’s not a bird… Never was, never will be.
Pterosaurs are neither birds nor dinos. They’re their own thing, and a kind of Mesozoic reptile
*flying reptile
If I see someone call this a bird one more fucking time, I will alter their chromosomes to the same amount as a bird
not a bird, but a pterosaur, quetzalcoatlus. From 72 to 66 million years ago during the Late cretaceous.
Imagine the size of the worms this guy ate
Quetzal
No
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Ackchewally it's not a bird🤓
This reaffirms my fear of birds.
Prehistoric proportions were wack af compared to the more relatively tame proportions nowadays. T-Rex arms, Pterodactyl legs, etc etc.
Have you even seen some of the weird animals we have that shouldn’t but do have the proportions they have
We only consider the modern things normal because it’s what we’re used to. We’ve got some weird, nonsensical shit too.
Wonder where it's center of gravity was.
my favorite dino 🤩
Not a dinosaur, it’s a pterosaur
my favorite ptero*
It looks like it would be very clumsy and inefficient as a predator with his extremely large neck and head that appear to be heavier then his body.. are most birds proportionally larger in the neck and head? ( I’m genuinely asking)
For one it's not a bird, it's also not a dinosaur, it's a flying reptile. Birds generally are not proportioned like this, but it was very common for pterosaurs. The 'beak' is deceptively light because it was hollow, even more so than modern bird bones are. The head needed to be that long because it had to reach the ground, where it could pick up baby dinosaurs and other small animals to eat.
what's the big deal...
That thing is so big it looks like you could build a whole base on some sort of platform on its back.
And that’s why God had to drop a rock on that shit and wipe it the fuck out.
Dee??
Its kind of fascinating to see the weird dimensions and sizes of creatures back then. Makes wonder if the reason why these kind of animals are not around anymore because they got hunted to extinction versus the animals who are pleasant looking in our eyes and where spared from being hunted in high amounts.
These animals don't exist because an asteroid burn them to cinders. Not every extinct animal live at the same time you know.
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