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Anonymous No.5022474 [Report] >>5022540 >>5022544 >>5022620 >>5022624 >>5022685 >>5023270 >>5023460 >>5023513 >>5025305 >>5025310 >>5029676
Quetzalcoatlus
Recently saw one in a museum. Were they fully capable of powered flight? Could they just snatch you from air?
Anonymous No.5022509 [Report]
You maybe, not me, I'm built different.
Anonymous No.5022540 [Report] >>5022656 >>5023287 >>5023293
>>5022474 (OP)
no fucking way that's real

i unironically don't believe in dinosaurs
Anonymous No.5022544 [Report]
>>5022474 (OP)
Peters says no
Anonymous No.5022583 [Report] >>5022618 >>5022621
for me, it's the sharovipteryx
Anonymous No.5022618 [Report]
>>5022583
lewd
Anonymous No.5022620 [Report]
>>5022474 (OP)
I keep thinking the background is its wings
Anonymous No.5022621 [Report]
>>5022583
>jumps from a tree
>poops and pees on your head
>leaves
Anonymous No.5022624 [Report] >>5022664 >>5022673 >>5022696 >>5025308 >>5025310
>>5022474 (OP)
Actually we recently discovered that they had gigantic wings for literally no reason and they just ate seeds of the ground their whole lives.
Anonymous No.5022656 [Report]
>>5022540
Shaking my damn head right now. Quetzalcoatlus is not a DINOSAUR, it's a PTEROSAUR
Anonymous No.5022664 [Report]
>>5022624
I want one of those motherfuckers, they look cool as fuck, look at the beak eye ratio, it's perfect. bring them back!
Anonymous No.5022673 [Report]
>>5022624
hot take. they got the body posture wrong, it was actually a whale, those are flippers.
Anonymous No.5022685 [Report] >>5025310
>>5022474 (OP)
Quetzalcoatlus is one of many Azhdarchid Pterosaurs, a group notable for primarily being adapted to walk around on the ground picking animals with their giant beaks; their primary food was small to medium small dinosaurs, and presumably some mammals and crocodilians, perhaps some larger amphibians, and obviously some birds if available. Think of it like a stork. And just like a stork, it can definitely fly despite its gangly appearance, just not particularly elegantly. Its massive size DID allow it to have a very easy time crossing vast distances, though. Almost all Azhdarchids traveled the world to some degree, like pelagic predators did. Instead of a heron traveling north and south for the winter, it would readily cross the atlantic if it decided the dry season was rough where it was currently at, as if it were a normal bird crossing a lake. VERY cool. But they definitely had a harder time taking off and landing, to the point where they tried not to do it very much.
Anonymous No.5022696 [Report] >>5022714 >>5022717
>>5022624
Why did pterosaurs have such enormous heads compared to their bodies? What advantage would that bring? Wouldn't it just make flying really awkward
Anonymous No.5022714 [Report] >>5025350
>>5022696
they work out at the library
Anonymous No.5022717 [Report] >>5022743
>>5022696
surprisingly they large heads actually helped with stability in flight, one of the reasons those large crests didn't cause many problems.
Anonymous No.5022743 [Report] >>5022744 >>5022750
>>5022717
Why did birds or bats never get big heads then?
Anonymous No.5022744 [Report]
>>5022743
They aren't pterosaurs. They took different evolutionary paths.
Anonymous No.5022750 [Report] >>5023261 >>5029848
>>5022743
>Why did birds or bats never get big heads then?
>birds
Toucans? Hornbills?
Anonymous No.5023261 [Report] >>5023280
>>5022750
pffff, no way that thing could fly
Anonymous No.5023270 [Report] >>5023293 >>5023306 >>5023308 >>5023555 >>5025963
>>5022474 (OP)
>Quetzalcoatlus
I have no fucking idea how to pronounce that.
Anonymous No.5023280 [Report] >>5023282
>>5023261
that thing isn't 15 feet tall
Anonymous No.5023282 [Report]
>>5023280
I mean you could to the math, how much does the thing weigh, how much lift can it generate with its wings
Anonymous No.5023287 [Report]
>>5022540
Amen brother.
They were put on Earth to test us.
Anonymous No.5023293 [Report] >>5023555 >>5025846
>>5022540
Do understand the oxygen levels were leagues higher than modern time, so a given organism could furnish a whole lot of musculature with a lot less strain on their body.
>>5023270
Qu-het-zal-ko-alt-lus, but im probably wrong
Anonymous No.5023306 [Report] >>5023555
>>5023270
ket-zel-coat-el-us
Anonymous No.5023308 [Report] >>5023555
>>5023270
cue-tss-all-co-atlas
Anonymous No.5023460 [Report] >>5025310
>>5022474 (OP)
What makes quetzalcoatlus and it's relatives so amazing is just how well adapted they are to flying. Cross sections of the bones show that pterosaur bones are actually hollow-er than bird bones with the insides being cavernous and supported by struts connected to a central shaft. Like birds pterosaurs have an air sac respiratory system and parts of the skeleton have holes hollowed out to fit them in which further lightens the skeleton. Overall quetzalcoatlus despite being as tall as a Giraffe is estimated to only weigh 500lbs, about as much as a large pig.
Anonymous No.5023513 [Report]
>>5022474 (OP)
I want to time travel back to the Late Cretaceous period with a 2 gauge shot gun and go Quetzalcoatlus hunting.
Anonymous No.5023555 [Report]
>>5023270
>>5023293
>>5023306
>>5023308
It's named after Quetzalcoatl, which is a spanish transliteration of an aztec deity.
>Quetzal like the bird: Qu is pronounced as a k, rhymes with pretzel. So, "ketsel".
>Coatl is 2 syllables in the original tongue, but most easily pronounced as 3: Co - ott - ull
>but with the US at the end, you just say CO - OTT - LESS
>Ketsel-co-ott-lEss
Rhymes with "pretzel so knotless"
Anonymous No.5025305 [Report]
>>5022474 (OP)
It probably could snatch and kill you. Indeed, it could even snatch your mother, though that'd be close.

Honestly, it would be interesting to see one feed in the wild, as it would be large enough to block the sun at times.
Anonymous No.5025308 [Report]
>>5022624
These things are the scariest prehistoric animals imo. They just look so disturbingly alien. A head so big, comparitively small wings, able to stroll and run on land, with those small, dead eyes. I normally would love to see extinct animals alive, but I'm glad azdarchids are lone gone from our world.
Anonymous No.5025310 [Report] >>5025313 >>5027985
>>5022474 (OP)
>>5022624
>>5022685
>>5023460

Virgin azhdarchids versus chad Cycnorhamphus
Anonymous No.5025313 [Report] >>5025685 >>5025955
>>5025310
>sketch detail scales linearly with distance to feet
Anonymous No.5025350 [Report]
>>5022714
kek
Anonymous No.5025685 [Report]
>>5025313

wut
Anonymous No.5025846 [Report] >>5025952
>>5023293
Oxygen levels were not that high in the cretaceous, and even then, thats not how that works. KYS nigger
elipo No.5025952 [Report]
>>5025846
istg this faggot actually thinks dioxygen levels affetcs vertebrates the same way it does for arthropods LMFAO
Anonymous No.5025955 [Report]
>>5025313
geg
Anonymous No.5025963 [Report] >>5027358
>>5023270
https://voca.ro/1mR6GGkWPKHY
Anonymous No.5027358 [Report] >>5027704
>>5025963
>https://voca.ro/1mR6GGkWPKHY
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Anonymous No.5027704 [Report]
>>5027358
bot post
Anonymous No.5027729 [Report]
Boot The Bots!
Anonymous No.5027985 [Report]
>>5025310

heaven god china
Anonymous No.5029676 [Report]
>>5022474 (OP)

little niggers
Anonymous No.5029848 [Report]
>>5022750
that is obviously a flightless marine birb with wings adapted to diving and a huge beak to snatch fish