Quetzalcoatlus: The Largest Flying Animal EVER to Live

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Quetzalcoatlus: The Largest Flying Animal EVER to Live | Dinosaur Documentary

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Around sixty-eight million years ago, something massive was patrolling the vast open plains and wide skylines of America. Over the heads of mighty titanosaurs flew the titanosaur equivalent of a pterosaur, the colossal Quetzalcoatlus. This is an animal almost incomparable to anything alive in the twenty-first century, with its long, snaking neck, giant wings and long, sharp beak. It ultimately survived to the end of the Mesozoic Era, around the time the end Cretaceous extinction marked the end of all the non-avian dinosaurs the world over. It would go on to surrender the skies to the birds of the Cenozoic Era, where it was succeeded by the giant pelagornids and teratorns, huge birds with wingspans larger still than anything alive today. As big as these huge birds were able to grow, none of them could match the sheer size of Quetzalcoatlus - the largest flying animal ever to exist on Planet Earth.
In today's video, we will be exploring the life of this colossal pterosaur - everything from the way it lived and how it looked, right up to the point it was discovered and described over sixty million years later. We will take a look at the environment in which Quetzalcoatlus lived, the different species within the genus, and the controversies surrounding its discovery. Sit back and relax as we take flight with a true giant of the skies.
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@Mary-uv8qy 9 ай бұрын

Love the narrator's voice!! Perfect for falling asleep to.😊

@calebsmith2362 Ай бұрын

It's AI.

@extremedee7320 2 күн бұрын

That's what I do

@extremedee7320 2 күн бұрын

@@calebsmith2362if that's true then good

@sambembs Жыл бұрын

1.25x playback speed. You're welcome

@andreagriffiths3512 Жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤

@YusufGinnah Жыл бұрын

Best idea ever l!!! You win my internet vote for today! Thank you!

@YusufGinnah Жыл бұрын

Best idea ever l!!! You win my internet vote for today! Thank you!

@tyronewarren6944 4 ай бұрын

OMG thank you! This guy's voice is excruciating

@Jaggerbush 3 ай бұрын

Nah this is great for sleeping

@solinvictus39 Жыл бұрын

I hate AI robot voices.

@AngryChineseWoman Жыл бұрын

I always thought it was a real voice

@maxfochtmann Жыл бұрын

@@AngryChineseWomanme too...

@YusufGinnah Жыл бұрын

1.25x speed makes it much better

@Just-Michael-NL 2 ай бұрын

Ai will destroy youtube in the future people don't put anny work in a video ai does everything pleas report youtube channel like this

@superiorcybergodzilla5670 Жыл бұрын

Quetzalcoatlus, a flying reptile.

@susansokoloski2233 Жыл бұрын

The California Condor is making quite a comeback due to human created breeding programs. While still endangered they are actually in a slow recovery process. So far, a major, but far from incomplete, success.

@blue_ex3852 Жыл бұрын

This is Gonna be a great watch :) keep up the great work.

@stevenpaulbarnes950 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video as always

@sosostar405 Жыл бұрын

Love the video, but I think I prefer no music every thing else 👍

@rocioaguilera3555 Жыл бұрын

Impressive creatures. I love your videos. Thanks for teaching me about Quetzalcoatlus. Quetzalcoatl means Feathered Snake. You have a very beautiful voice

@taleandclawrock2606 Жыл бұрын

I must question the aerodynamics of carrying its heavy skull and huge beak outstretched in flight, that just wouldnt work, with no back end much, it would be diving down with that posture. More likely, like the pelican with its huge beak, it flew with its neck snaked back and tucked into its shoulders, except for if it was seizing prey.Just my opinion. Hopefully more fossils will be found to clarify this.

@kenyongray2615 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Quetzalcoatlus would have been an amazing sight to see in the air. Thank you for featuring this amazing pterosaur.

@Subfightr 8 ай бұрын

That megafinger just blows my mind. How beautiful and horrifying it would be to see such a majestic creature. Amazing nature never managed to produce another flying reptile after all this time.

@Captain_Gargoyle Жыл бұрын

Great video! Love the long-form documentary style. And a perfect subject. Giant Azhdarchids are definitely in my top 3 for prehistoric animals i'd want to see.

@user-up8jx3mt6j Жыл бұрын

Should one of these hungry behemoths even bother eyeballing a puny human, just like you've seen birds and lizards do, the animal would snatch you up alike the Robin's breakfast-earthworm and effortless swallow you whole.

@dadnelson4008 Жыл бұрын

Swallow my what?

@jaredquinney204 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@Todd_Heath_Shorts Жыл бұрын

Great Video

@deadtopcat Жыл бұрын

Their home range would have been, the whole world.

@user-sp6vk1yr6b Жыл бұрын

英語苦手なので、聞き取りやすくて非常に助かります。(⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

@oobrocks Жыл бұрын

I’d simply LOVE to see them today ❤🎉

@donaldvincent 11 ай бұрын

Too bad they would eat our pets & children.

@oobrocks 11 ай бұрын

People might not taste good just as orcas don’t like to eat people

@wajahatali2717 10 ай бұрын

For a flying animal the size of a giraffe 🦒 being 250 miles from the sea is like a stork making a nest on the side of a lake just a few flaps of its 11 meter wings

@oxcart4172 8 ай бұрын

Northropi was named after the aircraft designer Jack Northrop, in case you're wondering (he had a thing about tailess aircraft, but they didn't work so well until they had computers to give them artificial stability).

@babbitto_g8678 5 ай бұрын

Nice narration

@ozahmed4523 6 ай бұрын

Can you imagine how long it must have taken for a creature like this to evolve? The Earth is so old, its mind blowing.

@leytonhackney4492 Жыл бұрын

Wow 5 minutes in and all that's been said is that it is huge. Come on!

@cyrushunt2406 Жыл бұрын

It's interesting (for want of a better word) that you mentioned Jurassic World Evolution 2, because I listen to your content while playing it. I love your content, it always makes my day hearing about dinosaurs!

@randallpetroelje3913 Жыл бұрын

Who knows? Maybe another specimen or species can show up in the fossil record!!

@user-up8jx3mt6j Жыл бұрын

You can bet that this definitely will happen.

@B.Mitten7 Жыл бұрын

Need Reliable Source's ...

@nickidaisydandelion4044 2 ай бұрын

I love looking at the amazing art recreations of the dinosaurs. You should only show the animals and not humans. Your voice is great.

@Shunei_187 10 ай бұрын

Ignore the troll/hate comments. Great video as ever 😊

@davidallen346 Ай бұрын

My favorite dinosaur 🦕

@cc111me 9 ай бұрын

Interesting the dubious logic scientist use to say the animal with the longest wingspan ever couldn't fly! They must be the same scientists who determined with all their software and expertise that bees can't fly either!

@indricotherium4802 9 ай бұрын

There is massive inconsistency in the neck length and neck girth in the pictures that accompany this narrative. One should be quite sceptical about the giraffe-length necks depicted, especially where of much more slender girth. Giraffes swallow only chewed leaves and fruit. These massive flying carnivores would have been limited to pretty small prey items if they weren't to choke or suffocate themselves.

@johncapurso9313 9 ай бұрын

Can this be recorded again with another narrator??

@PteranoLiv 2 ай бұрын

Hatzegopteryx: hold my tethyshadros

@user-vj2bp7ib4t 3 ай бұрын

Speeding the narration up to 1.25 makes the AI voice a little more real but not quite there yet. But imagine seeing a bird the size of a small plane. Wow!

@stratcat3216 9 ай бұрын

Great ai voice.

@szodoss7764 Жыл бұрын

Like listening to a poem..

@sebastianarias4916 9 ай бұрын

fantastic video!

@jrgnc1 5 ай бұрын

Hatzegopteryx was the largest thing to fly. Quetzalcoatlus was 2nd.

@johnshields6852 Жыл бұрын

Must've been quite a sight.

@desthomas8970 Жыл бұрын

Did they fly in slow motion as well.

@DanielMatthews-ql3wf 10 ай бұрын

If they were still around we would be on the menu, we would be just the right size for a quick bite.

@2RANbit Жыл бұрын

Quetzalcoatlus the largest Pterosaur? Or did Hatsegopteryx have a greater wingspan?

@own4801 11 ай бұрын

It's unknown which is overall larger. Quetzalcoatlus seemed to be longer, but with a slimmer build.

@pierre-samuelroux9364 10 ай бұрын

Hatzegopteryx with mass

@jasonviola1880 6 ай бұрын

They have a life size replica at the field museum in Chicago. It is pretty humbling to stand underneath it.

@calibaba2739 7 ай бұрын

Listen to this if you can’t fall asleep？

@urLivid 3 ай бұрын

Was very excited to start this documentary until I heard the narrator. What in the actual hell

@dnet4006 3 ай бұрын

See I knew dragons did exist at one point LOL

@jacobsockness571 Жыл бұрын

This make Dinotopia seem like such an awesome idea. What would it be like to fly on one of these things. It's crazy that thing ever got into the air and it sucks we never got to ride it.

@erikm8372 Жыл бұрын

00:12 just wanted to point out a little “detail”, but it’s not a big deal-I’m just ocd… you say “over the heads of the titanosaurs flew the titanosaur equivalent of a pterosaur,” but it should be the other way around. To say there was a “titanosaur equivalent of a pterosaur” implies that there is a winged, airborne titanosaur, if you think about it. Lol. It sounds more logical to say it like, “…flying above the titanosaurs, there was the _pterosaur_ equivalent of a _titanosaur_ ...”, because you’re saying there was the flying version of something big on the ground, right? That the titanosaurs had a giant counterpart in the sky. So… yeah. Lol. Just noticed that. 🤣

@twiggyjali 9 ай бұрын

i'd like to know more about post-cretaceous animals. could you do a vid on that, please?

@rickyspanish69420. 6 ай бұрын

The voice has a rhythm to it that never changes. When you hear it, you'll never unhear it.

@wicketandfriendsparody8068 Жыл бұрын

Looks like a Klingon Bird of Prey Yo!!!

@Tennisurchin Жыл бұрын

The narrator sounds like he's about to fall asleep. I'm off

@donhillsmanii5906 Жыл бұрын

It’s an incredibly LAZY and lame A.I. voice like those horrible tik-tok videos voices

@marshabraswell5681 Жыл бұрын

The most boring narrator ever!

@jawatu6326 Жыл бұрын

Bahahahaha

@Makabert.Abylon Жыл бұрын

AI voiceover. Just as in any video you can hear some word weirdly pronounced, its AI. Not 20.000 new narrators with speech impediments.. You send in a script, pay, and get your script narrated. I can not fathom how people dont understand that🤦🏻. If a channel has a high number of followers but the narrative AI voice sucks, it means that the creator of that channel is to cheap to pay more for a AI voiceover.

@EdwardJordanTheOriginal Жыл бұрын

Unless English isn't a native language to the creators, I can think of no reason why they'd use AI narration. I watch lots of content in English where the creator isn't a native English speaker. In most every case, I have no difficulty understanding even heavily accented English

@wesmcinerny4524 Жыл бұрын

The thumbnail incorrectly calls Quetzalcoatlus a dinosaur.

@celiacomeau1 Жыл бұрын

you must be seeing a different thumbnail than I am... cuz it clearly says animal... 🤷🏻

@rickrudd Жыл бұрын

Everyone loves a pedantic peanut gallery! Thank goodness for your blinding erudition. I, for one, would never be the same without your much needed input.

@AngryChineseWoman Жыл бұрын

Not the thumbnail but the title

@wesmcinerny4524 Жыл бұрын

@@rickrudd What are you talking about?

@wesmcinerny4524 Жыл бұрын

@@celiacomeau1 I believe they fixed it.

@jackoalltrades5510 10 ай бұрын

Natrator budget was low I guess

$@luminousfractal420$

@luminousfractal420 Жыл бұрын

The castle coatless👀 subtitles tried😂

@CFII1974 Жыл бұрын

Interesting subject but this video is so hard to get through. Narration is so boring with zero inflection. Lots of completely unrelated cut scenes makes me thing this is all just geared to get a few extra minutes of play time.

@hihellokitty85 3 ай бұрын

Largest as we know currently. Must be humble...

@Siberial 17 күн бұрын

Well no. Technically that would be Hatzegopteryx

@InqvisitorMagnvs 4 ай бұрын

_Hatzegopteryx_ was an even larger pterosaur than _Quetzalcoatlus_ so probably the largest flying animal EVER to live..?

@N7492 Ай бұрын

Interesting topic, excellent images,BUT few details, and those given were redundantly repeated. Yawn!!

@dianewalker9154 8 ай бұрын

I knew they were large, but had no idea they were as tall as giraffes.

@ominous-omnipresent-they Жыл бұрын

Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs, so they are, therefore, not birds.

@Titus-as-the-Roman 6 ай бұрын

Sorry but I do not agree with your assessment of the Azhdarchids flight. Not only were they good flyers but routinely migrated across oceans.

@wafikiri_ 8 ай бұрын

"Not a piscivor, therefore it must have eaten carrion" Where is the reasoning behind such a statement? I don't like fish, but neither do I like carrion. I eat many other things. Sometimes I think some people lack brains.

@Malefleur Жыл бұрын

Riding a Quetzalcoatlus and becoming a "dragon" knight is the best excuse to clone such an animal!!!! KkkkKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

@CrusaderofLight1 Ай бұрын

Was Hatzegopteryx not bigger?

@dnimon936 11 ай бұрын

.............that we know of

@davidcasling6499 Жыл бұрын

Oh I can't stay awake

@Eluderatnight 10 ай бұрын

Set playback speed to x1.25

@StupidPoetry Жыл бұрын

the video is great but the music you used for the background is anxiety-inducing

@DAVIDPETERS12C 6 ай бұрын

Flightless. First flightless at 5-6 feet tall, then gigantic, odd proportions, as in giant flightless birds. Wings could still produce thrust, so Q would have been speedy on the ground. And frantically flapping wings keep predators away. Google: “Why we think giant pterosaurs could fly” (…NOT!)" for details. Unfortunately Dr Habib was new to paleontology when he first came up with the quad-launch method and he cheated pterosaur morphology to achieve his poorly conceived hypothesis. This is also covered in the above blogpost link.

@felix25ize Ай бұрын

Aramburgiania was even bigger.

@SuperMrHiggins 11 ай бұрын

Why would it have wings if it couldn't fly?

@SuperMrHiggins 11 ай бұрын

definitely seems like a transition species but seriously, it had to have flown and it looks like a soarer... just my admittedly laymans opinion.

@benjaminseale614 11 ай бұрын

Ai ruins this ...

@JacksonBandons-r2o 9 күн бұрын

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@howlinwulf 9 ай бұрын

so isnt the mayan God named after this bird. What if this bird was actually alive at that time. And dinosaurs realky are from the flood as some people claim. There have been figurines of people riding horned dinosaurs found somewhere and cave paintings of longnecks also

@jimmccormick6091 Жыл бұрын

I totally lost interest when the JP Spitter picture came up.

@seesafar9912 11 ай бұрын

Commentator talks too slowly. big non event.

@AnshaadImrit 4 ай бұрын

Its AI voice

@nuclearcasserole 10 ай бұрын

imagine a bird big enough you could ride on

@DanielMatthews-ql3wf 10 ай бұрын

We would have been delicious.

@GatCat 6 ай бұрын

Play at .75X, it’s funny.

@TomTurbo-wh6op 11 ай бұрын

I am a geologist (University of Heidelberg diploma in 1990) and still pretty deep into palaeontology. I doubt, as in the meantime a lot of my palaeontology collegues, that the Azhdarcids were able to fly at all, at least, not in the way that is shown in documentaries. The wing membrane of pterosaurs is cut like a glider wing, maybe that is the way the first pterosaurs flew, which allowed them to go for flight insects. The weight balance of the Azhdarchidae surely is out of balance with that elongated neck, this huge beak and a head crest. Personally I think, this is a remanent feature from the short neck pterosaurs and the Azhdarchidae lost flight over time, as they learned to gain their food by hunting or scavenging on the ground, not to forget intimidating other predetars and stealing their prey. If nature has shown us something, that is that the fossil record does not always match with the expectations. One of the best exemples were the "Oviraptors"... and look at an elephant skull... without knowing, that it has this muscular tube we call a trunk, you would paint the animal with a big center hole in its head. So, please be cautious with "the largest flying animal ever"... maybe in the future, some collegue of mine will use the bone mass and the muscular mass and construct the center of gravity for the Azhdarchidae. One general question: how with this wing should they be able to have a propelled flight !? You need uplift as long as a forward propelling movement and this simultaneously. And, as for the uplift, they did not even have aymmetric feathers... and all the mammals with flight membranes spread this over all the fingers of their hands.

@scottwells8064 10 ай бұрын

Why would they keep their wing membranes then? What purpose would they serve? You'd think that, over time, natural selection would favor those with reduced wings, since the energy required to grow and maintain/repair such a large wingspan had to be pretty intensive.

@ChuckTownRC51 9 ай бұрын

Well I was there and they did fly. Beat that.

@DAVIDPETERS12C 6 ай бұрын

You are correct. Flightless. First flightless at 5-6 feet tall, then gigantic, odd proportions, as in giant flightless birds. Wings could still produce thrust, so Q would have been speedy on the ground. And frantically flapping wings keep predators away. Google: “Why we think giant pterosaurs could fly” (…NOT!)" for details.

@TomTurbo-wh6op 6 ай бұрын

@@scottwells8064 Why do humans still have their wisdom teeth ?! Why do flightless ostriches still have wings ? It takes eons to reduce that and presumingly the big "flying" reptiles went extinct, BEFORE this feature could be reduced. And, I did not say, they were totally flightless, I doubted the body balance in flight and the way their flight is shown in documentaries.

@scottwells8064 6 ай бұрын

@@TomTurbo-wh6op Fair points. While I think they could fly, I agree they probably spent far more time on the ground than on the wing.

@Galatea507 18 күн бұрын

the actually largest flying animal is lizo in a jet

@tanthiennguyen9308 5 ай бұрын

Planeten Untersuchungen mit Drohnen & Böden Roboters jähren länger brauchen.........? Wie Sind die Kosten Aufwands der Menschlichen ?

@PenelopeFluffington Жыл бұрын

Do yourselves a favor and get hold of the BBC 6 parter, actually called Walking With Dinosaurs. Way more informative by Attenborough without being padded with stock footage of irrelevence. Plus the added attraction of the narrator not deciding half way through to weirdly emulate Jeff Goldblum.

@traumajock Жыл бұрын

and saying the same thing over and over. in a voice that quickly became irritating. Cut the superlatives and give us facts.

@blackhawk_Enochserpent 11 ай бұрын

i wish it was real again:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((99 or something even larger than them black hawk

@kevinbrislawn5918 Жыл бұрын

Somebody says they saw one back in the 1800s

@tanthiennguyen9308 5 ай бұрын

Jedes Planeten ohne Tiere & knochen beweisen bitteschön.............................! Passen Sie es um Gefährliche & Geschäfte gekümmert haben

@mlarsen77 Жыл бұрын

could do without the robot...........

@frederickd.provoncha8671 Ай бұрын

Actually, hatzegopteryx was probably bigger. Just sayin'.

@knutborgan9173 2 ай бұрын

Found this really interesting, but the narrator made me think again. Absolutely horrible.

@ChuckTownRC51 9 ай бұрын

These AI voices are so bad..

@owlstead 6 ай бұрын

OK text it seems but as there is much AI generated / chosen content none of which can be trusted, including the many generated images and vids.

@brian_o_hanrahanran 8 ай бұрын

The narration is an absolute crime. I could do a better job myself and would be happy to do it without payment!

@shawns0762 Жыл бұрын

Something doesn't look right about it, the wings are too far back, it would be nose heavy

@own4801 11 ай бұрын

You could say the same for modern toucans, hornbills, and cranes, but they manage.

@bibia666 Жыл бұрын

flying???..., or gliding! i think such an animal , with the zise and weight of quetzalcoatlus, needed a good bit of wind.., and i highly doubt it could take of from the ground..., it probably took of from a kliff! or against the wind, and a good bit of wind! greetings bibia

@strydertallini Жыл бұрын

Quetzalcoatlus did not weigh all that much, it is likely they would've taken off by first-off curling up into a crouch-like position, then leaping upwards, where then they would've flied, however its believed they couldn't fly for long, like all pterosaurs, they had hollow bones, which allowed their body to be light-enough to fly.

@bibia666 Жыл бұрын

@@strydertallini Donald M. Henderson did make a compelling case..., see : Royal Tyrrel Museum Speakers (it's on the tube) "over the heads of dinosaurs: pterosaurs" Greetings bibia. Ps EDIT: pterodactylus sounds better imo 😂so what do I know...

@michaelcox1071 Жыл бұрын

@bibia666 - Nature does not let animals keep big, expensive structures, like huge wings, unless they provide a compelling competitive advantage. An animal with the largest wingspan ever could certainly make good use of its wings.

@bibia666 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcox1071 Like gliding 😉

@leechild4655 11 ай бұрын

The hard part of understanding any of it is time spans. We never consider the unthinkable amounts of time. Time to evolve into super size creatures. Its hard to imagine time never ending it looks like infinity.