Big Pterodactyl is big.
That’s Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal of all time (Capt. Obvious).
Largest KNOWN flying animal. Who knows, there might be something even bigger. It’s unlikely though since he (or ‘it’ for you feminists out there) lived during the late crecatious.
Well, I can’t imagine anything bigger. It was so big it maybe didn’t even fly at all, but instead walked around on it’s legs that were more suited to land than other pterosaur’s.
I highly doubt it would have any chance of survival if it were to live on land. It lived in North America during the late Cretacious, it would share the same territory with Tyrannosaurus Rex, Deinonychus and some dangerous herbivores. I find it hard to believe such a huge animal would stand any chance at all. Even if it did live on land, what on Earth would it eat? Most herbivores at the time were frigging huge and extremely well armoured.
Just like birds it had hollow bones, decreasing the overall weight and allowing it to fly, or glide, through the air.
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Well, maybe it could eat small young dinosaurs, sauropods on particular. But it’s still unlikely due to the danger on land. It would also be hard to catch one of those small dinosaurs, judging from its size I doubt Quetzalcoatlus could run lol. It would have no way of defending itself.
At that size I’d think the wings could only really be used for gliding. Even moving outstretched wings of that size would take a ton of energy.
Yeah, you’re kinda right about that. Maybe it sometimes landed on the ground to eat, considering it’d be hard to balance that massive bulk and body, while the fish it’d catch wouldn’t deliver enough energy to keep on doing that, and the seas weren’t any more safe than the land, and I can’t imagine it hunting birds in the air, birds would be far more agile and able to escape it with ease. Maybe it would scavenge meat like a giant vulture, or stork.
Oh, and there was only one sauropod at the time, and it probably was pretty rare too. And deinonychus was extinct by then. Though Dromeaosaurus did live at the time, but it was smaller.
You just said everything there is to this animal.
Full grown sauropods might have been rare, and they would probaby have grouped together. So huge they would probably never be attacked by anything. But the younger ones would be easy prey for Quetzalcoatlus. Any young prey for that matter. I can already picture it coming down from the air, eating several young, then fly away. That’s assuming it could launch itself in the air without the need of high ground ofcourse.
I can see that happen with hadrosaurs better, since they were more common.
Fun fact: The name “walrus” started out as “whale-horse” in Old English (“horshwæl”, horsewhale).
Shenanigans! Shenanigans, I say! That’s a mockery, a fraud assembled of no fewer than three creatures!
Then why does it walk on it’s knuckles?
ELEPHANTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM
Check these out, amazing shapeshifting and camouflage octopus.
Thee T-rex <3
personally i vouch for the fox. when in autumn barking with a sicker vox i see him putting on his winter socks, having contracted chicken pox. he shouldn’t have greedily gone looting in my litter box.
i also once did pet a tapir and felt a spiritual connection to him. maybe i was one or will become one in another life.