The researchers were still able to piece together the new species and deduced what its appearance was, said the Press release.Īlso read: The world wakes up to a new species of Dinosaurs with killer tails While some hundreds of the bones were assigned to the smaller kind of Quetzalcoatlus with a 20 feet wingspan, a smaller number of bones – a few dozen – belonged to the larger one. Sharing his views on this, Matthew Brown, a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Texas, Austin, told CNN: "You have these sort of potato chip-like bones preserved in very hard rock, and you've got to remove the bones from the rock without destroying them.”Ĭareful study of the bones collection which were dug out from Texas Big Bend National Park by the team of analysts revealed that there were two new pterosaur species. What made it so long and tough to discover the secrets of this powerful flyer? The reason lies in the fact that it had hollow bones to fly, like the modern day flyers. The results are revolutionary for the study of pterosaurs-the first animals, after insects, ever to evolve powered flight." This is the first real look at the entirety of the largest animal ever to fly, as far as we know. Talking about this research, palaeontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, Kevin Padian, said in a Press release: "This ancient flying reptile is legendary, although most of the public conception of the animal is artistic, not scientific. Published in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, this new set of research gives the most embracive details on Quetzalcoatlus till now.’ Its size was that of a giraffe and its other attributes included limbs which were thin, a long beak with was frightening and an amazing wingspan which measured 40 feet.ĭiscovered nearly five decades ago, it took a long time for the scientists and experts to put together the life of this unique being and these details are inclusive of how these giants managed to take-off from the ground to fly, states a report by Megan Marples for CNN. Researchers have finally made a breakthrough when it comes to the largest flying being ever to have lived on the planet, according to an article in .Īs part of the bygone class of reptiles who flew, called pterosaurs, the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest ever to dominate the Earth’s skies. "It would look like a strange amalgamation of a classic modern reptile, bird, giraffe and bat all squeezed into one.An artistic representation of Quetzalcoatlus, the ancient creature and the biggest ever to dominate the skies (Pic. "It would have been a very bizarre animal to see fly above you or walk around on the ground," says Mike Habib, a specialist in biomechanics from Chatham University.
It has a massive skull with a beak-like mouth, and its wingspan takes up almost the entire ceiling. This is a Quetzalcoatlus, thought to be the largest flying animal that ever lived. But now, two scientists are proposing to give the honor to the pterosaur, a massive creature from the distant past.Ībove the dinosaur exhibit at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, a giant pterosaur skeleton hangs from the ceiling. The natural world's long-distance flight champions are seagoing birds that fly up to 6,000 miles nonstop. Scientists say the pterosaur, shown here on display at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, may have been able to fly as high as 15,000 feet for distances up to 12,000 miles at a time.
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