Daily Dino Fact: Giraffe bird?

Hatzegotpteryx like WHOA

Q: Who’s the biggest flyer? – Gorgey
A: Gorgey, what a fantastic question! As we learned before, dinosaurs only walk on land so any flying or swimming reptile in the Mesozoic was not a dinosaur. The “flyers” were actually called pterosaurs, and they RULED the Mesozoic skies. Flying animals were not common during this era, and they pretty much dominated the air. Evidence has also shown that these creatures most likely were very skilled at walking on ground.
What I didn’t realize before researching this question is how stinkin’ big some pterosaurs became! Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx were the two biggest pterosaurs of them all, and they lived during the Cretaceous up until the end. These two had wingspans of 40ft (12m) or more and were about the size of a giraffe. The biggest bird today is the Wandering Albatross, which has a wingspan of 12ft (3.7m). I can’t imagine what it would be like to see one of these monsters cruising through the sky.
The scary part is that paleontologists acknowledge that the fossil record of pterosaurs isn’t near complete, and it is possible that a fossil of a larger pterosaur exists somewhere in the earth… eep!

-Rex

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10 Responses to “Daily Dino Fact: Giraffe bird?”

  1. Ethanator Says:
    July 20th, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    Were there any dinosaurs that had any special powers. Like a skunk or something.

  2. Irvine Says:
    July 20th, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    Is there any creatures after the age of the dinosaurs?

    ~Irvine

  3. Melly Says:
    July 20th, 2010 at 11:54 pm

    Q: Are pandas descendants of dinosaurs?
    -Melly ;)

  4. Mucsler Says:
    July 21st, 2010 at 6:44 am

    woa thats an awsome dino

  5. silver6 Says:
    July 21st, 2010 at 8:19 am

    is my blog really blank on your screen test other dinos please :)

    (Its not blank Silver but there is no content on it. There are no blog posts. -Rex)

  6. Spyro008 Says:
    July 21st, 2010 at 9:17 am

    AHHH!!!!! ANIMAL-DINOSAUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. Lazerdude24 Says:
    July 21st, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Cool!!!!
    -Lazerdude24

  8. odetteasaurs Says:
    July 21st, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    Thats wierd if that “flyer” is as big as a girrafe.It has paws kind of and has kinda of a mohawk.lol. A girrafe has hooves and does not have a mohawk. That animal though looks really funny,but its really cool. :)

  9. roborexxy Says:
    July 26th, 2010 at 11:36 am

    hmmm does it fly?

  10. Rexovi Says:
    August 1st, 2010 at 5:32 am

    I’ve never seen one like that!

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