Wait a minute... a third part was released WITHOUT A THREE YEAR GAP! What is this witchcraft?!

@LeoTheYuty

4 жыл бұрын

15 questions science can not answer

@shriyanv4407

4 жыл бұрын

Nice, now nobody like!

@BenGThomas

4 жыл бұрын

Surprise! :D

@novaraptorus6250

4 жыл бұрын

@@BenGThomas Amazing Video!

@AmerikanSkull

4 жыл бұрын

This is beyond science

Also with big therapods, we should keep in mind that Azhdarchids are not only fairly dangerous but also fairly low value targets. Which do you hunt, stringy McDeathstork or a small hadrosaur or something with 3 times the meat but 1/10th the threat level?

@samiamrg7

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a theropod could probably kill one, but it might get it’s eyes pecked out in the process. Especially since a Theropod’s primary weapon are it’s jaws. It has to get it’s face close to and passed what is basically a spear in order to get close enough to bite any part of an Azhdarchid.

@M_Dun

3 жыл бұрын

Stringy McDeathstork

@samiamrg7

3 жыл бұрын

Sea Lions actually have to be careful when hunting Penguins on land, since if a penguin has a slight positional advantage (like, it's above the sea lion or has some rocks between itself and the sea lion) it can stand it's ground and the threat of getting it's eyes pecked can keep the sea lion at a relatively safe distance. Then, either the penguin tries to turn and leave and gets pursued or the Sea Lion tries to go after a different penguin.

@shibolinemress8913

3 жыл бұрын

Stringy McDeathstork is my new favourite pterosaur name! 🤣👍

@Harrier42861

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the giant death stork if it's asleep or injured...

“Giant Prehistoric Death Storks”. What a menagerie of words XD

@maximaldinotrap

4 жыл бұрын

Prehistoric Flying Hell Giraffes. Actually that would be a great metal band name lol.

@maximaldinotrap

4 жыл бұрын

@@evanocualain Er no, I wrote that myself and never saw any of those comments.

Flying hell giraffes

@BenGThomas

4 жыл бұрын

That would have been another good title...

@crystalm4324

4 жыл бұрын

Damn can you imagine if giraffes had beaks and wings 😱 Hell giraffes indeed!

@PanzerBuyer

4 жыл бұрын

You'd have to live with your head on a swivel.

@321bytor

4 жыл бұрын

...that's a great name for a metal band

@liezelrodriguez-romero8320

4 жыл бұрын

MAKE A SHOEBILL VIDEO

Azdarchids straight up look like massive Maribou Storks and yet it took everyone this long to realize they preyed on small animals.

@bobcranberries5853

4 жыл бұрын

And while they hinted at it but never came out and said it. It seems very much like an animal that would stand at the waters edge and use its long neck and beak to catch marine animals in the water. If a giraffe can use its longneck to reach the top trees why can’t this animal with a long neck reach down into the water to get food??? It frustrated me too they talk and talk and talk and then skate right over the main point!

@elleboman8465

4 жыл бұрын

@@bobcranberries5853 Their long necks were very rigid, not at all like the flexible necks of herons which enable the head to be launched like a spear in a straight line towards the prey. Azhdarchids would have had to swing their heads down like axes!

@MrCantStopTheRobot

4 жыл бұрын

In this case, the skating was to lay out the history of ideas around the animal. This gives insight not only into the fossil, but also into the people.

@taddad2641

4 жыл бұрын

their nexts are extremely stiff so tis not surprising;y. the beat and head seemed the right shape but the neck was not flexible to any degree. its surprising such a species could even exist.

@nairbvel

4 жыл бұрын

@@taddad2641 Moties' entire spine was just 3 long bones... :-)

Man, those three years went by fast.

@freedomstonemycology9894

3 жыл бұрын

that would probably be accounting 'done' by those that stole from us rather than borrowed in most probabilities probable

@nabbitgohome9672

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

Thumbnail looks like three guys arguing about directions

@magnuspeacock5857

4 жыл бұрын

No, it's _that_ way!

@mariaagustinaferrero2333

4 жыл бұрын

..Can't unsee it now

@iainmawhinney8867

4 жыл бұрын

or the two quetzalcoatlus arguing over who gets to take the first bite

@loveleonk

4 жыл бұрын

Iain Mawhinney dont ruin it !🙄

@petervilla5221

4 жыл бұрын

Just another day in with the boys.

Nightmare fuel of the past . Giant demon birds of the great past roamed the land in search of lasagnasaurus

@absolutelyyousless7605

4 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry jon

im slowly getting used to seeing fuzzy pterosaurs and dinosaurs And now im wondering what other changes will be found In my lifetime

@Dragrath1

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly fuzzy pterosaurs have been a thing for a very long time

@dumbshitmule2251

3 жыл бұрын

I know, im still getting use to the fact that titanasaurs didn't have elephant feet.

@Rafael_Peixoto

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so used to realistic dinosaurs that when I see a scaly velociraptor or pterosaur even in kid books I unconsciously go "ewwww" They look diseased without feathers

@archkull

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rafael_Peixoto nowadays when I see it all I can think is, "people STILL think they looked like that?" Fuck you Jurassic park

@nim4464

Жыл бұрын

@@Rafael_Peixoto same lmaooo

This Stork eats babies, before delivering!🤣

@andrewgan557

4 жыл бұрын

yup. they eat baby dinosaurs

@uekiguy5886

4 жыл бұрын

We finally know what happened to the Neanderthals.

@pashapasovski5860

4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewgan557 didn't they have eggs, I thought that giant bunnies eat those!

@pashapasovski5860

4 жыл бұрын

@@uekiguy5886 yeah, we knew all along, but couldn't admit to ourselves! Inbreeding!

@andrewgan557

4 жыл бұрын

@@pashapasovski5860 they do

"Giant Prehistoric Death Storks" is the best title of anything, ever in history.

I love the artstyle of modern late-dinosaur type animals like shown in the video. Those sleek half-bird half-reptile drawings are so cool, they got me quackin. More videos about early birds!

@cc8861

7 ай бұрын

They got me quackin lmaoooo

Pterosaurs would not only have been hard to catch, they would have had relatively little meat, because they had to remain so light.

Thank you so much for having shared my scientific illustration at the end of this video, I really appreciate it. Anyway, as always, great video!

@dumbshitmule2251

3 жыл бұрын

I love the intricate pen work on the scales. Amazing 👏

@VanessaScrillions

5 ай бұрын

You are incredible!!! Thanks for your contributions to science ❤

Not once did you mention that you can build a small mobile base on their backs. (Ark)

Not sure if it's worth the effort, but would u guys consider doing a speculative evolution of adhzarchids if the KT Mass Extinction event had not happened?

@BenGThomas

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh, perhaps a part 4 is in order ;)

@Wooper160atThePond

4 жыл бұрын

@@BenGThomas I've seen a few people trying to do the same thing. Some speculations where very interesting like how Azhdarchids were spending so much time on the ground they eventually lost their wings and became runners

@Justin-zk5tr

4 жыл бұрын

Ben G Thomas yes and maybe they will be giant blue birds

@magnuspeacock5857

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wooper160atThePond I don't see that happening when they where so light that almost any ground animal could badly injur it

@mrjaz666

4 жыл бұрын

@@magnuspeacock5857 I don't see that as a major issue, as it has been overcome by many flightless birds that we know of; the bones get thicker, the feathers become for insulation rather than flight, etc. If they already fed on the ground, in evolutionary terms the only reason they had to fly (which is very expensive in calorific and evolutionary terms) was to find new feeding grounds, and maybe escape predators, though I am dubious about whether or not they could take to the skies quickly enough. So yea, I think they could have lost the ability to fly, in an environment where predation was not an issue and/or food was readily available within walking distance.

7:34 the "to scale" guy always seems so happy despite always being in mortal danger

@dumbshitmule2251

3 жыл бұрын

🤣everytime

Woah a part 3?! And not taking years for it to appear?! I'm so excited!

So, in essence, these are the grand parents of Shoe Bill Storks. Makes perfect sense to me.

Imagine these things still being alive today. It'd be like having herons that eat humans.

@GrahamCStrouse

4 жыл бұрын

Andria Marie It’s about time we thin out the herd a little.

@MrCantStopTheRobot

4 жыл бұрын

You mean it'd be like having "breathless dragons." That you can probably ride.

@cornholejackson225

4 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine them just doing the scoop and tilt with their head and thats what does you in

@MrCantStopTheRobot

4 жыл бұрын

@@cornholejackson225 Victim: Am I a joke to you? Murderstork: Did someone say something?

@absolutelyyousless7605

4 жыл бұрын

They would’ve been hunted to extinction by man as soon as we invented bows, as no kingdom would want giant demon storks taking their livestock/family. If they nearly wiped out wolves, why wouldn’t humans do it to killer death bois

Predatory dinosaur: Look at that...so vulnerable. Easy snack Azhdarchid: TRY ME (ÒVÓ)

I still can't get over the ridiculouse size and proportion of these animals.

@sendmorerum8241

4 жыл бұрын

I know, right?! They argue about the feeding habits while I still cannot comprehend how evolution justifies that tiny torso with the huge... well, everything else?

@WR3ND

4 жыл бұрын

At least we know Sir Mix-a-Lot is safe...

@oriolesfan61

4 жыл бұрын

As my mother would say, "That's the way God made it."

HELL YEAH, it's here! The fluffy dragons of prehistory are back!

though this was 2022 for a second

One such giants was found in Romania , at Hatzeg , it's name is Hatzegopteryx

@GrahamCStrouse

4 жыл бұрын

Silviu Gligor They’re pretty fascinating. Due to the peculiarities of the local geography, they’re massively muscular necks & heads & the insular dwarfism that was amongst the local herbivores at the time it’s been speculated that they were Transylvania’s apex predators at the time. Kinda makes Dracula look like a pussy, really...

@zachbos5108

3 жыл бұрын

What a fascinating coincidence!

Prehistoric death storks? I love that band!

I love that one of the difficulties of studying azhdarchid pterosaurs is that they are so enormous that transcontinental flight range is reasonable, making figuring out if a new find is a new giant death stork or a known one that flew a long way from where the first one was found difficult.

Flying giraffes from hell, imagine looking up at the sky and seeing this thing (or actual flying giraffe) soaring over head. I’m not sure wether I should terrified, curious, or amazed, or pass out from the heart attack it gave me.

It really do looked like a stork and bat had a big baby. Kinda terrifying xD

Ah, flying giraffes. How terrifying.

@xavier84623

4 жыл бұрын

that eat meat. dont forget that part

@maximaldinotrap

4 жыл бұрын

Flying Hell Giraffes.

4:10 oh... SKIM-feeding animals. Not skin-feeding. It puts the lotion away, for now...

God your video titles like “death stork” “bunch of English dinosaurs” “heck cattle” “terror duck” never cease to make me laugh so hard my sides hurt

For me, of all the creatures of the past, the pterosaurs are the most alien. When we look at the bones of other animals, how they fed and behaved usually seems quite obvious. We may argue about the details of what a T-Rex and ate and how it may have hunted, but the fact that it was carnivorous and a awesome predator is apparent. But, with pterosaurs, we are often at a loss. Ok, it has a mouth - therefore it ate. But, what did it eat? and How did it eat it? Where did it hunt? In water? On land? On mudflats? upland areas? Islands? We have mostly questions, and uncertain speculation. So different are they, that I think they deserve their own class, and not be included in Reptilia. They are most fascinating.

@Jyrgenstrator

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Also they evolved for 250 million years, theres time for divercity to fill every locker. They might have been better fliers than birds, and propably were as birds have evolved just a fraction of that time.

A giant walking bat with a spear in its face Top 10 strangest anime characters

Some of those designs make it hard to belive those animal were capable to fly I mean, look at those tiny wings compare to the side of the rest of the body 4:47

1:12 these are the ones at the Houston museum of natural science I got to see them in person and totally geeked out about it. quetzalcoatlus is my absolute favorite land dinosaur 🦒🦜

@jonhohensee3258

4 жыл бұрын

No it's not.

Thank you, Ben, for another very comprehensive and informative video. I do enjoy these, very much.

They were really really strange and almost alien like, that's what makes them so appealing.

Thank for this well researched piece, your channel is a nice relief. It reminds when discovery channel was actually informative.

When I was a kid I thought the idea of the huge pterosaurs being scavengers kind of ridiculous and for them to be agile predators even more ridiculous but thought it would make sense for them to hunt in a similar way to cranes or pelicans or even the birds that use their wings in order to cast a shadow over the water to lure fish out so they could gobble up the fish with relative ease. They would need quite a large amount of energy to power their large bodies and fish provides a good source of protein, fat, vitamins, essential amino acids, calcium and calories, if they ate at least a dozen or so every few hours it would give them enough energy to fly around until their next meal. With their size it would make sense that they would be hunting by lakes, creeks, rivers or by the beach because they would need enough room to safely land or take off, they would need an adequate amount of wind current to help them take off and to keep an eye out on advantageous predators that prey on anything near an open water source. I used to watch Walking With Dinosaurs when I was a kid and found the episode they done on the Quetzalcoatlus quite interesting but found it a little suss that they thought the huge pterosaur would hunt for fish while flying over the water, their beaks and skulls aren't made for that type of hunting.

@bkjeong4302

4 жыл бұрын

These guys would hunt on dry land rather than water-they didn’t have wading adaptations, unlike herons.

@jadedkratos5528

4 жыл бұрын

@@bkjeong4302 I realised that when I was a kid.Not aquatic, too heavy and beaks were not adapted for aquatic hunting like other smaller members of the pterosaur family tree.

@pauls5745

3 жыл бұрын

nature tried a lot of weird designs, not all worked out in the long run, but it did have enough traits to be successful until the KT boundary

@pauls5745

3 жыл бұрын

@@bkjeong4302 giraffes don't climb trees to grab the tastiest foliage either though, so there's that point. Azharchids needed an extended neck, so it was selected for. it did not aid flight; a short neck is preferable, so itwas unrelated to enhancing flight. therefore, it must have been used in feeding inaccessible places to it without the neck. was it really stiff as to be immobile? unsure but many think that is the case. probable that it plucked small prey from trees, IMO, but there can be the case of shoreline prey that does not take a lot of energy or movement to grab, like crabs and washed ashore jellifishes, etc. the arms were strong and shoulder bones reinforced. strong and mobile from there, so it could possibly lower itself so the beak could reach the ground

@grahamstrouse1165

2 жыл бұрын

@@pauls5745 Hatzegopteryx had a comparatively short (and very thicc) neck…

Easily the best paleo channel on the platform I simply cannot string together enough words to effectively express how much I admire and respect the time and effort you put into making these information packed videos. Your content is very much appreciated.

i'm surprised that it took them so long to get to the stork hypothesis. it seems such a good fit wheen you look at at the animal

I watched this last night and, as with all your videos, I was entranced and astounded not just by the animals but also by the amount of time and research it must take you to make one. However, during the night I had a fantastic dream. I was riding an Azhdarchid and soaring far above the earth. Then a little single-engine plane was sighted off to one side. I asked my mount to check it out and he did, only to find that he was about 1 1/2 times the size of the plane both in width and length. While I was marveling at this I woke up. So I want to thank you for a most amazing and uplifting (sorry) experience.

Whelp, this is the video I stop on. I’ve been binge watching every video in chronological order since the first one over the last few weeks and now just have to wait till their published. Love the content

Azhdarchids are probably the most mind boggling of all prehistoric creatures, arguably being the only group of flying megafauna to have ever existed, and quite possibly being the last given what currently exists. A niche that has only been taken twice ish in the 400 million years of terrestrial life, birds like Argentavis sorta got there, I can only hope something in the far future at least can come closer to something like these amazing creatures.

thank you for finishing the series! it was really well done thank you!

Just found your channel & OMG i'm in love 😍 I love animals & actually wanted to be a paleontologist when I was a kid sadly things happened in my life that took me on another path but still really love dinosaurs, never a dull moment when learning more about them.

Just discovered your channel! I love learning about ancient biology and animal history. Well researched and well presented, subscribed! Quetzalcoatus is my favourite azhdarchid so I'm loving this three part series :)

You are one of the best palaeontology KZreadrs I watch as you show different examples and do not just talk about one!

Thanks for your research was so good. Keep up the good work.

5:50 I love this vulture-like colouring, it's a lot more how I imagine they really looked, probably a lot more mundane or uglier than the beautiful paintings.

This is my favorite video you’ve made yet.

This was amazing ! Thank you for this serie.

I really like Sunday afternoon. I can get caught up on Mr, Thomas and all the different animals I wanted to study but couldn't. Thank you so much Mr. Thomas, cause it's NEVER too late to LEARN!

As always, awesome work!

This trilogy was a very good idea! Thank you!

Absolutely fascinating, what a great video 👍

thanks for releasing this!

Love this series bro, thank you :)

I wasn't so exited for a pre historic biology video for... forever, really awesome animals and videos

I read it as “Stonks” 😂

Great video! I personally agree with the generalist hypothesis for Azdarchids because their longs necks do seem to be analogous to that of storks.

Great series.. Thanks for making it.

Fascinating! Cool-a-rama! I learned something too! Thanks Ben!

What a great video and yes: I have learned a lot from it.

Love all your vids keep making them

Ive never come across such a satisfying video my ears are thanking you

These guys are so surreal. I think they're amazing. Can't wait to see these things for real.

@j.t.dennis4900

4 жыл бұрын

We can only hope, although I don't know what we'd do with these things if we were to resurrect their species JP style.

@drsharkboy6568

4 жыл бұрын

They should have these in JW 3. Owen riding an azhdarchid would be awesome! Though it would bring up the question, could you ride one?

@ibelieveicansoar

4 жыл бұрын

Live pterosaurs have allegedly been spotted down in South America

@robokill387

4 жыл бұрын

@@ibelieveicansoar no, they haven't, that rumor's being going around every few years since the 90s, it's a known hoax.

@uncannyvalley2350

4 жыл бұрын

@@robokill387 except it's not, there are hundreds and hundreds of documented sightings including military, police, professors and scientists, which one are you? And there are contemporaneous sightings in California right now in Kings valley. Being the "clever" sceptic is so 19th century, sit down and stfu

First the speculative zoology trilogy, now this!!!!! I love these trilogies

Ben right now: "HA! Told you this one wasn't going to take a year!!"

This channel is incredibly educational.

great work! i appreciate the vid!

these giant prehistoric death storks aka Azhdarchids were probably omnivores. which means they ate pretty much everything, from live prey to carrion to some plant matter. very interesting video on ptersaurs and their kind.

@elleboman8465

4 жыл бұрын

Citing Miska Kopperoinen above: "All the heaviest flying animals right now are carnivores of some prescription and flying is energy intensive. Berries and fruits wouldn't really be a reliable option for animals the size of azdarchids and the relatively small torso wouldn't allow for a gut large enough to both process the tough-to-break plant matter and have enough of it in the gut to provide the animal enough energy to live."

This makes me wonder if Azhdarchids could have lived outside their known habitats and survive, or if one could have evolved to do so. They certainly have the flight capabilities for it. Also I love the term "death sorks", pretty fitting haha

one of the most brutal and metal titles on youtube 🤘

So probably marshes and wetlands where food is plentiful, most predators are not terrestrial and there is little brush to get in the way of flying. This could also explain why they grew so tall as they could not only spot for prey over small shrubs but also the occasional predator

Another great and educational video

Amazing, I didn't have to wait till I end college to watch the 3rd part of this amazing series

Love your videos. Keep it up.

Well done, I love these flying dinos

Thank u for another vid.

Gotta say, just stumbling on these 3 videos and reading the comments makes me super glad I didn't have to wait for years haha

I'VE WAITED SO LONG BOAH I'M SO EXCITED

Fun fact the Quetzalcoatlus was about as tall as the T-Rex. So imagine how bigger and intimidating it would’ve looked if it expanded both its wings at an attacker.

5:25 “This brings us to the most beastmode image of all time”

Maybe an omnivore? All we know for sure. They certainly ate something.😊

@PsychoticEwok

4 жыл бұрын

Nah they where breatharians 🤣

@miskakopperoinen8408

4 жыл бұрын

All the heaviest flying animals right now are carnivores of some prescription and flying is energy intensive. Berries and fruits wouldn't really be a reliable option for animals the size of azdarchids and the relatively small torso wouldn't allow for a gut large enough to both process the tough-to-break plant matter and have enough of it in the gut to provide the animal enough energy to live.

@nairbvel

4 жыл бұрын

My feeling is that when you're that big, 1) you can eat anything you darn well choose to eat, and 2) your mouth is so big, you end up eating any-and-everything that happened to be within as specific radius of your intended target.

Yay part 3!

this just made my day

I'm getting into this stuff because of ark survival evolved lol. I've seen many youtubers who clearly don't care about the creatures that they are presenting and present theories as if they are fact. They also mostly take on that standard, youtuber, fake voice that makes me feel like I'm watching a commercial. Your videos are presented well, you clearly care about the subjects and you don't pretend that theories are fact just to "wow" your audience. Bravo, good job! Keep it professional and you'll go far. Those stupid youtubers are all fads and they are setting a horrible trend of spamming out videos on whatever is hot at the time. When I started looking into dinos on youtube because ark had me interested.. it quickly became clear that 99% of the videos were people riding the hype of the Jurassic park movie releases. Long winded, sorry but the state of media is really bad right now and you are one of the few people with enough integrity to help steer it in the right direction.

My only issue with the stork thing is that azhdarchids didn't have flexible necks, or according to this, fast bites. I don't know how quickly they could move their necks up and down, but if it was similar to a giraffe's "neck speed" like I've sometimes heard then catching small, quick, bite-sized prey would've been difficult. Storks can do a kind of S-curve strike to catch prey off guard but I imagine azhdarchids couldn't do that. The only method I can think of that seems reasonable would be to pin down prey with their hands first, making a slow bite and slow neck a moot point.

@wynnschaible

4 жыл бұрын

There is a reason giraffe necks don't move quickly: even with super-high blood pressure and specialized valves in their blood vessels, too fast movements would mess with blood supply to the brain. But possibly that wouldn't apply with the same force to azhdarchids since they couldn't raise their heads that high or need to bring them that low. The other problem I have, though, is flight related: achieving any kind of reasonable center of lift with that huge head and long stiff neck!

@miskakopperoinen8408

4 жыл бұрын

Given that azdarchids have long, incredibly pointed beaks, I'd imagine that they would reasonably often try to spear the prey, which would have the bonus of gruesomely injuring it while pinning it in place. This would make a slow and weak bite not much of a problem, and I'd imagine that the muscles connected to the first few vertebrae would allow for relatively quick turning of the head even as the rest of the neck was slower.

@GrahamCStrouse

4 жыл бұрын

Melvin Shine I think you’re taking the stork analogy too literally. It’s more likely they fed on small to medium-sized terrestrial prey then aquatic prey.

Could be eating vegetables and fruit like a lot of birds now sometimes eat berries and fruit and picking seeds

Ooh, a quick release of part 3

I love Pterosaurs and I hope you can do videos about other groups of Pterosaurs.

Another great one guys. Sky's the limit!

These are really amazing creatures. I love them.

Those hornbill birds you mentioned they always follow me around and try to give me toys and rats and stuff they're super fun very curious and intelligent

@critcuts

10 ай бұрын

Also I would like to see a real quetzalcoatlus but it would probably be terrifying mostly because it's a reptile probably doesn't have a lot of intelligence more driven by instinct and probably no feelings like loneliness or sadness or happiness, just the blank stare of death

I love your channel.

One issue doesn't seem to have been addressed - Big animals with birdlike metabolisms require a lot of protein. They would need to have been close to a reliable source of foods. A hit and miss feeding method wouldn't have been much use to them. It makes sense that they'd be generalists, not tied to a single food source, able to scavenge to some extent, but not dependeint on random scraps. They'd be too big for their avian competitors, able to dominate feeding areas. Add a decent range of travel to food sources, and that may be the simplest definition.

@matthewbadger8685

4 жыл бұрын

I imagine that their sheer size would scare off smaller carnivores. Perhaps they also poached the kills of such predators opportunistically, securing larger meals through intimidation alone?

I think this might be the best title of any video ever made :D

love the channel