Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that could get to be as big as fighter jets. What intrigues you the most about these flying beasts?

@dinobroofmf

5 жыл бұрын

National Geographic it’s not pterodactyl its pterodactylus

@dinobroofmf

5 жыл бұрын

And science says pterosaurs wing ended with a light curve not a sharp point

@ghosttgirlghosttspook5478

5 жыл бұрын

National Geographic everything! they were and still so interesting!

@josefpark5421

5 жыл бұрын

I'm an amateur paleontologist

@bkjeong4302

5 жыл бұрын

Dracula is most likely a giant version of Hatzegopteryx, a giant pterosaur from the same time and place.

Pterrific video.

@Joe-hj2fu

4 жыл бұрын

It took me uncomfortably long to get that joke

@kdel4272

4 жыл бұрын

Pterrifying

@Beautiful_Sound_1995

4 жыл бұрын

😧

@panipxe

4 жыл бұрын

Ptrue

@enthusiast286

4 жыл бұрын

nice lol that really got me

Closest we can get to dragons

@ksoundkaiju9256

5 жыл бұрын

There could be dragons on another planet in a different planet Just because it's not possible on our planet doesn't mean it's not possible on another

@DerpyDuckAnimation

5 жыл бұрын

guess you've never seen Yi qi

@ekosubandie2094

5 жыл бұрын

they're pretty much real life equivalent to wyverns which is another type of dragons

@OtachiKaiju68

5 жыл бұрын

Eko Subandie yea, to be honest Wyverns are a plausible type of Dragons then then classical ones

@northropi2027

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly with how bizarre they got, their front-loaded build, and just how lanky they always were, Pterosaurs are probably the furthest a flying reptile can be from a Dragon, and, yes, that implies I think birds are closer. Even basal pterosaurs with teeth and tails are hardly draconic. And I'm saying that using one's name...

If creatures like octopus exist, imagine all the others that could never be fossilized or preserved. We’ll never know.

@DanilaJayFreeJivans

Жыл бұрын

Good point....

@jumpingsloth3963

Жыл бұрын

Goodness. They could have been HUGE.

@estonianman632

5 ай бұрын

No, I think it can be known because there is something called DNA.

I can't even imagine how old this planet is. I love prehistoric animals. I wish I can time travel with dinosaurs.

@andrewjoyce9038

3 жыл бұрын

You and rexy travelling together?

@ivanbonite7009

2 жыл бұрын

Nahh I don't wanna be eat

@golemraven7765

2 жыл бұрын

there in the Kepler planet

@PrinceoftheLightSkins

2 жыл бұрын

20,000 years old. These were the dragons of medieval europe

@RoryGFan-39

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewjoyce9038 44 club!

Can confirm Quetzal can fly, carried 2000 metal ore to my base with ease

@wasntme2401

4 жыл бұрын

Kingingreed can confirm it could pick up a ankylo with 5 c4 on it and suicide bomb the guy who lived on carno island

@joshuabeckford6815

4 жыл бұрын

Salman M Loool

@ricardonoelmangawang5904

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao ark survival evolved players🤣

@omarkarim7426

3 жыл бұрын

you play ark

@AmongUs-mb4qx

3 жыл бұрын

I can back that claim, built a house on it and carried my entire lystrosaurus squad with me for xp boost.

id like to see more prehistoric animal vids on this channel

@blacklion6678

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Waite agreed

@zes3813

5 жыл бұрын

wrr

@user-ch7ht8eq5g

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Waite realy😂😂😂

@hasnaalshammri4490

3 жыл бұрын

واليش مينجرفن الكاسيه العاريه

@Mrs.IndiYoung

3 жыл бұрын

Amen, brother.

This is absolutely fascinating! Isn’t it amazing how so many dinosaurs could live but yet all be so unique?

@stainlesssteel3162

5 жыл бұрын

Golden Lioness FYI pterosaur are not dinosaurs

@kennethsatria6607

4 жыл бұрын

Still reptiles were amazing back then

The long-neck pterosaurs were in a family called Azhdarchidae and they could get as tall as a giraffe! the smallest were about the size of a human

i cant image those being around today sheesh

@ukdrilllyrics2624

4 жыл бұрын

They probably wont eat you they prefer other prey

@JVReySolos

4 жыл бұрын

They do exist today. I've spotted one when I was younger in El Paso, Texas

@DrivingDallas214

4 жыл бұрын

@@JVReySolos erthing is bigger in TX hehe

@JVReySolos

4 жыл бұрын

@Mr. hax619 There's been spottings in Texas and Ohio. We're not lying. We know what we saw. My sister saw it too

@DasMxD

4 жыл бұрын

@@JVReySolos hahaha

"I-it's not that I want to eat your babies or anything... B-baka!"

@afox1689

4 жыл бұрын

That's Hot, Have my reddit gold

2:20 Love his calvin & hobbes t shirt.

Happy that you didn't call the Pterosaurs Dinosaurs, but should also mention that Pterodactylus antiquus is the only species described in it's Genus, and not every Pterosaur is a "Pterodactyl" .

@wj9855

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@AngelaCadle

4 жыл бұрын

yup

@anthonylopez9594

Жыл бұрын

can you explain what makes a pterosaur not a dinosaur or a reptile please. I'm interested and i dont know how to find this information.

@Rexred09

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonylopez9594 Look it up

@anthonylopez9594

Жыл бұрын

@@Rexred09 i did look it up, but looking something up is not the same as getting information from a person that can actually talk about it.

Looks like the Blackbird. It's amazing how all vehicles resemble beasts.

@longlivingdude

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, look at Da Vinci´s flying machine design.

When I was younger I knew everything about dinosaurs because I would watch documentaries everyday, then at some point I stoped and now I’m attempting to get my knowledge back

@13desertflower

4 жыл бұрын

Same! So much more has been discovered about them.

@julia._.1321

4 жыл бұрын

Anon User yeah

@thelordnaevis4946

3 жыл бұрын

Noooo did you forget them? :((

Dinosaurs fascinates me

@wj9855

5 жыл бұрын

Problem is that pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs

@zm_azathoth8797

5 жыл бұрын

Pterosaur is not dinosaur

@incognito6814

4 жыл бұрын

They weren't referring to pterosaurs?

@stripes1043

4 жыл бұрын

@@wj9855 I think they're saying any prehistoric reptile at that time age

@Nikita35485

4 жыл бұрын

...and pterosaurs, becouse dinosaurs is not pterosaurs.

"being 2 feet long, it probably preferred to eat insects". Yeah sounds tame, but insects were the size of small birds, so.....

@reguluscorneas3387

2 жыл бұрын

yep

here's one of these flying around this small town in Kansas where I live. Seen it 3 times since 2017

The cameraman is brave and talented. He could've been eaten by these things or crashed his brains out.

There's one of these flying around this small town in Kansas where I live. Seen it 3 times since 2017

I would of liked this video to be longer it's so interesting.

I love pterosaurs! I've always wonder if such amazing creatures could evolve again, or at least something similar. So, I started thinking, and I actually came to something. I have a hypothesis that one day, with the right selective pressures, bats could one day evolve to essentially replace birds and be the new, mammalian version of pterosaurs. Here's why: Birds used to be the underdog group when pterosaurs dominated the Mesozoic skies, but began to gradually replace pterosaurs, until the only ones left at the end of the cretaceous were large members of the Azhdarchidae family, like Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx. These large scavengers then were wiped out in the K-T mass extinction. I feel like bats might do the same for birds one day. Why is this? Well, due to recent human activity, mammals worldwide are on the decline. The Center for Biological Diversity and the ICUN estimate that half of the Earth's known mammal species are going through a population decline. A fifth are currently at risk of extinction. In addition, 21 percent of reptiles will also be out the brink. 21 percent of fish share this fate. A third of all sharks and rays. A third or more of all amphibians as well. Birds, as it seems, will among the least affected. Only around 12 percent are threatened, and 2 percent facing a high risk of extinction. Birds will be severely affected by our mass extinction, but not nearly as much as other classes of vertebrates. The mass extinction, will leave open new niches that birds couldn't occupy because of current competition from other vertebrates. In the past, whenever birds didn't have competition or predators, they quickly fill the gap, and more often then not, lose the ability to fly, as it's no longer advantageous for survival. Such examples include the Moa, Kiwi, Kakapo, the terror birds, Elephant Bird, Bullockornis, and many others. So after the current mass extinction ends(from us getting our act together, leaving earth, or driving ourselves extinct), that means birds could very well fate the best and evolve to replace many current niches on land or in the oceans. When this happens, the skies, will be open for the taking. If bats as a whole group survive the mass extinction, there's a possible chance that, if birds do take advantage of the open niches and more and more become flightless, then bats might gradually, over many millions of years, come to replace them in the air. It's a very real possibility. I for one, would love to see pterosaur like bats dominating the skies, with their large leathery wings and fur, flying like the reptiles of old. Especially since bats have very similar wing structure and physiology to pterosaurs.

@gojiratheking1065

5 жыл бұрын

Just a little correction: Azhdarchids were terrestrial predators like storks, and there were smaller Pterosaurs around until K-Pg hit

@tec-jones5445

5 жыл бұрын

@@gojiratheking1065 I only found two genera of pterosaurs around the end of the cretaceous that were not part of the Azhdarchidae family, both were Nyctosaurids found in Africa.

@gojiratheking1065

5 жыл бұрын

I think there was also a Pteranodont. Anyways, most Azdharchids were human sized at most, giants like Quetz were rare

@tec-jones5445

5 жыл бұрын

@@gojiratheking1065 well yeah, I was just giving Quetz and Hatzeg as examples

@zm_azathoth8797

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it could it call convergent evolution

That was a very good presentation!

Thats amazing, 200 different kinds wow! I never new.

I want more of these

Due to their size and design I think it is possible they had to be careful where they landed as they I think needed wind or height to get going. I can imagine one climbing to find somewhere to get going.

No smartphones, no social media, just dinosaurs living in the moment

Why does Nat Geo still not use the correct wing shape? A bit disappointed in the outdated pointy wings

@knightofarkronia8652

4 жыл бұрын

CJ Suburban Forgive my ignorance, but aren't all wings pointy?

@flygod.

4 жыл бұрын

You mean the bones?

@northropi2027

4 жыл бұрын

@@knightofarkronia8652 iirc the pointy, acute tips you see on Pterosaur membrane reconstructions a lot of the time would actually cause the wing to stall out at the tip, so it's reasoned the skin was sort of rounded out there. This might seem strange since it means part of the wing membrane is sort of floating unsupported, but remember how they said it has a bunch of reinforcing fibers and muscle- it's more rigid than just straight-up skin under tension, so that's ok. For the record, bat wings do kind of end in a point, but it's not a severely acute one since it goes from finger to finger on a shallower path than just straight to the hip, so I guess that's how they get around it. You can also see this in bird and even plane wings.

@altaccount9903

4 жыл бұрын

@@knightofarkronia8652 No

How do you know all this? A video explaining why and how would be so cool.

Imagine having a pet pterosaurs back then must be like having a jet plane.

@hotheadedguy9108

2 жыл бұрын

There were no humans

So you’re telling me that the “Dracula” Pterosaur was a prehistoric reptilian chicken?

@titanusbehemouth3172

4 жыл бұрын

Lol..

@demonhunter5136

3 жыл бұрын

Your ignorance is prehistoric dude

Wowwww...I really wanna know more about it.

@shamogames590

5 жыл бұрын

hello

@ksoundkaiju9256

5 жыл бұрын

Google it then

Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs but are diverse and awesome 😃😆😏

@vanitas8582

5 жыл бұрын

Lol yes they are

@emanueleapostoli244

5 жыл бұрын

@@vanitas8582 no they are not

@zm_azathoth8797

5 жыл бұрын

@@vanitas8582 is common for people to mistake that every organism in mesozoic era is a dinosaur and that just not the truth pterosaur live with dinosaur but they not dinosaur rather they are flying reptile bird desent from dinosaur not pterosaur

@altaccount9903

4 жыл бұрын

@@vanitas8582 No they aren't

Love your dino stuff.

Brilliant as always

Dracula is actually Hatzegopteryx

2:40, actually it's clearly & obviously impossible that the Giant Azhdarchoid Pterosaur "Dracula" didn't fly, no matter what the shape of it's shoulder might suggest. This animal's on-the-ground stance proves it wouldn't be able to RUN fast on the ground, and it evidently has no teeth, nor horns, nor armor plating, nor sheer mass to protect itself from the many predatory dinosaurs like T-Rex. So if this animal couldn't at least FLY AWAY to escape from predators, this animal should never have been able to exist in that highly competitive environment at all.

@GeorgiaIsOnMyMind

5 жыл бұрын

Fully agree, though your last sentence should read able* not "unable".

@anonyarena

5 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgiaIsOnMyMind - You're right! Sorry about that! I'll go back and edit it.

@anonyarena

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, and another thing occurs to me...when birds evolve into flightless, their wings evolve to be smaller. The ostrich, emu, kiwi, cassowary, weka, auk, dodo, and even the penguin that still uses it's wings as flippers do not have such gigantic wings. None of these flightless birds have wings longer than the lengths of their bodies, and the wings of this fossil discovered in Romania has a wing far longer than it's body. It's got a 29 foot wingspan. I mean no disrespect to palaeontologist Mátyás Vremir, but he said: “I'm quite confident this giant was flightless. A good analogy would be the elephant-bird from Madagascar." So, I looked up that bird. (Aepyornis Maximus) It's a 9 foot bird with a rather short beak and a wing that can only be described as minuscule in relation to it's body. But, this "Dracula" pterosaur has not only a 29 foot wing but a 4 foot long mandible and rather long legs too. This, to me, suggests it's lifestyle was probably more like a stork's. And storks can certainly fly.

@GeorgiaIsOnMyMind

5 жыл бұрын

@@anonyarena Very well said. I always thought this, in the sense that, it wouldn't make sense for a large flightless animal to be roaming around terrestrially with a 36 foot wingspan. It had that wingspan BECAUSE it flew. The individuals who try to shoot this down do so because they aren't secure enough to stand back and truly marvel at these bygone wonders that the earth produced. You listed and articulated each point superbly. Well done.

@flowerpower9541

2 жыл бұрын

The weight of the animal, if you think if the speed, along with lift required, I find it unlikely, possibly the wings were purely for display. They say they laid eggs along river banks, and for the bird to become airborne with out leaping off of a high cliff , I'd like to hear a paleontologists theory

I can't get enough of dinossaurs. - Geller, Ross.

I saw a pterodactyl or a pterosaur in Pennsylvania about 10 years ago. At first I thought, what the heck is a Pelican doing up here (Reading), then I realized the wings really wide and came to a point and it had a tail and it had that crown on the back of his head. It was just gliding. Silhouetted against a bright cloudy day gave a great outline. I watched in amazement at it glided away. I know what Herons and Egrets look like and it definitely wasn’t one of them….

wow

FANTASTIC 👌👌👌

Pterosaurs.. Terror saws... hmm... Put the bong down, I know.

Awesome birds!!

These things are bizarre looking; their heads and necks look disproportionate for their body sizes. One has to wonder as to how they were capable of flight at all.

for the very first time i saw 1 of this at least i saw one of this living until 2006 here in Philippines.. im so very thankful that i saw at least 1 pf this kind..

@chesterdagoc5915

Жыл бұрын

U pinoy?

Great video. Very cool! Took me back to my childhood 💖

These were the real-life Rodan.

Tks Video clip.

I like dimorphodon. Its so tiny 😄

@joshuabeckford6815

4 жыл бұрын

RKaale 123 Interesting, I thought it was the size of something like a robin or slightly bigger maybe

@Nikita35485

4 жыл бұрын

And I like Anurognathus, bacouse he also tiny, and he had strange scull. Me fascinate shape of your scull for hunting on insects.

@jgonzalez5339

4 жыл бұрын

But it have many teeth

Evolution is beautiful

Great video

Just been reading about them yesterday

Beautiful animal

It seems as they evolved in a similar way as bats

@latrodectusmactans7592

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, unlike birds, we have very little information on both the evolution of pterosaurs and bats. Their bones are so fragile.

0:43 looks like some familiar Washington-Swamp-Creatures !!!

Quem veio pelos fatos desconhecidos da um like

I saw this when I was 8 years old in year 1997. In palawan

Two things: the purpose for the extravagent purch-nest at the inner-portal transport station. The credit for the build- which services the taradactiles and other birds, the credit goes to Buddy- the other flying dinos- look to Buddy as a selfless soul for the build. And while Buddy awaits Conners return from Uranus- he can smirch around with other residents- a 5 minute fly here, a 5 minute fly there, means a lot to the residents when the flying dinos get a new spot.

Pterrific Bird

It's how much I love to these

I have literally spotted this bird in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, in India, while I was relaxing on my terrace, it went straight above my head with so great pace that I couldn't capture it and the building also obstructed my view later, I am pretty sure that bird was a pterosaur with long beaks and enormous wings in a pink shade, that was the most I could observe at that small moment of time, the place where I was living was near a dense forest and i believe that forest still holds dinosaur species which are regarded by scientists as extinct!

Terrific video.

Interesting video, friend! These dinosaurs! Now I understand why the dinosaurs became extinct ... They simply did not know how to smile. Good mood and humor to you!👍👍👍

wow i learnt something new today

Pteranodons are legendary

King from One Piece brought me here

@elmarzeinalov8772

4 жыл бұрын

Dude. Thank you!

@riskylifeofficial

4 жыл бұрын

me too

@jasondinawanao8436

4 жыл бұрын

me three

@Chris-fj4wn

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

@trafalgar-onlinebusinessid3568

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

The best 🤩

Ptruly amazing

Why can't you hear a pterodactyl urinate? The P is silent

@chottabeamm

4 жыл бұрын

The p goes psssssttt...

@femboyfanass4213

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one

If Dracula could not fly, why would it have that body shape?

@roldiny

3 жыл бұрын

chickens cant fly and they are birds

@ToastTheThe

3 жыл бұрын

"Dracula" probably could fly a little but because it's so f*cking massive it probably only could glide most of the time

epic ... love this video ... fan of pterosaurs .and NatGeo fan since when i was a kid .. so i made my own custom figure of hatzegopteryx for my Channel... its a lego like figure only... omg ... ... i love the video ... i just still cant believe as big as the giraffe flying in the sky... wow as in wow...

The pterosaurs appeared in the late Triassic period and were extinct in the end of the Cretaceous.

And there’s been sightings of these animals today.

how do we get a full hour of this content

I've always been a fan of National Geo... ever since ...wow... very informative ... i also have pterosaurs collections i mean geosternbergia and pteranodon etc on my channel but its only lego like figures. i customed it my self... i hope i was able to give justice to the species figure i made ....

so cool!

🎶 Dinosaur Train...🎶

Incorrect. Dracula COULD fly.

@anonyarena

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it did.

@FriendlyCroock

3 жыл бұрын

lol It's kinda racist how they called it dracula because it's from transylvanian

@K.Pershing

3 жыл бұрын

@@FriendlyCroock well its the nickname and a refference so i dont see any racism

@ToastTheThe

3 жыл бұрын

@@FriendlyCroock bruh

Cool

The largest flying dinosaur was the Boeingsevenfoursevensaur, which carried lots of tiny little dinosaurs on its back to other continents so they could visit relatives and friends, or just to have some relaxing time off. Before getting gobbled up by a T Rex!

World Of Wonder! A dracula pterosaur? How cool is that, walking among the living but soon to be dead hominids. This yet to be discovered movie star has potential. Film producers take note.

I like the Prehitroical videos of this channel

Who's here because of David Attenborough talking to the little kids?

They recently found jurassic era pterodactyl bones in Scotland, the largest ever.

Sossaman super hero remix brought me here. Really though pterodactyl was some type of material😂

Wolves 101 Nat Geo please!

In some certain point of view, sky these days are still ruled by reptiles.

😱wow!

My favourite childhood lego lol

Here is how to theoretically see a live dinosaur: 1) 100 million years ago, some Sunlight reflected off earth began travelling about 50 million light years towards a blackhole. 2) 50 million years later, some of it reached a black hole. Since Blackholes curve space time, some of the light that gets trapped falls in... some gets slightly curved and changes direction... while some light waves actually curve all the way around and get reflected straight back towards Earth (or rather its' position 50 million years ahead in time). 3) fast forward another 50 million years to today's date. If we can know exactly which black hole would have been in the right place at the right time, we could observe the light coming from it (including Earth's reflection) and technically see the dinosaurs. Now one needs to find a Telescope big enough to somehow "see" that far away in good enough resolution. It can technically be done by sending 500-1000 telescopes in orbit and combining data (individual light waves) from each, and stitching the image together... sort of the same technology that is being used to develop the James Webb Telescope, but on a much larger scale. food for thought.

@michaeljvaleska7976

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's easier to see an alligator or a crocodile lol They've been evolutionarily unchanged for 200 million years

@ansh6370

4 жыл бұрын

Or just devolve a chicken, way easier. And there's actually a guy who's doing that.

I cannot believe dinosaurs actually existed its crazy to think about

2:24 Calvin & Hobbes Shirt!

Muchas grácias !!

did you know that back in those times everything was bigger including animals plants and trees, because back then there was oxygen levels was way higher

@shin-ishikiri-no

Жыл бұрын

Would be terrifying for us to be teleported to a random prehistoric forest... Giant Spiders and Massive Raptors with Hands to grab and razor sharp teeth. Unknown poisonous plants, ticks, massive mosquitoes/insects the size of large dogs... etc. Horrifying. Everything lays eggs.

Just an epic animal

can't even imagine how old this planet is. I love prehistoric animals. I wish I can time travel with dinosaurs.

Can you please post more videos on animals and dinosaurs. And I am a 10 year old boy and want to learn about animals and dinosaurs.

I’ve always wondered if scientists these days consider the climate back then when assuming that these creatures “technically couldn’t fly”. Maybe the air was more thick/ thin, etc.

@richardblazer8070

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, of course they do.

...I liked your video, too bad I ran out of vanilla extract which it would have made it an incredible experience as it's my first time

One of my favorite dinosaurs

@jacobcox4565

9 ай бұрын

Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs.