Next we just need Pyrodrakon, Thalassodrakon, and Brontodrakon, then we'll have the elemental azdarchids dragons

@RaptrRamblings

2 жыл бұрын

Hey buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this in ways there aren’t excited screeching but- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassodraco

@sannicfann3338

2 жыл бұрын

yes

@leviathan3630

2 жыл бұрын

@@sannicfann3338 thalassodrakon goes hard af

@josebuendiamartinez9944

2 жыл бұрын

We already have Cryodrakon, and since ice is just solid water...

@Ahalaya

2 жыл бұрын

Azdarchids, the Eevee-lutions of reality.

Wow, Azhdarchids would truly be one of Earth's greatest spectacles! Imagine the power behind each wing beat.

@rudigerhouston6270

2 жыл бұрын

Enough wing beat to beat you off wing one beat.

I personally would love to see these behemoths fly.

@greendragon5603

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to ride one

@snoopydog3328

2 жыл бұрын

@@greendragon5603 You would most likely be on it's menu.

@petersmythe6462

2 жыл бұрын

@@greendragon5603 Depending on how that works, you might end up comatose from lack of oxygen and/or riding *inside* it.

@greendragon5603

2 жыл бұрын

@@petersmythe6462 Well, I think it'd be worth it just so I can live out my lifelong dream of riding a dragon.

@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574

2 жыл бұрын

@@greendragon5603 same

i just love videos about pterosaurs, especially azhdarchids. I want more fossils to be found for _Arambourgiania_ and plenty of videos on it.

@BlackFrostMusic

Жыл бұрын

The animals most similar to European Dragon art. 🙂

It is truly a shame that we will never see these beautiful, beautiful creatures living and breathing! To see them soar through the skys, a true majestic sight. Their world must have been beautiful and brutal! Great video! I guess i got unsubbed for some reason glad i caught it!

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's kinda sad, I would kill to see a living, breathing non-avian dinosaur...

@johnsamu

2 жыл бұрын

It would be a breathtaking sight indeed to see these magnificent animals . But you would also run out of breath very quickly having to run all the time because these animals see YOU as breakfast, lunch and dinner😉

@williamhanna9718

2 жыл бұрын

There’s an entire movie franchise showing why that would be a bad idea

@pHixiq

2 жыл бұрын

It would be sooo scary tho at the same time 🤣

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

@@pHixiq it could stab you then it opens its mouth

One thing that gets me with virtually all pterosaur reconstructions is they position the arm bones -- and hence wing shape -- according to the bird model. Any creature that flies has got to have it's center of lift intersecting with its center of mass. For pterosaurs that means an extremely forward swept wing, which non of your reconstructors show. such a wing is not inconsistent by any means with aerial agility -- in fact it provides some stabilization features. the man-o-war bird has such an extreme (for a bird) wing, and is agile enough to steal prey from other accomplished flyers. and it has forward-swept wings for the same reason pterosaurs would have -- there is that head with its long hooked beak (and pterosaurs did not have S-curve necks!), and the back legs are reduced to virtually nothing. Azhdarchids had exceptionally long necks and elongated heads, and their metacarpals are the longest (and I mean relatively as well!) in all the pterosauria to get that cL forward!

We know so little about Azdarchids that every new discovery will be the biggest thing to ever fly

To me these immense flying creatures are the most fascinating of all dinosaurs. Thanks to paleontologists, archaeologist etc we know of our planet's intriguing past. It's so amazing it almost seems unbelievable, of another world, and how minuscule our period of time has been here!

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

These guys aren't actually dinosaurs. Instead, they are rather distant cousins. Paleontologists are also the only ones that deal with extinct non-human life.

@mwj5368

2 жыл бұрын

@@EDGEscience Hi EDGE! Thanks for your input as I have a lot to learn. Right on about archaeologists. My poor half understandable writing, but I meant knowledge of our past in a holistic way. Paleogeology, and Paleoanthropology, among others, also apply.

As someone from uruguay, a country with a friendly rivalry with argentina it really makes me a bit sad to see here we dont get to find these cool fossils tp brag about them :(,i mean we have josefo artigasia and thats kind of cool but its just a big carpincho not the largest flying animal or the largest predator ever or the largest land animal ever :(

@RobleViejo

2 жыл бұрын

Venite a la Patagonia y ayuda a los Paleontologos en las excavaciones. Siempre vienen bien un par de manos extra.

@diegorodriguez-fl5kp

2 жыл бұрын

@Jackson Jaybird i know that i just like to argue with my argentinian friends for no good reason :P

@rodrezi

2 жыл бұрын

You mean Josephoartigasia

@diegorodriguez-fl5kp

2 жыл бұрын

@Jackson Jaybird lmao

@ignaciogimelli1613

2 жыл бұрын

La rivalidad no la llamaría amistosa pero que está está

The biggest flying animal. The giraffe 's same high and a gorilla - like walking on the ground. Pterosaurs are the real living kaiju

@precursors

2 жыл бұрын

were

@deinowolfhybridhero5101

2 жыл бұрын

I have failed the adverb of time. English is not my first language and I learned it by myself

Something that looked like this flew by my house less than a week ago. It had a scratched-up-looking face and a pretty large-looking wattle on its neck. It also had a long tail with a ball at the end. Once I realized that I wasn't looking at an ordinary bird, I ran in and got my camera. You can't see much detail, but the two things that I try to doubt in my own head stand out the most in the picture. That is its enormous size, and the long tail. It flew back toward the Rocky mountains and now I watch for it every day. I'd love to have a professional analyse my picture

@EDGEscience

Жыл бұрын

Email me!

Just another great E.D.G.E video about another amazing prehistoric anomaly,so that's really good

It's really disheartening to me that no one will ever see flying giraffe lizards soar in real life. I hope one VR or robotic tech will advance to the point of at least seeing a reasonable facsimile.

@raylopez99

2 жыл бұрын

I do recall an MIT reconstruction and it was hard to fly them since they are kind of unstable in flight. Like the bumblebee.

@Lyze

2 жыл бұрын

@@raylopez99 Yeah, there was an RC one in the original War Games. Wasn't very authentic, just a glider really. I remember some paleontologist talking about the instability and it was likely they would constantly make micro adjustments across their bodies to adjust for lift making super efficient fliers.

Oh great they found another hell stork to haunt my nightmares

Azhdarchids are truly one of the pterosaurs ever

Crazy thing to think that these giant birds, as big as giraffes, used to fly around before.

My ears perked up when I heard the Dinosaur Planet music towards the end. I freaking love that show.

I have to ask, how many more prehistoric creatures will have similar name to a certain mad titan?

@apozki9773

2 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos_simonattoi

@HeadShot505

2 жыл бұрын

there's a dinosaur with the genus name Thanos, so I'd bet at least a few more

@robrice7246

2 жыл бұрын

@@HeadShot505 I believe that dino would've lived at around the same time. There's also Thanatotheristes from North America.

@kjbrooks2010

2 жыл бұрын

Or is it named after Thanatos the Greek personification of Death?

@philliphoneysett6374

2 жыл бұрын

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For the larger ones (or smaller ones), is the default assumption that their range was global or nearly global? I always imagined them being almost casual about circumnavigation. If food ran out in one area or they wanted to nest somewhere more remote, they could just fly... anywhere else. I can't think of the bird's name but there is one that (I think) nests near the Atacama even though it's really tough bc of how impossible it is to reach for anything but a bird. Albatrosses and migratory birds in general ofc come to mind.

This is awesome

awesome stuff

Well, now we found Rodan

Good update video. A video about the pteranadon group( the 2nd largest) should be next.

Nice Video.

Well those last few seconds of the video during the patreon announcement just reawakened a memory I totally forgot I had till now... the DK eyewitness tv series theme XD ... getting nostalgic flashbacks now

good video

The script for this episode cracked me up, thank you.

Good show

Awesome

In other words WE JUST FOUND FREAKING RODAN!!!

you gave me a good LARF thanks

Starting to notice a common theme, South America is home to some of the largest creatures.

Definitely see how they came up with dragons

5:38- Alas, poor Yorik... XD

For a moment there, I thought you're talking about Arambourgiania... Turns out it's a new species 😅

@morkusmorkus6040

2 жыл бұрын

🙄

@Astrapionte

2 жыл бұрын

Same lol

Would have loved to see those fly .

Poultry fragments? But chickens aren't pterosaurs.

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

Paltry

@myboy_

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOOOO

@retard_activated

2 жыл бұрын

Paltry, Hon. But that's fairly punny, hehe 😂😁

@retard_activated

2 жыл бұрын

Oh snap, I see you've already been replied to. :)

Longer videos pls.

yay!

We don't know what colors they were, but it would be awesome if these animals evolve once again, even though it's impossible

@herohamza1196

2 жыл бұрын

convergent evolution: the right conditions are not met (aka : arms race for gigantism and large amount of easy to fish shallow see food) besides, their niche is already occupied by large fishing birds, which are way better optimised for the task (warm blooded, with hydrophobic feathers in order to plunge easier and not have to recover from the heat loss of being wet, a skeleton and muscle repartition allowing 8 shaped flight patern...). If anything, the convergent evolution would occur within those bird populations, and the result might just be bigger sea birds. (In fact there are already large signs of convergent evolution, throat bag, very long and sharp beaks for water penetration, body weight migrated to the front of the body....)

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

Birds in a couple million years: say no more

4:40 oh ya I like that

💖 Good Morning 💖

I wasn't expecting to hear eyeliner in this video that caught me off guard

We have both Quetzalcoatl and Amaru animals now

The second specimen was no joke! *Proceeds to have Mutahar in the background*

Yeah this azdarchid is pretty badass and I love it,so that's really good. Also I wish y'all have a great day

What always gets me is the large size and low number of neck bones. Stiff necks don't go bendy while flying and maybe good for stabby on grounded prey? More like a giraffe than a swan, which yesterday I saw bend its neck like when you bend a hose to pinch it to stop water flow. I thought its neck was broken!

@drsharkboy6568

2 жыл бұрын

Probably for the best to maintain a stiff neck to not cause drag given their size compared to any bird today.

Really intrigued where the video clips come from-01:00

Gargoyles reference❤❤❤

It's not fair we're never gonna get animals like pterosaurs again

In fact, the pterosaurs existing at the final cretaceous were only the supergiants. the others had been replaced by the birds.

Birds started in the Jurassic, not the end of the Mesozoic.

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

Jurassic birds are in a grey area. True birds were prevalent in the Cretaceous.

New Dinosaurs name are amazing. Diabloceratops, dracirex, thanatosdrakon.

Question: did ANY pterosaur fill a niche similar to birds of prey???? 🤔

@ouro-boros-808

2 жыл бұрын

I’d like to know this as well!

@danielcorpuz1873

9 ай бұрын

Isn't Thalassodromaeus sort of like this?

they kinda make me think of flamingoes or pelicans

Azhdarchids are cool and scary but also some janky looking fellas

And just think of how many fossils we're missing because there were fossils of even older creatures during their time that have vanished forever...

@raylopez99

2 жыл бұрын

Or not...since there's rapid "radiation" from a common ancestor. The Gould thesis, punctuated equilibrium. that's how the author mentions in this video that it's easy to reconstruct a pterosaur from other skeletons that are similar, since they are alike even though from different species and families. Kind of like the cliche "birds of a feather, flock together", but different...

Why didn't they show that huge Teresaur take off from that dinosaur that was behind him. That is what I was waiting to see!

6:05 are you teasing us?

“Giraffe Lizards” 😅……well put my dude! Tho now I’m gonna have to use that one now! Hope that’s not a problem🤨? If so, we’ll…sorry (not sorry😏)

Man, why does everyone hate on Drakkar Noir? Lmao 🤣 I love that cologne lol

@retard_activated

2 жыл бұрын

I've never even smelled it and I hate it. (Sensory Issues) lol 🤣

The amount of jokes in this vide killed me 😂 ina good way ;)

@smot0174

2 жыл бұрын

Mmm drumsticks!

What is this channel's theme song from? I vaguely remember it...

Oh snap, I knew finding something from Argentina was inevitable!?

How much did the largest of these weigh'?

Ok Lets recap what adzarkid are named after : Feathered serpent god, Death dragon, Ice dragon, Mythical bird and a Island

5:19 I see what you did there...

I wonder if you raised one form a baby you could ride it when it got big enough .

Did he say poultry remnants or paltry remnants?

One of these babies could cover your car in one poop!

Vamos Argentina carajoooo

@Astrapionte

2 жыл бұрын

Con ganas siempre ganará !!

My man said QuechUa 😂

10:07 weren't Carcharodontosaurids extinct during the Santonian?

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

They were?

One of the paleo artist post on his facebook complaining you didn't ask him for permission before using his art work. I personally think it's fine since you show his twitter name, so anyone interested could look it up, but i'm not an artist so i don't know if that's actually enough.

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, I'm not making money on their art. Plus they can contact me at any time and on all sorts of platforms.

ARGENTINA PAPÁ!!! Tenemos los Dinosaurios más grandes del mundo!!!

@Astrapionte

2 жыл бұрын

Sin dudaaaa el más biodiverso de Sudamérica 🇵🇷

@JuanHernandez-nl9wo

2 жыл бұрын

No sólo eso, en Argentina se han encontrado algunos de los fósiles más interesantes en la historia de la paleontología. Saludos desde México🇲🇽

Argentina needs to chill

@beastmaster0934

2 жыл бұрын

Everything was bigger in Cretaceous Argentina. Especially the titanosaurs. Seriously, why the hell does Argentina get all the titanosaurs. Then again, North America has almost all the large ceratopsians, so, yeah.

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

More discoveries is always a good thing

was this larger than queztil quolatis nortiapi? ignore my spelling lol

I wonder if this is where the mythology of Dragon's came from? Someone finds a skeleton? It's like the first ancient person that found a elephant skull I bet thought it was a giant cyclops. Lol

Thats the thing from avatar.

Cryodrakon, Hatzegopteryx, Aramburgiania, Quetzalcoatlus and the unnamed mongolian giant, tese is the largest pterosaurs.

More jokes than usual in this video. I can't say whether that's a good or a bad thing.

Maip macrothorax

Oo

Stay in the trees ! They can’t get you there….

The approach is too comedic for me.

Never understood how those BIG flying creatures could defend themselves against the equally big predators. Maybe they could quickly jump in the air and fly away? This "quickly" seems a bit difficult with such a large body size. They must have had an effective defense mechanism based on how widespread they were.

@robinanderson1087

2 жыл бұрын

Well the taller they are the easier they could see something coming and some animals can effectively use intimidation to deal with many smaller animals.

@johnsamu

2 жыл бұрын

@@robinanderson1087 A T-Rex type of animal will be a bit smaller in height but I've my doubts whether it would feel intimated by those big "storks". A T-Rex Typ of animal would quickly learn that those tall but lightweight animals aren't that dangerous.

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

They were extremely lightweight, so they could launch into the air extremely quickly.

@Skyypixelgamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@EDGEscience how quickly though, I heard of theories where they can take off quickly but couldn’t gain a lot of altitude quickly.

@Argentvs

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skyypixelgamer they were more efficient than birds. Birds have a limit due their wings being unable to be used for anything else. Pterosaurs were quadrupeds so they could run and jump with all their four limbs. That sounds unimportant but it's a major relevant point, they could jump faster with more force to the air than birds with just their legs. They used a two steps jump. Birds have a size limit because they are unable to do this, so the biggest birds had to use cliff jumps or long running, they still do the run. Meanwhile this creatures could jump straight into the air with their four limbs being massive. Fun fact bats can get in the air the same way, but they are limited by their heavy bones.

death dragons... glad I live in this era and not the late cretaceous haha

I doubt they flew, I am not convinced by the 'launch' option, even if they had elastic tendons - they still need to flap before dropping down to the ground. Let's each wing only flaps at 45*, that's still 3m of movement up and then down per wing - a lot of air

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

That's ok that you're not convinced. There's more than enough data to support that they flew.

@r.k845

2 жыл бұрын

@@EDGEscience If they didn't fly wouldn't they be easily hunted down and killed? I don't see how something could survive for so long in if they were so slow.

@lloydmckay3241

2 жыл бұрын

So their huge wings were just for decoration? Wings that big most certainly are for air born creatures.

@r.k845

2 жыл бұрын

@@lloydmckay3241 Yeah the argument makes so sense. Something that makes up most of the animals proportions can't possibly be vestigial.

What none in China?

Thanos Dragon Thanos Dragon Thanos Dragon Thano-

Wanna hear about my speculative evolution project?

@UtterNoobness

2 жыл бұрын

Okaaay.....I guess.....🙄

@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-__7

2 жыл бұрын

Y e s

@seanessdragon4142

2 жыл бұрын

@@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-__7 Ok so the first one is called The BIODOME project Where aliens have found earth ( during the Cambrian explosion ) and saw it’s Beauty and they trying to recreate it by putting a biodome in their space ship and taking animals from the Cambrian to the early Holocene Making dinosaurs not extinct Mammles trying to do their best And humans trying to understand their world You like it ?

@seanessdragon4142

2 жыл бұрын

@@UtterNoobness uh ok cool

@UtterNoobness

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanessdragon4142 okayy....Biodome project?? Sounds cool. Where can I find it?

The largest thing to fly.? Heck no, Alaskan mosquitos are

Why can't paleontologists just accept the fact they're nerds? There's nothing wrong with being a nerd.

@UserUser-vo2ky

2 жыл бұрын

They aren't all nerds, I knew a kid who used to take drugs and bang heads in mosh pits. He also surfed and used to drink absinth. Last time I heard he had passed his exams and was in his second year as a junior palaeontologist. Damn I need to drop him a fb message

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

@@UserUser-vo2ky looks like he has one rollercoaster of a life....

Did pterasaurs have penises? only some birds have them and only during the breeding season, such as ducks.

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

Well pterosaurs aren't birds, so dunno.

@Astrapionte

2 жыл бұрын

I think cloacas

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

R34 artists: write that down, write that down!

@Keigo_88

2 жыл бұрын

@@incognitodon5779 lmao

@bustavonnutz

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine seeing a shadow cross in front of you; the sudden view of a horny Pterosaur plummeting from the sky towards you, virgin anus quivering at the imposing, dangling member of the randy Azhdarkid rapidly approaching your shock-frozen body. Your legs struggle to carry you as fast as you can away from the ravaging beast, but eventually you feel a wet slap against your back that sends you on your face. When you wake up you just feel a dull heat everywhere. Such is life in late Cretaceous.

Stop calling it Latus Cretaceous.

Could it have been a match for a T Rex??

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Its interesting how all ancient cultures arounf the world mentions flying serpeant or dragon. Did humans walk among dinosaurs?

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

No.

@TheFoshaMan

2 жыл бұрын

I think the most reasonable explanation is that they found some big bones and skulls, and they started to create mythologies around them

@goji-0045

2 жыл бұрын

the flying serpents were probably just people seeing a flying snake and thought it was a dragon

@ksohee6910

2 жыл бұрын

well, every birds is technically dinosaurs. so yes.

@vishansingh7641

2 жыл бұрын

@@ksohee6910 true. But I wonder if there could've been actual living dinosaurs that resembled the dragons which survived up until humans hunted them to extinction

The jokes are getting a little excessive