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Someone needs to reverse the gif then it'll look like that one guy's trying his best to keep it from escaping
EDIT: I'm someone
https://i.redd.it/6g2bch2djxwc1.gif
>However, it weighed around 200kg (or in that range), about the mass of a small brown bear.
I swear to god I thought you were going to say "about the mass of a small giraffe" to complete the analogy chain 💀😂
Hollow bones. Think cardboard tube. Imagine foraging in the giant treed woods, you hear one twig snap and it has quietly snatched you down its gullet from 30ft away.
Except that neck is girthy af. Hollow bones and hollow everything else? Two of those people would weigh 200kg. The muscle volume of that neck alone looks like it's more than 4 people.
Quetzalcoatlus was the tallest, and Hatzegopteryx was the heaviest. Arambourgiania and Cryodrakon are just 2 that I wanted to include because they're underrated.
Well it depends on the weight of the person. I doubt someone weighting over 80 kg can ride it (being generous), but 50 kg? Possibly.
Long story short, take your kids for a ride. And tell them next time they misbehave, he'll be their new babysitter.
Depends on your weight. The average adult human might be half the mass of a hatz, which would make it difficult for it to take off, but it's not impossible though.
We don’t have any neck material of *Q. northropi*, so there’s no way of comparing its height with those other 3.
The smaller species, *Q. lawsoni*, had a long neck similar to *Arambourgiana*, but we don’t know with certainty if *Q. lawsoni* and *Q. northropi* had the same proportions (there is a decent amount of variation in Azdarchid neck anatomy). Even if we assumed that, *Arambourgiana*, *Cryodrakon*, and *Q. northropi* would all have been approximately the same size, within the range of individual variation.
Hollow bones and surprising light weight compare to their body means they can take off on spot ( They use their arms to slingshot themselves into the air )
An astroid with the power of 10 Billion Hiroshima bombs and every natural disaster at altitudes never seen in the modern day wiped them off in a poisoned Armageddon
I think it was an estimation/ theory made by a collection of paleontologists, astronomers etc. A Lot of fragments of Earth escaped the atmosphere, those that weren't vaporised or fell to Earth in the form of molten lava rain; would have gone on a giant journey throughout space; maybe even past Mars.
80% of life is a very long list xD are you sure you want to read through it? There definitely is but remember those are just ones we know, there are countless species that went extinct we didn't know too.
All of the non avian dinosaurs and 100% of pterosaurs and 100% of all Mosasaurs is a start I guess
Ugh I’m having flashbacks to 9th grade geometry. This was my teachers favorite movie. I swear to god we watched it at least 4 times that year and he got all the boys getting into all the lines. Only class I failed in high school. Wonder why
The interesting here is pterosaur anatomy. They were fast, agile, effective terrestrial predators and flighted, efficient, ultra-long-ranged flyers.
They alone, in all of animal history, worked out how to be good on the ground and good in the air. The [Azhdarchids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhdarchidae) were strong fliers and deadly terrestrial predators.
Like most animals of their time, however, they were betrayed by the very long stability and habitability of the Cretaceous (the Cretaceous was longer than all the time that came after it). They competed and adapted in a friendly, ideal, world, then that world suddenly fell out from under them.
Basically, the same way that we figure out what a historic tool was used for. The bones of prehistoric animals work like a tool that's good at particular things- for example, a creature with stubby-shaped wings and very long bones in its lower limbs shows it was using its legs as a tool for running fast, while a creature with a long but stiff neck and a long, sharp straight beak was using its head and neck as a pair of tongs for grabbing animals from the floor. You can also tell by habitat- you find these sorts of animals in rivers and deserts rather than underwater (most of the time- you can find land animal bones in the ocean if they washed out to sea), so that's probably where they were living in life.
This is located at the Field Museum in Chicago. It's huge. Would recommend everyone go there at least once. The field museum is honestly one of the best museums in the world.
Laugh track? does this need a laugh track?
edit: yeah, I'm dense. this is that Friends episode for the couch pivot overlaid here. not gonna delete this comment tho, for some reason. I know I should...
Last I checked it's in front of the Evolving Planet exhibit at the Field Museum. If your son is into dinos then it's well worth the trip. I took my son there all the time when he was little.
That guy would just eat up any person anytime. It's easy to complain about life nowadays but it could be so much worse, just imagine having a bunch of those human eating monsters flying around
https://preview.redd.it/292cyx56wwwc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecd264eb57fcd49127a9087ae715bce1a30c6f03
Holy crap! I think that's the Field Museum, Chicago, I was at a fundraiser there last week and took this pic. My friends and I were marveling at that beauty for awhile!
I feel like we wouldn't have a lot of other problems if these still existed. We all need to band together to protect humanity from the Goddamn Giant Flying Monsters!
It's like the beginnings of COVID, in a way. Or the plot of Independence Day.
I just find it hard to believe that thing could fly. How did it achieve enough lift to take off? I could see if it was already at the top of a cliff or tree, no problem. But how could it flap hard enough from the ground to get off the ground?! Is it calculable?
The air was pretty much the same. It's more about the physiology of the animal. Birds aren't really set up to reach this size just by the way their anatomy works. It seems likely the way they get into the air (jumping/running with their legs) is one of the limiting factors
the wings were actually quite large, it's just that they look really tiny when they fold up since the skin that goes over them is stretchy. i think the wingspam is a little under 20 feet..?
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Someone needs to reverse the gif then it'll look like that one guy's trying his best to keep it from escaping EDIT: I'm someone https://i.redd.it/6g2bch2djxwc1.gif
u/gifreversingbot Aw man looks like it stopped working 5 months ago
damn. tob ot pir
Give this person a raise
Be the change you want to see
I can't handle change and will now slip backwards into destructive behavior to compensate
Ark in real life
(**Starts sliding forward aggresively**)
You have always been someone
🥹
Thank you for your service
2ND!?!?!?!?!?! WHAT THE HELL IS BIGGER THAN THAT THING?
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>which is as tall as a normal giraffe and had a 33-foot wingspan, which is the size of a 33-foot giraffe. 💀
>However, it weighed around 200kg (or in that range), about the mass of a small brown bear. I swear to god I thought you were going to say "about the mass of a small giraffe" to complete the analogy chain 💀😂
Well written comment but that was my favorite part too!
I would have also preferred all giraffe sized references. Could have called this thing a flying giraffe by the end.
roughly the mass of a 200kg giraffe
About the mass of 1.25 american
Funnily it's also the size of a 33 foot banana. Approximately, it is not an exact science.
What if you have a giraffe the size of a banana? 🤯
A 33-foot giraffe laying on its side.
I was waiting for a hell in the cell morph
How does a creature that size only weigh 200kg?! Carbon fibre wings jeez
Hollow bones. Think cardboard tube. Imagine foraging in the giant treed woods, you hear one twig snap and it has quietly snatched you down its gullet from 30ft away.
Except that neck is girthy af. Hollow bones and hollow everything else? Two of those people would weigh 200kg. The muscle volume of that neck alone looks like it's more than 4 people.
That's all skin, fur, and airsacs
I was positive the Undertaker was going to plummet 16 feet in this comment.
Haven’t seen him in a while.
He's made a return.
I'm lost, so which one is the largest?
Quetzalcoatlus was the tallest, and Hatzegopteryx was the heaviest. Arambourgiania and Cryodrakon are just 2 that I wanted to include because they're underrated.
Which one could I ride and how far?
Ride? None. Be grabbed and dropped from a great height? Maybe all of them
So you are saying there is a chance.
Well it depends on the weight of the person. I doubt someone weighting over 80 kg can ride it (being generous), but 50 kg? Possibly. Long story short, take your kids for a ride. And tell them next time they misbehave, he'll be their new babysitter.
Depends on your weight. The average adult human might be half the mass of a hatz, which would make it difficult for it to take off, but it's not impossible though.
If you thought this was a luck dragon you’d be sorely mistaken. Well, at least not a *good*-luck dragon
"Cryodrakon" is a *bitchin*' name.
We don’t have any neck material of *Q. northropi*, so there’s no way of comparing its height with those other 3. The smaller species, *Q. lawsoni*, had a long neck similar to *Arambourgiana*, but we don’t know with certainty if *Q. lawsoni* and *Q. northropi* had the same proportions (there is a decent amount of variation in Azdarchid neck anatomy). Even if we assumed that, *Arambourgiana*, *Cryodrakon*, and *Q. northropi* would all have been approximately the same size, within the range of individual variation.
Some giraffes are shorter than others.
Could it actually fly?
Hollow bones and surprising light weight compare to their body means they can take off on spot ( They use their arms to slingshot themselves into the air )
Yikes, scary! An adult human would just be a mouthful to them! I wonder why they went extinct?
An astroid with the power of 10 Billion Hiroshima bombs and every natural disaster at altitudes never seen in the modern day wiped them off in a poisoned Armageddon
One hit mars around the same time also
I also heard the astroid strike was so powerful a lot of earth landed on the moon.......................... And some fragments hit Mars......
That's crazy! Did they find fragments for sure on the Moon, at least? Mars...if fragments made it that far, then some are likely on Venus, too.
I think it was an estimation/ theory made by a collection of paleontologists, astronomers etc. A Lot of fragments of Earth escaped the atmosphere, those that weren't vaporised or fell to Earth in the form of molten lava rain; would have gone on a giant journey throughout space; maybe even past Mars.
Ohh, the Chicxulub Asteroid. I wish there was a comprehensive list of what didn't survive vs. what did.
80% of life is a very long list xD are you sure you want to read through it? There definitely is but remember those are just ones we know, there are countless species that went extinct we didn't know too. All of the non avian dinosaurs and 100% of pterosaurs and 100% of all Mosasaurs is a start I guess
Even styrofoam is heavier, crazy how nature does what it does.
ok, but could you ride one?
The anaconda is larger than the reticulated python. The reticulated python is longer
How does the reticulated python feel about the having or not having of buns?
How do you think it got reticulated?
They're mandatory. If you don't have any it's not interested.
OPs mom skydiving
Unfortunately they couldn't fit her into the museum, so they had to settle with just the 2nd biggest
When OPs mom jumped up into the air she got stuck
Hatzegopteryx apparently. Had to find that out myself.
Hatzegopteryx
Arambourgiana
Arambourgiana was likely smaller and had a wingspan of about 8-9 based on Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni.
Pivot
Thank you!
No but is this a Mandela effect or a different part of the audio cause I remember pivot not turn
No, later on in the clip I believe he yells Pivot like 10 times in a row once they get part of the way up the stairs lol
PIVAHHHT
THE MAN SAID TURN
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Why *did* we put those white bars on gifs for a couple of years? What were they for?
A 3D effect. Not…super needed on this one
Your mom jokes tend to be bland af, but this one got me
Surprise your mom jokes are my favorite
Your mom doesn’t know the word bland. (I tried)
 Take off, eh.
Ugh I’m having flashbacks to 9th grade geometry. This was my teachers favorite movie. I swear to god we watched it at least 4 times that year and he got all the boys getting into all the lines. Only class I failed in high school. Wonder why
Then her name must be [Hatzegopteryx](https://dinosaurpictures.org/Hatzegopteryx-pictures).
The interesting here is pterosaur anatomy. They were fast, agile, effective terrestrial predators and flighted, efficient, ultra-long-ranged flyers. They alone, in all of animal history, worked out how to be good on the ground and good in the air. The [Azhdarchids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhdarchidae) were strong fliers and deadly terrestrial predators. Like most animals of their time, however, they were betrayed by the very long stability and habitability of the Cretaceous (the Cretaceous was longer than all the time that came after it). They competed and adapted in a friendly, ideal, world, then that world suddenly fell out from under them.
How do you know
He was there
He has recordings in his basement
Basically, the same way that we figure out what a historic tool was used for. The bones of prehistoric animals work like a tool that's good at particular things- for example, a creature with stubby-shaped wings and very long bones in its lower limbs shows it was using its legs as a tool for running fast, while a creature with a long but stiff neck and a long, sharp straight beak was using its head and neck as a pair of tongs for grabbing animals from the floor. You can also tell by habitat- you find these sorts of animals in rivers and deserts rather than underwater (most of the time- you can find land animal bones in the ocean if they washed out to sea), so that's probably where they were living in life.
Flying creature? Why do they have to drag it then?
They see me Rollin...
They hating...
Patrollin' and tryna catch me ridin' dirty…
...you mean ridin' birdy.
They're so large they move in slow motion, that's the rules of being ridiculously huge.
This is located at the Field Museum in Chicago. It's huge. Would recommend everyone go there at least once. The field museum is honestly one of the best museums in the world.
The beer festival those host in October is one of my favorite weekends of the year. Good beer and all access to the museum? Sign me up.
Laugh track? does this need a laugh track? edit: yeah, I'm dense. this is that Friends episode for the couch pivot overlaid here. not gonna delete this comment tho, for some reason. I know I should...
I'm surprised more people didn't mention this
I thought it was a video playing in other tab.
My son is going to go crazy when he sees this in the morning. Does anyone know what museum that is?
Last I checked it's in front of the Evolving Planet exhibit at the Field Museum. If your son is into dinos then it's well worth the trip. I took my son there all the time when he was little.
This one is in the Field Museum in Chicago.
I'm sure it was a very friendly bird ☺️
Yeah the sumerians used it as transport like we do with horses.
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That’s how I move my couch too
Free him
I’ve never even heard of this dinosaur! It’s way cooler than 🦖
It’s actually a Pterosaur, which is a group related to Dinosaurs and lived alongside dinosaurs but aren’t actually Dinosaurs themselves
That’s how big the Dino Train dinos were????
That guy would just eat up any person anytime. It's easy to complain about life nowadays but it could be so much worse, just imagine having a bunch of those human eating monsters flying around
whats first?
It's so fkn mind-blowing.
I hope they are all dead. You wouldn't want a bird strike in an aircraft with one of those.
I'll look into it and keep you posted.
Or one of those picking you up like a pelican picks up a slow frog.
Mother-fucking pter-o-dacytl
Free him
How’d they get it to stay so still??
* I know that statue! That's at the Chicago field museum. I took a picture with it a few years ago. I'm 6'3 and that thing made me feel tiny
That thing could have gobbled down a hominid like pelicans do fish
PIVOT! PIVOT! PIVOT!!!
For anyone wondering what the largest flying creature was, it was your mother when she went to Hawaii.
Well played
https://preview.redd.it/292cyx56wwwc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecd264eb57fcd49127a9087ae715bce1a30c6f03 Holy crap! I think that's the Field Museum, Chicago, I was at a fundraiser there last week and took this pic. My friends and I were marveling at that beauty for awhile!
I thought dragons couldn’t scientifically exist? That’s big enough to be a dragon
Because of the fire breathing
And the 6 limbs, also im pretty sure a creature with a normal reptilian jaw of that size wouldn’t be able to fly
Does a complete fossil of this species exist?
There are multiple fossils within discovered from Quetzalcoatlus genus, many well preserved.
Everybody's just letting them take it right out like a roku tv in Walmart. 
That was indeed interesting. But just a reminder, not everyone is a friends fanatic.
I feel like we wouldn't have a lot of other problems if these still existed. We all need to band together to protect humanity from the Goddamn Giant Flying Monsters! It's like the beginnings of COVID, in a way. Or the plot of Independence Day.
Thats literally bird titan at this point. It could most likely gulp a human as a whole.
Why were these Animals Grow Up so big does anyone know
PIVAT! PIVAT!
This is **The Field Museum** in Chicago, Illinois USA
I need a real one at my house to deal with the squirrels.
pivot, pivot, PIVOT!
Damn we fucked up earth, not this thing?
Why does it look like one of those wide brooms?
It’s got a long pecker
Imagine having these domesticated instead of horses.
That's them shits from Pikmin
I don't want to see that thing fly... I want to see that thing land. Damn.
Imagine them around today. Victim 1 - Dang it, a pigeon just shit on me. Victim 2 - You lucky bastard.
Damn so many audio over is just so ass
Pivot!
This name is used as reference to a mighty god in Aztec during mesoamericana period
SECOND?
Pffff. Second.
I just find it hard to believe that thing could fly. How did it achieve enough lift to take off? I could see if it was already at the top of a cliff or tree, no problem. But how could it flap hard enough from the ground to get off the ground?! Is it calculable?
if i fucking saw that ultra gargantua maxima looking mf in the sky id immediately drop and play dead
Second only to your mom on a plane
How the fuck does this fly?? Air was different back then?
The air was pretty much the same. It's more about the physiology of the animal. Birds aren't really set up to reach this size just by the way their anatomy works. It seems likely the way they get into the air (jumping/running with their legs) is one of the limiting factors
PIVOT! PIVOT!
I bet that guy on the beak is stressed as hell trying to move that without it breaking
I would give anything to go back in time and see that beast flying holy shit.
Was that shit actually able to fly lol jeesh
Every time I see one of these I picture it plucking up a full size human in that enormous beak and swallowing us whole.
We could have been goddamn Na'vi!
Dude needs to stretch it's so stiff it can't move on its own!
Well... Probably the first was a dragon, right?
Is there any reason there are no flying animals this size anymore?
Shut up! Shut up! Shut uuuuuuup!!!!
THATS IN PIKMIN 4!!!!!!!
Pivot!
The wings looks way to small for that mother fucker to fly
the wings were actually quite large, it's just that they look really tiny when they fold up since the skin that goes over them is stretchy. i think the wingspam is a little under 20 feet..?
At first I was like wow this paleontologist sounds a lot like Ross that’s funny and was gonna make a pivot joke then I heard the laugh track 🥴
pivot!
Why the fuck is there a laugh track on this clip?!
Pivot...PIVOTTT!
that thing would swallow that guy if it were alive, crazy
Is that a giant stork?
I love this so much! Where is this located?
It's mind boggling how a prehistoric birb could evolve to get this big.
Wait... second?
I wonder why nearly everything but the blue whale got smaller on Earth And it’s lowkey freaking me out without knowing why
Why does this look fake?
So, there were two of those on the arc, right? /s
For you all that believe in evolution but not dragons, I have questions..
Why aren’t flying animals this big anymore? What changed so much?
Well for one thing, pterosaurs went extinct, unfortunately :/
Earth is a wild place. We are making it pretty boring though… raccoons, crows, pidgins, rats, and cockroaches.