Could Giant Azhdarchids survive in the modern day?
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Giant Azhdarchids were unique an incredible animals, but could they survive today?
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“Could giant azhdarchids survive in the modern day?”
Poachers: “allow us to introduce ourselves-“
They'll be priced for their beaks or heads.
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Basically they would become apex predators in almost all environments. They would be the dragons of real life
The only predators that could bring them down in the modern day are large bears
@@soudino2723 Lions, hienas and tigers too
They would be hard to kill even for lions and tigers.
@@alduweiner9811 Tigers are much stronger than the biggest pterosaur. Lions and hienas hunt in packs. Such predators would be dangerous for those animals
@@fabriziobiancucci7702 ehh idk pterasaur as big as that would be intimidating and their quite powerful. All I'm saying is that hyenas and lions would have a hard time trying to take down an animal 800 pounds with a beak that can crack skulls and might even be able to swoop down and grab one cause they were capable of carrying small Dino's away.
Keep in mind that the striking range of these things is absolutely immense. Even with no torso or limb movement they can hit something 5 meters away.
Also imagine getting hit by a beak larger then you are with lots of speed and power behind it. It would be like being hit by a tank cannon and instantly fatal for a human.
A man with a pike may do its like
A man with a bow could bring them low
A man with a gun would have fun
@@marsfreelander5969I'm a man with an azhdarchid
@@znail4675 is that even proven with actual science behind it? How are their neck muscles even like? Is it even meant for or capable of that function.
I see alot of fluff in the comments but no science yet
@@G.I_JaneStill, not inconceivable, given the mass difference. Adapted for that purpose on the other hand? Probably not.
F-15 fighter jet seeing one of these pop up on radar: “Allow me to introduce myself”
Image of a Quetzal performing a Cobra XD
Azhdarchids could definitely dominate most modern ecosystems. They were massive and had a huge strike range. One species that has a special place is Hatzegopteryx. That one was evolved to be an apex predator, being much more robust and heavy than the other species, allowing it to attack and consume much larger prey. So even animals deemed too big in this vid would be fair game. It’s probably only the biggest animals, like elephants and rhinos, that they couldn’t handle.
Nah, they would just peck the elephants and rhinos to death. The narrator underestimates how these giant pterosaurs would just curb stomp every land animal on earth. For Bears and Big Cats, they can be easily be pecked to death and thrown around like a rag doll. These are animals that no modern creature has evolved to counter against, it would decimate every major land animal to extinction in a generation.
@@goldensaurusno it wouldn’t 😂
bro they weren't 80 feet tall their beaks could definitely not break through a rhino or elephant's skull, considering most small fire arms cant even do that.@@goldensaurus
@@goldensaurusone rhino charge or elephant charge and that things getting fucked up beyond belief
*in Australian accent* "an azhdarchid ate ya baby...."
I love that you incorporate the idea of oxygen and atmospheric levels. So many speculative videos do not take into account the oxygen differences, and that would make a huge difference to creatures who require more oxygen to live than what we currently have today. Thanks for adding in that tidbit, and explaining why it might still be feasible for these particular animals to survive today's atmospheric conditions. I enjoyed this one!
It prob wouldn’t affect them as much since being a avian built for soaring at higher altitude they could acclimatize to differing oxygen levels easier than terrestrial megafauna
The oxygen levels when Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx live isn't far different compared to today
its important to remember that despite their height, large pterosaurs only weighed around 500 pounds due to their lightweight bones and skinny stature needed for flight. This would make them much more vulnerable to heavier set mammalian creatures than it might initially appear.
Possibly, but you have to consider the fear factor. They’re still as tall as Giraffes, with colossal beaks that could skewer most land animals today. Sneaking up on such a tall animal is an even taller order. Even if a pride of lions hunted one they may never come out without at least one member lethally injured from a single peck of a 6 foot beak. That is when the Azdarchids aren’t preying on the big cats themselves.
@@The_Story_Of_Usokay my dude I understand you like and hype azhdarchids and it's fantastic and all but there is no way a giant pterosaur to try and hunt a lion
That is as nonsensical a saying a stork trying to hunt a badger
You can conceive azhdarchids maybe initially untill they learn how to counter intimidating some lions or hyenas for food and why not giving some traumatic stabbing to some lion, maybe fatal of lucky but it's ridiculous the idea of preying on cats, the most specialized carnivorous mammals whom I remind you just takes one mistake of the pterosaur and a lion thorns to shreds like a gazelle
@@a.r.h9919 My guy, listen, "giant pterosaur" is a phrase you veeeery quickly dismissed at a critical point...
Let's take Quetzalcoatlus. An active hunter and scavenger, literally stands as tall as a Giraffe with a sharp beak so long it could fit multiple lions on it like a shish kebab. Same applies for Hatzegopteryx
Listen, there is a reason why these flying menaces thrived for dozens of millions of years (literally several times longer than cats have ever existed) in a world full of predatory theropods that would turn a whole pride of lions into mincemeat that it no less would have to COMPETE WITH for food.
It's practically science that lions would at best be a nuisance and at worst be prey for these literally aeroplane-sized flying killers.
@@The_Story_Of_Us so let me get this straight
You argue Quetzalcoatlus thrived for millions of years longer than any big cat by competing for food with theropods, which is an incredibly vapid comparison
Vultures and marabou storks also have for millions of years been competing with lions and other mega predators for food so what is that argument ? how do we translate that? Also just because an animal thrived on a completely different environment with completely different predators with completely different behaviours to even make a reasonable accurate comparison to mammals is automatically proof enough to say at face value; yes of course that happened
Practical science of what my dude ? Do you even know how this animals acted to begin with ? other than what we can collect from bones and doing some field studies, it's mostly speculation how could their lifestyle or behaviours was.
The 'closest' and I remark we have of an analogue to an azhdarchid is the marabou stork yet those animals don't try to mess with jackals on pairs if possible because if they get cornered there's little they can do even if their beak can mess the jackal or wound it let alone a wild dog or lions despite towering them in height, they have nothing on strength or resistance
Just because you saw prehistoric planet which takes a deal of speculation doesn't mean that was the reality back then nor translate that into modern world and the reality is that predator animals including scavengers try the most to don't get an injury because if they do they can be hindered or starve if not die from an infection and you can safely say that was the same in prehistoric and recent animals
Sure they could scare with their imposing presence smaller carnivores and nowadays they would as well, being able to prey on some small animals like size of a dog
Look, lions don't even typically hunt giraffes. What makes you think they would go for a flying giraffe?
"Only" 500 pounds, these things are in the same weight class as a grizzly bear
"most of the area being used by humans"
I mean, I could see them going after pets and pests. Problem is that they might also go after children, or some particularly robust species or individuals might try to attack adult humans and large livestock which would likely get them killed eventually.
giant azdarchids like quetzalcoatlus and hatzegopteryx will absolutely put humans in their prey range, is argue even some smaller species like arambourgiana and cryodrakon can and will hunt adult humans too
@@richie_0740I don't think that's the issue here. I believe the problem is that, yes, they can kill humans, but humans are... vengeful, and very persistent. Evidently we're also just terribly as prey in the first place. Most likely the azhdarchids would either learn to not hunt humans, between immense retaliatory violence and poor nutritional pay-off, or perhaps they'll get smaller straight up due to us culling the biggest and easiest targets first.
What an interesting topic i rarely see videos regarding pterosaurs living in more modern times since most projects focus on the survival of dinosaurs and solely dinosaurs without paying much attention to the pterosaurs
this videos seems mostly concerned with what full grown azhdarchids could eat, but azhdarchids don't pop out the egg as giants. I feel many of them would fall to felines and birds of prey before they were big enough to swallow a guinea pig, especially if they exhibit little parental care. God forbid they nested on the ground.
As a Floridian, gators would take off the moment an azhdarchid appears they only close in on medium to small sized animals
If we ignore the fact that they would 100% eat someone and then immediately get killed off by swarms of fighter jets then yeah sure
An attack chopper would do.
They absolutely could survive, they are basically big and terrifying pelicans that can swallow almost any living thing
Which means that they could pose a potential problem for humans since they would inevitably enter human environments, and we all know how it goes by now, these things would be destroyed by humans, whether it be poachers, hunters or just people defending their live stocks or other humans in general.
@@dawoodwilliams3652
If they can "enter human environments" that's good for them.
Animals that thrive in "human environments" are doing great. Wild pigs, rats, racoons, etc. Just because people instantiate some pest control doesn't mean those animals aren't doing good overall.
@@MrCmon113 Don't you think there's a pattern in the animals you mentioned? That pattern being that none of those animals pose any direct threat to humans? Do a quick google search on some of the animals that predated on humans that were driven to extinction like the Eurasian lion that has the only remnants living in India because of the royal protection of a very very small group. The Azhdarchids would probably survive because of our modern morals regarding the preserving of species and the technology that allows us to keep track and protect these species but they would have 100% been driven off from any human populated areas either by force or some other means and were they to be introduced 150ish years ago they would have most likely been driven to extinction
no human with gunfire destroying them
"Adult boars would be unlikely to fight back, let aline succed"
This is how one can tell if you ever hunted (or encountered) a boar.
What does a boar do when it encounters a bear ?The bear is 1/2 size of an killer giraffe with wings. That is what he means not a small human (with a gun).
@@Leon-bc8hmyou're actually somewhat right, considering Hatzegopteryx, the largest pterosaurz was as *large* as an average grizzly bear, if not bigger (700-800, or even 900 pounds)
Not saying they are defensless but have you seen the videis, they mostly run and only attack when there is a hunter alone or desesperate
@@Cryodrakon2 No, they were as heavy, but Hatzegopteryx makes a Grizzly look like a rodent or prey. A Grizzly is pretty scary within arms reach, but for someone with a 5 meter long giant spear so are they much less of a threat.
@@Cryodrakon2 Hatzegopteryx was not the largest pterosaur. That was Quetzalcoatlus. Quetz was in a similar weight class but was also taller and with a wider wingspan.
This was great. I'd love something like "Could iron age town survive in Triassic period"
That would be wonderful. I reckon they'd do better in the Triassic than the late Cretaceous. I want to see " What would happen if the Roman Empire invaded late Cretaceous Laramidia?"
Yes, humans would clap basically anything if they didn’t die instantly.
I am not so sure about intimidation being enough to fend off jaguars. Sometimes it feels like those animals’ aggression knows no bounds.
Jaguars don't have to compete with many predators larger than themselves, and also jaguar do occasionally become prey to black caiman and anaconda. So the large pterosaurs could definitely make them back down
It works for anteaters (tho they definitely back up their bark with proper bite)
I mean the Jaguar would’ve never encountered an animal this tall and intimidating, I think they would be very wary of them at least at first
@@egg7247 Sorry but you're wrong, here in Brazil the jaguar simply destroys an adult anaconda
@@Cope_Paleontology "Green anacondas are one of the largest snakes in the world. Reports of anaconda attacks on humans are rare, but these boas can take down large prey, including jaguars."
-Smithsonian's National Zoo
I think they could probably fly with way more than 100 lbs of food, based on how generous most models are to their launching abilities, and physically consume it, based on how large their throat openings are. I think wolves and even adult deer could be on the menu for at least some of them, as would humans.
Look at how hilariously large things herons sometimes consume?
Exactly. People forget that they were shaped like planes also, and planes are more than capable of carrying extra weight. And they NEEDED to eat to survive, so obviously they're able to carry more than their body weight or they'd starve to death. And it's not like they'd develop mouths big enough to fit human-sized food only to just... NOT be able to eat food that big because they can't fly. Or, if they did, they'd have adaptations to survive even while unable to fly due to a full stomach- and if they could survive using those adaptations when dinosaurs like T. rex were around, they could survive with bears around.
So your saying lighter humans could possibly ride them?
@@Maimkillburn69in their beak, not on their back, I don't know why something would carry it's live prey on it's back lmao, for a serious answer their backs were probably too weak to lift 150-ish pounds of human, but their beak would be no problem
@@Cryodrakon2 so your saying a small person can sit on their head
Considering that most animals can be startled by opening an umbrella... That concept, but Giraffe sized.
Imagine a hatzegoptyeryx getting its ass kicked by a goddamn camel
tbh a camel is way heavier and (i think) have sharp teeth
I think they could tolerate colder weather than you give them credit. We have fossils from polar environments and their wings were covered in fluff. I could see them getting thick winter coats of pycnofibers and pterrorizing penguins.
*feathers
@@BigAl2-u7esir, they purposefully used the word fluff. You can also call feathers fluff so…
Cryodrakon is the azhdarchid you're referring to.
My boi has its name that means "frozen dragon" ❄🐉
@@YouraverageBritishRex
Read it again.
@@BigAl2-u7e pycnofibers? Or coat? Cause both would still be correct.
Australia seems perfect for these things. Lots of open space, it’s weirdness fits right in with all the other jank, and the Kangaroos will still square up to it like any other living thing, lol.
The real question is: Could the modern day survive large Azhdarchids?
Yes and yes
The moment these things hork down an eight year old or start interfering with air traffic, it is ON SIGHT.
Modern-day humans (or at least WW1 and up) would likely build anti-air installations (not SAMs but HMGs and AA autocannons) in the cities and towns to shoot down these guys.
Absolutely love these. I feel like pre humans would be better to bring creatures into. The devastated world right now missing so many animals just feels odd to put animals into.
as in introduce mesozoic fauna sometime in the past 2 million years?
I agree. The modern world is missing so many megafauna and hasn't had time to recover, it's no wonder azhdarchids would be so dominant.
@@Sedimented.Studios Think like
cavemen before they wiped large animals out across everywhere but africa and like india
Perhaps into the Holocene or Pleistocene like setting would be nice
@@Sedimented.Studios yeah pretty much. I mean I can see why nowadays has appeal but with most of the world so devastated it just kinda sucks
Long story short, with their size and ability to fly they'd basically conquer the world and join the club of poacher magnets alongside with rhinos and elephants.
love these videos,seeing which would come into nowadays
I don't think we'd protect azdarchids. I think we'd eradicate them with extreme prejudice.
Bears and tigers can be managed, hell even tyrannosaurs because they don't have a large ability of mobility. Something that can soar hundreds of miles from its wilderness home and swoop down on a school oval to refuel is not exactly going to last very long.
Unless…they could be tamed….
Really puts into perspective that we live past 'dragons'. More threatening to humans than perhaps most dinosaurs; at the very least threatening to children.
Pretty sure human adults would be in the prey envelope. See storks bashing apart larger prey items prior to swallowing for reference.
Great video, probably your best one yet!
Given how ancient alligators are, I'd imagine that if one of these big birds found it's way into a swamp the gator would just be like "yooo what the hell u doin back here again"
This is amazing, azhdarchids are amazing, W video 👍🗿
thank you!
Amazing Vídeo Man
Thank you
For the South American coasts, its all fun and games until the Orcas start grabbing Azdarchids.
this is one of my favoraite types of videos on your channel
This is amazing and I need more of these kind of videos of “what ifs [insert extinct species here] returned to the modern day”
Definitely I’ll make a lot more
Besides prehistoric water animals, any prehistoric land animal would struggle to survive today, because Humans exist.
These things would be poached into Oblivion, not to mention if they enter a city, they would immediately be put down
Awesome video, now could you make one about Upper Palaeolithic or Neolithic Humans surviving in the Mesozoic? To make it balanced. I think Iron Age humans would be too much for the local fauna.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the Neolithic correspond to the copper age?
@@YaBoiDREX Nope, Chalcolithic comes after the Neolithic.
@@rohacha9iin40 then how did you get Iron Age humans from the Neolithic? At best they’d just be starting agriculture.
They would've become the dragons that came out of legends.
Would love to see a video of “Could Gigantopithecus survive in the modern day”
I think you are underestimating the damage potential of their beak, both for dispatching larger prey and deterring other carnivores. I mean its basically a giant spear, the prospect of the tip of that going anywhere near your face is deterrent enough. Secondly I'd not assume that they could not break up a carcass if they wanted to. Something like a deer or cow is a few feeds and it can always come back later to eat its fill again. We see crocs doing the same thing today.
I like your topics... Keep up the good work....
Thank you
any videos about the last ice age .. some very interesting mammals walked this earth.@@Sedimented.Studios
always very entertaining .
thank you!
@@Sedimented.Studios
Could (Dromaeosauridae) And (Oviraptorosaur) With (Troodontidae) Survive In The Modern Days.
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[ A. | Dromaeosauridae ]
- Dromaeosaurus
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- Bambiraptor
- Deinonychus
- Acheroraptor
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- Austroraptor
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[ B. | Oviraptorosaur ]
- Oviraptor
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[ C. | Troodontidae ]
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it’s sad that poachers may hunt these amazing creatures for their trophies. dang it, wished poachers didn’t exist.
Time for them to go extinct those cowardly poachers and trophy hunters.
@@Leon-bc8hm poor things get hunted down for their heads (trophy) 😭
Great video
Humans- hahahahahahaha you aren’t taking my spot🦖🔫 😂
Definitely as long as humans don't kill them all. Lots of food and lots of mobility to escape predators.
If the modern day didn't have humans, I believe they can survive and thrive just fine.
However I think they will be hunted heavily and their numbers will dwindle
Imagine a giraffe landing in your garden, swallowing your dog and flying off.
Azdarchids would absolutely thrive in open areas and nothing would threaten them due to their intimidation ability, also azdarchids were actually pretty agile, they had the ability to gallop like modern horses using their dynamic head for maneuverability and their powerful wings for direction but they most certainly lacked the stamina to do that for long.
I think if these things evolved side-by-side with man they would have shaped human evolution to the point where we might not have evolved in the way we did. Especially if they evolved into "flock" hunters. Imagine a flock of 100 or 200 giraffe-sized predators descending on ancient man, pre-gunpowder days, or 1000s of German Shepard-sized flying carnivores developing methods of attacking places like Central Park in the 1800s, the world would look much different.
Yeah, these animals would most likely do very well in modern times, if people don't wipe them out, and don't deplete their sources of food of course!
I read the title as "giant arachnids" and was waiting for a spider to show up the whole time. Lmao
Please do more
12:51 I would like to argue. Even they are so big, tigers are kniwn to hunt rhinos, elephants, and gaur who are all heavier than the axarchids
With their wings tucked in, they'd essentially just be giraffe-sized. Which some animals do hunt. But if they spread their wings out fully, there's no land animal today that could really compete with them in terms of apparent 'size'. There are many heavier animals today, but none who would take up as much space. Crazy intimidation, they'd look huge. If they were ambushed and caught off guard, they'd probably not be too much trouble for a tiger. But I have my doubts that many things would go for them if they were ready to be attacked and did a proper 'threat display'
Animals are not going to attack something that appears much bigger than they are unless they’re desperate all they’d have to do is spread their wings and they’d dwarf any land animal alive on Earth today, for most animals that’s more than enough for them to not even risk attacking the pterosaur even if it might actually be able to kill it if it tried
@@Dell-ol6hb Yes what I am saying os that tigers prey on large animals
@@Dell-ol6hb Erefore, they will be used to the animal, and once they learn they can be hunted, they are going to do it
@@Flaperss12 yea I’m just saying that nothing in the tiger’s environment would appear as big as an azdharchid, therefore they probably wouldn’t even attempt it unless they were desperate. But once a tiger tries to kill one and if it succeeds then it will try again and be less scared of it.
Snakes would get bullied HARD.
There is no snake in the world with the striking range to threaten an azhdarchid. Even a spitting cobra would not reach the eyes before the azhdarchid hits it with its beak.
I think azhdarchids are too large to waste energy going after snakes in particular, maybe larger snakes like anacondas or pythons but they’d certainly prefer larger prey
@@Dell-ol6hbthats like saying birds are wasting their time on finding worms
Maybe not a titanaboa.
@@Dell-ol6hbWhat? Catching a snake would be as easy as one peck. Animals snack too you know😂
The spitting cobra meta begins.
Props to the camera man who went back in time to take the pics of these prehistoric creatures
Azharchids like Quetzalcoatlus would barely budge the ecological balance with humans and larger mammalian megafauna around.
All of these "how would they survive today" videos would always end with these exotic animals being butchered for meat and skin, culled, or otherwise enslaved for labor or entertainment. Such is the fate of all animals with the misfortune of coexisting with humans.
Is the fate of the animals that coexist with any intelligent species. Orcas do almost the same as us. The only rule in nature is that if you are an apex predator you can do whatever you wanted with all the other creatures. It's cruel, but that's how all life on Earth work
That's how it goes. Survival of the fittest. You can ask evolution why it create us with intelligence and consciousness in the first place.
could members of Mosasauridae survive today?
maybe another video topic
Yes.
@@TheRotConsumes.no
@@TheRotConsumes.what about Yknow A Pack of orcas
@@TheRotConsumes.a pack of orcas will body a mosasaur
“Madagasgar would be a great environment for them” until they ate everything within a decade
Picture: Azhdarchid in a savannah
Caption: I hate living in Australia on god
I love the concept of American Colonies trying to establish themselves when the continent was 1st discovered then summer comes round and suddenly
"Oh shit there be dragons."
I love the idea of animals surviving extinction and existing beyond human reach until we start exploring other continents and discovering creatures somassive they would be seen as mythical
It's a constant brain child that if the spinosaurus during its time moved its population closer to the coast lone could of slowly become an aquatic species like the ancestors of mosasaurus and survived extinction only for European settlers to encounter them in the African oceans later on
Kind of a low-blow to suggest that some religions would consider them evil and want to vanquish them... I think the real question on everyone's mind would be whether the government's going to confess to using space/time portals or genetic experiments. Awesome video, keep it up!!
How good they taste would be much bigger effect on how they are hunted
@@macfine Exactly. Or even farmed. If they're delicious it could upset the Thanksgiving turkey industry in less than a decade 🦃
another banger
I'd argue that the available prey items for Azhdarchids if they were place into the modern world wouldn't be limited to what they can swallow. These flying giants undoubtably could deal some serious damage by pecking at potential prey or threats, with Hatzegopteryx having a more lethal bite because it evolved in an environment where it didn't need to compete with large therapods that dominated most food webs (similar to today). What would make their presence felt even more is if they exhibit flocking behavior, and hunted like in Prehistoric Planet season 2.
Lions give up they prey to human not because of intimidation but because they know humans are dangerous. if you try to take over prey from lion where safari tours take place, you gonna be eaten immiedietly . Lions there never been hunted by Humans. So animals that encountered hunting humans think " I fear no animal, but that thing it scares me"
I think the discussion stops at the fact that these organisms adapted during a time when the oxygen levels were much lower. Point of fact, the first Jurassic Park novel points this out, with a wheezing Stegosaurus.
One thing to consider when thinking about where some of these creatures would live in the modern day would be their hunting methods and diets of some species. Some species might be more adept at life living on island chains, looking for prey at sea and possibly perching on the occasional boat to rest, or to get access to a more energy efficient method of looking for food in the water, using their beaks like spears, not unlike how some bird do the same. Some species may be more adapted to scavenging, looking along the coasts or planes for carcasses.
Birds are another thing to consider as they cover a variety of niches and I didn't really see any bird species covered in this. While initially the size of various Azhdarchids may protect them, there are some birds that could possibly hunt them after getting time to adjust. The wing membranes of Azhdarchids are incredibly easy targets for any bird of prey that may seek the challenge of taking one down. Some birds may just sit on their backs while they're flying to rest.
This would give a whole new meaning to wings as a meal.
i was just thinking the military would blast em out of the sky
It’s not just their intimidation factor that would be the issue. A well placed peck would be game over for most animals they encounter, and their beak has quite the reach. Quite the advantage against solitary predators.
hatzegopteryrx would eat decent sized creature being more robust and adapted for tackling larger prey maybe something as big as a black bear or smaller it is a very interesting creature and azhdarchids in general are really fascinating
Azhdarchids: “Badgers? We ain’t got no badgers. We don’t eat no badgers. We don’t have to eat no stinking badgers!!!
So a lot of this video is regarding their ability to complete with other predators or hunt prey, but I think it would have been cool to see how their reproduction would impact their ability to survive too. Like I could see small mammals going after those eggs as a big problem
That must have been an issue back when they lived though plenty of small dinosaur as well as mammalian predators. Maybe they used their flying abilities to raise their young in out of the way higher places. Or given their large size perhaps they had nurseries like emus and ostriches which also face the same issue , with larger adults guarding groups of young (which at least could fly away unlike emus etc.
Flying greatswords
I think you might be underestimating the range of their diet. Assuming a modern azdarchid were as big as Quetzalcoatlus, they would likely eat anything at least as big as a human, and humans themselves would likely be on the menu as well.
"Could modern day survive with Giant Azhdarchids"
There. Fixed.
Id worship the azhdarchids 🙏🏻
Am I the only one who read arachnids and proceeded to watch 2 minutes expecting giant spiders or scorpions
I really feel like it be more miraculous than sacrilege to see a Quetzalcoatlus in the modern day, also I believe humanity can collectively agree its on sight.
Giant prehistoric storks would rule grasslands, open savannas, valleys and probably coastlines too.
It would suck for the rest of us. I've seen a heron swallow a mouse 🙁
Would be terrified to live in a world where i could be snatched up by a weird bird
If a couple azhdarchids would take a step on Madagascar, it would be joever, this will be THERE island
My dyslexic ass read that as “Giant arachnids” and was like “Oh no”
That would be far worse
Video Idea: Could mosasaurus survive modern days??
Good idea
Honestly, i feel like the only problems they would have are airplanes, humans, and pack-hunters
Their mobility would protect them quite a bit, but collisions with airplanes would be devastating for everyone involved
Could the modern day survive Giant Azhdarchids?
I feel like Azdarchids would be able to make good on their threats and intimidation given what they could probably do with that beak. Even a bear or moose is gonna have some trouble with that lance getting stabbed into them and the Azdarchid would have some stupid reach on that.
Many paleonthologists argue most, if not all, Azhdarchids were flightless.
No
@@elmohead very good argument
@@onatgomceli6950 I guess those gigantic wings are for swimming.
many ≠ most
saying they couldn't fly is like saying planes can't fly
Some paleontologists do.
But still, most paleontologists concede that well-known aspects of their anatomy and lifestyle, such as ridiculously strong wing bones, large attachment sites on their bones for flight muscles, adaptations for quick and powerful launch, global distribution, etc. hint at them being flight capable.
Modern debates more so focus on their flight style, with some flight models finding then to be short range burst fliers, while the more traditional models find them to be long distance soarers.
In any case, most paleontologists that have actually studied Azhdarchids agree that they show all the signs of being flying animals.
Pterosaurs be wild 😜
The intimidation factor of grizzlies and wolves would only be a temporary moment. You underestimate that grizzlies and wolves are very intelligent animals and we'll catch on that. It is all bark and no bite with this. Ancient predators and the tables will turned pretty quick
Grizzly bears are extremely protective of their food, as well as being covered with a thick layer of shock absorbing fat.
They sound scary until you realize an average caliber hunting rifle would easily kill them.
I’d like some more thoughts about the feasibility of them living in Europe
A lot of parasitic astigmatan mites, especially more generalist ones, would adapt to feeding on the pterosaurs
Do you think they would flirt with the giraffes mistaking them as their own? Like ostriches with humans.
Other than for the annoying overuse of the word, "countless," a well-made and thoroughly entertaining video.
They can handle cold weather better than modern reptiles? Hard to beat the Emperor Penguin in that respect.
Tigers are usually successful in intimidating asian elephants, which is surprising considering how intelligent they are. I think they would be a serious threat to azhdarchids.
Could temnospondyls survive today
I’m not sure if that’s there name but the giant amphibians
The aviation industry would be nore complex trying to avoid these things, then again Planes are loud and would scare these Lizards.
If they can eat the 8 billion fleashy things all around the globe, then yes