How the Largest Flying Bird of All Time Stayed Airborne
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- With a 24-foot wingspan, how did the prehistoric Pelagornis sandersi, the largest known flying bird of all time, manage to fly so well? It relied on two key factors: a light frame and an ability to soar with the ocean currents.
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It must be so chill being this bird or an albatross, just effortlessly gliding over the sea with your own bird thoughts
And singing that sticky song _"I'm an albatross"_
"How could it stay airborne?"
You....you literally just said it had a wingspan as big as a Harrier jet. I'm guess that had something to do with it.
MC Mosfet underrated comment
It said it could "Rival" so it's not exactly the size of the harrier jump jets wings. Also please correct your comment because its not as big as the entire plane. But your comment seems to tell us that it is.
@@fionndugan8531 It's not OP's comment that needs correcting. The video's narration is what needs correcting. They explained that the wingspan was as wide as a Harrier jet, then without posing the problem that a bird flies differently than a jet, problems of the weight of the bird, etc. went on to ask how it could possibly stay airborne.
IKR that's all Science does today... a lot 🐂💩
The Albatross I would assume rides thermal columns of heated air like a vulture..
I'm just guessing.... I am NOT a scientist ☺
@@fionndugan8531 yeah just as the theory of evolution is not true or supported by a single fact based on the scientific method...
The God of Abraham through His Son Jesus Christ created everything that was ever made. And the story of creation can be found in the book of Genesis chapters one and two. Yet our school and history books seem to tell us otherwise😝😝🙁
-Shows a bird the same size of a jet.
"by modern standards it seems like this bird was too big to fly"
laugh in russian biggest plane ever
Irony
Well, bird flight and the way planes fly is quite different. Planes can fly much, much faster which leads to requiring a far smaller wing to get enough lift.
I mean, too big to fly for something lacking propellers or a jet engine... and in the case of P. sandersi, the ability to really flap your wings.
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and get a view of these prehistoric creatures .
i wish this every day. Our only hope is that we can relive any past moment in the history of the universe in the afterlife.
Me too!!! 🦖🦕🐢🦤🦬🦣🦥
It's a real life HO-OH
Holden Magroin for real
Holden Magroin but not so real and alive anymore...
That's it, I'm playing Pokemon Heartgold after reading this.
ShinyHax I like Pokemon too but like do u really gotta say that
Holden Magroin sweet JEESUS your right
I find it very interesting that the two largest flying birds in prehistory (Pelagornis and Argentavis) and the two largest flying birds today (the wandering albatross and Andean condor) hold identical niches to each other; Pelagornis and wandering albatross are both pelagic fish-eaters while Argentavis and Andean condor are both mountain/plains-dwelling scavengers. It's clear that there's something about those lifestyles that allow flying birds in general to get extremely large.
Also, if you go by modern phylogeny, Pelagornis is in fact, a reptile, as all birds are.
im very late, but argentavis has been found to have not been like a vulture at all, its niche was closer to a caracara and an eagle than that of a condor. they could go as far as chase prey on foot even.
even argentavis isnt exactly like modern albatrosses, and would have been like a mix of large petrel and albatross, although a bit more on the albatross side.
Yup smaller species are more resilient to extinction, but what’s even more interesting is that these birds convergent it evolved with pterosaurs from 65mya and they’re not that closely related (birds & pterosaurs are in same clade archosaura tho)
@@joakos1122 pterosaurs and birds arent only on archosauria, they are even closer, being both inside ornithodira. also, in what trait do you mean they converged
Argentavis is not a Scavenger, As you may think. Argentavis is a completely misidentified bird, As it is not a vulture species, As stated by the so called experts. I Believe that Argentavis Magnificence, Kills what it eats everyday.
@@johnwalker9315 they were identified as vultures years ago due to the fact they are actually related to them quite closely, this view remained unchanged for many years until a some people started to reavaliate the animal and discovered they were much more similar to caracaras than vultures and had a completely diferent niche than their modern relatives.
Imagine cleaning your car after a load from this bird lands on it from 500ft.
Ashok teja you will need a new windshield...😂😂
You must clean up the remains of your car afterwards...
Naif Mohammad Sharif ?..
Buy a new car, your car is beyond repair...
Then your car will not be in one piece.
Staying airborn? Not a huge deal. Getting airborn. Bigger deal.
Modern albatrosses can vouch for that!
@@CJCroen1393 yeah I agree
Landing must have been an issue too
@@somebody1199 it didn't have to land for years
It probably jumped of cliffs
When your animators are so low budget that you have to repeat the same five clips over the span of an entire documentary(with some of the clips inverted occasionally to spice things up.)
They mirrored it the last time to make it look different 😭
*That Bird shits on your car*
"damn......get the shovel"
Bruh the brids body was a meter long and it weight like 48 its poop isnt that big
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD, IM DA BIGGEST BIRD🦅‼
Why is he touching with bare hands.
Anya because he has bare hands.
shut up already
I was wondering the exact same thing
Kenan Kabbani y not
Its a fossil not a crime scene
I tamed that in ark
it's not out until the 28th of this month
the quatz has been out since forever
+Kevin Miller this is pelagornis, not quetzalcoatlus
oh
i tamed that one too
Damn he has some blue eyes...
OfficialTragic Beatz What? I just pointed out that his eyes are very blue...
Lol you never heard that expression before?
OfficialTragic Beatz No
I think it's the hue given during editing. I think they added a blue enhancing hue to make the waters more aesthetically pleasing. Typically the sea can look quite grey in windy conditions, which isn't ideal for entertainment purposes.
hes wearing contacts
So it is a bird with hollow and light bones and uses windcurrents to fly? Crazy.
Albatross's do this in today's world. Fascinating 😄.
Hey Jim, can you get the tape from the bottom drawer?
Yeah Tom I’ll do that.
...
Well Tom, I couldn’t find the tape, but I did find the remains of an unknown super bird.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a pelagornis should be able to fly. Its body is too big for its wings to get its fat little body off the ground. The pelagornis, of course, flies anyway because pelagornises don't care what humans think is impossible.
Everything was bigger back then. I believe the planet was different... less gravity perhaps?
no that wouldnt make sense.. the air was heavier in oxygen and porb density tho
Nobody got the bee movie reference?! Seriously?!
lol guys it's a meme
If the climate we're hotter maybe?
Shame these guys went extinct. I would have loved to ride one into battle.
That would be so cool, but taming it is the question..
You probably would have cracked it’s bones if you rode it
Oh boy would you like to learn about Ark
I know this is a year late but you’d probably break the bird cus it only weighs 46 pounds
Tranq it out feed it some fish meat craft a saddle and boom
The narrator pisses me off. “How did it stay airborne!!?” Bwaaaaww!
Tiger H. Lore and environt,twavel. I think he might be either drunk or have therious speech impediment
nucleusclothing my biggest issue is that he narrates as if the audience is a roomful of toddlers.
That's also every news outlet and politician
nucleusclothing your spelling seems like it was at a level that toddlers would consider low.
I was spelling phonetically as was said by the guy in the video.
Don't forget that in that era, ocean levels were lower than today meaning the air would have been denser therefore more buoyant at sea level.
why should the air be denser at lower oceanlevel?
BREAKING NEWS! Prehistoric birds used the same physics to fly as modern birds. There now go spend four minutes of your life doing something else.
Try as Derek might, it was too late. My time had already been wasted.
Derek Lavigne jokes on you I skipped to the end and saved 3 minutes
Derek Lavigne
Thanks for saving my time :)
Correct, but what is the relevant physics? Atmospheric pressure... www.dinosaurtheory.com/thick_atmosphere.html
The simple fact you responded with seriousness to a facetious comment on a UA-cam video proves my point and entertains me.
The voice of the narrator is obnoxiously unbearable.
Insert Image. Agreed.......so melodramatic . Americans don’t do doco commentaries well.....leave it to David Attenborough.
I wish so badly that I could travel back in time to see these animals
you have plenty unseed right now tho
250k please
why did the pelagornis joke?
Tibia Humerus...
Bone humor XD
Lol
This is one of the coolest things I ever seen. Look at the length of those wings.
But, did it get mass amounts of Organic Polymer though?
Jacob Grenier i knew SOMEONE had to make an ARK comment😭😂😂😂
Jacob Grenier lol again with the ark comments
What? By eating.. it barely needs to eat in fact. It uses immensely little energy to fly, and thus doesn't need to worry about eating large prey. Infact, it would probably prevent flight if it did.
Most likley...
I taught quetzal is the biggest?
So Pelagornis don’t fly, they surf the air.
Basically, yeah. A lot like modern big birds, such as albatrosses and vultures. Just kind of riding the air currents to make things easier on their huge wings.
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD 💯🦅🦅
wait...how did he discover the bones if they were already on a museum -_-
many many many bones are turned into museums and each is carefully studied to see if it is a new species variant or not, he may have spotted several key differences in the bones and brought them to light, then did more research into other bones of similar species to determine their uniqueness, just like the bones of a yellow bellied catfish and a river catfish look fairly similar when they are the same size, how ever one has its whiskers sensors on a different spot on the skull from the other, its things like this that determine new species when all you have is bones.
Jrizzle Productshizzle most be fake then right? Idiot
Racist much.
Jrizzle Productshizzle There are thousands of bones sitting in labs and museums that are not identified, its pretty easy to find them but can be near impossible to figure out what species they belong to. Sometimes bones can be mislabled as one species when they are actually a different one, or be seen as a new species when they are not. Telling an animal from a small collection of usually worn and broken bones is a pretty difficult task and can take years and much trial and error until an agreed upon conclusion can be made, even then it could still be proven wrong if a new more complete skeleton is found.
Smoke1 So then I can say all black boys get that Doris Payne affect when they discover things that don't belong to them.
Sandersi? They named it after Birdie Sanders lol.
*****
Did you forget the Birdie rally, when the bird landed on his podium in front of thousands of people? That Birdie Sanders.
NOT. For Colonel Sanders, as in KFC.
~~so obvi~~
Given its size that is definitely an albatrump
heh and this bird went extinct just like bernie sanders presidential hopes
Pedro Sepulveda
Birds lie as well!
So you're just wandering around having a nice day and suddenly a freaking harrier jet swoops down and pecks your eyes out
I’m gonna get me a emotional support pelagornis as soon as they brought back from the dead.
i love how Dan "discovered" it by rummaging some closet or something.
You forgot to mention it deals 10x increased damage to fish and it is GREAT at harvesting organic polymer
Now this guy knows his Pelagornis, Smithsonian take notes.
Now we know who truly was the biggest bird
srry to be that guy but *flying bird
Even more incredible
2:03 probably wouldn't be able to fly with those wings..
Have you seen a wandering albatros flying? Same aspect-ratio wings.
So museums are just like my shop. They collect so much shit that they forget they have it and 10 months later they find it again and are like, "look at this discovery".
The bigger you are as a flying animal the more water and land you can cover, and the more of those you cover the more chances you have to see opportunities for food, mates, and nesting areas. The down sides are that you required more food, had higher chance for injuries, and required more time and resources to grow up.
how did the largest flying bird of all time stayed airborne?
it didnt thats why its extinct
PSoneC Gaming Ha! That's the best comment.
Probably got eaten by the big sharks in the water
i just love this one 🐦
I knew it was pelagornis from ark
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The obvious unaddressed question, how do they sleep while flying?
Some birds can sleep on flight and go on flying almost forever. They basically have two modes. When they are hunting, they are generally using most of their brain power, but when they are soaring, they go into a half sleep mode where parts of their brain shut down in intervals to rest while in flight. They only need full power of their brain when they are hunting.
In awe at the size of this lad, absolute unit
IM DA BIGGEST BIRD🦅, IM DA BIGGEST BIRD🦅
"Seems too big to fly?" Are we forgetting those gigantic giraffe-sized pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus? This bird isn't all that impressive by comparison.
Jjames763 yeah but pterosaurs aren't birds, they're reptiles
TrailerGamer
I'm not saying pterosaurs are birds, I'm just saying that from a biomechanical perspective, and in comparison to pterosaurs weighing hundreds of pounds, a 50 lb animal being capable of flight is not surprising in the slightest, even though the video makes an exaggerated point of asking "how could something SO BIG, POSSIBLY be able to stay aloft?!"
Pelagornis is cool enough in and of itself, it doesn't need to be hyped beyond reason and sense.
Jjames763 it was about the size of a quetzocoatlus
Count Mustard
No, it wasn't, not even close. Quetzalcoatlus was about ten times more massive; recent estimates put them in the range of 400-500 pounds. They were also about 15 feet long and had a wingspan of more than 30 feet.
Jjames763 but scientists believe that quetzocoatlus was ground dwelling and couldn't fly.
Sometimes I wish we could go back in time to see how accurate these scientist are with their predictions made just by fossils. They can say whatever they want as long as there is no footage to prove so.
Rob Baez Scientists still have to base all predictions on evidence, they cant make anything up. All theories are backed up by something.
Probably somewhere between 99.99% and 100% accuracy.
How do they back their theory on the Color of their skin or feathers... Just wondering
High Altitude Thats probably just guess work unless they use a pattern by basing it on what colour their relatives had
High Altitude aw
It's so weird how long its wings are in comparison to body size, especially when you set it next to another bird's wings. It's wings are so ridiculously long length wise, but width wise they're so narrow... Then you look at birds like Owls and they have short but very thick wings. Birds are amazing.
DingDongDanger their so thick their silent
They'll talk about Rhinos and Elephants from years from now. Just the thought makes me want to take a trip to the Zoo
so that means that if humans had wings, they should at least have a wingspan of 24ft? 😟
Humans can never have wings, but if homoerectus beings had wings, it would have no arms, no abdomen, just a big Flat chest that would look like a belly. Kinda ridiculous looking if u ask me. And it would be super unbalanced to fly considering it would have to look up with its neck and no tail feathers to keep it balanced.
How could he discover it if it was already in the museum? That's like me going to a restaurant and "creating" a new dish that was already being served to me. 🤦🏽♂️
Nah it's like making a new dish with the same ingredients
I'm late to the game with this, but to be fair, I just saw this comment. Let me weigh in.
1) The way this documentary uses "discover" isn't the way most people would. Really, it's a "rediscovery" as these fossils had been known in the paleontology community prior to Dan publishing on them. That's what the doc narrator should have said, but they left that part out. Scientists have known about this since the 80's, in a general sense, that this was a big bird. However, Dan put in the work to formalize it as well as determined, in terms of wingspan, that it's the biggest bird.
2) Museums receive a lot of fossils depending on if they are involved in an active dig that produces a lot of material or if a lot of people happen to be donating around the same time. Factor in prep time and it can take a long time between fossils coming out of the ground and them finally getting published.
3) The publication process itself is not always fast. By the time the public sees articles or documentaries like this, work to get the information into formal scientific literature has been potentially years in the making. Now that authors can publish digitally it is getting faster, but papers still have to be read and reviewed by other researchers and then go through rounds of edits before the general public even hears about it... if they do. Not all animals are "world's largest ---" in which case they probably won't get a Smithsonian Channel special.
4) Not every paleontologist is an expert on every fossil ever found. Sometimes it takes the right paleontologist visiting the right collection to immediately recognize the importance of specimen. Even more so if the specimen is REALLY fragmentary.
I hope this helps!
Imagine riding this thing
What’s wrong with you? it’s not that hard to walk.
A very interesting video, it was a pleasure to watch. One thing more, many thanks for not having irritating pop up adds jumping in during the viewing.
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I wish there was a realistic simulator where you get play as this bird. Sort of like a flight simulator.
You can leap pretty high in goat simulator.
Then what do you do? Fly around aimlessly and find stuff to shit on?
ya gotta eat too
TigerMeadows and hunt humans with it because of so many people in the world to get rid of a few.
Find stuff eat, drink (they can't drink sea water right?), etc. Catching fish could be done realistically, you gotta swoop in like that and rise up and go eat the fish. There could be predators to avoid and fight against.
lol imagine taming this bird and flying on it lol
You will be too heavy and yall both are going to sink in the ocean 💀
Paleontologist finds bones in museum. Claims finding new species...
The documentary doesn't do a good job with how it uses "discovery." Although the fossils of the bird were known about since the 80s, it had never been formally described. So, up to that point, it was "just a big bird." It could have been a big individual of a known species, or a big new species. Until Dan studied it and formally described it, it was just a big question mark.
So yea, it's the first published description of a new species so that claim is valid in that regard.
Also, fossils aren't unearthed and described immediately. It takes a long time cleaning, rebuilding, and comparing to other fossils before someone has enough evidence to say something is a new species. That can take years, maybe decades, depending on the specimen in question. It would have been nice if the documentary had said that. Most people think when "Science" or some other journal says a new species was discovered, that it happened like last week or something. More likely the fossil was found years ago and the work has just now been completed on it. Just like when a "new" building is opened to the public. We start thinking of the building as new once the work is done, not when the initial work begins.
Narrator: Pelagornis is biggest bird to ever fly.
Argentavis: Am I joke to you.
No, if we compare the size of body and the wingspan, pelagornis has bigger body and longer wingspan. But if we compare on the stats, Argentavis got more weigh because this bird eat a lot of meat (unlike pelargonis who ate fish), so argentavis is more massive on weight comparison
@@inayachan2949 Mass is what really counts when it comes to deciding which animal is bigger. So yeah, Argentavis was indeed the bigger animal.
@@mr.spider6859 true man, mass is what is really important. But some minority of people will look more on the height, example sum will say therizino is bigger than trex cus it's taller. But on actual fact, t-rex is actually larger because of its mass
When I was a kid, it was taught that bald eagles had a wingspan of 10', California Condors a wingspan of 12' and Aldean Condors a WS of 13'...touted as the worlds largest flying bird. Now it seems those have all dropped by about a foot and the Wandering Albatross is considered the worlds largest flying bird...I guess my memory is effed up.
Apparently there's not that many Andean Condors left in the world sadly!
The Wandering Albatross has a longer wingspan, but the Condor is the overall larger and heavier animal.
I thought the argentavis was larger
Me too, but I'm sure not bigger.
well in terms of wingspan, pelagornis was longer but argentavis was heavier in weight.
hey aren't you the Ark wildlife guide guy?
+Cheez Loord Arks survivors wildlife appendix? yes, I am lol. i havent updated it in forever
+BlackFish yeah, I'm guessing it could get pretty tedious
Truely wonderful. I love this story. Can't help but notice the georgous blue eyes of this man as well. Nice. Story and eyes. 😀
In ramayana there comes a situation where sita was kidnapped by ravana and while he was going in air, he encounters jatayu last flying dinosaur of earth or u can call it as biggest fying bird of that time, ravana fights jatayu and cuts his feathers wings and he comes to ground and dies on ramas thighs where jatayu explains wat happened, its really happened and big birds existed, i am from bharath so called india, we love u brothers for unearting the fact,
Hollow bones. thicker and more breathable atmosphere. Very high oxygen levels.
Wrong. CO2 is the "thickest".
Oratio G That makes solid sense....
No, atmosphere was the same as is today.
how did I know I would find ark players on here lol
So it flew exactly the same as current birds. Fascinating!
The Argentavis is bigger though
Pelagornis just had a big wingspan
For the same reason The Wandering Albatross is sometimes refreed to as the largest modern flying bird even though there are at least two heavier bird species around. It depends on how you define "big" or "large" which aren't really scientifically accurate terms compared to "wingspan, "shoulder hight" or "weight".
your childhood is ruined when you found out that the pterodactyl was a glider
jorge murillo but that isn't a pterodactyl, that's a bird. Pterodactyls were flying reptiles.
Pterosaurs were actually capable of true flight, and they were better at it than birds are.
They didn't need warm air currents or jumping off a cliff either, they can actually catapult themselves into the air with their powerful arms, allowing them to fly when they please.
jorge murillo Pterosaurs did flap just not all the time.
@@dantheultimate2497 Well, technically birds are also flying reptiles.
The difference is that birds are dinosaurs, pterosaurs were not.
Argentavis was the largest bird to ever live.
As far as I know this one had a larger wingspan though, which was probably how this was judged (modern Wandering Albatross also has a higher Wingspan than some heavier birds and are sometimes called the largest flying bird for that reason).
@@Kaefer1973 but if you crush all the mass together the largest one is the kori bustard
Rivaled by the teratorns, especially Argentavis magnificans that had a wingspan of 6-8 meters (20-26 ft.). Like the condors, it's said to have been a scavenger and if its wing shape resembled the Condor, the surface area would have surely exceeded that of Pelagornis.
Wow! As the making of the Spruce Goose proved, size doesn't matter in flight!
And I wish I could be credited for the discovery of a prehistoric creature when I find it in a museum!
"Of all time" That we know of...
I thought quetz or hatz was bigger?
Great video!
This reminds me of those huge bird-deüpictions on some of the ancient burial sites of the middle east ( I believe they were believed to be one of the first human towns/cities ever ). They had these open ( no roof ) burial sites and thwere on the walls archeologist found those depictions of some giant bird looking things - especially the head/long beak reminds me of this thing...
Actually, bird bones are hollow so the animal can get more oxygen, you run out of breath after running for awhile, so it must take a whole lot of oxygen to fly over the ocean.
I love these Dino's in Ark survival 😌
I love the fact that you called Pelagornis a dino. We need more people recognizing avian dinosaurs.
CJCroen1393 ikr
MeAgainstTheWorld, NO ONE CARES ABOUT ARK; SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR UNSCIENTIFIC, PRETENTIOUS GAME.
Dabbingson Last Name stfu, actually there is no need to get so aggressive towards someone who really enjoys a game about dinosaurs even if it is inaccurate.
Jonah Kelley, let me assume that you're either a middle aged mother who defends everything or a twenty something old woman who plays ark. The latter is more likely as you did say "STFU".
Compy kibble
Justin Pegomastax kibble now.
The pelagornis wasn’t actually the biggest bird ever it was the same size as the argentavis 7 meters of wingspan
The largest bird I have seen is the Frigate bird in the Keys...and it is huge and glides over the seas riding the air currents looking for some fish to swoop down and snag...and this is several times larger...Amazing.
Very long and thin wings.....look at modern glider/sailplane design.
This is how I fly in my dreams. Awesome feeling.
This is how I fly in ARK
Just saw a massive bird in Maine that was dark green/black and underneath was lighter greenish and had looked to have scales almost like alligator skin! The bird didn’t appear to have many feathers except for the tips of the wings that made it look like a lot of fingers, but mostly just skin. The wing span was enormous, guessing 18-25 feet. The bird was very muscular, looked like a human back with wings, massive feet and a strange triangular head. Just a guess, but I would say the bird if standing on the ground would be 4-5 feet tall. It was having trouble trying to fly, because it looked so heavy. You could hear the whoosh and slap of the wings! I was about 50 feet away from the flying bird. The bird was about 15 feet off the ground. To me It looks almost like a California Condor, but much bigger! I have seen big hawks in the same location and the size of this bird made the size of the hawks look like small sparrows.
Mighta been the Thunderbird?
I am guessing that you saw Argentavis Magnificence. If it looked like long fingers at the ends of the wings, and muscular as you said. Also if it looked very heavy, then you have seen Argentivas. Be sure to look up this bird, And see if it looks similar.
@@johnwalker9315 very close! The head was bigger, similar to a Shoebill stork(triangular)head and very proportionate to the body. Almost non existent tail feathers. The legs from what I remember where short like a hawk. Not many feathers on the bird I saw, more like scales, or the feathers were so tight to the body that it looked like scales.
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They show the feathers on the trailing edge of the wing fluttering. That wouldn't happen unless the wing stalls, and if that happens, the bird, just like an airplane, quits flying.
Eric Taylor the feathers are fluttering dip shit, are you trying to implie that his feathers wouldnt move or something ok dumb fuck
The B why the fuck are UA-cam commenters so aggressive? You literally cussed him out twice for no reason chill tf out it's sad
Milbox R
no you chill bitch
my name is my name
No bitch
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a sandersi should be able to fly.
Seriously, the narrator is insane... The intensity is so unneeded-ah!
This is like finding a hundred different legos and claiming that it is something just because they fit together. We have no. Idea.
Open sea environment? That thing must land somewhere
Daniel Gerena na, sea birds can fly threw the ocean for months, maybe even years (don't quote me on that)
Jay101 Gaming What about sleep?
85zip There wings are very big for a reason, it helps them fly effortlessly threw the ocean sea winds. Because of this, it uses little to no energy flying, I am no sea bird expert. But I would assume sea birds could either fly while sleeping, or not sleep at all because it doesn't use much energy.
Cliffs, islands, peninsulas, rocks in the middle of the sea, they have a myriad of options.
CJCroen1393 or just simply on the sea, that is a thing sea birds like albatrosses do when they get tired they will just plop down on the water and sleep
Sheldon? Is that you?
I discovered an old screwdriver in my mothers kitchen drawer, on my quest to find out where it came from I learned it was my brother who put it there after fixing a light switch. The light switch no longer exists.
Hey guys, I discovered a bunch of math formulas in my mathematics textbook.
this thing sucks in ark
X R A Y X Not really. They can harvest organic polymer better than any other creature or tool in ark.
Ark….?
Meme God Kill Mantis and scorpions with a Wyvern in the Ragnarok map,and you will be harvesting organic polymer in no time. Trust me, you will get over hundred something in under five minutes with normal server rate.
Yeah I know they should’ve made them more useful
What about a argentavis
Argentavis is the heaviest.
BallisticSentinel really
Shorter wingspan, only like 16-20 ft wingspan.
To my knowledge, Argentavis and Pelagornis had roughly the same wingspan. Which is pretty cool when you consider the dynamic between the two largest birds of today, the Andean condor and the wandering albatross, also having the same wingspan and also living very similar lifestyles to Argentavis and Pelagornis respectively.
CJCroen1393 what If they are ancestors of both argentavis and pelagornis?what If they didin't Go extinct at all,but Just changed over time
I knew it was a pelegornis by the thumbnail. Thank you Ark!
Yes, pelagornis... My fav bird in feather family
Play that game 2)
Thought it was the argentavis that was the biggest bird of all time. . . .Wich would also make it the biggest bird to ever live. . . .I could be very wroung here XD
The MightyTyrant Well Peligornis is the largest flying bird, Argentavis was the heaviest.
Wouldn't the biggest bird to ever live be ANY of all the theropod dinosaurs that ever existed? Like, the Tyrannosaurus or the Giganotosaurus? Or am I thinking of the family incorrectly?
Jonatan Luna I think you are talking about ancestors. Theropods aren't birds but non Avian dinosaurs with feathers except the Ceratosaurus and abelisaurids like Carnotaurus and Majungasaurus. Birds are aerial animals that have flying feathers, lighter bones, and beaks.
Farlander13 The Tanycolagreus
Birds are theropods. Ask any bird/ dinosaur expert, or search engine and you'll see.
how about the phorusrhacos "terror bird", then. more recent. more Bird.
This is actually incorrect, the largest flying animal was a pterosaur known as the Quetzalcoatlus. Although the Pelagornis does have the largest wingspan.
totalxminer pterosaur is considered reptile. A bird is anything with feathers.
Caleb Shea pterosaur such as quetzalcoatlus had protofeathers
regardless, this video never stated that it was the largest flying animal, only that it was the largest flying bird. Pterosaurs, although possessing protofeathers (possibly), were not birds. Also, the pelagornis does not have a larger wingspan than Quetzalcoatlus, there is quite a substantial difference. Additionally, A bird is not anything with feathers, that is an oversimplification of the fact that all birds have feathers and are descended from a feathered dinosaur ancestor.All problems solved, no further discussion.
The Quetz is a flying reptile. This is the largest bird.
They're saying bird, not animal.
Argentavis is bigger than Pelagornis but still cool vid
When I grow up I want to be a Pelagornis
"It wasn't any kind of reptile, but the largest bird of all time."
Birds are reptiles, dude.
No, they're descendants of reptiles. Theropods.
Westin Johnson, you're right.
Dabbingson Last Name No he isn’t.
"With a 24-foot wingspan, how did the prehistoric Pelagornis sandersi, the largest known flying bird of all time, manage to fly so well?" The ability to fly on the currents came with the wingspan.
The narration and music are so over the top with melodrama.
beautiful bird. I wish the video was longer to explain more about it but thank you for this it's an educative channel