Yes, it does rip apart that image of storks being friendly, fluffy gentle creatures, whom in stories and cartoons we trust to deliver our babies! If you Google "shoebill" (a type of stork) , you will see a very different image, they're scary looking things and are a bit thuggish!
@Herr Judenbacken And you're absolutely right to send them there, because when you look at them, especially their faces (look at those eyes like), it's almost impossible to not see the dinosaur in them!
@@Dragrath1- Terrifying is right! One of Haggys classification type names means 'terrible or terrifying monster'- or something like that lol Azhdarchids were just sooo badass! To see something that large flying would've been incredible.
@@valobrien9596 Biologist believe the Tasmanian's toes lengthened but lost the smallest toe which now function as fingers by copying the genetic code of fingers, excluding the pinkie finger. Although it's possible he's just a chimpanzee.
It would be nice to see a Hatzegopterix as a movie monster, their shape alone is aready alien like, and with this beak possibly capable of tearing fleash, it gives a lot of ideas
They would be less frightening to contemporary man with all his war machines but imagine them being transported back even two centuries ago or back to medieval times. The locals would have been terrified.
I love it when our country gets recognition in general. Before being the dump we are right now, we had quite a country. I also HATE how Țepeş is portated 99% of the time (like some mad tirant, which isn't true)
Some gorgonopsids were pretty small (the smallest, and earliest, was Eriphostoma, the size of a house cat-this was back when gorgonopsids were underdogs in a world ruled by carnivorous dinocephalians like Anteosaurus). It's more that people focus on the larger gorgonopsids that reigned as apex predators.
A line of men on the backs of magyarsaurus, their long necks covered in armored barding, their stumpy legs thumping in a mighty charge! Their thick necks acting like a natural shield protecting the riders from missile attacks. Now that'd be a sight.
This open-access paper is a complete list of all terrestrial communities of Late Cretaceous Europe with detailed maps. It should answer all your questions = www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296572/pdf/zookeys-469-001.pdf
At the same time, there aren't as many unusual insular dwarfism-affected dinosaurs in those places. Two-clawed raptors such as _Balaur bondoc_ haven't been found in Hungary and Slovakia, but have been found in Romania. Hence the bigger focus of this video on Romania.
Hatzegopteryx - at least as pictured walking or on the ground - looks like something out of a lovecraftian horror story. It doesn't look so bad in flight, kind of like a 747 with it's overlarge front, but walking it's just visually creepy. Dwarf dinosaurs do sound kind of cool, however. It's funny how animals isolated on Islands always change and adapt. Even modern species. I was on an island off N. Carolina a while ago that had wild horses which originated from domesticated ones like 200 years ago. They were all tiny pony sized creatures though fully grown. I can't imagine the same thing with a dinosaur but I guess they were subject to the same environmental pressures as other animals.
"Hatzegopteryx probably lived like sporks." Ah, huddled in the back of my cutlery drawer next to the disposable chopsticks and platicware from take-out.
If anyone's seen storks hunt then could you imagine a giant man-sized stork with the same speed and power? It could probably just javelin it's prey with a single strike, amazing.
Well, this would be horible to their beaks and neck, even with their size, they were very light, idk, 100 to 200kg, by piercing a cow sized dino the pterosaur would break some bones, probably they didn't hunt while flying
@@italucenaz They hunted on foot (they were good runners), so not an issue. Also Hatzegopteryx had a much more robust build than other giant azhdarchids specifically to hunt larger prey. Also, giant azhadarchids weighed around 250-300kg, no way they weighed as little as 100kg unless they ditched internal organs and flight muscles.
@@bkjeong4302 Yes and with their reinforced skull to support their massive beak, they must have wielded it with insane force. Also as some of the animals on Hatzic island (not sure how you spell that) were armored or plated, the trait of stronger beaks emerging must have been a necessity to keep up with the already limited availability of prey. It's fun to picture how squishy hominids like you or I would have faired against such a beast, I imagine it could impale us with just one blow.
@@italucenaz I would’ve liked to see an interpretation of how it might’ve looked white it was running after prey, it’s body seems to be unable to run 🤷🏽♂️ maybe it ran like a giraffe too lol
Would these azhdarchids just stop at this island for an easy snack or did they stay put? I thought these animals were effortless gliders that could easily fly across small seas.
Most of the carpathians used to be hungarian land, and the fact that its last part is dacus give light to the original inhabitants of modern day romania, dacians.
The Magyarosaurus was discovered by a Hungarian paleontologist Ferenc Nopcsa in the early 20th century. As Transylvania was part of Hungary until 1920, Magyarosaurus should be pronounce as "gy" not "magiarosaurus". For example the county's name is Magyarország in Hungarian and magyar means Hungarian (people, language) in Hungarian language and in it "GY" is one letter. We say it similar to "D" in "duty", but not exactly the same. Moreover Hátszeg's name is coming from German, "hát" means back and "szeg" means nail" in English. But if I know well nowadays the Romanian people write it as "Hateg", but if you look at Hatzegopteryx's name you can see where is it come from. (There is also a Hungarosaurus, but it is located in Iharkút, Veszprém County, Hungary.)
Once again, your thoroughly and precisely researched, well-scripted videos are well worth the wait! I’m very proud wearing my Moth Light Media hoodies when I teach my classes! LOL...But, seriously, *now* that you’ve covered the fascinating instance of Cretaceous “island dwarfism” (a phenomenon made famous by the discovery of the tiny “Hobbit” hominids [homo floresiensis] on the Indonesian island of Flores), do you think you *might* bless us all with a video on the liaoningosaurus debate? I know you would do a splendid job, and I’ve been dying of curiosity to know what *your* position is on the hypothesis of there having once existed a relatively small “swimming” ankylosaur!
Hatzegopteryx, those things are nightmare fuel when you see them walking around on the ground. They're just so alien looking and unlike anything familiar. They're just really creepy looking to me.
The majority of pterosaurs were actually terrestrial omnivores/insectivores/carnivores, the idea most pterosaurs were piscivorous was never really based on much and is basically a paleoart/palaeontology meme. There were some genuinely piscivorous pterosaurs but they weren’t the majority.
@@bkjeong4302 Pteranodon was a piscivore and it was super common and therefore it's very well-known. Probably a big part of why so many people think all pterosaurs were also piscivores.
Law of less effort: it applies to physics and it applies to evolution: flight is very costly, don't do it if you don't need it. A lot of very successful birds have evolved from flight to land, or even water, ask penguins.
0:47 LOVE the video, but I think it would have been a lot more helpful to compare the climate of the pre-historic Romania to something closer to the modern-day Romania than one of the states in the US lol! I'd guess that most people near Romania have no idea what Florida's annual temperature is. I know I don't lol.
Like Morocco but with swamps and crocs (instead of the Sahara they have the Gulf of Mexico, so much wetter). Alternatively something like Bangladesh or Vietnam maybe.
Yeah uh... I'm pretty sure a bufallo-sized sauropod over 4 meters tall would not be considered "tiny" by most standards. Tiny *for a sauropod* maybe but that's still big enough that if it were alive today it'd be the second tallest creature on Earth.
Came back to this video after watching Prehistoric Planet. I don't think they said the name of the island in the show, but it still got its own segment.
THIS IS SUCH A FREAKY COINCIDENCE! Yesterday I watched like eight videos you have made & then watched Discovery's Dinosaur Planet (Pod's Journey) which is all about a pyroraptor who drifted from sea and landed on Hateg Island and now this video, wow.
Oh. to be a tiny dinosaur... living in an isolated exosystem ruled under the watchful eye of a bobble headed flying creature who can swallow my children. truly, a goal.
2:14 if you think about it, Zalmoxes would be as tall as a human if it stood up all the way which is weird and probably a bit scary if it came face to face with you.
Aside from maybe the adults of the dwarf sauropods I don’t think there was anything in Hateg that Hatzegopteryx couldn’t prey on, especially given that it’s far more powerfully built relative to body size comparable to marabou storks (which can already dismember prey). The only time when a pterosaur was the apex predator over an entire ecosystem.
@Mullerornis Thalassodromeus was also a terrestrial predator of relatively big game, but unlike Hatzegopteryx it wasn't the biggest land predator in its ecosystem and had to worry about its own predators. Hatzegopteryx, on the other hand, wouldn't have to face predation as an adult.
So, the island is called Hatzeg... Hațeg is also the name of a city and region in Hunedoara, Romania today, known for the medieval fortifications and churches, which are said to be the oldest medieval structures known and preserved in Romania, it is also known for the battles between the Romans and the Dacs which took place there and decided the fate of Dacia, for the archaeological discoveries, like the oldest traces of human activity discovered in Romania (a primitive oven). Then there's Magyarosaurus (comes from Maghiar which is a word for Hungarian). Zalmoxes was the god of Dacia. Balaur Bondoc could translate to short fat Hydra/dragon/gargoyle, the "balaur" is a fictional monster equivalent to those 3 that has been imagined in many ways in Romanian folklore, I've seen it described as a devilish man, as a reptilian/green skinned Gargoyle, as a regular Gargoyle, as a Dragon, as a feathered Dragon/giant reptile like bird, giant snake headed bird, as a snake with up to thousands of heads, as a lizard with thousands of snake heads and finally as a winged muscular menacing man with monstrous/animistic features (claws, scales, huge jaws and or fangs etc.).
What the heck! I just watched this a couple days ago, and today I got a book with my mchappy meal set that had a book about Hateg and their dwarf dinosaurs! This is such a cool coincidence Edit: The book is called Treetop Twins Adventure : The Twins Meet a Hatzegopteryx by Cressida Cowell
When i get my time machine that island sounds ideal to live on. Lots of interesting creatures to see.. but no danger from massive predators to eat me... only that flying one. I can avoid that by living in the forest.
Interesting how the situation with the Hatzegopteryx reflects the Haast's Eagle from New Zealand, with an island full of dwarfed and/or flightless fauna, with one huge flying apex predator. I wonder if there's something about Island Dwarfism that encourages a singular, gigantic predator?
I remember reading something about evidence of an island that was populated by dwarf sauropods for a couple million years, but fossil trackways show that large theropods of some sort managed to reach the island at some point. Unsurprisingly, all traces of the sauropods quickly, by geologic standards, disappear as the new predators that the native animals didn't evolve with wiped them out. I don't remember any of the important details and I thought Hateg Island was the island in question, but I guess I was wrong.
A thought about descriptive language, and no offense meant. I thoroughly enjoy the content. "Massive" properly refers to "mass", not size. A Pterosaur was optimized for relatively low mass and relatively large size. "Giant pterosaur" might be more apropos.
Who made a wooden plank and nailed it to that palm tree at 6:55? This is pretty strong photographic evidence for the Dino-Riders. The sign probably says "they're all too small to ride on this island, keep it moving"
Buffalo sized titanosaurs?
My immediate thought is magyarsaurus cavalry...
OH SH
How?
Hungarian hussars are back and bigger than EVEN
Starts playing when the GIANT HUSSARS ARIVE.
I realized, we Hungarians are terrible at giving names to things. We just literally throw our name before sauruus and that all xDD
@Herr Judenbacken okay stop right there, I can't even pronounce that freaking thing lmao
Everybody’s afraid of hatzegopteryx while im here still processing the fact that some storks eat flamingoes
Yes, it does rip apart that image of storks being friendly, fluffy gentle creatures, whom in stories and cartoons we trust to deliver our babies! If you Google "shoebill" (a type of stork) , you will see a very different image, they're scary looking things and are a bit thuggish!
@Herr Judenbacken And you're absolutely right to send them there, because when you look at them, especially their faces (look at those eyes like), it's almost impossible to not see the dinosaur in them!
wait, storks eat flamingos?! wtf
Wanna hear something even stranger? Many humans eat primates.
and New World Vultures evolved from storks....
Thank you for crediting me for my art
I hate it when people don't, so it's nice to see that you have
Your art is amazing! I can't even imagine how you make such masterpieces on digital
We love your art paleop. Very realistic!!!
i appreciate that you made this art
You do a damn nice job!
Your art is awesome!
"Welcome ... to Dwarf Jurassic Park"
*Jurassic Park theme on Kazoo plays*
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T-Rex : Bbbbbbrrrrruuuuuuuhhhhhhh
Oh no, chicken-sized raptor attack! We're all doomed!
@@陳嘉宇-y4q Nah clearly the T rex analog would probably have been Hatzegopteryx... which honestly would have actually be very terrifying
@@Dragrath1- Terrifying is right! One of Haggys classification type names means 'terrible or terrifying monster'- or something like that lol Azhdarchids were just sooo badass! To see something that large flying would've been incredible.
I see a lot of repeating names in the art, as someone who has watched every MLM video, I appreciate the crazy amount of art put into it.
These artists are incredible, a lot of them are scientists as well
For a second there i thought you were refering to multilevel marketing.
mlm art for the gays - u -
we stan
Btw guys when he’s said MLM he means moth light media
I'd love to see feature length animated documentaries on these distinct periods of life on earth, my favorite kind of content.
"Islands will always contain nature's weirdos."
Australian here, can confirm. My neighbour billy is has got 8 fingers
On one hand or total?
its called polydactyly, shit even sounds like a dinosaur
@@katharinefitzgerald7629 Sorry I should clarify. They're located on the feet instead.
@@DIY_Miracle Oooh nice! What happened to the other two fingers, did he chew them off?! 😁
@@valobrien9596 Biologist believe the Tasmanian's toes lengthened but lost the smallest toe which now function as fingers by copying the genetic code of fingers, excluding the pinkie finger.
Although it's possible he's just a chimpanzee.
I love the concept of island dwarfism/gigantism! It's fascinating!
Ikr! I would love to see an island of dwarf modern day animals like tiny giraffes and lions
Hatzegopteryx is basically a flying head.
i laughed out loud to that
A flying head with limbs. It actually has likely the largest skull of any terrestrial predator ever.
LoL
That's a weirdo.
@Jasper Hamilton The skull is several times the size of the torso, so yeah.
It would be nice to see a Hatzegopterix as a movie monster, their shape alone is aready alien like, and with this beak possibly capable of tearing fleash, it gives a lot of ideas
Hatzegopteryx needs to be in a JP film.
@High Kit could be in Jurassic world 3 but I doubt it, since its always a large therapod
@@paleoleft I mean we got quetz
Imagine for a moment such a predator flying around over your head.
Terrifying.
Even imagining it walking down my street at night is just nightmare fuel. This thing would have been this island's devil.
If i had a rifle, i wouldn't be to worried
And saying "I poke you, tehee"
@Herr Judenbacken Humans usually make a shelter and sleep in it at night
They would be less frightening to contemporary man with all his war machines but imagine them being transported back even two centuries ago or back to medieval times. The locals would have been terrified.
I love it when my country gets dino-recognition, we have the weird, small and cute ones :)
Si mie imi place asta. Pe langa balaur, mai e zmeul, o alta creatura neclara
And pterrifying Azhdarchids....
I love it when our country gets recognition in general. Before being the dump we are right now, we had quite a country. I also HATE how Țepeş is portated 99% of the time (like some mad tirant, which isn't true)
Zalmoxes. Named after the Dacian deity Zalmoxis. Nice touch.
And Balaur is Romanian word for dragon.
@@petrfedor1851 Balaurs are different mythological creatures, similar to dragons but not the same. Romania has some mythological monsters too :)
@@TheGreatWolfYT Oh I didn´t know that. All sources I found said it means dragon but that word doesn´t have strict meaning :D
@@petrfedor1851 glad to help! I would recommend reading about Romanian monsters, they're really interesting :)
Yup, Balaur bondoc literally means fatty dragon in a romanian regional dialect. Or more exactly something like stubby dragon =))
Island ecosystems are so fascinating. I wonder how many other islands produced dwarf dinosaurs and even maybe dwarf therapsids before them.
the idea of a tiny dog sized gorgonopsid is fucken hilarious to me
@@paleoleft I would kill to have a Husky sized pet gorgonopsid!
Some gorgonopsids were pretty small (the smallest, and earliest, was Eriphostoma, the size of a house cat-this was back when gorgonopsids were underdogs in a world ruled by carnivorous dinocephalians like Anteosaurus).
It's more that people focus on the larger gorgonopsids that reigned as apex predators.
Balaur bondoc translates to stocky dragon which i find adorable
It sounds good too. Like a fantasy monster. "Prepare to release... the Balaur Bondoc to eat the captives!"
Magyar is what Hungarians call themselves.
And since they are a horse people, in an alternate universe,
Ride! Ride those mighty Magarosaurus steeds!!!
A line of men on the backs of magyarsaurus, their long necks covered in armored barding, their stumpy legs thumping in a mighty charge! Their thick necks acting like a natural shield protecting the riders from missile attacks.
Now that'd be a sight.
@@planescaped everything goes charging until am flock of giant killer giraffe storks goes to the ground.
Ride them back to mongolia
"Islands will always contain Nature's weirdos" - Kiwi here, can confirm
I wonder what the rest of Europe was like during the Cretaceous.
Why?
@@JohnyG29 because I don’t know what the rest of Europe was like during the Cretaceous.
@@lordrhino7026 underwater
This open-access paper is a complete list of all terrestrial communities of Late Cretaceous Europe with detailed maps. It should answer all your questions = www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296572/pdf/zookeys-469-001.pdf
@@Ozraptor4 - Great resource and loving the maps but we want some art and an easy to digest narration. At least I do.
I imagined that you could ride these tiny thing like a horse
I would love to have a sheep sized iguanodon in my house, of course they would need more space and idk if they would eat our nowaday plants
Ist not jus romania, that Island is made up by hungary and slovakia also
No one really cares seeing as none of those countries existed 70m years ago.
@@JohnyG29 no need for that. Guys just stating a fact..
@@JohnyG29 It's actually mostly not Romania but Hungary so it is an important question where do the viewers place it in their imagination
At the same time, there aren't as many unusual insular dwarfism-affected dinosaurs in those places. Two-clawed raptors such as _Balaur bondoc_ haven't been found in Hungary and Slovakia, but have been found in Romania. Hence the bigger focus of this video on Romania.
Románia és szlovákia nem is létezik 🤔
Hatzegopteryx - at least as pictured walking or on the ground - looks like something out of a lovecraftian horror story.
It doesn't look so bad in flight, kind of like a 747 with it's overlarge front, but walking it's just visually creepy.
Dwarf dinosaurs do sound kind of cool, however. It's funny how animals isolated on Islands always change and adapt. Even modern species. I was on an island off N. Carolina a while ago that had wild horses which originated from domesticated ones like 200 years ago. They were all tiny pony sized creatures though fully grown. I can't imagine the same thing with a dinosaur but I guess they were subject to the same environmental pressures as other animals.
"No matter how far back you go, islands will always contain nature's weirdo's" loved that line. Island evolution is fascinating!
That's what people who live on islands tell you about people who live on islands.
This video immediately reminded me of the episode "Pod's Travels" from the Dinosaur Planet series.
Albeit Pod would never take over Hateg with that giant pterosaur around.
Now I want one of those dwarf buffaloes as a pet.
They're suffering from habitat loss and are currently endangered.
@@Jose-xh5qb
Damn, always the same.
There is even smaller buffaloes on Sulawesi!
Look up the anoa.
"Hatzegopteryx probably lived like sporks."
Ah, huddled in the back of my cutlery drawer next to the disposable chopsticks and platicware from take-out.
wait, I'm not the only one who keeps take-out utensils?
I love this channel, his calming voice puts me to sleep while informing me of these wonderful past ecosystems
“Islands will always contain nature’s weirdos.”
As someone who was born and raised on an island...
Can’t argue with that 🤣
same
Underrated channel. Love the pygmy dinosaurs.
If anyone's seen storks hunt then could you imagine a giant man-sized stork with the same speed and power? It could probably just javelin it's prey with a single strike, amazing.
Well, this would be horible to their beaks and neck, even with their size, they were very light, idk, 100 to 200kg, by piercing a cow sized dino the pterosaur would break some bones, probably they didn't hunt while flying
@@italucenaz
They hunted on foot (they were good runners), so not an issue. Also Hatzegopteryx had a much more robust build than other giant azhdarchids specifically to hunt larger prey.
Also, giant azhadarchids weighed around 250-300kg, no way they weighed as little as 100kg unless they ditched internal organs and flight muscles.
@@bkjeong4302 Yes and with their reinforced skull to support their massive beak, they must have wielded it with insane force. Also as some of the animals on Hatzic island (not sure how you spell that) were armored or plated, the trait of stronger beaks emerging must have been a necessity to keep up with the already limited availability of prey. It's fun to picture how squishy hominids like you or I would have faired against such a beast, I imagine it could impale us with just one blow.
@@italucenaz I would’ve liked to see an interpretation of how it might’ve looked white it was running after prey, it’s body seems to be unable to run 🤷🏽♂️ maybe it ran like a giraffe too lol
Would these azhdarchids just stop at this island for an easy snack or did they stay put? I thought these animals were effortless gliders that could easily fly across small seas.
Hatzegopteryx: I am the only giant on a small island.
Quetzalcoatlus: Why didn't I go there first?
Hatzegopteryx: I am smart.
"Magyarosaurus"
"Romanian dinosaur"
Oof, Hungarians on suicide watch
despite it's name it's actually been found in romania. idk why they called it that maybe it was found in the Szekely region
@@meem6227 It was found in Hațeg, which is not in Szekelyland
Name given to it by a German paleontologist... Initially it was called Titanosaurus dacus, the name remains Magyarosaurus dacus.
Most of the carpathians used to be hungarian land, and the fact that its last part is dacus give light to the original inhabitants of modern day romania, dacians.
I mean…magyarosaurus dacus. It’s literally called hungarian-dacian lizard. One for us Hungarians, one for you Romanians, Im happy with that :D
1:41 it's a good thing Magyarsaurus doesn't exist because I wouldn't be able to resist hugging a buffalo-sized long-neck.
I love the topic selection! It's always an interesting video.
I got to say,I feel like being a "dwarf" version of a bigger,is cooler and awesome, just like this video.
Basically a epsiodd of Dinosaur Planet.
Outstanding content.
Keep up the good work.
Here on our place in the Philippines there is also a small mouse deer called "Pilandok" they look very ancient and has some bizarre features.
The Magyarosaurus was discovered by a Hungarian paleontologist Ferenc Nopcsa in the early 20th century. As Transylvania was part of Hungary until 1920, Magyarosaurus should be pronounce as "gy" not "magiarosaurus". For example the county's name is Magyarország in Hungarian and magyar means Hungarian (people, language) in Hungarian language and in it "GY" is one letter. We say it similar to "D" in "duty", but not exactly the same.
Moreover Hátszeg's name is coming from German, "hát" means back and "szeg" means nail" in English. But if I know well nowadays the Romanian people write it as "Hateg", but if you look at Hatzegopteryx's name you can see where is it come from.
(There is also a Hungarosaurus, but it is located in Iharkút, Veszprém County, Hungary.)
Nopcsa had an incredibly interesting life
6:59 damn, didn't know there were already wooden signs in the cretaceous!
Probably its rushed to develop it.
Amazing presentation. One of my favorite videos by you so far
Once again, your thoroughly and precisely researched, well-scripted videos are well worth the wait! I’m very proud wearing my Moth Light Media hoodies when I teach my classes! LOL...But, seriously, *now* that you’ve covered the fascinating instance of Cretaceous “island dwarfism” (a phenomenon made famous by the discovery of the tiny “Hobbit” hominids [homo floresiensis] on the Indonesian island of Flores), do you think you *might* bless us all with a video on the liaoningosaurus debate? I know you would do a splendid job, and I’ve been dying of curiosity to know what *your* position is on the hypothesis of there having once existed a relatively small “swimming” ankylosaur!
Hatzegopteryx basically just eating dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets.
Hatzegopteryx, those things are nightmare fuel when you see them walking around on the ground. They're just so alien looking and unlike anything familiar. They're just really creepy looking to me.
Azhdarchid pterosaurs in general don’t look like anything else that ever existed.
If thats bad , Quetzalcoatlus would be 100× worse
@@LeapyGeck idk they are about the same size. Quetzalcoatlus was taller but Hatzeg was heavier.
Imagine being glad there are raptors in arround and than the sky starts talking Hatzegopteryx
Hatzegopteryx would definitely eat a human if it saw one.
What wouldn't it eat?
man your videos are amazing. Keep doing your thing, this is gold for this point in time.
Thanks Moth Light Media you're awesome!!
I know this channel is blowing up but I love the many different topics and knowledge you guys/gals give
I don't know if this is your particular line of study but I would love too see a video from you about paleobotany.
Other pterosaurs: we eat fish and are vulnerable on ground
Hatzegopyeryx: laughs in top predator
The majority of pterosaurs were actually terrestrial omnivores/insectivores/carnivores, the idea most pterosaurs were piscivorous was never really based on much and is basically a paleoart/palaeontology meme. There were some genuinely piscivorous pterosaurs but they weren’t the majority.
@@bkjeong4302 Pteranodon was a piscivore and it was super common and therefore it's very well-known. Probably a big part of why so many people think all pterosaurs were also piscivores.
That is the most terrifying apex predator I can imagine. Sounds about right for the birthplace of Dracula.
I love this channel 😭 bless you for the updated content
All I could think of watching this was Pod's Travels! One of my many (now) comfort documentaries!
You should do a video about the Iharkút fauna sometime. It was Kinda like the hatzeg island in some aspects.
bruh imagine evolving into a flying bird just to turn back into a flightless bird smh
Remember that Whales were once land based mammals who chose to go back to the water....
@@jeremyripton Idk which one is worse
Manatee's always feel to me like that transitional land animal going back into the water.
Law of less effort: it applies to physics and it applies to evolution: flight is very costly, don't do it if you don't need it. A lot of very successful birds have evolved from flight to land, or even water, ask penguins.
@@jeremyripton so u telling me whale coulda ran land but no they were fuck this land shit I rather deal with the sharks
I had a feeling it'd be Hateg Island.
0:47 LOVE the video, but I think it would have been a lot more helpful to compare the climate of the pre-historic Romania to something closer to the modern-day Romania than one of the states in the US lol! I'd guess that most people near Romania have no idea what Florida's annual temperature is. I know I don't lol.
Like Morocco but with swamps and crocs (instead of the Sahara they have the Gulf of Mexico, so much wetter). Alternatively something like Bangladesh or Vietnam maybe.
@@LuisAldamiz Just say Indonesia and we get it.
@@ls200076 - Nah, Indonesia is too far south, Indonesia is like Venezuela.
I love your vids mate, glad you’re well
1:58 I can't unsee the phallic shape of that dinosaur's neck and head...
Love your videos!!!!! keep up the great work.
Yeah uh... I'm pretty sure a bufallo-sized sauropod over 4 meters tall would not be considered "tiny" by most standards. Tiny *for a sauropod* maybe but that's still big enough that if it were alive today it'd be the second tallest creature on Earth.
[6:55] The sign nailed to the tree reads "EATING SMALL DINOSAURS IS FORBIDDEN ON THIS BEACH".
There were 500 comments. I ruined it and made it 501. (Also, this is also a really good video. Keep up the great work!)
Would’ve been nice seeing the actual comparisons to the larger relatives too. Not bad editing tho
Came back to this video after watching Prehistoric Planet. I don't think they said the name of the island in the show, but it still got its own segment.
6:55. There is a sign in the palm tree at the right.
THIS IS SUCH A FREAKY COINCIDENCE! Yesterday I watched like eight videos you have made & then watched Discovery's Dinosaur Planet (Pod's Journey) which is all about a pyroraptor who drifted from sea and landed on Hateg Island and now this video, wow.
Of course, with Hatzgeopteryx around things would be much bleaker for Pod in reality.
Oh. to be a tiny dinosaur... living in an isolated exosystem ruled under the watchful eye of a bobble headed flying creature who can swallow my children.
truly, a goal.
2:14 if you think about it, Zalmoxes would be as tall as a human if it stood up all the way which is weird and probably a bit scary if it came face to face with you.
That Magyarosaurus silhouette.. where have I seen that before..
Very interesting well I have to thank a friend for sharing this!
Aside from maybe the adults of the dwarf sauropods I don’t think there was anything in Hateg that Hatzegopteryx couldn’t prey on, especially given that it’s far more powerfully built relative to body size comparable to marabou storks (which can already dismember prey).
The only time when a pterosaur was the apex predator over an entire ecosystem.
@Mullerornis Thalassodromeus was also a terrestrial predator of relatively big game, but unlike Hatzegopteryx it wasn't the biggest land predator in its ecosystem and had to worry about its own predators.
Hatzegopteryx, on the other hand, wouldn't have to face predation as an adult.
Awesome! Keep up the great videos!
So, the island is called Hatzeg... Hațeg is also the name of a city and region in Hunedoara, Romania today, known for the medieval fortifications and churches, which are said to be the oldest medieval structures known and preserved in Romania, it is also known for the battles between the Romans and the Dacs which took place there and decided the fate of Dacia, for the archaeological discoveries, like the oldest traces of human activity discovered in Romania (a primitive oven).
Then there's Magyarosaurus (comes from Maghiar which is a word for Hungarian).
Zalmoxes was the god of Dacia.
Balaur Bondoc could translate to short fat Hydra/dragon/gargoyle, the "balaur" is a fictional monster equivalent to those 3 that has been imagined in many ways in Romanian folklore, I've seen it described as a devilish man, as a reptilian/green skinned Gargoyle, as a regular Gargoyle, as a Dragon, as a feathered Dragon/giant reptile like bird, giant snake headed bird, as a snake with up to thousands of heads, as a lizard with thousands of snake heads and finally as a winged muscular menacing man with monstrous/animistic features (claws, scales, huge jaws and or fangs etc.).
Cool, lots of extra info.
Weird to not have that peaceful background music. I miss it.
This channel is gold
Hatzegopteryx was to Hatzeg what Haast's eagles were to New Zealand
Magyarosaurus literally translates to “Hungarian Dinosaur” in Hungarian.
Hahaha, yeah, I'm from an island and I'm a weirdo, u got it right 😂
The fact that I first heard 17 million instead of 70 million years ago threw me for a loop at the start, and it continued to do so every time lol
Interesting video, but is there a sign on the palmtree at 7:17 ? Maybe it says "Micro Jurassic Park" :-)
7:00 Great art by Guindagear but they forgot to erase that sign from the palm tree, and a bit of a roof on the top right margin
Love your channel
What the heck! I just watched this a couple days ago, and today I got a book with my mchappy meal set that had a book about Hateg and their dwarf dinosaurs! This is such a cool coincidence
Edit: The book is called Treetop Twins Adventure : The Twins Meet a Hatzegopteryx by Cressida Cowell
Alternate title: The Island of Dwarf Dinosaurs… And a Fucking Dragon
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I wish my country was still that warm.
When i get my time machine that island sounds ideal to live on. Lots of interesting creatures to see.. but no danger from massive predators to eat me... only that flying one. I can avoid that by living in the forest.
Love it when someone gives some info about the weird eastern european mini-Dinos and the big terror-stork flying about
Interesting how the situation with the Hatzegopteryx reflects the Haast's Eagle from New Zealand, with an island full of dwarfed and/or flightless fauna, with one huge flying apex predator. I wonder if there's something about Island Dwarfism that encourages a singular, gigantic predator?
Recommendation: Helveticasaursus.
Thanks for the great videos
Island Dwarfism is quite interesting when looking at island gigantism
Great video
I could've had a Struthiosaurus as a pet! Darn that asteroid!
I remember reading something about evidence of an island that was populated by dwarf sauropods for a couple million years, but fossil trackways show that large theropods of some sort managed to reach the island at some point. Unsurprisingly, all traces of the sauropods quickly, by geologic standards, disappear as the new predators that the native animals didn't evolve with wiped them out. I don't remember any of the important details and I thought Hateg Island was the island in question, but I guess I was wrong.
That would be in the Late Jurassic with Europasaurus being the dwarf sauropods.
as always great vid!)))
A thought about descriptive language, and no offense meant. I thoroughly enjoy the content.
"Massive" properly refers to "mass", not size. A Pterosaur was optimized for relatively low mass and relatively large size. "Giant pterosaur" might be more apropos.
I love the sign on the palm tree @ 6:59
This is the most under rated channel ever.
Who made a wooden plank and nailed it to that palm tree at 6:55? This is pretty strong photographic evidence for the Dino-Riders.
The sign probably says "they're all too small to ride on this island, keep it moving"
How amazing would that island have been to live on during that time.
Humans: "Let us introduce ourselves"
*Destroys ecosystem*