It's on Hatzeg island, where paleontologists have found evidence of island dwarfism. Most of the animals that lived there were smaller than their cousins on the Euroasian mainland. Because the herbivores were small, the plants/trees didn't have to grow too tall to escape their teeth.
@@mrkemblegilstrap 😆 The Hertzy can fly, it wasn't native to the island. It could fly over, pick up some lunch, then fly off somewhere else. The reason it's associated with the island is because fossil remains were found there, probably because it visited a lot due to the easy pickings.
@@ok_8441 most reptiles are solitary and dont protect their young, there are exceptions such are crocodilians and modern birds, but we dont have significant evidence that this particular species of sauropod actively protected their young
@@itsurfrind Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. On the contrary there _is_ evidence of herding behaviour of sauropods, and many other dinosaurs, based on fossil tracks. It is also important to note that dinosaurs are only distantly related to most modern reptiles, and the 'exceptions' you listed are all the most closely related living relatives to non-avian dinosaurs, with birds being their direct descendants.
The Sauropods in the video are dwarf species, they only grew as big as a Horse, which makes Hatzegopteryx look gigantic. Those dinosaurs lived in an island called Hateg, which is in what is today Romania, all the dinosaurs that lived there were dwarves, they evolved smaller because of reduced resources and space.
***** It is. Even if we count the fact it lost 5 feet of height due to being redesigned as a robust macropredator, it's still a goddamn 15 feet tall, about the same as an elephant.
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, the largest flying invertebrate was, iirc, a dragonfly the size of a hawk. Not much competition compared to a pterosaur the size of a plane. They should have just cut out the middleman and called it "the largest flying _animal_ ever known".
Rodrigo DM those are vertebrates and smaller than this animal so his comment is still technically correct. Including the word vertebrates is rather pointless since it's also the biggest flying animal ever discovered.
If you're wondering why Hatzegopteryx is towering over those sauropods, it's because those sauropods are _Magyarosaurus_, dwarf sauropods about the size of a pony. The pterosaurs aren't the size of Godzilla, calm down. They are still the largest pterosaurs (Standing height of ~5 meters at the head when walking on the ground). That said, newly described _Hatzegopteryx_ material includes a cervical VII that's about as wide as it's long (Witton and Naish 2017). Witton and Naish both demonstrate that this is pretty good evidence for a short-necked _Hatzegopteryx_ rather than the long-necked one you see here. Azhdarchids were probably a lot more diverse in body proportions and size than is commonly made out to be. That's also sufficient enough evidence to say _Hatzegopteryx_ is definitely not the same animal as the giraffe-necked _Quetzalcoatlus_.
Sorry, but the one with the T rex icon is having problems with the +g, sorry. (And before you ask any questions, I'm his classmate. ANd I have some fossils: Annomite)
I'd argue the pterosaurs were actually subject to gigantism. For they had no real competition (they were very much the apex predators of the archipelago which hateg was a part of) and indeed, as you say, they weren't bound by the smaller sizes of the islands, but instead by the archipellago as a whole. Also most other Hatzegopteryx species (this is Hatzegopteryx thambema) were much smaller with wingspans of 3-6 m. So this is a special case indeed.
Ironically, the smaller Pteranodon was the pterosaur that held the niche of a pelican (or perhaps more accurately, pelicans have inherited the niche from Pteranodon). That said, I'm assuming you've seen that footage of pelicans just striding up to bird nests and swallowing up their babies? This video is definitely what that reminded me of ;)
@@muhammadregi4341 first things first, that is not a dinosaur, it’s a pterosaur. Second, this aren’t babies, they are adults. ADULTS. And the reason they are so small is because they are dwarf species, making the pterosaur even bigger. Just wanted to clear things up a bit.
@@muhammadregi4341 let me explain, it’s adult, but it’s only the size of a horse, making the pterosaur appear even larger than it actually is. And those trees are not trees, they’re horsetails.
The island this occured on (Hatzeg island) suffered from island dwarfism. Almost everything native to the island was smaller than its mainland counterparts. Those sauropods and trees are only about 3-4 ft tall (about as big as a pony or small horse) so while the hatzegopteryx was massive (as big as a giraffe or bigger) it wasnt so big that it looked like rodan from godzilla, which it would be if those trees were normally sized
It kinda is a joke to them, yeah. It's now thought that despite being a bit shorter than Quetz, Hatzy was still heavier and more robust. So Hatzy wins.
Those things are huge, at least they are extinct now. Just imagine going out for a walk and a hatzegopteryx was literally on the ground ready to snatch you up with its beak.
Recent evidence suggests that Hatzegopteryx had a slightly shorter neck and a more robust frame than its American cousin, although there are still some disputes about the size thing. The highest estimates are 36 foot wingspan for Quetz and 39 foot wingspan for Hatzy, but some have argued that 36 feet would be a more realistic estimate for Hatzy, which (if accurate) would make them about even.
there's something so unnerving about how it just gulps down the sauropod baby alive without even attempting to hurt or kill it, it just makes my stomach turn
yeah, Actual precision quick killing of animals, like how cats aim for the neck, is pretty rare. Most predators either hit an animal so hard they indirectly knock it out or kill it, but a lot just rip apart or swallow an animal on the spot.
CJCroen1393 Oops, my apologies! Still, they are so huge - would be a tight fit even for an alleyway! :) (and yep, I wouldn't want to share one with them)
@@SpinoDragon145 No?Hatzegopteryx had a 33-35 Ft Wingspan, Quetzalcolatlus had a 37-38 foot span, also Hatzegopteryx was heavier since it’s head and body was much more robust
The Hatzegopteryx hunted animals that were around our size, trust me you never want to see it, it would most likely be the last animal you would ever see.
@Slingin_Bait - You would be surprised on the true past then. Your view on evolution if that's what you believe in would shadder completely as Science haven't even come close to the real identities of Dinosaurs and other past interesting animals
Many say that this is an incorrect portrayal of the Hatzegopteryx, and that it actually had a fatter neck, a larger, blunt beak, and chased down animals that it couldn’t swallow whole. *Honestly would love to see a documentary about that Hatzegopteryx, and not this re-named Quetzalcoatlus…*
These are a dwarf sauropods, I know, but they are also very young, since it was said Hatzegopteryx's scull is 3 metres long and the sauropod it ate is nowhere near the size of a cow - it is close to that of a human.
When I looked in the thumbnail, I thought Hatzegopteryx was Kaiju sized compared to the sauropods. Now it turns out that these sauropods are the dwarf sized species compared to him.
This is officially the scariest thing in the entire show, and it still isn't as scary as the real deal (which, thanks to recent research, turned out to be scarier! Swallowing small dinosaurs whole was bad enough, this thing apparently specialized in killing the adults!!!) Anyone want to see a living Eldritch abomination with a ten-foot long head (biggest jaws on any land predator) than runs at 35 miles per hour, flies at 120 miles per hour, and stands 14 feet tall?
Witton et all, 2013. Basically it looked very different from this, and probably ate larger prey than shown here. (It was already known to be capable of eating human-sized prey but now it's more likely it could take bigger prey than that)
I wonder how planes would develop if these things still existed. The air is one of the only places we’re not contested by things trying to kill us. The water is dangerous and so is the land. Would we perhaps make attempts at taming them? Maybe we would develop planes specifically to hunt them for sport or food
Wait, I swear the largest known Pterosaur was Quetzalcoatlus. It also stood as tall as a giraffe and wingspan was about 30 feet (size of a small modern jet plane)
Before you comment, there's 2 things you need to know. 1) The Hatzegopteryx is not the size of a tokusatsu kaiju 2) The sauropods being shown are a dwarf species that's native to Hateg Island. They are very small due to island dwarfism, which is when species on small islands evolve to be smaller than their mainland counterparts because of limited resources..
I've never been so focused/terrified/amazed by Hatzegopteryx before until now. I remember learning of this guy in 2006 or 2007 or 2008 or 2009, and I never knew how menacing and scary Hatzegopteryx could be. Unbelievable. D:) (sorry about the same face, but there's no other way to fully describe how I feel about this creature.)
Bloody hell, those Hatzegoptery as well as the Quetzalcoatlus just give me the creeps and are two of my favourite Pterosaurs. Those Magyarosaurus are cool as well. Titanosaurs like Argentinosaurus, Puertasaurus and Dreadnoughtus massive creatures and the biggest things to walk this earth then there is their little pint sized cousin the Magyarosaurus which was the size of pony, what is not cool about a miniature sauropod? The main reason it is on my list of favourite dinosaurs is the simple fact it is a mini sauropod.
I like the fact that the parents of that baby didn’t give a heck about their baby being eaten alive, I’m so glad these Godzilla birds didn’t still live with us- and those. “Trees” were actually a bush like mini tree if you look in the back you can see bigger trees
Only problem is: the hatzegopteryx looked a bit different; it was a bit shorter, with a much larger beak… this version looks like a more common azdarchid… aside from that however, I love this!!
Wish it was still alive today life would be much more exciting going too work ...I was late because I got carried away too Glasgow and dropped into a giant nest ...
Not to be a nerdy prick, but pterosaurs didn't build nests. It'd be more like "sorry l was late, l got fucking impaled through the chest by a 3 meter long lance and then swallowed whole on the spot lol".
@@velocipastor676 Being even more Nerdy Now we know that those pterosaurs would probably kill humans by punching with their overly powerful and complex arms... basically, you would not survive a attack.
The muscles in the arm/wing do one big push like a spring from rebounding as they bend their wings before taking off and it glides the rest of the way. And btw their wings would be pushing off the ground when taking off.
i like how they say it was only 5 metres tall then show it 3 times taller then then pine trees and the brontosaurus, that brontosaurus must be only like 5 ft tall
+Replaypls They're very close in size. I think the current estimate is that Quetzalcoatlus has a 36 foot wingspan and Hatzegopteryx has a 39 foot wingspan.
"Quetza is bigger they found about 60% of a fossil 6 months ago and declared it quetza which was found to be just bigger" Those were from Quetzalcoatlus sp., a smaller unnamed species, only slightly taller than a human.
they would be too hard to fight because of probably high speed i think there faster than normal pterosaurs if they were real and made an indomonus version of it it would be soooooo big that its wngs are so hard
![Hatzegopteryx Hunting Tethyshadros [Prehistoric Planet]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wrxjJQAta7g/mqdefault.jpg)
I'm confused as to how its as tall as a giraffe, yet it looks like the size of godzilla compared to the trees
It's on Hatzeg island, where paleontologists have found evidence of island dwarfism. Most of the animals that lived there were smaller than their cousins on the Euroasian mainland. Because the herbivores were small, the plants/trees didn't have to grow too tall to escape their teeth.
😂 hahahahaha. I was also. confused at first like huh how the hell it just picked up the sauropod like it’s Godzilla
@@garethmiguel that makes NO sense! Then how the hartzogie get so big?
@@mrkemblegilstrap 😆 The Hertzy can fly, it wasn't native to the island. It could fly over, pick up some lunch, then fly off somewhere else. The reason it's associated with the island is because fossil remains were found there, probably because it visited a lot due to the easy pickings.
The dinosaur it ate was a type of very small sauropod which existed only in a few places in the world
I like how he says its the largest flying vertebrate as if there are larger flying invertebrates
Yes insects
@@folcoch40 cool reply😂
Invertebrates can't fly
@@praharshinitech026, lmao insects are invertebrates 😂
Makes it sound more sciencey
I love how the parents had no problem whatsoever with their baby being snatched up
But what can they do neside being pecked to death by these oversized pelicans
@@asemy1503 a flick of the tail and they would have snapped his neck and it is also part of their nature to defend puppies is called animal instinct
@@ok_8441 my guy its like 2 times bigger than them if the small sauropod attacked a hatz he would just get absolutely annihilated
@@ok_8441 most reptiles are solitary and dont protect their young, there are exceptions such are crocodilians and modern birds, but we dont have significant evidence that this particular species of sauropod actively protected their young
@@itsurfrind Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. On the contrary there _is_ evidence of herding behaviour of sauropods, and many other dinosaurs, based on fossil tracks. It is also important to note that dinosaurs are only distantly related to most modern reptiles, and the 'exceptions' you listed are all the most closely related living relatives to non-avian dinosaurs, with birds being their direct descendants.
The Sauropods in the video are dwarf species, they only grew as big as a Horse, which makes Hatzegopteryx look gigantic. Those dinosaurs lived in an island called Hateg, which is in what is today Romania, all the dinosaurs that lived there were dwarves, they evolved smaller because of reduced resources and space.
Thank you for this. It was hurting my feelings seeing a pterosaur tower sauropods like that...
Daniel Darnall
The same for me ._. I agree using dwarf sauropods makes hatzegopteryx looking really really tall.
***** It is. Even if we count the fact it lost 5 feet of height due to being redesigned as a robust macropredator, it's still a goddamn 15 feet tall, about the same as an elephant.
Yes the sauropods are dwarf species, sure, but that doesnt explain why it towers far above the treetops and mountains.
Mathilde Jacquemin Hatzegopteryx the Godzilla of the dwarf sauropods
"It hunted from the skies."
Eats dinosaur on the ground
Little sauropod: "Those bastards, they lied to me"
😂😂
Yes lol
This made me laugh u get a like
Hunted from the skies...not ate. Fool ya fool
The pelican of death.
Giraffe pelican of death*
The pelican of death was actually the pelagornis. This is more like the A-10 warthog of dinosaurs.
The AC-130 of all flying animals.
Pelicans do actually eat baby birds And small creatures like this
That would be just a regular pelican
i thought that they oversized the hatzegopteryx because of the fact it was taller than the magyarosaurus. turns out, magyarosaurus are midgets
Yes pretty sure they are smallest Sauropods tho many people thing they are like always 1 kilometre tall now lmao
@@donteatmycheeze4901 I think there were a couple even punier sauropods (or protosauropods) from the Triassic
Tea cup dinos 😁
They prefer to be called “vertically challenged sauropods”
Yeah those sauropods were just very smol
I like how they say "Largest flying vertebrate ever known..." Right, because, we've found butterflies larger?
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, the largest flying invertebrate was, iirc, a dragonfly the size of a hawk. Not much competition compared to a pterosaur the size of a plane. They should have just cut out the middleman and called it "the largest flying _animal_ ever known".
Me too I was just thinking the same thing
*Cue Mothra being a thing*
Maybe he said that because the existence of the Argentavis? Why dont you search before you comment?(ik this comment is a year old)
Rodrigo DM those are vertebrates and smaller than this animal so his comment is still technically correct. Including the word vertebrates is rather pointless since it's also the biggest flying animal ever discovered.
0:34,
Littlefoot: "Hey Petrie, what are you doi..."
Petrie: "STFU Littlefoot."
Sharp tooth punching the air rn
Oh nooooo, my childhood Is ruined
@@theCatsitter878 Sorry, but think of it this way; this is just an alternate timeline and universe. After all, it is called "The Land Before Time."
@novak LOL! 🤣
Feel so bad for Petrie. Her voice actor was murdered by her own father.
If you're wondering why Hatzegopteryx is towering over those sauropods, it's because those sauropods are _Magyarosaurus_, dwarf sauropods about the size of a pony. The pterosaurs aren't the size of Godzilla, calm down. They are still the largest pterosaurs (Standing height of ~5 meters at the head when walking on the ground).
That said, newly described _Hatzegopteryx_ material includes a cervical VII that's about as wide as it's long (Witton and Naish 2017). Witton and Naish both demonstrate that this is pretty good evidence for a short-necked _Hatzegopteryx_ rather than the long-necked one you see here. Azhdarchids were probably a lot more diverse in body proportions and size than is commonly made out to be.
That's also sufficient enough evidence to say _Hatzegopteryx_ is definitely not the same animal as the giraffe-necked _Quetzalcoatlus_.
Oh I thought that was big sauropods but still it was a pretty big bird
Sorry, but the one with the T rex icon is having problems with the +g, sorry. (And before you ask any questions, I'm his classmate. ANd I have some fossils: Annomite)
Feather Pen Which user are you referring to as the one with the T. rex icon? Are you a friend of Ben G. Thomas or David Blagic?
Luigi Gaskell The one with the no one notices the bush at the end of the username
I'd argue the pterosaurs were actually subject to gigantism. For they had no real competition (they were very much the apex predators of the archipelago which hateg was a part of) and indeed, as you say, they weren't bound by the smaller sizes of the islands, but instead by the archipellago as a whole. Also most other Hatzegopteryx species (this is Hatzegopteryx thambema) were much smaller with wingspans of 3-6 m. So this is a special case indeed.
Worst parents ever
Luke Fearnley they just doesnt give a shit😂😂
That music that played tho
best model ever!
with that size they're basically helpless
johnny
I like how it looks at you at the end "You're next"
Hatzegopteryx: *You're next... HYOO-MANNNZZ!*
and imagine it said your next" thinking it was a human behind the screen but its actually an argetinasaurus"
now I see where pelican picked up the trait of eating everything smaller than it
Ironically, the smaller Pteranodon was the pterosaur that held the niche of a pelican (or perhaps more accurately, pelicans have inherited the niche from Pteranodon). That said, I'm assuming you've seen that footage of pelicans just striding up to bird nests and swallowing up their babies? This video is definitely what that reminded me of ;)
Hatzegopteryx: **Eats a baby dino**
The parents: Not my problem.
Lmao, , but just imagine your kids get eaten by big bad danasaur 😏
@@muhammadregi4341 first things first, that is not a dinosaur, it’s a pterosaur. Second, this aren’t babies, they are adults. ADULTS. And the reason they are so small is because they are dwarf species, making the pterosaur even bigger. Just wanted to clear things up a bit.
@@milesfoster8190 what!? It's an adult??
@@muhammadregi4341 let me explain, it’s adult, but it’s only the size of a horse, making the pterosaur appear even larger than it actually is. And those trees are not trees, they’re horsetails.
@@milesfoster8190 you're a genius sir. Thank you for the information
If u take the size of those trees
They look absolutely massive
Thank you Mr Obvious
I bet those trees are 3 or 4 ft tall
The trees are like 3 feet tall tho
The island this occured on (Hatzeg island) suffered from island dwarfism. Almost everything native to the island was smaller than its mainland counterparts. Those sauropods and trees are only about 3-4 ft tall (about as big as a pony or small horse) so while the hatzegopteryx was massive (as big as a giraffe or bigger) it wasnt so big that it looked like rodan from godzilla, which it would be if those trees were normally sized
@@beeks4life811 so basically the island it self was much smaller than normal
Good to know
Narrator: "This is the largest pterosaur ever known."
Quetzalcoatlus: "Am I a joke to you?"
that is what I was wondering.
They also have a wing span of 10 to 11 meters so idk what the difference is they look the same
It’s probable that they are the same species so who knows
It kinda is a joke to them, yeah. It's now thought that despite being a bit shorter than Quetz, Hatzy was still heavier and more robust. So Hatzy wins.
Socrates vs Agamemnon
Those must be shrubs and and not trees if the thing is 5m tall
everything on the island is dworphed. Not just the trees
He says it’s as tall as a giraffe, so the video is definitely making it look bigger than it actually is.
@@uravggamer4620 no the island is dwarfed and so is everything on it.
@@Orniisss he means the pterosaur
They're horsetails, most of them are knee-height or less.
Those things are huge, at least they are extinct now. Just imagine going out for a walk and a hatzegopteryx was literally on the ground ready to snatch you up with its beak.
Or the mess they would make on your car
@@liberaldriller9884 dent the thing
This is complete fantasy. These creatures never existed except in someone's imagination.
@@SpontaneousOracle They did exist, you can check out the fossil record
@@xiphactinusaudax1045 I have. They dont exist.
Fun fact: Hatzegopteryx is not confirmed as largest pterosaur. It's about even with Quetzalcoatlus and we're still not sure if they're different.
Recent evidence suggests that Hatzegopteryx had a slightly shorter neck and a more robust frame than its American cousin, although there are still some disputes about the size thing. The highest estimates are 36 foot wingspan for Quetz and 39 foot wingspan for Hatzy, but some have argued that 36 feet would be a more realistic estimate for Hatzy, which (if accurate) would make them about even.
CJCroen1393 It's not nearly as tall, but it's heavier, stronger, and able to kill much larger prey.
It’s Me Josiah And I ❤️Love Queztalcolatluses.
Fun Fact: The Queztalcoatlus Was 33 Feet Long It Said That In The Dinosaur 🦖 🦕 Book.
Second Fun Fact: Quetzalcoatlus Was The Size Of A Giraffe 🦒!
The herbivores were dwarf dinos and shorter than humans
Apparently, their top size is the size of a pony
Thank goodness, I though those were adult dinos
@@zasproductions9258 they are adults they just adapted to a smaller size from being on a small island with lower amounts of food
Cute
They are called Magyarosaurus, and they are like Buffalo sized
Those are supposed to be horsetails, not trees
“It’s skull alone is 9 feet long” HOLYSHIT!
Imagine the horror of still being alive during the digestion process
there's something so unnerving about how it just gulps down the sauropod baby alive without even attempting to hurt or kill it, it just makes my stomach turn
You clearly don’t know pelicans
Pelicans are the worst -_-
yeah, Actual precision quick killing of animals, like how cats aim for the neck, is pretty rare. Most predators either hit an animal so hard they indirectly knock it out or kill it, but a lot just rip apart or swallow an animal on the spot.
Azhdarchid pterosaurs are not animals you want to meet in a dark--or lit--allyway.
These fellas wouldn't fit in any hallway! :)
sky1monitor
I said "alleyway".
Although you are right.
CJCroen1393
Oops, my apologies! Still, they are so huge - would be a tight fit even for an alleyway! :) (and yep, I wouldn't want to share one with them)
sky1monitor
They would probably find it a little harder to maneuver through an alleyway, what with the aircraft-sized wingspan and all XD
You wouldn't want to meet them at all
When the close up on that eye showed... yeah, you may now shit yourself...
And hopefully that thing doesn't shit on you..
yoshiman444ab LOL
Imagine if these things still existed today and having to file a claim because one of these dropped a sh** on your car from 500 meters in the air lmao
XD
The entire windshield gets smashed in
Your car would be as flat as wrong earth
At least we won't have to mine for chemical fertilizer!
Ark players be like: bro it's just a quetzal and it's so giant btw
I wanna knock it out and tame it lol
I work in a museum in London and I work in the flying reptile area
+C.j Lawrence thats cool.
thanks
That the weirdest was called gigantoraptor which was 6.9 foot tall but it couldn't fly due to how its wings were more like arms.
+Louis Rossi oh yeah I also moved to the ice age section
Did you find Scrat? Or Manny?
Isn’t it only speculated that it could have gotten bigger than Quetzalcoatlus?
Exactly, bbc conjecture passed off as fact..
@@jonathanwilkinson1461 no, no, it was around the same size, at least comparing it to individuals of similar species with more complete remains
No. Hatzegopteryx had a 30 ft wingspan, while Quetzalcoatlus was almost 10 feet longer, at around 36 to 40 feet.
@@SpinoDragon145 No?Hatzegopteryx had a 33-35 Ft Wingspan, Quetzalcolatlus had a 37-38 foot span, also Hatzegopteryx was heavier since it’s head and body was much more robust
Quetzalcoatlus was longer and taller, Hatzegopteryx was heavier so the statement of being largest is true.
I wish I had a time machine just to be an observer of these times to see what really went on.
You're lucky that mankind have 0% chance of making a time machine
The Hatzegopteryx hunted animals that were around our size, trust me you never want to see it, it would most likely be the last animal you would ever see.
This was probably the Large Dragon Legend that ate humans from people sacrificing others to it/them
@Slingin_Bait - You would be surprised on the true past then. Your view on evolution if that's what you believe in would shadder completely as Science haven't even come close to the real identities of Dinosaurs and other past interesting animals
I hope this will be featured in jurrasic park 4 this will actually capture the fear in the audience
Your profile pic hurts my eyes
Who's gonna tell em?
JURASSIC PARK 4 OOOOHHHH
This guy commented while he was still hoping for a JP 4 to come out. That's amazing.
@@easportsaxb8057 we must protect him at all costs
John Hurt: This is Hatzegopteryx.
David Attenborough: Hatzegopteryx.
Many say that this is an incorrect portrayal of the Hatzegopteryx, and that it actually had a fatter neck, a larger, blunt beak, and chased down animals that it couldn’t swallow whole.
*Honestly would love to see a documentary about that Hatzegopteryx, and not this re-named Quetzalcoatlus…*
"Prehistoric Planet" to your service
These are a dwarf sauropods, I know, but they are also very young, since it was said Hatzegopteryx's scull is 3 metres long and the sauropod it ate is nowhere near the size of a cow - it is close to that of a human.
Yeah, the specufic one it picked up was a baby. But the other ones that were walking around were all adults.
You can see at 0:06 a pair of adults and see how big they are compared to the Hatzys.
I thought the Hatzegopteryx was discovered like 20 years before 2002, but that year was when it was finally named?
Paleontologists: “find giant spear skull”
Also Paleontologists: “clearly this was a crane mixed with a dragon”
@Who Cares? I just the creature looked silly.
@@slimeinabox even today there are plenty of animals that look kinda silly, but if it works it works
When I looked in the thumbnail, I thought Hatzegopteryx was Kaiju sized compared to the sauropods. Now it turns out that these sauropods are the dwarf sized species compared to him.
Scary how these big guys are portrayed as bird giraffes always eating little sauropods
This is officially the scariest thing in the entire show, and it still isn't as scary as the real deal (which, thanks to recent research, turned out to be scarier! Swallowing small dinosaurs whole was bad enough, this thing apparently specialized in killing the adults!!!)
Anyone want to see a living Eldritch abomination with a ten-foot long head (biggest jaws on any land predator) than runs at 35 miles per hour, flies at 120 miles per hour, and stands 14 feet tall?
What research?
Witton et all, 2013.
Basically it looked very different from this, and probably ate larger prey than shown here. (It was already known to be capable of eating human-sized prey but now it's more likely it could take bigger prey than that)
Never thought a pterosaur should be killing adult sauropods for fun but guess u learn something new every day
Fun fact, those small dinosaurs ARE adults, they’re just the size of a horse.
@@milesfoster8190 No, these are small juveniles even by dwarf sauropod standards
Could you imagine if you traveled back in time and saw one of those things? It would be awesome and terrifying
+The Viewer I'd tame it. Or at least try to ride it.
Trevor Phillips Knowing me I'd probably get eaten.
Remember watching this as a kid,this is beautiful
Beautiful and terrifying at the same time
0:36 did that hatzegopteryx just spit a metal and laser sounds
This is what happens when a Pelican listens to the Doom Soundtrack
I wonder how planes would develop if these things still existed. The air is one of the only places we’re not contested by things trying to kill us. The water is dangerous and so is the land. Would we perhaps make attempts at taming them? Maybe we would develop planes specifically to hunt them for sport or food
*_Hatzegopteryx:_* "We'll be stealing your fish AND your Mini SAVs."
These pterosaurus sure was some of the weirdest,scariest,and coolestthing from the Cretaceous period.
It's like eating spaghetti from chopsticks.
Wait, I swear the largest known Pterosaur was Quetzalcoatlus. It also stood as tall as a giraffe and wingspan was about 30 feet (size of a small modern jet plane)
quetzal had a larger wingspan, but hatzy was heavier because of its robust build
@@bladepixel Ah, ok thanks.
@@bladepixel actually they are relatively the same weight, just quetzal is only a little heavier
large bird: *eats baby dino*
parents: this is fine
Before you comment, there's 2 things you need to know.
1) The Hatzegopteryx is not the size of a tokusatsu kaiju
2) The sauropods being shown are a dwarf species that's native to Hateg Island. They are very small due to island dwarfism, which is when species on small islands evolve to be smaller than their mainland counterparts because of limited resources..
Dude if we discovered this thing in some remote area we'd better nuke everything within a 50 mile radius.
Yeah, nuke everything, you're such a human.
they can fly
Cygnus Prime *BIG BRAIN TIME*
It’s only five metres tall, it probably wouldn’t hunt humans either
@@ieatmice751 it could swallow a human like a glizzy
I've never been so focused/terrified/amazed by Hatzegopteryx before until now. I remember learning of this guy in 2006 or 2007 or 2008 or 2009, and I never knew how menacing and scary Hatzegopteryx could be. Unbelievable. D:) (sorry about the same face, but there's no other way to fully describe how I feel about this creature.)
Yeah but it's just an imaginary representation. Nothing tells us it was really that menacing or scary.
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Isaiah Phillip I have, but still.
Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting Oh *:/*
Well it's the closest live analogy, and personally, I find it pretty horrifying.
Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting They did some more research. It was actually scarier than depicted here.
UA-cam really had to recommend me this
Now those are titans in the skies
Man... beta earth was even more cracked than we first thought.
John hurt narrates just as good as david Attenborough does❤❤
Props to the camera man for getting this footage
lmao
i had the whole dvd collection as a kid, i've watched this maybe 20 times 😭
Small me: Quetzalcoatlus was the biggest flying Pterosaur ever!
Hatzegopteryx: Allow me to introduce myself
Bloody hell, those Hatzegoptery as well as the Quetzalcoatlus just give me the creeps and are two of my favourite Pterosaurs. Those Magyarosaurus are cool as well. Titanosaurs like Argentinosaurus, Puertasaurus and Dreadnoughtus massive creatures and the biggest things to walk this earth then there is their little pint sized cousin the Magyarosaurus which was the size of pony, what is not cool about a miniature sauropod? The main reason it is on my list of favourite dinosaurs is the simple fact it is a mini sauropod.
VenatorAcclamator Wait, those are Magyarosaurus?!
VenatorAcclamator i like argentavis but theyre pretty small,i also think quetzalcoatlus are amazing
I like the fact that the parents of that baby didn’t give a heck about their baby being eaten alive, I’m so glad these Godzilla birds didn’t still live with us- and those. “Trees” were actually a bush like mini tree if you look in the back you can see bigger trees
Thank u for posting this video
Baby sauropod: "Mom help me! It's eating me!"
Mother sauropod: "lol get rekt scrub"
Git gud, son
Magyarosaurus:Hey dumbass what the fuck you think Ima do against this monster
I love how the adult sauropods just don't frickin care
And it has been filmed in a place with miniaturized sequoia and brontosaurus
The jerky animations of CGI just made it scarier.
How did they swallow that sauropod?!
Necks are so thin.
And then the parents didn't fight back. What would you do if you knew someone was capable of eating your own child?
DinoCoat the Gaming Tyrannosaur you cant say that when those dinosaurs had the intelligence of some insects. You can’t compare that to a human lol
They are heavily shrink wrapped in the show, in reality the necks were far more bulky and thick
@@riot2136 they didn't have the intelligence of an insect, and you have no sources or evidence to support your claim
@@easportsaxb8057 that's true
Probably the most powerful pterosaur cause of its robust build and muscular neck that allows it to cause more damage
0:01 I find it interesting when he just fly slowly then suddenly accelerates
Only problem is: the hatzegopteryx looked a bit different; it was a bit shorter, with a much larger beak… this version looks like a more common azdarchid… aside from that however, I love this!!
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Peck peck dinobirb
Wish it was still alive today life would be much more exciting going too work ...I was late because I got carried away too Glasgow and dropped into a giant nest ...
Not to be a nerdy prick, but pterosaurs didn't build nests. It'd be more like "sorry l was late, l got fucking impaled through the chest by a 3 meter long lance and then swallowed whole on the spot lol".
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Being even more Nerdy
Now we know that those pterosaurs would probably kill humans by punching with their overly powerful and complex arms... basically, you would not survive a attack.
I’m confused are these bigger than the trees or are those just shrubs?
Just shrubs and the sauropds are tiny ones
Why do its wings remind me of a Lambda-class shuttle when it lands
Not little foot getting eaten 😳
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Finally it reveals itself. This decade old video, which all these *"scientific diagrams that look like shitposts"* has been leading up to.
Those horsetails look like trees and as a kid it always confused me
Curious to know how it would take off from the ground....🤔🤔🤔🤔
The muscles in the arm/wing do one big push like a spring from rebounding as they bend their wings before taking off and it glides the rest of the way. And btw their wings would be pushing off the ground when taking off.
Here's an animation: ua-cam.com/video/CRk_OV2cDkk/v-deo.html
I can hear the ARK players cocking their guns in the distance…
NO BIG DEAL, WE HAVE THE SAME NOW, JUST A COUPLE SIZES DOWN!
If this thing was alive today i would give my last breath trying to tame it and ride it and i wouldn't regret it
Same
"listen, flying giraffe, I need you to take me to the skies!"
Baby: *got swallowed*
It's parents: Understandable have a great day
i like how they say it was only 5 metres tall then show it 3 times taller then then pine trees and the brontosaurus, that brontosaurus must be only like 5 ft tall
Metres dude, metres.
The sauropod is a dwarf especies fron Hazte island. The didn't get much bigger than an immature elephant.
Gareth Murphy mispoke
Gareth Murphy those trees are only 5 ft tall as well
A metre is close to an American Yard or do you still use cubits over there.
No one other than the US still uses those old measurements.
I thought I recognized that voice. Same dude who voices the dragon in Merlin!
It's John Hurt, his voice is very recognizable and unique
Glad to see the UA-cam algorithm has brought us together again brothers and sisters.
Who else saw the demon in the background at 0:11?
That's a plant-
@@Loiueplaystudios2325 Yeah
I get that it's a plant, but I see what you mean.
That's a tree, my dude.
Isn't Quezacoatalus bigger or was Quezacoatalus found after this and then Quezacoatalus became the biggest?
+Replaypls They're very close in size. I think the current estimate is that Quetzalcoatlus has a 36 foot wingspan and Hatzegopteryx has a 39 foot wingspan.
Quetza is bigger they found about 60% of a fossil 6 months ago and declared it quetza which was found to be just bigger
Sorry I mean 4 years ago, I was distracted
"Quetza is bigger they found about 60% of a fossil 6 months ago and declared it quetza which was found to be just bigger"
Those were from Quetzalcoatlus sp., a smaller unnamed species, only slightly taller than a human.
10 year old Planet Dinosaur clip reigniting my paleontologic fascination.
God: now you all know why I threw that big rock at the earth.
Me: yes thank you.
Quetzelcoatlus was the largest pterosaur.
Yes it is
quetzalcoatlus wingspan is 36 meter,while hatzegopyteryx wingspan is 39 meter
azmiy nurrosyid Says who? 36 meters is just ridiculous.
Uh,maybe not meter
And actually they are similar
I'm suprised there was an island where Hatzegopteryx was apex, wonder what Quetzalcoatlus would look there.
About the same size. Quetzalcoatlus was slightly taller but Hatzegopteryx was bulkier.
Fro some reason the real versions of these were not even 1/3 of the size of apatosaurus
Wiat wiat wiat wiat wiat those are real!?
the size of those sauropods is not big, it's the same compared to a fully grown horse
@@baole9213 but sauropods are the biggest dinosaurs
@@D3mVIII This is on an island where island dwarfism had occured to the local species, so every dinosaur is pretty small there.
@@D3mVIII not all sauropods are large sauropods take the things in the video for example
Quetzalcoatlus is larger
no its not
Yes it is@@Orniisss
@@isaiahwolftail867 hatzegopteryx had a longer bill and neck and had more height so...
@@Orniisss ok then im with hexagopteryx
@@isaiahwolftail867 dope
"A giant we assume hunted from the sky"
As the scene goes on to show us the hatzegopteryx hunting from the ground
It killed the infant what a monster
then humans are a monster bc they eat eggs and stole them from the chickens.
@@theonewhooofedyou6320 an egg is not technically alive though.
Also, life feeds on life.
bro thats an adult
@@theonewhooofedyou6320 they only sell eggs which are not fertilized, so there isn't life inside
We all know I'm the last living quetz
I'm the last theropod.
FishboyH20 The Triops 😂😂😂
i love this video so much ❤
They're NOT in Jurassic World :( WHY? WHY???
They are gonna be in jurassic world 3
they would be too hard to fight because of probably high speed i think there faster than
normal pterosaurs if they were real and made an indomonus version of it
it would be soooooo big that its wngs are so hard
Because it would be like locking an albatross in a parrot cage.