Hatzegopteryx Hunting Tethyshadros [Prehistoric Planet]
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- A flock of Hatzegopteryx attacking a herd of grazing Tethyshadros…
This is honestly my new favorite portrayal of azhdarchids in paleomedia, because Prehistoric Planet showed how mobile these giant terrestrial pterosaurs were on the ground as well as their level of competence/intelligence while hunting for Hateg’s miniature residents…
Sauce: Prehistoric Planet - Season 2 Episode 1 (Islands)
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00:00 Insular Isolation
00:33 The Flying Apex
01:35 Combing The Field
03:03 Quad Launching
03:22 Back To Grazing
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The mammalian urge to fuck right off when a giant predatory bird-thing stares down at you is strong here.
Hatzegopteryx is the most terrifying prehistoric creature in my opinion. A giant Heron like thing, the seize of a Giraffe for that Humans would be just the right seize of meal.
@@Mereel401
Argentinosaurus in musth
My baby brother (1 year) saw a fake owl on the ceiling at the wizarding world and flipped out
Hide in the bushes. I'm a human being, but things that fly have bad attitudes. Think they own everything.
@@noahboucher125I doubt ur a human being
The way it turned when the mother started calling was almost insidious. "The mother is calling for its young, that means it is still out here..."
" No worries miss, I'll go fetch your children for you "
Well.. It was animated by humans
@@supjay3945 humans dinosaurs. same thing
Just the thought that these animals know exactly what noise a dino mum makes when its child is missing is terrifying.
@@supjay3945well, animals aren’t stupid they’re capable of putting two things together
Giant flying killing giraffes coming down from the sky is truly a sight
Yeah, till they decide to eat you
And even worse, they can gallop immediately after landing. Which kind of reminds me of the Brontorocs from Don't look up.
They are magnificent, but we would be on their menu.
Giraffe-sized, stork-like flying reptiles, woah...
And terrifying.
Everyone talks about how dangerous and scary theropods are, but I can't even begin to imagine how scary it must be being in a situation like this.
Giant Azdachroids appeared as most of the large theripods like spinosaurus and giganotosaurus died. Land cross and giant pterosaur were trying to fill the empty niche at least in europe.
@@yonghwanchoi4212 well they're doing a good job with that here.
@@yonghwanchoi4212
Hatzegopteryx’s situation is unique because of the fact Europe was an archipelago. In Asia and North America, tyrannosaurids eventually evolved to replace the now-extinct carcharodontosaurids as apex predators, but they (and most other predatory dinosaurs) never made it to most parts of Europe due to the long ocean crossing. Pterosaurs didn’t have this issue because they could fly, allowing them to become Europe’s most dominant group of land predators by the end of the Cretaceous.
I often underestimate the size of pterosaurs, these island hopping ones really try to put that into perspective
Almost as scary as being given the word: "hatzegopteryx" in a spelling bee! 🤭
Honestly the bit at the end is the scariest part about Hatzegopteryx to me. They’re huge, surprisingly swift and strong, that’s all proper scary, but it’s the fact that they can just fucking take off like that with no run up, they just VAULT into the air. It’d be like a nightmare. They swoop down, consume your children then take off in the blink of an eye
The heaviest creature ever to take to the skies, can take off without running
Nature is beautifully terrifying
That’s the buff granted by combining the best parts of avian and chiropteran flight: the much more expansive and efficient respiratory system of the former for weight savings and endurance, and the more weight-efficient quadrupedal takeoff and superior flight surface control (albeit not to the same extent as in chiropterans) of the latter.
@@bkjeong4302 Pterosaurs were the best flyers.
@@bluevozhak or we could try to domesticate them to become flying mounts if they could support our weight. They’d be hunting companions at first, like with falconers but bigger.
I highly doubt they could take off from a standstill so easily, if at all. I suspect they would need to get a "running" start and then beat their wings like mad to take flight. The ease of this depiction is not accurate.
1:11 that deep honk Hatzegopteryx makes is amazing
Agree
Sounds like the start of the tripod horn from war of the worlds, one of the scariest sounds out there.
It makes it even more intimidating. And I like how similar it is to the quetz's sounds but deeper due to it being stockier
Indeed they are really had nailed the sounds for all the dinosaurs
The deep pecking and breathing makes them even more intimidating and frightening
We are fortunate that we have David Attenborough to tell us about animals that existed during his childhood.
NAHHHH. You did my man dirty.
lmfaooooooo
Bruh 💀 homie is the goat for these narrations man, don't do him dirty like that.
@@piglin469
On gawd 🗿 man is old, yeah, but he's legendary
The funny thing is that thylacines technically still existed while Attenborough was a child.
0:35 the musical cue and the cinematography are simply incredible in this short shot
I couldn’t agree more. Literally gives me chills, such a good scene.
Tethyhadros: " ... uh guys, why is there boss music playing?" ...🤔😰
The sense of scale you get whenever they angle the camera to look up at them (in the perspective of the Tethyshadros) is absolutely chef’s kiss
Well needed perspective. Watching these guys walk in a field a bit above the bushes you think - oh cool. But then you realise their skull alone is like 2.5-3 meters and that field of vegetation is like 4 meters tall😵💫
@@Makabert.Abylon yesss, and it’s more dreadful to imagine when you realize, Tethyshadros are twice the size of a person yet still dwarfed by them. That one adult you see getting swallowed just drives the fact that, we’re the perfect sized prey for them.
@@_boogatti_ no wonder we mammals needed a massive extinction of these fellas,cause imagine having the fear of one of these swopping down and snatching people daily
yes yes yes
@@_boogatti_I didn't see any adult Tethyshadros being snatched up, I'm pretty sure the first one to get caught was just a larger juvenile.
It’s terrifying how they can go from flying to galloping on the ground without much hassle.
@@ProtiumPower yep, good thing most bats haven’t fully figured out how to take off like that yet or we’re screwed
Yep also apparently they move better on ground than they do in the air!
@@BluesnakeCreations.officialwas said they could gallop up to 20-30 mph, wasn’t it?
@@jwilson2793 not sure I didn't do too much research on it or anything
@@jwilson2793 the tallest and the biggest pterodactyl flyed 80 mph and on the land it was 30 mph The name is Qwaz they’re even way dangerous and terrifying then these kinds of pterodactyls the Qwazs even used to destroy and kill T-Rex’s
This is exactly what playing Path of Titans feels like right now with everyone being a Quetz
True XDD
The rex and quetz episode kinda makes sense and a reason why I hate flying apexes
@@meepsurasrex4790 For real, man- They're freaking terrifying and they can just hover over you and peck you to death. But, to be fair, they do get clapped easily if you somehow manage to land a hit on them. Also, I wouldn't necessarily classify Quetz as an apex (in PoT) despite it's size because like I said... Couple claw attacks from a juvie/adol anything can send it scurrying away pretty quickly lol But I suppose it is apex amongst the the rest of the pterosaurs and a certified baby killer.
Quetz in Path should be stronger. Sorta like a glass canon where it does a lot of damage, but takes a lot of damage
@@m.d.diablos4423 nah, the strong Quetz is gonna be the Hatz, because is more robust and adapted to hunt terrestrial prey
1:35 I love how you can see the gears in its head start turning as the Hatzegopteryx puts two and two together.
The captions are absolutely golden.
We can only imagine how terrifying they would be if they were still alive.
Hatzegopteryx would definitely see humans as prey
These things were big enough to swallow people…
imagine if this creature is chasing you, GALLOPING towards you
Yes very terrifying 😂..
When humans will make carpets of This MF's Picnofibers
@@jacobcox4565shoot em with a bazooka...
the lead Hatze looked to his mates after the mother calls out to her calves, as if saying "There's still some here, look for them". incredible show of intelligence:)
@psst4849 yeah and that makes it even cooler. being able to see how an animal dead forever would POSSIBLY act in a moment like this, and being shown it like theyre actually there, isnt that just cool?? the wonders of technology.
That was one of my favorite scenes in that episode and it’s amazing that the large pterosaurs ate dinosaurs and they were the Apex predators in Europe. And of course, in North America Quetzalcoatlus was the second Apex predator after Tyrannosaurus rex.
And there was a lot of small dinosaurs than the Quetzalcoatlus could have hunted, like Archaeoraptor and Leptoceratops
@@alejandroelluxray5298 and in New Mexico they would hunt baby sauropods
The hapzegoperyx was not really an apex predetor
First of all it has hollow bones to minimize weight so if some animal were to break its bones it would be at a massive disadvantage. Second of all it is assumed that its skin was reletaivly fragile. And lastly the hatzegopteryx ate mainly babies and leftover carcasses. The thing is still a nightmare to everything because it is very hard to injure a quetzacoatlus.
Nah, a stampede from a bunch of herbivores would render any pterosaurs flightless easily and at the mercy of the smallest of theropods!
Theres just something so haunting about the final shot of them taking off. Like winged reapers, arriving to dole out death, and just as quickly rising back into the sky to hunt down those who are already dead but don't yet know it.
Funny, because Hatzgeopteryx has a relative named Thanatosdrakon, meaning death dragon.
flying death bringers, the perfect description of what azdarchids are
@@kade-qt1zu yo thats sick
Season 1 Hatzagopteryx:Giant majestic flying giant
Season 2 Hatzagopteryx:A literal child abducting nightmare
That one baby Zalmoxes: 😡
Hatzegopteryx had thicker/more robust cervical vertebrae and a wider skull than other giant pterosaurs, probably had a stronger bite.
Or Stab
Those things looks Stabby
And more of a ability to subdue and even (to an extent) dismember large prey, something the much less robust marabou stork can already do.
@@yan7314
Prey dismemberment is a thing, even in things like relatively slender marabou storks.
The wider skull is speculative.
The panning off to random things hinting a predator on the ground and then hard cutting to giant pterosaurs in the sky was done so well
idk if it’s just me but when the camera pans up to them flying down I swear the music starts to sound like an air raid siren or something which is absolutely genius
as horror as this show has got so far, and the little sequel to the Hatz at the end of the episode is beautiful too.
YO THE CAPTIONS ARE GOLD LMAOOOO😂😂😂😂
Glad I wasn't the only kne🤣🤣
Swigitty Swooty
BAAABE I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA SHARE!
this hunt flopped
FR HELP 🤣
Was straight up cackling
"Mother of the year am I right?"
Seeing an azdarchid gallop are absolutely terrifying
Hi again, didn’t know you were a fan of prehistoric planet as well lol
@EmperorTetraObsessedPerson same with walking with dinosaurs the 1999 one
holy _shit_ i love the shot at 0:37. shot from the ground. as the hatzegopteryx soar above and draw near in a fashion i can only compare to ww2 german bombers during a blitz (maybe. im not too familiar with my modern history). the music absolutely helps in this regard too
Meh, the Blitz wasn't all that devastating - only 16k killed
@DakotaofRaptors 42k actually.
3:41, the most unusual beak I’ve ever seen on a hadrosaur
Tethyshadros is preserved with that unique beak structure, probably to help it strip leaves off of plants or to remove dirt from the ground and dig up roots
@@richie_0740 why didn't they developed a unique attack system to destroy these Monster Storks ???
@@jaisanatanrashtra7035 because they dont need to, hatzegopteryx are island hoppers and not often hunted these animals, plus they are living in an area with lots of cover so that they can just run back to the forest incase of a raid, they dont need to fend off this pterosaurs everyday
@@richie_0740 oh getting their babies sacrificed silly animals they better develop spikes or grow bigger
"The hunt flopped..."
Gotta love the subtitles 😂
"where's Timmy"
this is way scarier than the hatzegopteryx hunt from Planet Dinosaur
It's about even scariness tbh. Pretty horrifying in both shows, they remind me of pelicans
Planet dinosaur was shitty they were flexing like it was something important that it was completely computer-generated imagery but the the seans were all awful and hard to look at , and it was also just not tracking good because they were showing it like someone was holding a camera zooming in and out and it just looked awful and I'm not on board with the venomous dromaeosaur speculation
@@michaelwoolley7034 But the thing is that you can actually tell the fear that the preys are going through. In planet dinosaur, the sauropods didn't even reacted to the arrival of the Hatzegopteryx gang as they were just not caring at all as they were being eaten, meanwhile here we can sense how it is a very critical and tense moment for the Tethyshadros, and how they immediately take cover in the forest to escape them
Yeah
@@robertjackson1813 Planet Dinosaur was a pretty good show.
With the way some of the adult Tethyshadros reacted when the Hatzegopteryx suddenly appeared, the hadrosaurs were probably thinking “Oh shit, they’re back. AGAIN.”
This was on hateg island, so the hatzegopteryxes are everywhere
i like the contrast between Hațeg island's dense tropical forest and the drier conifer woodlands of italy/slovenia, here the hatzegopteryx can hunt in packs and have more open space to take off
Love how this episode devotes more time to the tyrants of the sky and land!
This takes me back; I remember when Planet Dinosaur did its own Hatzegopteryx hunting scene. Kinda surreal to see a more updated version of it.
"So it should be a safe place...
... *but not necessarily"*
Nature in a nutshell
My fear of giant pterosaurs has been renewed... stronger than ever
They are big, armed with massive beaks, fly, *sprint* and are intelligent. I'd dare to say Hatzegopteryx is OP as hell
there glass cannons. Just punch one and you might break there bones
@@piglin469 Hollow bones are stronger then normal bones. And you wouldn't even be able to get close enough to do that because they could kill you with one peck.
@@kade-qt1zu wait hollow bones are strong I thought they where weak
@@piglin469 Popular misconception.
@@kade-qt1zu bruh
Damn the way those hatzegopteryx pulled up looked quite fearsome. Essentially a real life Rodan that once existed.
not quite, *really* fearsome
@@Ledinosour673Learn English before you try to correct people.
@@chad9166 what gramatical error did i make there you sillyhead?
The way they turnd up, turnd around when the mother called and started searching was like a cartoon villan
When that foghorn sound happened, I got War of the World's vibes. If these things appeared today, they would be scary as hell.
This is the best segment in the entire show
This is the best pterosaur adaptation we have ever gotten.
I can see so many myths created among the small insular dinosaurs about these island hopping demons
My favorite pterosaur getting some love, this series is amazing
1:11 That shot is absolutely horrifying
It makes them look real titanic in size.
1:33 *calls for young*
Hatzeg: …🤨? wait a minute
Well, this more than makes up for Hatz being underplayed in Season 1.
It very much does they went above and beyond😊
I still wanted to see them hunting magyarosaurus, until i realized tethyshadros is 771 fucking pounds yet they were snatching them with ease, holy fuck
Te Bag To be fair, they were snatching up the young Tethyshadros. Although I don't doubt they are capable of hunting the adults if they wanted to.
Respect to the cameraman who risk his life to filming this magnificent creatures
WHO ARE MAKING THESE CAPTIONS, they are hilarious 😭
Haha the captions are amazing. Well done OP
Finally Italian Dinosaurs get the attention they deserve!
Mamma-mia! You eat-a my children!
Yes, finally!
@@ericksangermano but they did live alongside these pterosaurs right?
@@pedrogabrielduarte4544 Yes, they probably did, even if Hatzegopteryx hasn't been discovered in Italy
Peppino scream moment
Why was this more entertaining & have me on the edge of my seat more than any horror movie I’ve seen in the last 15 years? It’s so good
I love the captions you added
0:36 this part is kinda sick
The hategterex is now starting in to my soul in the thumbnail
Whoever did write the subtitles is a hero haha
the closed caption of your dino videos are gold!
Hatzegopteryx, big as a giraffe and the mindset of a pelican.
“Mother of the year, am I right?” 😂
Imagine being one of the babies that DIDN'T want to run but because your sibling did, you had no choice but to follow suit and YOU'RE the one who gets eaten while they get to go home to Mama.
I would haunt the little shit for as long as they lived.
This is something that I would want to see in Jurassic Franchise. Too bad they underused Quetzalcoatlus in JWD.
On a side note,the narration mentioned earlier that Tethyhadros were human-sized. That means if these Pterosaurs were recreated in Modern times,they might also view us as food.
"might"? nah man, i know what pelicans are like, if you fit in the beak then you're fit to eat. we must never revive the azdarchids.
yes, Hatzegopteryx and other giant azdarchids stood up to 5 meter in height, it can stare a giraffe right in the eye, if these guys survived to present day theres no doubt humans are part of their menu
Si el hatzegopteryx nos tendría en su menú con total posibilidad no así el quetzalcoatlus el cual tenía una garganta más estrecha y sus mandíbulas no estaban pensadas para presas tan grandes pero tenía un pico más afilado ideal para abrir cadáveres así que aparte de apuntar más a pequeñas presas el quetzalcoatlus era un carroñero adaptado a aprovechar los cadáveres de los grandes dinosaurios herbívoros el quetzalcoatlus a pesar de no tenernos en su menú hubiera sido también altamente peligroso sobretodo si te acercas al cadáver donde está alimentándose
yep, however unfortunately since we got more advanced, if they still lived they would probably be one of our main threats and be hunted to extinction before they would even be able to be recorded
@@ripperonipepperoni9391 wouldn't be too sure about that... endangered maybe but not fully extinct.
especially if their nesting points were hard to reach
Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus were such terrifying predators. On the ground they stood tall as giraffes and in flight they were the size of a Cessna 172 type aircraft.
2:30 "What did the disembodied voice JUST SAY!?"
The pterosaur's low goose honk, hisses and throat-gurgling makes them so terrifying.
Majestic, agile, graceful, giant, dangerous, terrifying, bizarre looking, and the biggest creature ever to fly. My favourite animal of all times. Giant pterosaurs are SO underrated. 🔥
When bro said “swiggity swooty”
I felt that
But seriously, the subtitles are amazing 😂
I love the cinematography in this scene. The Tethyshadros focusing on the plants at 0:24 makes you think a predator is going to ambush them from the bushes, then another one looks up at 0:34 and it reveals the twist of the scary predators not being on the ground but in the sky. I also love how we get a low angle shot of the Hatzegopteryx at 1:11, showing off their large size and terrifying presence. The best part is the suspense and tension only growing once the Hatzegopteryx arrive. It doesn't even end after their ambush, it keeps building when they search the area for the babies that were left behind.
I'm loving this new season already! Such precise accuracy all around!
Best subtitles ever. If you haven't watched with subtitles, you missed the DiCaprio Award.
*Unsupervised 10-month-old sauropod*
Giant pterosaurs in the vicinity: Bonjour.
Well, they're Romanian, so they'd more likely be saying "Buna ziua".
2:08 "Try to anticipate their paths. If you have to maneuver, do it slow and steady, no quick movements."
The subtitles is wild😂😂😂😂
2:56 "Since dinosaurs haven't invented counting the mother dinosaur thinks all is well with her offspring. "
Where does it say that?
@flutefox3177 It doesn't say it at all, I made it up. I've seen videos of ducks loosing ducklings to raging rivers and down storm water drains and the mother and father ducks seem totally unperturbed. As if they have no concept of counting or numbers. One baby is the same as ten babies.
Tethyshadros mothers: bye kids have fun with the Hatzegopteryx's
the Hatzegopteryx's:
Pretty sure the full name of Hatzegopteryx means “Winged monster of Hateg”
Guys turn on captions… it’s pure gold
Tethyshardos 1: If we return to the mainland T-Rex would kill us.
Tethyshardos 2: But if we remain here on the island we will be visited by pterosaurs.
Tethyshardos: ...T-Rex it is.
More like dakotaraptor, t.rex wouldnt bother hunting smth that isnt even a ton
@@Cryodrakon2there’s also Teenage Rex’s to worry about though
PURE comedy with subtitles on 😂
the subtitles are top notch! They really add at the scenery
1:20 " mother of the year, am i right 😂😂"
1:27 "bro, we are gonna die
2:41 "BAAABE, i thought we were gonna share
2:33 nah what was that lightskin stare 😂
*gasp* Duck! 0:37 Wait, those aren't ducks. Those are HATZEGOPTERYX! Run for your lives!!!
" ... hatzegopteryx were intelligent, they changed at will their tactics when necessary ... " The napoleons of the pterosaurs ! lol
I love how the female Hatz is trying to have a piece of meal too and the male turns his head away, it reminds me of my dog when she has her toy in her mouth and she moves her head away to avoid we reach it😂
Ps: Poor baby Thethys🥺
Bro these captions are so GOOD 😂
When I was watching this earlier I noticed one of them was flying off with food and it's beak I love how they Incorporated that later because it was using it as an offering to a potential mate
Erm guys wheres timmy. Lmao. Good subtitles!
I subbed for the subtitles. I ran across one of the other vids, laughed myself to death cause of the subs, and then started checking other vids. The subtitles make the vids.
Lol the subtitles are hilarious whoever did that kudos😂
0:21 I thought that noise was behind me 😆
why is no one talking about the subtitles like the best part right there. good job man keep going
Everyone’s gangster until the flying giraffe comes down
The subtitles are brilliant
Dude. 1:05 and on. Put on and read the captions. I’m screaming 😂 “mother of the year, am I right?”
This scene is like a mixture of the Velociraptors in the kitchen scene, the Morlock scene in the Time Machine (2002) and the scene in War of the Worlds (2005) where the aliens walk through the basement.
This isn't even fair, the Hatzegopteryx is a pretty busted predator if you really think about it: weighs nearly half a ton, can run deceptively fast, is more robust compared to its contemporaries, is comparable in height to a giraffe, has a strong long beak, would likely hunt in mobs (as shown in the vid), is surprisingly intelligent and ofc the "small" issue of not only being capable of flight but being able take to the air with relative ease using little to no run up.
It seems the T.rex and Mosa weren't the only highly evolved large predators in the late cretaceous period (The K2 extinction event happened at a pretty convenient time).
0:38 Imagine Seeing Those Outside Your Window
The subtitles makes this more comedic that it has any right to XD
Hatzegopteryx is such a massive animal that truly deserves recognition, we grow up hearing mainly about therapods and herbivores, but these guys are in a special class of their own. You can almost feel the vibrations it emits during its bellow 1:10
I personally would forfeit one year off of my life to just have 24 hours having the privilege to spectate these guys.
Драматичная история. Диалоги на высоте😊
The new War of the Worlds prequel looks great.
"mother of the year. bro we are gonna die"
the subtitles are killing me lmfao