Horrific Hatzegopteryx

Note: the 'Planet Dinosaur' series was produced in 2011 and much of the knowledge concerning Hatzegopterex has moved on following discoveries in the intervening period.
From 'Planet Dinosaur: Episode 6, The Great Survivors', BBC; produced by Jellyfish Pictures. 2011. Narrated by John Hurt.

[@emil2321]

I'm confused as to how its as tall as a giraffe, yet it looks like the size of godzilla compared to the trees

[@garethmiguel]

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.

[@roystonpeters1917]

😂 hahahahaha. I was also. confused at first like huh how the hell it just picked up the sauropod like it’s Godzilla

[@mrkemblegilstrap]

@@garethmiguel that makes NO sense! Then how the hartzogie get so big?

[@garethmiguel]

@@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.

[@Soham-157]

The dinosaur it ate was a type of very small sauropod which existed only in a few places in the world

[@bombarderoazul]

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.

[@danieldarnall9523]

Thank you for this. It was hurting my feelings seeing a pterosaur tower sauropods like that...

[@mathildejacquemin9346]

Daniel Darnall The same for me ._. I agree using dwarf sauropods makes hatzegopteryx looking really really tall.

[@bkjeong4302]

***** 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.

[@ashb712]

Yes the sauropods are dwarf species, sure, but that doesnt explain why it towers far above the treetops and mountains.

[@primalrage3219]

Mathilde Jacquemin Hatzegopteryx the Godzilla of the dwarf sauropods

[@kimtabel5971]

"It hunted from the skies." Eats dinosaur on the ground

[@andreyleonel255]

Little sauropod: "Those bastards, they lied to me"

[@matthewlucie1916]

😂😂

[@oldmanlogan9616]

Yes lol

[@axdage5674]

This made me laugh u get a like

[@crispi94]

Hunted from the skies...not ate. Fool ya fool

[@Scrunglygrub]

i thought that they oversized the hatzegopteryx because of the fact it was taller than the magyarosaurus. turns out, magyarosaurus are midgets

[@donteatmycheeze4901]

Yes pretty sure they are smallest Sauropods tho many people thing they are like always 1 kilometre tall now lmao

[@brandonchan5387]

@@donteatmycheeze4901 I think there were a couple even punier sauropods (or protosauropods) from the Triassic

[@gw7911]

Tea cup dinos 😁

[@the4thtomato138]

They prefer to be called “vertically challenged sauropods”

[@CarassiusAu]

Yeah those sauropods were just very smol

[@hoganthevamp9960]

I love how the parents had no problem whatsoever with their baby being snatched up

[@asemy1503]

But what can they do neside being pecked to death by these oversized pelicans

[@ok_8441]

@@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

[@asemy1503]

@@ok_8441 my guy its like 2 times bigger than them if the small sauropod attacked a hatz he would just get absolutely annihilated

[@itsurfrind]

@@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

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

@@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.

[@Sh0UtAtTheD3vil1]

The pelican of death.

[@4skininthebin]

Giraffe pelican of death*

[@heisenberg_308]

The pelican of death was actually the pelagornis. This is more like the A-10 warthog of dinosaurs.

[@oscarhendry2365]

The AC-130 of all flying animals.

[@kazarofchult8086]

Pelicans do actually eat baby birds And small creatures like this

[@kamishin7135]

That would be just a regular pelican

[@lukefearns01]

Worst parents ever

[@urbansmile2032]

Luke Fearnley they just doesnt give a shit😂😂

[@aviator3330]

That music that played tho

[@DannyFrey]

best model ever!

[@barkyonyx962]

with that size they're basically helpless

[@lukeskywalker9016]

johnny

[@TeamClusterTruck]

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.

[@CJCroen1393]

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.

[@bkjeong4302]

CJCroen1393 It's not nearly as tall, but it's heavier, stronger, and able to kill much larger prey.

[@njmoreno4503]

It’s Me Josiah And I ❤️Love Queztalcolatluses.

[@njmoreno4503]

Fun Fact: The Queztalcoatlus Was 33 Feet Long It Said That In The Dinosaur 🦖 🦕 Book.

[@njmoreno4503]

Second Fun Fact: Quetzalcoatlus Was The Size Of A Giraffe 🦒!

[@inbanilakengineeringece9384]

The herbivores were dwarf dinos and shorter than humans

[@haastasaurusrex6081]

Apparently, their top size is the size of a pony

[@zasproductions9258]

Thank goodness, I though those were adult dinos

[@plumberjoe6552]

@@zasproductions9258 they are adults they just adapted to a smaller size from being on a small island with lower amounts of food

[@CarassiusAu]

Cute

[@TheRandomWolf]

They are called Magyarosaurus, and they are like Buffalo sized

[@MsNessbit]

Those are supposed to be horsetails, not trees

[@CJCroen1393]

Azhdarchid pterosaurs are not animals you want to meet in a dark--or lit--allyway.

[@sky1monitor]

These fellas wouldn't fit in any hallway! :)

[@CJCroen1393]

sky1monitor I said "alleyway". Although you are right.

[@sky1monitor]

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)

[@CJCroen1393]

sky1monitor They would probably find it a little harder to maneuver through an alleyway, what with the aircraft-sized wingspan and all XD

[@JuanGonzalez-iw1hi]

You wouldn't want to meet them at all

[@chr0min0id]

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…*

[@georgeuferov1497]

"Prehistoric Planet" to your service

[@S3lvh]

This is what happens when a Pelican listens to the Doom Soundtrack

[@SuburbaniteUrbanite]

Man... beta earth was even more cracked than we first thought.

[@DinoGoofHybridHero7531]

Small me: Quetzalcoatlus was the biggest flying Pterosaur ever! Hatzegopteryx: Allow me to introduce myself

[@wyv3rn1]

"A giant we assume hunted from the sky" As the scene goes on to show us the hatzegopteryx hunting from the ground

[@victzegopterix2]

Seeing a Chad Hatzego depicted as a virgin quetzal sure is horrific.

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

I like how the dinosaur just doesn't care while its youngster is gobbled up. Very realistic animal behavior. Not.

[@rudraprasadroyrpr]

Hay youthuuuuube... Plz recommend it again in 2030

[@Karugul]

Glad to see the KZbin algorithm has brought us together again brothers and sisters.

[@Salmon_Lamb0]

10 year old Planet Dinosaur clip reigniting my paleontologic fascination.

[@ghostslime71]

0:34 Little kids when they get to have Mac & Cheese for dinner the 13th night in a row

[@angryfoxzd5233]

God: now you all know why I threw that big rock at the earth. Me: yes thank you.

[@vintagelover3786]

Hatzegopteryx : Eats a sauropod baby. Parents : *we don't talk about that*

[@Lazyboy5298]

*Child gets eaten by a giant bird* Parent: Oh no! Anyway...

[@lofistudy3294]

They found a few bones. Then they made up a whole jurassic world.

[@ivjoag3954]

It killed the infant what a monster

[@theonewhooofedyou6320]

then humans are a monster bc they eat eggs and stole them from the chickens.

[@superlumbagoman9370]

@@theonewhooofedyou6320 an egg is not technically alive though. Also, life feeds on life.

[@Algeriawindows69]

bro thats an adult

[@ajayavsm7476]

@@theonewhooofedyou6320 they only sell eggs which are not fertilized, so there isn't life inside

[@Crims0niscool]

Thank you KZbin recommendations now I will know about the hatzegopteryx for the rest of my life

[@AWoulds]

10 Meter wing span, 3 meter skull, eats diplodocus in one bite.

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

That's a _Magyarosaurus_ .

[@hindugoat2302]

they put the camera super close and used a wide angel lens to try to make it look big but it just looks warped.

[@hamper6511]

Tho it might've looked different more Imagine a really fluff so big you thought it's a cotton flying on the sky

[@anthonyschueller1284]

Holy shit! It's mouth was literally a giant pair of chopsticks!!!

[@D3mmn]

Fro some reason the real versions of these were not even 1/3 of the size of apatosaurus

[@D3mmn]

Wiat wiat wiat wiat wiat those are real!?

[@baole9213]

the size of those sauropods is not big, it's the same compared to a fully grown horse

[@D3mmn]

@@baole9213 but sauropods are the biggest dinosaurs

[@mart4144]

@@D3mmn This is on an island where island dwarfism had occured to the local species, so every dinosaur is pretty small there.

[@alphaandomega-ahh]

@@D3mmn not all sauropods are large sauropods take the things in the video for example

[@bog7138]

I didn't know Pelican existed 65 million years ago

[@puffy1430]

I am scarred of birds beaks and I imagine seeing that irl. It would have been a nightmare if that was real

[@somethingtojenga]

This is what's called a failure of scale--okay, if the sauropods are babies, make them look like babies? Give them bigger head proportions, and even if they're just a dwarf species, make them move faster. They're not going to be lumbering that slowly if they're not gigantic, that's not how gravity works...

[@noatt_]

They're so big they could eat the adults too, very concerning indeed....

[@MrWhatdafuBOOM]

Rodan: "That's cute."

[@DraconicInsomniac9815]

Yeah F.B.I?......there's a huge bird outside my window saying he's delivering pizza......what should I do?

[@lwright9690]

The closest I've come to crapping myself.

[@haillobster7154]

That eye... is nightmare fuel.

[@drepo9175]

We were so close to having dragons so close

[@AgroAcro]

It didn't hunt in the skies, it flew to travel but it hunted on land.

[@viridianfox6172]

I don't know why I clicked on this. Me with my overly empathetic self. Damn nightmare fuel, too.

[@arizwe3983]

there is literately no way that baby sauropod fit in it's throat even if it stretched

[@oceanmonster7247]

“Is tall as a giraffe” that thing is like 60ft tall

[@ajayavsm7476]

No those are horsetail pants and dwarf dinosaurs. Everything in that Island is small that's why they fly there to hunt

[@bobert6644]

Thanks, I've discovered a new fear

[@Z3Milesky]

Now that's a ancient living ASSAULT BOMBER!!!

[@inkdew5620]

pretty sure something as big as a giraffe can't swallow any of the long neck dinosaur species

[@AgroAcro]

Actually the dinosaurs that lived with Hatzegopteryx were on islands, and becuase they had limited resources they shrink over time, it's a common event called island dwarfism. Therefore those are some of the smallest Sauropods to ever exist, and Hatzegopteryx didn't suffer from less resources because it could fly to other islands which is why it got so big. It was actually the apex predator there.

[@caroannaetemrikg.4958]

Actually the largest flying creature ever is the Quetzalcoatlus

[@fotodeanimenoperfil7042]

so... the closest we had to a dragon?

[@j.b.335]

Something about this creature says "coastal dweller / fish eater " .. Not " sauropod hunter ". Given the fragile appearance of its frame , it would seem logical that it woukd want to avoid any and all physical conflict.

[@garethmiguel]

Yes the reconstruction was based on fragmentary fossils over a decade ago. New discoveries have shown the animal to have been much more robust with a shorter, more muscular neck. de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatzegopteryx

[@oscarhendry2365]

It's actually though to be the heaviest of all azdarchids (Quetzalcoatlus, Arambourgiania, Aerotitan etc.) And even then, Magyarosaurus was only 2M tall at most. Since they remain sauropods, they're still fat and slow. The children would look to Hatzegopteryx like what a pack of mcnuggets would to you. Easy food!

[@j.b.335]

@Mullerornis There are plenty of youtube videos of storks being taken down by a single jackal . Storks are tough , but they ain't that tough

[@slashz7022]

Yeaaahh.....for the sake of my mental health I refuse to believe this existed at some point in time

[@TallSilentGuy]

"it's as big as a battleship."

[@Vaquita.]

I thought it was a meme until i read the comments

[@thelittlestgiant]

They say it’s as tall as a giraffe but then they show it being multitudes taller than fully grown trees and it’s big enough to swallow a brontosaurus whole? It’s like every scene change in this clip it just keeps increasing in size, wtf lol. 😂 Who did they pay to animate this?

[@chambothehunter8223]

I thought the Quetzalcoatlus was the largest pterosaur

[@ajayavsm7476]

I think it is, this was back when the proportions weren't very accurate

[@c.j.b9471]

Dam that's a BIG bird.

[@justinlawrence7651]

These things are a true dragons

[@royce45678]

So it ate a Brontosaurus? Full grown Brontosaurus? These things TITANS?

[@raptorzilla0710]

Not brontosaurus. Not every sauropod is a brontosaurus.

[@000JAV_QwQ]

A freaking flying giraffe, damn.

[@Juli_lele]

How can scientist know they don't have a feathers?

[@noob1109]

Nah bro that’s a quetzal

[@reymicroc]

Yeah sure he was able to hold a dinosaur like that

[@Worgenwarlord]

The fact that it is wrong is funny too The largest living thing to ever take flight was the quetzalcoatlus, which was much larger than this, also, it looked so big compared to the trees bc those weren’t trees, they were about the size of saplings, and those sauropods were about the size of hippo’s

[@adriana-istrate]

You should probably do more research on this topic instead of spreading biased misinformation.

[@AgroAcro]

Quetzalcoatlus I believe is though to be slightly larger, but it definitely wasn't significantly larger like you said

[@isimsizanimator1291]

0:37 best parents ever exist

[@ar5611]

No Quetzalcoatl was the largest flying thing ever known

[@kris0375]

No

[@normaleverydayman7004]

Real world dragon

[@styx5977]

**New fear unlocked*

[@SmilyCookieBone]

Queztalcoatalyus is more iconic to my eyes than this

[@Izaac_Artist]

Well third largest since its Hatzegopteryx then Quetzalcoatlus and finally Arambourgiania

[@williammoreno-pp1og]

Hatze is third while Quetzal is first if there talking about height but if there talking about weight then Hatze takes the cake!

[@Redd0w]

I remember watching this documentary I think it’s called planet dinosaur it’s really good

[@wantedwario2621]

I like how he says its the largest flying vertebrate as if there are larger flying invertebrates

[@folcoch40]

Yes insects

[@golamsamdani7617]

@@folcoch40 cool reply😂

[@praharshinitech026]

Invertebrates can't fly

[@golamsamdani7617]

@@praharshinitech026, lmao insects are invertebrates 😂

[@tomwh1993]

Makes it sound more sciencey

[@MSILAER]

0:34, Littlefoot: "Hey Petrie, what are you doi..." Petrie: "STFU Littlefoot."

[@baligong3592]

Sharp tooth punching the air rn

[@theCatsitter878]

Oh nooooo, my childhood Is ruined

[@MSILAER]

@@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."

[@MSILAER]

@novak LOL! 🤣

[@michaelfinck92]

Feel so bad for Petrie. Her voice actor was murdered by her own father.

[@connoradams3318]

I like how they say "Largest flying vertebrate ever known..." Right, because, we've found butterflies larger?

[@CJCroen1393]

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".

[@zaronayers871]

Me too I was just thinking the same thing

[@quintonblackburn3916]

*Cue Mothra being a thing*

[@rodridm1666]

Maybe he said that because the existence of the Argentavis? Why dont you search before you comment?(ik this comment is a year old)

[@agarciabc]

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.

[@nerotrius]

I like how it looks at you at the end "You're next"

[@jaysonklein6018]

Hatzegopteryx: *You're next... HYOO-MANNNZZ!*

[@jaiviighneshsugumaran1216]

and imagine it said your next" thinking it was a human behind the screen but its actually an argetinasaurus"

[@LuigiG145]

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_.

[@PhungNalle]

Oh I thought that was big sauropods but still it was a pretty big bird

[@PrincessSpiritQuartzFeatherPen]

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)

[@LuigiG145]

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?

[@PrincessSpiritQuartzFeatherPen]

Luigi Gaskell The one with the no one notices the bush at the end of the username

[@doritowarrior]

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.

[@Scorchinghell]

If u take the size of those trees They look absolutely massive

[@kanyeeast6719]

Thank you Mr Obvious

[@newspaperbin6763]

I bet those trees are 3 or 4 ft tall

[@Soham-157]

The trees are like 3 feet tall tho

[@beeks4life811]

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

[@Scorchinghell]

@@beeks4life811 so basically the island it self was much smaller than normal Good to know

[@cyberwolfy37]

now I see where pelican picked up the trait of eating everything smaller than it

[@CJCroen1393]

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 ;)

[@austriahungary4935]

Hatzegopteryx: **Eats a baby dino** The parents: Not my problem.

[@muhammadregi4341]

Lmao, , but just imagine your kids get eaten by big bad danasaur 😏

[@milesfoster8190]

@@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]

@@milesfoster8190 what!? It's an adult??

[@milesfoster8190]

@@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.

[@muhammadregi4341]

@@milesfoster8190 you're a genius sir. Thank you for the information

[@joeygard3480]

Those must be shrubs and and not trees if the thing is 5m tall

[@Orniisss]

everything on the island is dworphed. Not just the trees

[@uravggamer4620]

He says it’s as tall as a giraffe, so the video is definitely making it look bigger than it actually is.

[@Orniisss]

@@uravggamer4620 no the island is dwarfed and so is everything on it.

[@pierremings8274]

@@Orniisss he means the pterosaur

[@marcotedesco8954]

They're horsetails, most of them are knee-height or less.

[@deadlydiamond]

Narrator: "This is the largest pterosaur ever known." Quetzalcoatlus: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@countlazuli8753]

that is what I was wondering.

[@smilloww2095]

They also have a wing span of 10 to 11 meters so idk what the difference is they look the same

[@astrotrain6037]

It’s probable that they are the same species so who knows

[@velocipastor676]

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.

[@AgamemnonVsSocratesAandS]

Socrates vs Agamemnon

[@megaball-ps8tq]

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.

[@liberaldriller9884]

Or the mess they would make on your car

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

@@liberaldriller9884 dent the thing

[@SkeeterDunn]

This is complete fantasy. These creatures never existed except in someone's imagination.

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

@@SkeeterDunn They did exist, you can check out the fossil record

[@SkeeterDunn]

@@xiphactinusaudax1045 I have. They dont exist.

[@delaran6243]

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

[@Odraude2105]

XD

[@itsurfrind]

The entire windshield gets smashed in

[@Mister_ChezCake]

Your car would be as flat as wrong earth

[@dibershai6009]

At least we won't have to mine for chemical fertilizer!

[@dbboi4836]

Ark players be like: bro it's just a quetzal and it's so giant btw

[@Pumpkin525]

I wanna knock it out and tame it lol

[@tardellimagal]

“It’s skull alone is 9 feet long” HOLYSHIT!

[@rabiez]

I work in a museum in London and I work in the flying reptile area

[@tj1990]

+C.j Lawrence thats cool.

[@rabiez]

thanks

[@rabiez]

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.

[@rabiez]

+Louis Rossi oh yeah I also moved to the ice age section

[@COVID-19_Crab]

Did you find Scrat? Or Manny?

[@invisiblejaguar1]

When the close up on that eye showed... yeah, you may now shit yourself...

[@yoshiman444ab]

And hopefully that thing doesn't shit on you..

[@bkjeong4302]

yoshiman444ab LOL

[@tylerdoil3156]

I hope this will be featured in jurrasic park 4 this will actually capture the fear in the audience

[@easportsaxb8057]

Your profile pic hurts my eyes

[@AltairBlue]

Who's gonna tell em?

[@lukeskywalker9016]

JURASSIC PARK 4 OOOOHHHH

[@easportsaxb8057]

This guy commented while he was still hoping for a JP 4 to come out. That's amazing.

[@AltairBlue]

@@easportsaxb8057 we must protect him at all costs

[@songbird6414]

Isn’t it only speculated that it could have gotten bigger than Quetzalcoatlus?

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

Exactly, bbc conjecture passed off as fact..

[@suchomimustenerensis]

@@jonathanwilkinson1461 no, no, it was around the same size, at least comparing it to individuals of similar species with more complete remains

[@SpinoDragonProductions]

No. Hatzegopteryx had a 30 ft wingspan, while Quetzalcoatlus was almost 10 feet longer, at around 36 to 40 feet.

[@suchomimustenerensis]

@@SpinoDragonProductions 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

[@shafqatishan437]

Quetzalcoatlus was longer and taller, Hatzegopteryx was heavier so the statement of being largest is true.

[@crimsondynamo615]

Imagine the horror of still being alive during the digestion process

[@VenatorAcclamator]

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.

[@supermariologanfan6546]

VenatorAcclamator Wait, those are Magyarosaurus?!

[@leonatynan3596]

VenatorAcclamator i like argentavis but theyre pretty small,i also think quetzalcoatlus are amazing

[@harveywatson3923]

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

[@felipemontero1087]

You clearly don’t know pelicans

[@rhonemeyer4277]

Pelicans are the worst -_-

[@oshkeet]

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.

[@bkjeong4302]

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?

[@connoradams3318]

What research?

[@bkjeong4302]

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)

[@shadowbonbon3]

Never thought a pterosaur should be killing adult sauropods for fun but guess u learn something new every day

[@milesfoster8190]

Fun fact, those small dinosaurs ARE adults, they’re just the size of a horse.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@milesfoster8190 No, these are small juveniles even by dwarf sauropod standards

[@Slingin_Bait]

I wish I had a time machine just to be an observer of these times to see what really went on.

[@IncandescentFate]

You're lucky that mankind have 0% chance of making a time machine

[@AgroAcro]

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.

[@fruitybluieblue098]

This was probably the Large Dragon Legend that ate humans from people sacrificing others to it/them

[@fruitybluieblue098]

@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

[@cygnusprime6728]

Dude if we discovered this thing in some remote area we'd better nuke everything within a 50 mile radius.

[@bornstellarmakeseternalsal3439]

Yeah, nuke everything, you're such a human.

[@richie_23]

they can fly

[@davidvasquez08]

Cygnus Prime *BIG BRAIN TIME*

[@ieatmice751]

It’s only five metres tall, it probably wouldn’t hunt humans either

[@cygnusprime6728]

@@ieatmice751 it could swallow a human like a glizzy

[@RMSLusitania]

0:36 did that hatzegopteryx just spit a metal and laser sounds

[@soyjoyy]

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.

[@velocipastor676]

Yeah, the specufic one it picked up was a baby. But the other ones that were walking around were all adults.

[@velocipastor676]

You can see at 0:06 a pair of adults and see how big they are compared to the Hatzys.

[@theviewer6889]

Could you imagine if you traveled back in time and saw one of those things? It would be awesome and terrifying

[@escherichiacoli619]

+The Viewer I'd tame it. Or at least try to ride it.

[@theviewer6889]

Trevor Phillips Knowing me I'd probably get eaten.

[@AlexCWebb]

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.)

[@bornstellarmakeseternalsal3439]

Yeah but it's just an imaginary representation. Nothing tells us it was really that menacing or scary.

[@isaiahphillip4112]

Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting Ever seen a Marabou Stork?

[@bornstellarmakeseternalsal3439]

Isaiah Phillip I have, but still.

[@isaiahphillip4112]

Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting Oh *:/* Well it's the closest live analogy, and personally, I find it pretty horrifying.

[@bkjeong4302]

Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting They did some more research. It was actually scarier than depicted here.