Prehistoric Breakdown: Rhamphorhynchus

[@CyBromancer7562]

Thanks for covering Rhamphorhynchus! I would love to see more long-tailed pterosaurs. Here is a good-sized list to choose from: Peteinosaurus, Caviramus, Sordes, Preondactylus, Eudimorphodon, Wukongopterus, Dimorphodon, Scaphognathus, or Campylongnathoides.

[@CyBromancer7562]

It is interesting to see the transition between beaks and teeth in pterosaurs. The earliest had conical front teeth for gripping and serrated back teeth for cutting. Then, Pterosaurs evolved many interlocking teeth for snagging slippery prey. Specialized Pterosaurs also evolved baleen-like teeth for filtering plankton, robust teeth for cracking shellfish, and razor-sharp teeth for tearing through carrion. Sometimes Pterosaurs evolved small frontal beaks, with teeth restricted to the back, until they were completely lost in derived groups. The latest species had long toothless beaks with sharp, pointy tips for spearing food and large throat pouches for swallowing food whole. I think the reason Pterosaurs evolved toothless beaks over time was to reduce jaw weight and increase jaw efficiency as they become larger fliers, and as a multi-purpose tool which could preen, hunt, fight, consume, communicate or manipulate. This is also why birds lost teeth and evolved beaks.

[@dagoodboy6424]

Rham is my fave pterosaur. I just had the primordial look to it. 10/10

[@jeremyjimenez8153]

I remember seeing this pterosaur in children’s books. The most curious pterosaur I ever learned about was Dsungaripterus. and they got a Jurassic Park toy recently as well. That would be a good one to do.

[@raptorrex3954]

You'll be happy to know I've already done a video on Dsungaripterus, it was one of my first videos.

[@seanledden4397]

Nice to see Rhamphorynchus get the spotlight. As a kid in the 60's, this, along with the Pteranodon, was the archetype pterosaur.

[@kingcrimson4554]

I love this channel!!!!

[@theobozikis8225]

Great video!! How about a video featuring pterosaurs from the Tapejaridae family?

[@davidbarkin8269]

Once again thanks for your educated speculation, which is such a delight to hear...

[@maozilla9149]

nice

[@lightman3581]

Will you make a video about Charcarodontosaurus in the future?

[@raptorrex3954]

Don't worry it's on my 'Species to do List'

[@lightman3581]

@@raptorrex3954 Curious to ask but how many species do you have on your list??

[@raptorrex3954]

About 50, most of them are requests, but I get to each of them when I think up a good enough narrative for them.

[@lightman3581]

@@raptorrex3954 Hmm is there any Charcarodontosaurid coming any time soon?

[@rkozakand]

Kestrels are NOT seabirds, they do not swim or dive.

[@MrMalvolio29]

Why not do a video profile of the pterosaur that made *all* kinds of pterosaurs famous and forever associated in the classic imagination with dinosaurs: THE PTERANODON?!?!?!? After all, until the discovery of the Azdharkids in the 1970’s, PTERANODON was the largest known pterosaur, and its silhouette is *still* stamped on the common consciousness as that of *all* pterosaurs, inaccurate as that is!