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Quetzalcoatlus - Our Friendly Neighborhood Giraffe Storks

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Contents:

00:00 Being Stalked
01:02 What Ever Happened to the Texas Pterosaur
07:40 Long of Neck, Deep of Dirt
14:47 Face Chopsticks
22:00 Meeting (and Eating) the Neighbors
28:59 It Was This Big
34:43 Azhdarch- I. D.
39:02 Skin & Haircare
46:53 Shouldering Bird-ens
51:03 Stepping Up
1:04:15 Spreading Their Wings
1:10:35 The Quetz is Falling
1:17:22 Just Azhdarkidding Around
1:25:25 Conclusion

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Links:

"On the Wing" at the CalTech archives: https://digital.archives.caltech.edu/...

Straight-legged, knee-membraned Quetzalcoatlus:
Bob Nicholls 2008 https://bobnichollsart.tumblr.com/pos...
John Sibbick 1991 (which is weirdly hard to find online): https://preview.redd.it/mbrhopkan35d1...

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Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z...

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20 Comments

@YourDinosaursAreWrong Creator 2 years ago (edited) Pinned

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@nishbrown 2 years ago

"I'm glad I imagined you asked that." - My new favorite sentence of all time.

@lettinyaknow8631 2 years ago

Old YDAW: whats wrong with this toy?
Modern YDAW: Let me tell you the entire history of this species and its biology (thats a good thing)

@hallucinogender 1 year ago

My takeaway from this video is that quetzalcoatlus was the main predator of basketballs.

@melvinshine9841 2 years ago

It really must've been something to behold to see an animal as tall as a giraffe launch itself 20+ feet into the air.

@Artistic_Dryptosaurus 2 years ago

I'm sorry, your quetzalcoatlus has a bad case of giganotosaurus, its morphological.

@Raiders989 2 years ago

For an animal that appears so often in media it’s history is surprisingly complex and it’s definitely one of those animals that looks straightforward until you look under the hood and it’s anything but

@bl00sadr 2 years ago (edited)

Flightless apes who invented flying machines only 18 years before my grandfather was born: This animal that has had wings for 100 million years clearly couldn't fly good.

@saurianfan7102 2 years ago (edited)

The scene you were thinking of from Prehistoric Planet was a rival female Quetzalcoatlus raiding another's nest and eating her eggs. Not cannibalism of the juveniles. The actual mother of the nest however DID abandon the hatchlings and didn't take care of them after they hatched. The documentary theorized that the nest was made on an island in a swamp where large predators like theropods were absent and small prey was plentiful while the flaplings (still love that word) developed.

@Graham_Cracker_Crust 2 years ago

Azhdarchids have had lots of (well deserved) limelight in the paleo community within the past few years. Glad to see this episode and excited to take a deep dive into these incredibly alien pterosaurs!

@deadst4r 2 years ago

I can tell you were really proud of that animation of the Quetzalcoatlus eating red balls (and you should be, because it's very neat) since you used it like 6 times lol

@Redbeardblondie 2 years ago

My favorite part of modern Azhdarchid artistic renditions is the fuzzy lil tail. It’s so cute.

@BetaCentauri13 2 years ago

The coincidence of differently-sized Azhdarchids within the same ecologies reminds me a lot of herons. Blue, green and night herons are morphologically quite similar and often share space with one another, but vary in their size and behavior.

@wandererinthedust276 2 years ago

Fan for years. Here to say excellent pronunciation of Azhdaha and yes, it's a dragon. Source, Farsi speaker who grew up with Azhdaha as meaning nothing other than dragon. Which is an extremely apt name.

@northropi2027 2 years ago

I am GLAD to see Padian's attempts to resurrect the no-leg brachiopatagium that he spent the entire 2021 monograph shouting over the other researchers who openly disagreed with him about it have been promptly ignored, and never shall a quail leg be used as an anatomical comparison for a pterosaur again.

@bluejayblaze1180 2 years ago

Whenever someone describes the quad launch model of pterosaur takeoff, all I can think is "Ah, yes, getting off the ground using the power of clap push-ups."

@theepicdoge8045 2 years ago (edited)

Babe wake up, YDAW just dropped an hour and a half long video on quetzalcoatlus!

@ronaldbender7226 2 years ago

"Flaplings"??? Ok that's an awesome name for the babies!

@adamgrogory 2 years ago (edited)

One of my favourite things about this channel is that because the YDAW team has to put in so much research, thought and time into looking into every animal, every episode feels like a very long and editorialized review article on the state of the research about the current animal. And in a way that's far easier to understand and probably reaches way more people. Both with Giganotosaurus and now with Quetzalcoatlus there has been a lot of discussion about how certain aspects of research can be anachronistic or even just sort of odd. Giganotosaurus' skull reconstruction and Quetzalcoatlus semi-bipedal walking idea are good examples. I love it and will never stop watching.