Quetzalcoatlus was one of the largest flying animals that ever lived, with a wingspan close to ten meters. We have never found a complete skeleton. Almost everything we know about it was rebuilt from a handful of bones, and that picture has kept changing for over fifty years.
This is the story of how it lived, why it isn't a dinosaur, and how a body shaped like this ever got off the ground.
Quetzalcoatlus was one of the largest flying animals that ever lived, with a wingspan close to ten meters. We have never found a complete skeleton. Almost everything we know about it was rebuilt from a handful of bones, and that picture has kept changing for over fifty years.
This is the story of how it lived, why it isn't a dinosaur, and how a body shaped like this ever got off the ground.